Tried out a few different tweaks just now but couldn't get the Turtle to first against this field. Maybe it'll get lucky in the Monte Carlo though :) Thanks for a fun game!
@Draco18s I had the exact same similar issue and I also had issue with the Teacher bot, had to stop upgrading my attacks and slow down a little to fix that issue.
attack is easy, you just don't upgrade. worth relies on a lot of factors, a single attack on a low-health bot occurs in like 4 places in Kill Assist, and whether or not it jumps KA's worth to the top depends on who else made an attack or not
made stunning take 2 hp https://tio.run/##xVlNbxvJFbznV/QxuQy6@/XnJYC1ibNAYqyxcpDbAmNqbDGmKIUa2rFOQc455OBDfsQe9xftH/FWvZ4RRxK1UOCDF3KTHA45NfWq3qvmrvrt@/7682fz6H/9@7dYP6y31@b37h3@2XfGXPT/bG/99sPlbjz/wf@Opzo7nhvjdRVdg65R16Rr1rXoaiofrobdatiO683wm58//efnT//6sr8fn/zuj09@6ynf/CUnf62//4Lxfx9K/ef1ZmOeXV@vr0ccT6W63EXr8Vyq45m1ZjzUykO@phAqz7M2plikRn4HT04SvJGSqjXBO@9MKD5kk3z00WSRHE3xNVpTXbHJOOfa909oXp0P5uRyxGM/muf97uIax0ONxXVez5M0oSlEUxSNL0EUqZRgs62SJzQueiDwLrhgxBEZYHsgy7UKpJl9NjGUUIGvZk9R4tQDmgU1p@PQb4Yd0fgkvquBAEwqCzSOq0@@OFLlQ4xgwMc6o8H1rHEVqIyIAxOSQI6RmqQY3AJ4ijaWZJLDrcAvEpK9i4b8PFutLvfbsd@OWh1coKs…
Another way to tweak stun would be to make whatever the stunned bot tried to do that turn apply to you instead. So you can't stunlock someone forever because they'll detect that they're being stunned and farm you to death, but stunning becomes a more viable strategy to actually win.
@Night2 right, I can stun one person, but if I prevent each of the 6 to get a 5k kill, everyone else has lost 5k and I've lost 30*6, making a 4.9k difference bonus for me
If there were 10 bots and only 3-4 competitors, then that would work, but when there are more, it will be a waste, you don't farm, and stop top worth, someone else will be top worth, not you. You cannot fight with all.
@Night2 what‽ I do fight, I just stun when I know someone else would go for a kill and fight after, meaning top attacker loses 1-10k and I lose 40 or so worth
When teaming was allowed, my second bot was designed to target all other top worth bots that weren't my main bot. It wasn't designed to only stun top worth, it would be useless because someone else could become. I would select a random top worth which wasn't my main bot and stun it. Only 40-50 stuns per top bot was enough to make sure my main bot gets 1st place with large margin.
@Night2 less and less as the number of attacking and high-worth bots grow
even if the average worth of a bot upon getting killed is 1000 and there is a 10% chance of attacking the bot that I want, it's still an average of 100 worth loss for that bot vs a 40 loss for me, and that's very unlikely
here's a list of what and how many times my bot attempted to stun a bot
It also shows that "Kill Assist" is probably individually very strong, and you have made him weak, but that has not given you the first place, instead the first place has gone to "The Bot That Farms ...".
in testing, i had to put <----------------------------------------------______-------------------------------------> next to my name so it was easy to spot
I used to do that 10 years ago when competing in university ACM competitions with very long names for my team, and from that time I always select long names!
After reviewing all the major bots, I personally would vote for "Kill Assist", a very strong individual, and the most important part is that it was updated 2 days ago and was on top for most of the time. Everyone had 2 days of time to counter its strategy and still is better than all bots individually.
