i was thrown off course by an email reminding me that halite is ending in a week so i am putting some time into halite.

resources:

my bash script needed some modification to get it to work:

./halite -d "240 160" "python3 MyBot.py" "python3 MyBot_v0.py"

this is run_game.bat which is then run with bash run_game.bat in the terminal.

i was able to get the basic bot up and running and am now working on an attack strategy.

ok so after i adopted the guy’s attack strategy this one is a very interesting attacker bot:

https://halite.io/play/?game_id=8237454&replay_class=0&replay_name=replay-20180117-180755%2B0000--3096119115-336-224-1516212450

after implementing a “viable settlement” strategy i am now up to rank 1088.

example wins: https://halite.io/play?game_id=8245459 and example loss: https://halite.io/play?game_id=8245389

so i am falling prey to these basic issues:

  • self collision (bad!! hard to fix)
  • only targeting nearest planet when i need to weight vs proximity of enemy
  • no defense against rambo (solo ships sent out specifically to hunt ships that are being docked)
  • no rambo (easy!)

i had issues with timeouts so i implemented basic stuff: http://forums.halite.io/t/speeding-up-python-bots/306/17

my best rank is 929 now https://halite.io/user/?user_id=4342

i wasnt doing much better than my “viable settler v5” so i put that back in and im now back in the 700s.

i am obsessed with “rambo” strategies. this guy https://halite.io/user/?user_id=3093 used it on me here.