Firepower

[Grant Slatton]

Well it's my third day robocoding/learning java, my primitive movement
system [less than 10 lines of code] is actually not horrible, my
targeting system needs work though. To determine how much power to
use in a shot I just made up the simple equation 4-distance/200, is
this a good or bad idea.

BTW so far my robot is pretty bad, I win roughly 5 percent of the
games against Tron and have yet to beat dookious once.


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[Thomas Dalton]

Post by Grant Slatton
Well it's my third day robocoding/learning java, my primitive movement
system [less than 10 lines of code] is actually not horrible, my
targeting system needs work though. To determine how much power to
use in a shot I just made up the simple equation 4-distance/200, is
this a good or bad idea.
BTW so far my robot is pretty bad, I win roughly 5 percent of the
games against Tron and have yet to beat dookious once.

Power isn't as important as aim (but you have the right idea for power
- less power when the target is further away so the bullet goes
quicker and there is less time for the target to move). For ideas of
how to aim, check out http://robowiki.net/cgi-bin/robowiki?Targeting
(Linear targeting and Circular targeting are both pretty easy to
implement and can dramatically improve your results against simple
enemies [against more advanced enemies, they often aren't much better
than head-on targeting].)

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