Hi Warren, Devon, Matt. My name is Noah. Old time RoboWar freak. You may remember me from such robots as The Porcelain God, IBB (I'll Be Bach), and Kilgore...
Input line too long suggests that the grobots files you downloaded somehow got unix or PC style linefeed sequences instead of Mac ones. If you have BBedit, it...
When I ran the 4/23 version of grobots there were weird reddish artifacts on the screen and after a while it crashed out. I was working it pretty hard. I...
... Warren fixed a potentially crash-causing bug today. I don't know if that's what caused the crash, but it was making smoke and sensors the wrong color. ... ...
Yeah, that message probably means the whole this is mixed together into one big line. For a while I had to go through and put returns at the end of every...
I though I would give you guys my thoughts on the direction the game is taking again. 1. I think you should cut the cost of everything in half and also make ...
... That's on the to-do list. ... Since robots can have two weapons anyway (grenades and blasters) I don't feel much pressure to add support for multiple...
What sort of bugs are you seeing in Teledont? I thought it was working. What happens if you use a weapon reload time less than one? What scoring are you using...
... It stopped moving and ran out of energy. I think the engine was too small. But I reduced friction yesterday, and it works now. It may be better than Life...
... Cutting the cost of *everything* in half would have no effect. Do you mean reducing the cost of hardware relative to its use? Or shorter doubling times?...
Thanks for the response. It sounds like you are making good progress. I want to compliment you guys again of the quality of the program. I've had one weird...
The following robot is based on fly swatter and uses force fields to eat. It works, but isn't effective. Perhaps manna should be made lighter? -wjs ... #side...
... I think this side is too buggy to draw conclusions from it about balance. One of the bugs - failure to fire grenades - afflicts a lot of other previously...
... I am drawing that conclusion not from its performance against enemies, but in its performance by itself. Its double time is terrible. ... I made firing...
I made firing costs equal to hardware costs (times a constant) to reduce the number of constants. It's easy to change back if need be. I raised firing costs...
... It's easier to notice that a piece of hardware is overused than to notice it's underused. So price changes tend to be increases. Also, we deliberately...
... So what you really want is larger populations? Changing the seed size wouldn't affect population; it'll just make larger cells. The doubletime probably...
I was just going to reply to a couple of past posts. So what you really want is larger populations? Changing the seed size wouldn't affect population; it'll...
FYI, whatever your mail client uses for quoting original message when replying is not recognized by Yahoo groups, so we have to figure out who said what by...
What's [numresults] for sensors? Does processor energy use really mean x * instructions executed? or Does "sync sync sync" save any energy? Matt ps. I do...
Currently robots are charged for their maximum CPU usage regardless of how much they actually use. We plan on eventually fixing this so robots are only charged...
Currently robots are charged for their maximum CPU usage regardless of how much they actually use. We plan on eventually fixing this so robots are only charged...
... Not currently, but it's easy to add, and since you obviously want it I'll add it. (This principle does not apply in general though... I won't add a ...
I noticed that teledont was behaving strangely in the May 26 version of grobots. When feeding it's supposed to scan for food, move to where the food is, sit...
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