[3.1+] NullBot: an adaptive skirmish AI

[themac]

Hey, NoQ, the new NullBot runs very well. Almost no stuttering. Well, NullBot sometimes confuses me when using VTOL. It sends 20 VTOL to destroy ONE enemy laser building instead of attacking as many targets as possible when having so many VTOL: Many of that VTOL die on the flight back home then. :-/

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Amazing you have stuttering.
We played against 4 AIs and we had no stuttering at all.

I will have to mention that we build almost no units.

[themac]

Another mysterium is that NullBot rebuilds research factories when they had got lost, no matter if NullBot has currently researched everything completely a long time ago...

[NoQ]

Another mysterium is that NullBot rebuilds research factories when they had got lost, no matter if NullBot has currently researched everything completely a long time ago...

I don't see a way to fix that (i can't really see whether some technology is already researched or not; pursueResearch() may fail for different reasons (eg. all available technologies that lead to this technology are already being researched) also, that's a very rare situation.

Almost no stuttering.

Ok that's nice to hear. Could anybody confirm that i didn't make it worse in 1.38?

v1.38.

Changes:

• No obvious changes, only yet even more decreasing stuttering and probably improving the behaviour during final strikes.

[themac]

Tnx NoQ. I´ll give it a try! Edit: After a quick first look everything seems to work quite perfect.

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Still using 1.37.
But the 3 of us won 5 AIs on medium!
How can that happen?

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I would like to ask for a game recorder so this can be documented in some way

[Cyp]

I would like to ask for a game recorder so this can be documented in some way

Currently, the way of recording is by using some sort of desktop recorder: http://wz2100.net/~cyp/recording-20120505070728.mp4

[themac]

The Quicktime Player 10 is able to record the screen.

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I was more thinking along the lines of you could see the whole map and track and monitor each player.

[Happy Camper]

After I upgraded to 1.38-extra, Cannon and Rocket (MC and MR) AIs don't seem to work anymore. They just sit around and wait for someone to capture their bases. I use the extra mod where I can select the personalities, and set difficulty to hard.

I also see some stuttering when there is a lot of action on the map.

Otherwise, great work, Nullbot should become the standard AI.

[NoQ]

Happy Camper: do any other AIs from the pack work? Are you getting file not found messages in the log or on the screen? I mean, what is the physfs version in your system

[th3r0n]

First of all, thanks NoQ for this AI.

Since release 3.1 RC2 where is a version of NullBot included, when I tried to use your updated AI it does nothing in the game. I have seen that at least one person wrote about this in this thread, but I did not seen any workarround.

I installed AI as usuall (mods/autoload)

Game log said:

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info    |11:28:55: [openLoadFile:164] file multiplay/skirmish/nullbot-1-38-mr.js could not be opened: File not found
info    |11:28:55: [openLoadFile:164] Assert in Warzone: frame.cpp:164 (!"unable to open file"), last script event: '<none>'
error   |11:28:55: [loadPlayerScript:371] Failed to read script file "multiplay/skirmish/nullbot-1-38-mr.js"

Thanks for your time and best regards.

[Happy Camper]

Happy Camper: do any other AIs from the pack work?

Yes, flamer and turtle are working.

Are you getting file not found messages in the log or on the screen? I mean, what is the physfs version in your system

Something like that?

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info    |05:22:58: [openLoadFile:164] file multiplay/skirmish/nullbot-1-38-mc.js could not be opened: File not found
info    |05:22:58: [openLoadFile:164] Assert in Warzone: frame.cpp:164 (!"unable to open file"), last script event: '<none>'

I will try to downgrade physfs from 2.02 to 2.01 as someone suggested and see if it helps.

[NoQ]

Yeah that's precisely that physfs 2.0.2 bug in both messages above.

The problem started to show up when in v1.36 i was asked to rename files in order to remove some lint tool issues; there's nothing i can do to fix it (since i can't rename files back), so we're waiting for a fix on the game side or on the lib side, whichever is sooner, and downgrading physfs to 2.0.1 whenever we can.

Just curious: are you guys on windows/mac? Does anybody has such issues on windows/mac, where you can't really choose physfs version (since compiling the game from source is suffering)?