Comment on AI Challenge: Ants

Thu, 03 Nov 2011 23:28:20 GMT

Considering that I'm new at the game, I'm a bit fuzzy about which strategies work and which ones are dead ends.

My first instinct would be to try simple strategies (cluster with my ants, follow walls, avoid my ants, just charge straight forwards, etc.) and then use a mixed strategy whose parameter I can vary, possibly function of simple environment metrics (so I can systematically explore one bit of the space of possibilities).

But I haven't read through all the site yet, and didn't even get my local version to run correctly either (I need to use the right version of Python or something, the bots all crash). So my understanding of the kind of strategies involved is still very detached from reality.

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