From: "Simon Kröger" <SimonKroeger@...>
Date: 2005-11-25T05:51:32+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] RRobots - ducks, armed and dangerous

Reinder Verlinde wrote:

> In article <4385BB50.5000408@gmx.de>,
>  Simon Kr�ger <SimonKroeger@gmx.de> wrote:
> 
> 
>>The best way to help and keep me motivated would be to post some cool
>>bots here (along with the bug-reports and feature requests)
> 
> 
> It looks cool. Now only if I could find time to write a bot or series of 
> bots...

Would make me happy too :)

> Here is a tiny bug report/feature request. The first I did was:
> 
>     ruby rrobots.rb SittingDuck.rb NervousDuck.rb
> 
> result:
> 
>     Error loading SittingDuck.rb!
>     usage: rrobots.rb <FirstRobotClassName> <SecondRobotClassName>
>             the names of the rb files have to match the class names of
>             the robots e.g. 'ruby rrobots.rb SittingDuck NervousDuck'
> 
> This is easily corrected, but I think the code c/should be smart enough 
> to notice that the '.rb' extensions already are there (with tab 
> completion, typing the '.rb' is easier than not typing it)

Ok, will be in the next release.

> I also have the first security breach to report. I do not think you 
> intend that the following should be valid inside a robot:
> 
>     @battlefield.robots.each do |other|
>       puts "robot #{other}: x #{other.x}, y #{other.y}"
>     end
> 
> If a robot can do that, the radar seems extremely limited.

Robots are distributed as source code (i don't see another way anyway)
so nobody would want to compete against such a bot.
(You can search ObjectSpace and find the other robot, setting his energy
to -1, easy victory but without honour)
Maybe there is a way to protect against such strategies i didn't thought
of, any ideas?

> Reinder

cheers

Simon