TCP Server

[xyz]

hi. my bot is in the top 100!

however, im new to programming and these technical details so how do i connect to the TCP server? please understand that it took my over half an hour to figure out how to work that java visual display thing.

steps on how to proceed would be great

thanks!

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Is there a way to visualize results of games played on TCP server? Seems like the best option for now is to add some additional logging and build file compatible for ShowGame.jar. However I'm not sure that there is enough data on side of a player.

[dhartmei]

You mean other than through clicking on your user name and then "View Game" on ?

If you log all input your bot gets into a file, that is enough to build the game state data that the Canvas and Java visualizers read.

Or you can fetch the Canvas page through the URL above, extract the game state data (the 'var = ' part in the JavaScript in there), and
feed that to a visualizer.

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[Queue29]

I'm sure others already have their own solutions, but I just made a quick and dirty python3 wrapper for the tcp client to keep a bot in continuous play. It sleeps for a bit in between each round to avoid pairing up with the same opponent over and over.

All you need to do is edit the cmd = "./tcp 213.3.30.106 9999 supaman314 ./MyBot" line so that you execute tcp and MyBot correctly.

http://gist.github.com/578352

[xyz]

how do i use that java code to connect to the tcp server??? (im on a windows machine)

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[eburnette]

[xyz]

thanks tracer it worked! although it still took me a while to figure out i needed a java compiler...

another question: how do i leave it running so that it plays automatically?