From corewar-l@stormking.com Tue Feb 4 14:59:25 1997 Received: from nez-perce.inria.fr (nez-perce.inria.fr [192.93.2.78]) by tobago.inria.fr (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id OAA29162 for ; Tue, 4 Feb 1997 14:59:24 +0100 Received: from valhalla.stormking.com (root@valhalla.stormking.com [204.141.98.1]) by nez-perce.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) with SMTP id OAA26256 for ; Tue, 4 Feb 1997 14:59:04 +0100 (MET) Received: from (server@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by valhalla.stormking.com (8.6.12/8.6.12) with SMTP id IAA18356; Tue, 4 Feb 1997 08:51:34 -0500 Date: Tue, 4 Feb 1997 08:51:34 -0500 Message-Id: Errors-To: tuc@stormking.com Reply-To: amarsden@etherspace.gen.nz Originator: corewar-l@stormking.com Sender: corewar-l@stormking.com Precedence: bulk From: Anton Marsden To: Multiple recipients of list Subject: Core Warrior 55 X-Listprocessor-Version: 6.0b -- ListProcessor by Anastasios Kotsikonas X-Comment: Usenet News "rec.games.corewar" MIME-Version: 1.0 .xX$$x. .x$$$$$$$x. d$$$$$$$$$$$ ,$$$$$$$P' `P' , . $$$$$$P' ' .d b $$$$$P b ,$$x ,$$x ,$$x ,$$b $$. 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If you have no clue what I'm talking about then check out these five-star internet locals for more information: FAQs are available by anonymous FTP from rtfm.mit.edu as pub/usenet/news.answers/games/corewar-faq.Z FTP site is: ftp.csua.berkeley.edu /pub/corewar Web pages are at: (Please note new Stormking's address) http://www.koth.org/ ;Stormking http://www.ecst.csuchico.edu/~pizza/koth ;Pizza http://pauillac.inria.fr/~doligez/corewar/ ;Planar Newbies should check the stormking page for the FAQ, language specification, guides, and tutorials. Post questions to rec.games.corewar. All new players are infinitely welcome! If ftp.csua.berkeley.edu is unreachable, you can download pMARS at: Terry's web page--http://www.infi.net/~wtnewton/corewar/ Planar ftp site--ftp://ftp.inria.fr/INRIA/Projects/para/doligez/cw/pmars Fechter ftp site--ftp://members.aol.com/ofechner/corewar A collection of Bezzi's hints in the first issues is available at: ftp://ftp.volftp.vol.it/pub/pc/msdos/games/solutions/bbhints.zip Beppe Bezzi web page - http://www.aspide.it/freeweb/Bezzi ______________________________________________________________________________ Greetings. A new Hall of Fame has been calculated and is included in this issue. It was calculated using CW 42 as a starting point so it doesn't include all the warriors. However, hopefully we will soon have a HOF which includes all the warriors. I have retained the old HOF so noone will be too annoyed :-) --Anton Marsden ______________________________________________________________________________ Current Status of the Internet Pizza Server ICWS '94 Draft Hill: Hill Specs: coresize: 8000 max. processes: 8000 duration: after 80,000 cycles, a tie is declared. max. entry length: 100 minimum distance: 100 rounds fought: 200 instruction set: ICWS '94 Draft # %W / %L / %T Name Author Score Age 1 38.4/ 25.7/ 36.0 Head or Tail Christian Schmidt 151.1 1 2 33.5/ 20.3/ 46.2 RetroQ P.Kline 146.6 13 3 46.0/ 46.6/ 7.4 He Scans Alone P.Kline 145.4 28 4 35.2/ 28.2/ 36.5 Nine Seven Six M R Bremer 142.2 77 5 34.2/ 27.2/ 38.6 Gigolo Core Warrior staff 141.2 267 6 28.8/ 16.9/ 54.4 Return Of The Jedimp John K W 140.7 213 7 38.8/ 38.9/ 22.3 NCC-1701-A Philip Kendall 138.7 16 8 29.9/ 21.5/ 48.6 unrequited love kafka 138.3 311 9 37.6/ 38.8/ 23.6 Solomon v0.8 Ian Oversby 136.3 59 10 38.4/ 41.3/ 20.3 QFalcon (vii) Ian Oversby 135.5 6 11 37.8/ 41.0/ 21.2 The Machine Anton Marsden 134.5 119 12 28.6/ 23.7/ 47.8 Trident^2 John K W 133.4 143 13 32.6/ 32.6/ 34.8 Pulp v0.5 Ian Oversby 132.6 4 14 37.8/ 43.2/ 