Comments on: RPCFN: Broadsides (#7)

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By: RPCFN: XML Transformer (#8)

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By: Benoit Daloze

Benoit Daloze — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 15:29:19 +0000

“I was a bit impatient to wait for your player while it thinks”
Yeah that makes more suspense …

Hum this was a bit annoying in fact, and due to the strategy for next shot, taking every free Coord and look for the one which has the maximum free space around. I wanted to reduce that, but my player became too bad, so I kept it.

Cheers,
B.D.

By: Dmitriy Nagirnyak Winner RPCFN #7

Dmitriy Nagirnyak Winner RPCFN #7 — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 08:52:53 +0000

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By: Dmitriy Nagirnyak

Dmitriy Nagirnyak — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 01:25:14 +0000

Hi Benoit,

I agree that extending a String does not look like being a “clean way” but it just allows to Keep It Simple. If the player would have to expose its interface I wouldn’t do that.

“I have the impression the winner is relative to luck, as for searching the last ship it can be quite long”

I think it IS about the luck, but involves a bit of probability theory. I believe my “ship discovery” strategy allows to quicker find all the ships with minimal shots, at least according to probability theory

Though, my player lacks a “professional” strategy to finish off the ships.

Cheers,
Dmitriy.