martin wrote:Oh I see what you mean, well as far as I know there is no way for the bot to know the exact spot, just extrapolate its trajectory and guess when it will detonate along that path

Right, the trajectory could include multiple targets. There's no way to know which one would be the end.

Perhaps I will use lua instead. The luabot bindings seem to work okay, and the lua language is more abstract than C++, so I think it may be more appropriate for an AI project. I'll a little more closely at both languages because I don't really know either of them yet. (I usually use python or PHP) D...

Hi all, I've adopted a defcon bot for an academic project. I'm a big fan of the game, and the defcon world poses some huge challenges. I'll be writing the bot in native C++. I plan to incorporate diplomacy and some probabilistic decisions. This is a school project, so you can be sure that I will see...