Malivil

Even if the bots were deterministic in this specific example the inputs are randomized (the hand of squares to place)

I think that it will run fast enough that I can do many permutations like that

That's fair

The version of the game I have is UI based (because it was made for people) but I could make a headless mode and then run it en-masse for the scoring

If I wanted every permutation, yea

@NathanMerrill That's true. I would probably have to run it multiple times. Do a "best 3 out of 5" or something

I need to do some work on it to have a better API but maybe i'll work on it when I'm bored in the next week or so

Whoever has the most money (or money + stock value) after a certain condition is met (based on company size) wins

I have been working off-and-on on a version of the 1960s board game Acquire. The goal is establishing companies by placing squares, buying stock, and merging companies. My intent was to turn that into a competition where each answer would be a different bot playing the game. Probably 1v1 but it supports up to 8 players iirc

I'm considering writing a KotH question. Past questions I've seen have all been python-based. Is that a requirement or just the standard? I have an existing system in C# I was planning on adapting but I don't know how much interest I would get if it was limited to C#

Seems like what I'm saying is done in Java in some other answers so it's probably fine is my guess

What is the consensus for including the boilerplate for languages like C# in the byte count? I'm sure this has been discussed before but I looked on meta but I'm guessing my search skills are lacking. I have an answer in .Net Core that I'd like to reduce the byte count down to just the body of a lambda method so I have the boilerplate (namespace, class, Main, etc.) in the header/footer on TIO. Does that make sense?

Unless it already has that

*delete

It would need some way of selecting which comments to move

@Mego Doesn't that imply "JIF" then, since that's the peanut butter?

@Pavel Fair point

Interesting

Accepted answers and bounties bypass the rep cap?

Dunno how well that would be received

@PhiNotPi Whichever shows up on Google first

@mınxomaτ Yea, that took me a second too

I'm quite happy with my 2

@Rod Looks good now =)

@Rod There is also some duplication in the "Input" section. Namely where it goes "keep in mind that this"

Also the tag at the bottom is "code-gold" instead of "code-golf"

@Rod You misspelled "Objective"

Would it be too meta to star what you just said?

That's a good one too

Yea, I was about to say

Yes, that specifically

that's all I can think about whenever someone says "RegEx" and "HTML"

Yea... that is nice

Oh well

That one does the opposite of what I said but it's basically a dupe

@muddyfish codegolf.stackexchange.com/questions/24739/…

I looked, but I'll look around some more

@muddyfish I was considering a cipher based on letter frequency

@muddyfish Sorry, I hit enter too early =P I edited it

@muddyfish Do you think a challenge based on letter frequency would be interesting?

letter frequency cipher?

That might be an interesting challenge...

Oh

You can do that in the wikipedia table

I know you were, I was just curious if that was actually true =P

But that is english words which doesn't directly relate to usenames

"m" is 2.406%

@muddyfish en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Letter_frequency