From news-rocq.inria.fr!jussieu.fr!oleane!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed1.earthlink.net!uwm.edu!msunews!mooredav Tue Mar 31 10:57:53 1998 Article: 8708 of rec.games.corewar Path: news-rocq.inria.fr!jussieu.fr!oleane!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed1.earthlink.net!uwm.edu!msunews!mooredav From: mooredav@cps.msu.edu (David Matthew Moore) Newsgroups: rec.games.corewar Subject: Re: Genetically Modified Beef Date: 30 Mar 1998 19:30:26 GMT Organization: Michigan State University Lines: 60 Message-ID: <6forsi$hss$1@msunews.cl.msu.edu> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: chagulak.cps.msu.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] X-MD5: 50890efe8e668072ca2708fc202c7a7a JOHN METCALF (JOHN.METCALF@nospam.chaos.camelot.co.uk) wrote: : There hasn't been a new warrior on the tiny hill this year! Does anyone : know how much the other hills have aged by? (I don't have results from : the start of the year for all of them...) Two of my warriors have recently landed on the tiny hill. Some observations: 1. I love being able to see each cell as a big block! Tiny battles are the most fun to watch. 2. MAXLENGTH==20 -> multi-component warriors are difficult to write 3. A traditional scanner is faster in tinyland than a q^2 is on the big hill. Bootstrapping is likely to lose more points than it gains. 4. The hill is young and therefore very easy to get on. All factors considered, this would be a great hill for beginners to start on. However, I prefer the LP specs, which encourages more sophisticated warriors. Also, LP strategies are genuinely new... it's a totally different world than 94 and Tiny. I don't know of any published tiny papers so I reveal mine below. FYI The 88 standard hill has aged by 116 in the last 2 years. Much of that age is artificial, but only 6 warriors have survived since then. - David ;redcode-94x ;name Killer Bees ;author David Moore ;assert CORESIZE==800 && MAXCYCLES==8000 && MAXLENGTH==20 && MAXPROCESSES==800 ;strategy paper d1 equ 400 d2 equ 305 ; d2 and d3 were suggested by a computer optimizer d3 equ 350 start mov >159, 369 ; there's always a chance... mov }253, 608 mov >557, 293 mov }652, 767 paper spl 1, >59 mov.i 1, #0 spl 1, {457 mov <1, {1 spl d1+6, 7 spl @0, -1 mov 3, >-2 mov {-3, {1 jmz.a d3, *0 dat 1, 1 end start