Contest: Animal/Bot Coding (AI)

[TheKidder]

It also seems to work in MSVC++ .net 2003

Just wondering, in the 'turn reports', what are the numbers stated? Is it number animals living/number animals total?

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The envirnoment shouldn't be capable of sustaining >1000 animals...grass should take a while to grow back, and animals should decay and not be eatable. Otherwise I run it and sometimes it ends after 120 turns with no lag, other times I'm on turn 300 with 2500 herbivores and 2 carnivores.

[Corsix]

Yep it is CLASS_NAME : LIVING / TOTAL(ALIVE + DEAD)
Grass is an issue which I am looking into. As for decaying - what would the carnivores eat ?!?

[TheKidder]

The carnivores would have to eat animals before they decay in a certain amount of turns, or kill another animal. Or perhaps each turn a animal would lose a small percentage of its meals

[RecursiveS]

When I run the app w/ Corsix's 'super carnivore' it seems to win in one round. If I comment the super carnivore out, it seems to run forever, and runs so fast that I can't see it. Also, when it finishes, It doesn't print the table of winners [i'm not sure if it's supposed to do that..]

Same here.

[RecursiveS]

and by turn 230, each tick is taking 36 seconds to process

at this rate I'll need a calender to time tick number 1000 !!!!!!

[TheKidder]

It *usually* runs fine for me, the herbivore wins around turn 90-300.
Unless I add my recently completed rabid chipmunk, which always goes to turn 300 or so without a winner, taking quite a few seconds per turn...

[RecursiveS]

hmmmm....

I'm getting different results when I change the spawning order

If supercarni is spawned last it wins in turn one every time. If it is spawned first it doesn't.

[Tenji]

fear my crazed canabalistic teletubbies!

I dont suppose we can have our animals eat themselves?

[Corsix]

There were some issues (Hint: RecursiveS) with certain compilers relating to template functions - D/L the latest build and follow the fix in main().
Your animals cannot eat themselves however they can attack and eat their own species.

If you still have errors then please tell me the build you are using (eg. 100, 101 or 102) , your compiler , your OS (can't hurt) and the problem.

[TheKidder]

My rabid chipmunk will OWN

[exomo]

Huh, it took me nearly a day to understand your code and now you have changed it?? I hope the changes are nor so big that I have to think it all over again or my questions are useless, but I have some questions:

1. Are we allowed to add own functions to our class? And are we allowed to call functions of another creature? (I'm thinking of communicating with creatures of the same species)

if(1.question.answer == yes)
2. can we use the AllocStats() function to init some own variables or can we just alloc speed power

3. can we acces the __int__vars map? (yes we can, but are we allowed to read its values?)
[EDIT] I want to know the world position of my animal; I couldn't find a getPosition() function anywhere)[/EDIT]

4. will there be fight with more than 1 species of the same author at once?

I hope my questions are not too conmfusing. Thanks for answers

[Corsix]

Huh, it took me nearly a day to understand your code and now you have changed it??

Only bug fixes, comments and a smarter carnivore have been added.

1. Are we allowed to add own functions to our class? And are we allowed to call functions of another creature?

a) You can add your own functions. b) Yes.

if(1.question.answer == yes)
2. can we use the AllocStats() function to init some own variables or can we just alloc speed power

Yepp.

3. can we acces the __int__vars map? (yes we can, but are we allowed to read its values?)

No. (I know what you are trying to do - u wanted LocX and LocY didnt you?) GetPosition() wasn't created for a very good reason.

4. will there be fight with more than 1 species of the same author at once?

Hell yeah! 20 of each species will be spawned and then the bloodbath shall begin!!!!!!

PS. You people should read between the lines of exomo post.

[fortysomething]

I'm really gonna try and carve some time out for this one, cos I've got a hamster that will kick butt!!!! ...........(in my head at the moment )

Harvey, is that you?

[exomo]

3. can we acces the __int__vars map? (yes we can, but are we allowed to read its values?)

No. (I know what you are trying to do - u wanted LocX and LocY didnt you?) GetPosition() wasn't created for a very good reason.

4. will there be fight with more than 1 species of the same author at once?

Hell yeah! 20 of each species will be spawned and then the bloodbath shall begin!!!!!!

to 3: I was just thinking of "not-running into a wrong direction" If I don't know where I am I run into nowhere perhaps and I just didn't want that. But if you thinnk its better, OK

to4: That isn't what I meant. I thought of two (or more) different species of the same author. e.g. exomo_carni and exomo_herbi vs. corsix_carni and corsix_hevi

[r4nd0m]

ok, i think maybe it's working now, but i can'tbe sure because it seems to be taking forever for turn 1 to go.. its just sitting there.. and i think i might make a win32 gui for this so we all know whats going on better.. hmm.. maybe there should be a limit on how big the world is, like boundaries so our animals don't all walk to opposite ends of the earth..