[3.1+] NullBot: an adaptive skirmish AI

[Giani]

And nullbot uses all the labs he has even if he has -6000 power.

[aubergine]

@NoQ - you mentioned not understanding my code - does this help explain it a little? https://warzone.atlassian.net/wiki/page ... Id=4817013 (the bit at end explains, hopefully, how the nested function stuff works)

[NoQ]

And nullbot uses all the labs he has even if he has -6000 power.

That's not really bad (?) Balancing research and production is very non-trivial (that is, relies on very subtle properties of game situation, i don't think that there are many humans who do that properly, so i have no good example to follow).

[NoQ]

In the map Mero_riverX whit advanced bases nullbot only takes 1 derrick from outside of his base.

Couldn't reproduce

[Giani]

In the map Mero_riverX whit advanced bases nullbot only takes 1 derrick from outside of his base.

Couldn't reproduce

Did you make teams or used MC nullbot?
MC was in my team and he took only 1 derrick.

[aubergine]

And nullbot uses all the labs he has even if he has -6000 power.

That's not really bad (?) Balancing research and production is very non-trivial (that is, relies on very subtle properties of game situation, i don't think that there are many humans who do that properly, so i have no good example to follow).

I totally concur with this! I've been thinking about how to tackle power management for some time and its really quite complex!

[NoQ]

Hmm, still can't reproduce. He instantly sends two of the four starting trucks to take two derricks.

[Giani]

And nullbot uses all the labs he has even if he has -6000 power.

That's not really bad (?) Balancing research and production is very non-trivial (that is, relies on very subtle properties of game situation, i don't think that there are many humans who do that properly, so i have no good example to follow).

I totally concur with this! I've been thinking about how to tackle power management for some time and its really quite complex!

If the AI has -2000 power make it focus on improving pgens and stop researching other stuff?

[NoQ]

If the AI has -2000 power make it focus on improving pgens and stop researching other stuff?

It should rather focus on stuff useful for re-taking the derricks.
I repeat, -2000 power is not bad. It's even sort of normal.

[Giani]

If the AI has -2000 power make it focus on improving pgens and stop researching other stuff?

It should rather focus on stuff useful for re-taking the derricks.

I never said that he should stop making units...

[NoQ]

Me neither.

[NoQ]

v1.17: a lot of important bugfixes and nothing else, i think. The recent troubles with capturing oils might be fixed.

[NoQ]

v1.18.

Changes:

• Some important changes in regrouping code.
  • I was surprised to see that he managed to survive for more than 9 minutes (!!) against me in Startup challenge
• Build a bit more AA, hopefully.

[NoQ]

v1.19.

Changes:

• Slightly increased the group size.
• Improved anti-traffic-jam mechanism.
• Use safer build order for generic rushers (just noticed they sometimes get stuck without oil to build their gen ...)

[iap]

A general question: When you mention the group size, or any other count, are these are coded values you figured out, or general approximation of NullBot's decisions?