by tiberiu44 » Tue Dec 20, 2011 9:02 am
Hello,
I noticed that all bots timeout since the contest started. My bot is written in C# but the timeout happens regardless of the programming language. I do have a timeout check, and also on my computer (which is a Asus n61j laptop) it takes about 100ms for 300 ants (worst case).
I don't see why this is happening, with the timeout check installed in multiple parts of the code and also i would like to mention that the first versions of the bot didn't even have timeout checks and they worked perfectly. I lost a couple of games because of this and they where against some lame bots. In this game seems like everyone timed out:
Also I wanted to know if it counts that I've been fighting an aggressive bot the whole game and I was winning in the end, but we reached the turn limit and he already razed a couple of enemy hills that belong to other bots who did not have any skill?
If the contest does not run for a couple of weeks such situations will have a negative impact on the score (some bots just get lucky).
So, do be concise:
1) Why do the timeouts occur?
2) How long will the contest run?
Thank you!