19.0 Blur 2 Anton Marsden 132.5 390 15 40.3/ 48.4/ 11.3 Memories Beppe 132.3 127 16 35.4/ 41.5/ 23.1 Damage Incorporated Anton Marsden 129.4 254 17 31.4/ 33.7/ 35.0 Fast Fast Fast v2 Franz 129.1 27 18 29.6/ 30.3/ 40.1 Terkonit 0.4 Christian Schmidt 129.0 19 19 23.8/ 19.8/ 56.5 Impish v0.2 Ian Oversby 127.8 252 20 35.7/ 43.9/ 20.4 Oblivion Ian Sutton 127.5 78 21 32.1/ 39.1/ 28.8 Tiberius 3.1 Franz 125.1 130 22 24.6/ 25.2/ 50.2 Eva Peron David Randel 123.9 2 23 33.5/ 43.1/ 23.3 Instant Wolf Edgar 123.9 34 24 34.5/ 47.5/ 18.0 Probe Anton Marsden 121.6 391 25 31.1/ 42.6/ 26.3 Scanitator 4 Christian Schmidt 119.6 15 Weekly age: 9 this week ( 15 last issue, 43 the issue before ) New warriors: 4 Turnover/age rate 44% Average age: 119 ( 115 last issue, 119 the issue before ) Average score: 134 ( 138 last issue, 142 the issue before ) The top 25 warriors are represented by 14 independent authors: Marsden and Oversby with 4; Schmidt with 3; Kline, JKW and Franz with 2. All others with one lonely warrior each. ______________________________________________________________________________ 94 - What's New # %W / %L / %T Name Author Score Age 9 40.6/ 41.4/ 18.0 QFalcon (vii) Ian Oversby 139.8 1 13 34.9/ 34.0/ 31.1 Pulp v0.5 Ian Oversby 135.8 1 23 26.2/ 25.4/ 48.4 Eva Peron David Randel 127.1 1 1 38.4/ 25.7/ 36.0 Head or Tail Christian Schmidt 151.1 1 Schmidt makes it to the top of the hill with his new warrior. ______________________________________________________________________________ 94 - What's No More # %W / %L / %T Name Author Score Age 26 34.7/ 43.1/ 22.2 Tsunami v0.5 Ian Oversby 126.4 3 26 35.2/ 44.0/ 20.8 Silver Talon 1.2 Edgar 126.4 93 26 35.9/ 44.8/ 19.3 Silver Talon 1.21 Edgar 127.0 2 26 38.1/ 54.1/ 7.8 ScanKiller Christian Schmidt 122.1 9 26 36.6/ 50.1/ 13.3 Wallung Christian Schmidt 123.0 16 Silver Talon 1.2 was the only significant loss of the week. ______________________________________________________________________________ 94 - What's Old # %W / %L / %T Name Author Score Age 24 34.5/ 47.5/ 18.0 Probe Anton Marsden 121.6 391 14 37.8/ 43.2/ 19.0 Blur 2 Anton Marsden 132.5 390 8 29.9/ 21.5/ 48.6 unrequited love kafka 138.3 311 5 34.2/ 27.2/ 38.6 Gigolo Core Warrior staff 141.2 267 16 35.4/ 41.5/ 23.1 Damage Incorporated Anton Marsden 129.4 254 19 23.8/ 19.8/ 56.5 Impish v0.2 Ian Oversby 127.8 252 6 28.8/ 16.9/ 54.4 Return Of The Jedimp John K W 140.7 213 No changes, no losses. ______________________________________________________________________________ OLD HALL OF FAME * means the warrior is still active. Pos Name Author Age Strategy 1 Thermite II Robert Macrae 2262 Qscan -> bomber 2 Impfinity v4g1 Planar 1993 Stone/ imp 3 Jack in the box Beppe Bezzi 1620 P-warrior 4 Tornado 3.0 Beppe Bezzi 1567 Bomber 5 Torch t18 P.Kline 1539 Bomber 6 Chameleon Myer R Bremer 1437 P-warrior 7 Frontwards v2 Steven Morrell 1420 One shot scanner 8 Evol Cap 6.6 John Wilkinson 1299 Imp / stone 9 quiz Schitzo 1262 Scanner/ bomber 10 T.N.T. Maurizio Vittuari 1204 Bomber 11 Grilled Octopus v0.5 David Boeren 1154 P-warrior 12 Hazy Shade II John Wilkinson 1102 P-warrior 13 Stepping Stone Kurt Franke 1049 Qscan -> Vampire 14 Rosebud Beppe Bezzi 993 Stone/ imp 15 Iron Gate 1.5 Wayne Sheppard 926 CMP scanner 16 T.N.T. pro Maurizio Vittuari 925 Bomber 17 Agony II Stefan Strack 912 CMP scanner 18 Barrage Anton Marsden 876 Qscan -> replicator 19 Blue Funk Steven Morrell 869 Stone/ imp 20 Flurry Anton Marsden 835 Qscan -> pwarrior 21 Thermite 1.0 Robert Macrae 802 Qscan -> bomber 22 Blue Funk 3 Steven Morrell 766 Stone/ imp 23 Night Train Karl Lewin 755 Replicator 24 Mirage 1.5 Anton Marsden 736 Scanner/ bomber 25 Blizzard Anton Marsden 713 Qscan -> replicator ______________________________________________________________________________ NEW HALL OF FAME * means the warrior is still active. Pos Name Author Age Strategy 1 unrequited love kafka 289 * Stone/ imp 2 Probe Anton Marsden 289 * Q^2 -> Bomber 3 Blur 2 Anton Marsden 289 * Scanner 4 Falcon v0.3 Ian Oversby 275 P-warrior 5 Gigolo Core Warrior staff 267 * Q^2 -> Stone/ imp 6 Damage Incorporated Anton Marsden 254 * Q^2 -> Bomber 7 Impish v0.2 Ian Oversby 252 * Stone/ imp 8 Rosebud Beppe 218 Stone/ imp 9 Q^2 Miro Anders Ivner 214 Q^2 -> Scanner/ bomber 10 Instant Wolf 3.4 Edgar 205 P-warrior 11 Return Of The Jedimp John K W 213 * Q^2 -> Stone/ imp 12 Goldfinch P.Kline 201 P-warrior 13 Simple v0.4b Ian Oversby 197 Stone/ imp 14 ompega Steven Morrell 189 Stone/ imp 15 Frogz Franz 172 Paper 16 Trident^2 John K W 143 * Stone/ imp 17 Tiberius 3.1 Franz 130 * P-warrior 18 Memories Beppe 127 * Scanner 19 The Machine Anton Marsden 110 * Scanner 20 CC Paper 3.3 Franz 107 Paper 21 mrb-test m r bremer 106 ? 22 T.N.T. pro Maurizio Vittuari 105 Bomber 23 Jack in the box II Beppe Bezzi 100 P-warrior There are still a lot of active warriors in this HOF... and you only need an age of 100 to qualify :-) ______________________________________________________________________________ Current Status of the Internet Pizza Server Beginner's Hill: Hill Specs: coresize: 8000 max. processes: 8000 duration: after 80,000 cycles, a tie is declared. max. entry length: 100 minimum distance: 100 maximum age: At age 100, warriors are retired. rounds fought: 200 instruction set: ICWS '94 Draft # %W / %L / %T Name Author Score Age 1 49.9/ 33.7/ 16.4 Silver Talon 1.1 Edgar 166.1 89 2 48.1/ 33.1/ 18.8 Hexagram J.A.Denny 163.0 8 3 50.4/ 38.5/ 11.1 Pentagram 2.a J.A.Denny 162.3 10 4 40.4/ 18.9/ 40.7 Terkonit 0.4 Christian Schmidt 161.9 5 5 46.2/ 33.4/ 20.4 Flimsy v0.6 Ian Oversby 159.0 9 6 49.3/ 42.2/ 8.5 Scankiller 0.1 Christian Schmidt 156.4 20 7 43.2/ 31.3/ 25.5 Scanitator 3.0 Christian Schmidt 155.1 15 8 40.9/ 29.0/ 30.1 Hammermill 4.0 Matt Lewinski 152.8 95 9 47.5/ 43.6/ 8.9 The Stainless Steel Rat Christian Schmidt 151.5 31 10 45.9/ 40.9/ 13.2 Goothmonger v1.2 Ian Sutton 150.9 33 11 35.8/ 20.8/ 43.4 DemonSpawn J.A.Denny 150.8 18 12 42.3/ 34.3/ 23.5 Versatility 1.7 Ross Morgan-Linial 150.3 36 13 40.8/ 31.5/ 27.6 Apocalypse Matt Lewinski 150.1 66 14 43.4/ 41.6/ 15.0 Mostly Harmless v1.1 Justin Kao 145.3 39 15 41.6/ 39.4/ 19.0 Vivid Radiation 2.0 Matt Lewinski 143.8 57 16 42.6/ 43.0/ 14.5 Flamberge 13.4 Matt Lewinski 142.2 58 17 37.1/ 32.7/ 30.2 Dust 0.7.5 Justin Kao 141.6 35 18 33.8/ 26.2/ 40.0 Quantum Christian Schmidt 141.4 12 19 40.0/ 40.5/ 19.5 Microsoft Office '96 Justin Kao 139.6 85 20 33.7/ 30.6/ 35.7 Heartworm Edgar 136.8 6 21 32.7/ 30.9/ 36.5 Escargot 0.5 Justin Kao 134.4 55 22 37.5/ 46.2/ 16.3 Bash the Rat V1.4 Ian Sutton 128.8 50 23 32.8/ 57.8/ 9.4 Trap94_1 Waldemar Bartolik 107.8 4 24 29.8/ 58.6/ 11.5 Trap94_2 Waldemar Bartolik 101.0 2 25 28.4/ 61.3/ 10.2 Gisela 7110 Andrzej Maciejczak 95.5 1 ______________________________________________________________________________ The Hint I don't have time for a hint this week but here's a few ideas for potentially good warriors given the current state of the Hill: - There are a reasonable number of P-warriors hovering around the mid and lower parts of the hill so brainwashing could be an option. - RetroQ can be thrashed by a good vampire. Try using ADD.F #-STEP,STEP. This is the first issue I've written that hasn't contained a hint or a warrior. I'll try and make up for it in the next issue I do :-) ______________________________________________________________________________ Questions? Concerns? Comments? Complaints? Mail them to people who care. authors: Beppe Bezzi or Myer Bremer or Anton Marsden