[Pogamut-list] Selecting a better weapon

[jakub.gemrot]

Re: Selecting a better weapon

Author: jakub.gemrot

Hi rowan!

Are you preparing bot for BotPrize? Or why are you using WeaponDescriptor?

We have never experimented with different weapons / weapon settings in UT2004 thus behavior of WeaponDescriptor might be "fuzzy".

If your work involves some 3rd party that will be giving you different numbers in WeaponDescriptor there should be some explicit
agreement between you and them how are you interpreting respective fields of WeaponDescriptor (namely ITC message from GB2004)
in order to have expected results. There *might be* some other caveats as well (naturally we hope there isn't but...).

If you are just trying to determine which weapon is better than it is might more useful to think about triples [range, weapon, preference score]
and according to current range of target pick weapon of highest preference that is available to you. Using such formulation you may
easily adapt your bot during runtime (i.e., perform learning of weapons' usefulness by trying them out in different ranges balancing between
exploration / exploitation of your knowledge).

Best,
Jimmy

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