Where do we report bugs?
http://aichallenge.org/visualizer.php?g ... 0&user=331The game ends with reason "food not being gathered", which is obviously wrong (the game ends on turn 150, one of my ants gathered food on turn 147 and a new ant was spawned on turn 148). It's true that the opponent doesn't gather any food, but I don't think that's a good enough reason not to give me a chance to finish him off.
This seems to be consistent with the "food not being gathered" cutoff described on
http://aichallenge.org/specification.php, but that seems a little wrong. Maybe my bot doesn't gather food in the best way, but it's certainly not a starter bot (it did manage to blunder its way into top 100 a few times).
Maybe the rule for this cutoff should be a little more dynamic (no food gathered at all for 50 consecutive turns)? I admit it would be risky (impossible?) to change rules at this stage. However, there is a large percentage of starter bots in the competition and this cutoff rule poses the threat of many games ending prematurely.
Anyway, this was/is a great contest and great fun. Many thanks to the organizers for their hard work! Many thanks to the people who set up TCP servers!