Bot Name
Jen
Author
Voidious
Extends
AdvancedRobot
What's special about it?
For you: nothing. For me: it's my first
MicroBot.
Great, I want to try it. Where can I download it?
Best version:
[1.061]
How competitive is it?
Not very competitive just yet.
How does it move?
StopAndGo +
RandomMovement
How does it fire?
GuessFactorTargeting
It detects enemy fire and inches along like a caterpillar (against simple targeters).
How does the melee strategy differ from one-on-one strategy?
No melee strategy.
What does it save between rounds and matches?
It saves gun data between rounds, nothing between matches.
Where did you get the name?
It's named after one of the main characters from
[Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon]. It's tough to think of powerful but small warriors!
Can I use your code?
Yes, it's released under the
RWPCL.
What's next for your robot?
Not sure - probably lots of tweaks or complete abandonment. =)
It's not tough enough to be thinking about that yet.
What other robot(s) is it based on?
- Komarious - I derived the gun from its older sister, the MiniBot Komarious, which itself derived its gun from RaikoMicro, which I think derived its gun from Tityus.
- I haven't looked at the code for any other MicroBot duelists, but I have learned some things just from reading about Thorn, Waylander, and other top MicroBots, so it's bound to have some similar behaviors. So some credit ought to go to Kev, Skilgannon, and Simonton.
Comments, questions, feedback:
A MicroBot duelist from Voidious. I'll make a proper page tomorrow. No idea where this will rank, but I'd been tinkering a bit a couple weeks ago, so I may as well just release an initial version and start from there... -- Voidious
I was wondering when this was going to happen. I also saw a PhoenixMicro? on the roborumble.org page.... =) -- Skilgannon
Time will tell if I actually put much focus on it. I didn't see much appeal in making another StopAndGo / RandomMovement MicroBot, but I figured it would take two seconds to connect Komarious' gun to the decent RandomMovement from a TwinDuel team I was tinkering with. Now that I see it so far behind in the rankings, I almost can't help myself from going for a better rating, though. =) -- Voidious
Seems that you got hooked even at micro's. When can we expect your first nano? Note that you rating is better than the #2 of a year ago (which is now at #10!) -- GrubbmGait
- Yes, I am quite obsessed! =) Before making a MicroBot, I thought, "well, they're kind of all the same - a little StopAndGo, a simple GF gun, and some RandomMovement == 1950+ rating". Then I did that and was still 100 points behind the top bots. It turns out that while less CodeSize might mean less features in an individual bot, it can also mean more possible combinations because adding one feature means removing another. I had similar revelations when working on Komarious, but it's been a while. Not sure when I'll post a NanoBot, but it's definitely on my mind. =) -- Voidious
- The most impressive ranking of the micros, IMO, is RaikoMicro. He's still using the MusashiTrick! And I'm surprised that Connavar isn't getting a much higher score than Waylander, there must be a lot of simple movements in the microrumble that simple GF guns can't quite pick up on, but PM guns can. -- Skilgannon
Hmmm... have you tried FloodGrapher on your movement? I tuned my movement for 10000 rounds against Aristocles....after getting it in the ballpark with FloodGrapher. A slightly higher reverse chance helped against Aristocles (not much, just a constant of 0.02 added to the one side). I think it confuses the time-since-decel segment a bit better. -- Skilgannon
Nice jump for just tweaks! Are your "Won't stop" and "different distancing" working off of the same thresholds? I use a function for the attack/retreat angle in Waylander, which I find to be sufficient, but Waylander will run away (ie. don't reverse from the flattener or stop for the StopAndGo) if the enemy is closer than 100. This also helps against RamBots. -- Skilgannon
- Thanks! IIRC, I am not-stopping for StopAndGo within 100 and using a bigger (er, more negative) attack angle within 150. That first version (which lost tons of points) used 250 and 300 or something, which was way too much. I might toy with an attack angle function, like you said, but for all my distancing / attack angle tweaks in Komarious, I still ended up with simply using the same negative attack angle at all times! So I'm not optimistic about that gaining much. (But clearly MiniBots and MicroBots are more different than I originally thought, so who knows...) -- Voidious
- Another reason I'm using a function is because it's cheaper in codesize...its a sort of
k + distance/m function, nothing fancy =) -- Skilgannon
Wow... Waiting until gun is aimed before firing is worth 7 points for Komarious but -14 points for Jen? Unless I mixed up the source code for 1.087 somewhere, which I can test with a re-release. If these data are right, I guess the conclusion is: if your gun isn't very accurate, you're better off just firing as often as possible instead of waiting an extra tick or two until you're aimed correctly. -- Voidious
I would say that the point difference is due to the different movements. I've wondered often whether I would be better off firing less often (never mind less accurately) when I'm getting more point from survival, and losing more energy due to my own firing instead of to enemy bullet hits. Komarious is able to dodge better, so gets more points from survival, and thus doesn't depend on bullet hit points as much. In fact, those few rounds where Komarious does lose are more due to running out of energy from missing, than being pounded into submission. Jen is exactly the opposite: it has to hit the other bot A LOT to be able to keep its energy higher than the other bot, because it loses much more energy from being hit. It's all a fight for those survival points. At least, that's my speculation =) -- Skilgannon
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