RealDebugMonkey / ZeachCobbler

Custom Agario modifications
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Suggestion for Grazer #14

Open Szigerd opened 9 years ago

Szigerd commented 9 years ago

I am not a programmer or even speak Javascript, but from the code I see that you create a potential and then the grazer is riding on the Gradient. It seems that you handle all the blobs not ours the same way. This results imho in an underestimation of the threat of split blobs So it happen that the grazer is ignoring lets say the 2 95% blobs from the some opponent and then dying when the blobs reunite. or chasing the 60% green blob of 1 player where the other blob of that player is e.g. 200% and the grazer should not chase it. Perhaps you can chenge this. Thanks

RealDebugMonkey commented 9 years ago

I'm assuming you're referring to the new grazer. (The old grazer probably won't be touched much now, and will probably be removed when/if we make the new grazer a little better at the early game.)

The new grazer should already be wary of standard split-kill situations.

The remerging scenario is a little trickier since the server doesn't actually tell us which blobs belong to which user. All blobs have their own ID, name, and color. The best we can do is to assume that cells that are the same color, have the same skin, and have the same name all belong to the same player. I'd hate to make the code overly complex for this, but I think it might be viable to artificially inflate the threat-level of a split blob.

Suggestion accepted. I'll try and make some improvements around this when I get some spare time.

Szigerd commented 9 years ago

Thanks for accepting my suggestion. I did not know that the server does not tell us which blobs belong to which user. That makes it more complicated as you pointed out.

As I am interested in the mathematical modelling and your acceptance of my suggestion I feel encouraged to make annother suggestion for early game performance for which I will open annother issue.

Gjum commented 9 years ago

@Szigerd If you are interested in the more technical side of agar, check out gcommer's wiki, especially the protocol can help you understand the modelling better. Maybe that gets you more such good ideas.