[3.1+] NullBot: an adaptive skirmish AI

[NoQ]

Thanks (: I've just filled the wiki a little. It is some sort of a brief guide of NullBot coding.

Also, Sourceforge allows to pick some license, but it doesn't really offer CC-0 as an option. Is it worth switching to, for example, CC-BY or GPLv2 simply to fill in this field?

[NoQ]

v0.29

Changes:

• Add difficulty level support: Easy is something like old generic AI (unspecialized research), Medium has adaptation disabled. Don't forget to choose HARD to see NullBot as it actually is.
• Research cannons before engineering for MC and FC versions of the regular AI.
• Use adaptive research tree for Hover AI, prevent it from making sensor wheel tanks before hovers are invented.

[aubergine]

You know your AI has properly arrived when it has it's own website Loving the wiki!

Had several really fun games against NullBot recently. It's still struggling with walls and AA but it's getting better with every release.

[dak180]

Thanks (: I've just filled the wiki a little. It is some sort of a brief guide of NullBot coding.

Also, Sourceforge allows to pick some license, but it doesn't really offer CC-0 as an option. Is it worth switching to, for example, CC-BY or GPLv2 simply to fill in this field?

Not unless one of those is what you want; all you really need to do is add a file called "LICENCE" and put what you want in that.

Also CC-0 is equivalent to their "Public Domain" licence.

[JDW]

Could Nullbot be added to the 3.1 code? Would be great if we could have it tested properly and included in the finall 3.1 release. Semperfi and Nexus just don't cut it. And I wouldn't want to wait till Nullbot is included in 4.x

[Emdek]

JDW, I believe that we will have at least 3.2.x, and I hope that it will have shorter release cycle.

[JDW]

Yeah, but that's beside the point.

[NoQ]

Not unless one of those is what you want; all you really need to do is add a file called "LICENCE" and put what you want in that.

Also CC-0 is equivalent to their "Public Domain" licence.

Done, thanks! (:

Also you ... forked me Is there anything i should do about it? Is there an easy magic way to apply your changes to my code, and/or is it worth it? (will there be many of them?)

[dak180]

Also you ... forked me Is there anything i should do about it? Is there an easy magic way to apply your changes to my code, and/or is it worth it? (will there be many of them?)

When I feel that I have enough stuff to be worth sending your way I will send you a pull request; for right now though I am mostly just experimenting.
As for the future, who can say?

[aubergine]

Having great fun against NullBot ~Turtle~:



The image doesn't do it justice (click it to zoom and turn monitor brightness up), but the map looks like a starry night due to all the radar blips!

[aubergine]

Sent some VTOLs in to see what Turtle was up to:

Click for large view

Still no AA built from what I can see - just gazillions of radars...

[NoQ]

Lol ... Probably a bit too many radars

In fact, it only builds AA

1. at the base,
2. where there was an actual VTOL attack.

It doesn't really fill the whole map with AA, though i can easily teach Turtle AI to do that. Good idea (:

Could Nullbot be added to the 3.1 code? Would be great if we could have it tested properly and included in the finall 3.1 release. Semperfi and Nexus just don't cut it. And I wouldn't want to wait till Nullbot is included in 4.x

By the way, i'm getting suspicious about dak's recent activity He's suddenly showing some serious interest without explaining why

[JDW]

NoQ, I have a few queries about Nullbot. First, have you scripted your bot to recycle out-dated units?

And my second question is, is it possible to script Nullbot so that it will transfer a truck (and perhaps even power) to an ally who has lost all his units? The ally could also be another bot. Or is this feature out of the scope of bot scripting?

[aubergine]

Transfer of power/units to ally is currently not possible via the JS API

@Per/Cybersphinx *cough* API features for transfers between players and beacons *cough*

EDIT: I don't think nullbot recycles units yet, but it certainly recycles old buildings (and prolly replaces them with even more sensors lol)

[effigy]

recycling:

Well, i'm not yet ready to give a precise enough definition of an outdated design in all possible game situations.

I also can't really explore the design of any given droid via scripts. I could encode this info into the unit name though (:

I can divert some of my time to completing my .dither() function - you pass it a list and a function to run actions on that list and it dithers the enumeration over several frames...

I do something like that with attackStuff() function already. I'll try to do it manually when necessary, and it'd also be nice to have an automated way you propose (: