The problem i was running in to was that during defcon 1 I updated all of my orders for every unit every tick. All the other clients dropped or went out of sync.

I rewrote the defcon 1 calls so it doesn't do that anymore.

Just an FYI for anyone making a bot: if your bot sends too many messages during 1 tick, it can cause other clients to become out of sync so bad they can't catch up again. Found that out the hard way.

The placements are random at this point, and the navy is hardcoded, which surprisingly can beat the cpu. It's nowhere near done, but if you want to play against it, the bot's latest version will be at http://owenjohnson.info/dev/defcon/strangebot.zip

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I've got it fixed, but i thought you all would enjoy sharing that fail moment with me.

Here's the updated source-in-progress. The bot is very random, aggressive, and uncoordinated at this point. http://owenjohnson.info/dev/defcon/strangebot.zip

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Just to understand your funtion: There are three players playing EU, Africa and Russia. Your Bot is either Africa or Russia. Will your function make your Bot ally with Africa (or Russia)? Because Africa and Russia can radar cover almost entire EU. Playing as EU, Africa and Russia tie, and the first...

I'm an intermediate player at and I never thought about that way. Currently the algorithm uses shared radar cover as a heuristic ( a function that estimates "goodness" ). So perhaps I need to take some more factors into consideration. I think I will update the heuristic to include the tota...

Consider this: There are four players. One is EU, one is Russia, one is Africa and your Bot is Asia. Which one will your Bot choose to ally with? The bot would choose Russia assuming all three opponents were independent based on the highest amount of shared radar coverage. If Africa and Europe were...

To add to the above, it seems like there are about 5 discrete goals for the bot. > Forming alliances > Placing Structures > Conducting air/naval combat > Finding/Selecting Targets > Balancing nuclear assault with defense Oddly enough, there are five discrete stages in the game. (DEFCON 5...1) Hope t...

You can grab my bot from here: https://github.com/owen2/Strangebot

It isn't finished yet, but I will continuously updated it as I go. SO... the latest version will always be there.

Pox wrote:I am eagerly awaiting a Linux-compatible API while staring at the archaicness of the mailing list.

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Dr. Strangebot now picks the best (hopefully) possible alliance and sends a request to join it. :D Also, I'm building a world perception layer that I will share with you when it is completed. Here's a permalink to the latest source of the bot. When I update it, it will be available here in its lates...

xander wrote:Is there a Brainfuck version of the API?

xander

How about prolog?!

Anyone notice that the GetRemainingUnits(unittype) function doesn't work? It always returns 6. EDIT: actions don't actually happen until the next tick. So if you have a loop that tries to place all silos in 1 tick using while GetRemainingUnits() > 0 , it won't work. Anyway, lua it is...