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Wellcome to TestBot's page. An uninspiring name I know, but its in development. When its time to release it I will give it a name to strike fear into opponents hearts. Something like "Legion" or "Deaths Head" or something. :)

Well, as I said above this bot is in development. It will be a totaly different bot compared to my other 2 bots (Viper? & Warlord). This is beacuse I am developing TestBot as a learning bot.

The learning uses ReinforcementFeedback? to work out the optimal solution, and it tries to balance Greed? with Exploration?. Currently I aim only for TestBot to learn how to move in 1v1 so that it survives the most. It doesnt do too badly currently, but takes around 100 rounds to get going.

Its targeting is pretty bad currently (shoot when I scan), so I might just drop in Sandbox mini's targeting so I can concentrate on the learning movment.

It does improve against top bots like Sandbox but unfortunatly not to the point where it is near beating them. :)

Check back for updates, and I might post some results as well. Not that anyone is going to read this! :)

Ok, TestBot is still VERY experimental - dont expect good results yet! :)

Small update!

I think im going to call this bot AgentSmith. :)

-wolfman

Update: Request from Pez to test TestBot against Marshmallow:

First 100 Rounds

1st:	wolf.TestBot	8854	2550	510	5097	696	0	0	54	47
2nd:	pez.Marshmallow 0.7.2b	7474	2350	470	4147	504	2	0	50	51

Second 100 Rounds

1st:	pez.Marshmallow 0.7.2b	8536	2850	570	4520	593	2	0	61	43
2nd:	wolf.TestBot	8283	2150	430	5082	619	1	0	43	50

Third 100 Rounds

1st:	pez.Marshmallow 0.7.2b	8998	3000	600	4744	646	7	0	63	39
2nd:	wolf.TestBot	7802	1950	390	4852	559	50	0	41	60

Forth 100 Rounds

1st:	wolf.TestBot	8212	2450	490	4651	613	7	0	50	50
2nd:	pez.Marshmallow 0.7.2b	7195	2500	500	3697	494	3	0	52	49

As you can see, TestBot's learning isnt great yet, and doesnt appear to work at all against Marshmallow! :)

Ok, tests against Sandbox

First 100 Rounds

1st:	pe.SandboxDT 1.61	11537	4200	840	5492	1000	4	0	85	16
2nd:	wolf.TestBot	5563	800	160	4353	242	8	0	17	84

Second 100 Rounds

1st:	pe.SandboxDT 1.61	11108	4050	810	5300	945	2	0	82	19
2nd:	wolf.TestBot	5509	950	190	4115	253	0	0	19	81

Third 100 Rounds

1st:	pe.SandboxDT 1.61	10033	3550	710	4983	790	0	0	76	29
2nd:	wolf.TestBot	6608	1450	290	4414	454	0	0	29	71

As you can see it gets slightly better against DT, but reaches a peak of managing to take about 1/3 of the battles from DT.