Who's Norman? I recognise the name but I can't place it...

Good question. I'm afraid you won't like the answer though:
--> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XAPLx4KiK8A
--> http://warlight.net/MultiPlayer?GameID=4133020
--> http://theaigames.com/competitions/warlight-ai-challenge/games/532ebbf64b5ab23d7e2ebb87

Thx PS. I may write one in the summer but i search a partner to check the code and discuss...

Yeugh, I didn't play very well there did I? Have you played in a live stream? I think that's where I've seen you from (aside from the game).

Anyway, I too am going to have a go at this - you won't be winning for much longer :D

Edit:typo

Edited 3/23/2014 19:57:37

For coding in any language, sublime is a really good text editor and it's available for all platforms. It will help you with reading the code easier, it will also do suggestions for method/function names and much more.

Here's the link: http://www.sublimetext.com/

Edited 3/23/2014 20:30:10

Is it paid for? Does it support all languages you may need?
I've been using notepad++ with a bunch up of plugins until now - Have you used it - is Sublimetext a lot better?
So many questions...

Here is my bot. http://theaigames.com/players/alleirbag
It is currently climbing up the ladder, at position 92 as of right now.

Edit: 85th. It might eventually catch up to crappybot :)

Edited 3/24/2014 00:07:52

Green: sublime is free, they expect you to pay a license for continued use though. some people say it's better then notepad++. it runs on more platforms atleast (makes linux and mac kids happy).

Edited 3/24/2014 22:03:30

finally done with a first half-decent version of the bot, uploaded, let's see how high it climbs. Hope i didn't leave any nasty bug in it. :S

which i did, and now patched. Well, last place on the WarLight ranking, only way up from here :D

Does someone knows if it is possible to make the AttackTransferMoves at the same time than the
PlaceArmiesMoves with the JAVA botstarter? like i would like to write all the coding, filling placeArmiesMoves and attackTransferMoves in the same method, and then the predefined "getPlaceArmiesMoves" and "getAttackTransferMoves" methods would only have "return placeArmiesMoves" and "return attackTransferMoves" in them. I can't figure out how to do that.Any suggestion?

The game engine uses the following method to play a round:

public void playRound()
{
getMoves(player1.getBot().getPlaceArmiesMoves(2000), player1);
getMoves(player2.getBot().getPlaceArmiesMoves(2000), player2);

executePlaceArmies();

getMoves(player1.getBot().getAttackTransferMoves(2000), player1);
getMoves(player2.getBot().getAttackTransferMoves(2000), player2);

executeAttackTransfer();

...

The three methods getPreferredStartingRegions, getPlaceArmiesMoves, getAttackTransferMoves are all defined in the bot interface. I think you need to have all of those methods separate. You can, however, make your calculations during the getPlaceArmiesMoves method call, place the results somewhere (in the state, for instance), and just load them from the state reference during getAttackTransferMoves method call.

thanks, thats what i want to do, but how do i place the results in the state?

how do i place the results in the state?

He means make a variable and assign to it during getPlaceArmiesMoves(). Then all getAttackTransferMoves() does is return that variable.

so i put a variable attackTransferMoves in the State file, then in the getPlaceArmiesMoves method in the starter i can do this:

in the BotState:
public ArrayList<AttackTransferMove> attackTransferMoves = new ArrayList<AttackTransferMove>() ;

in the BotStarter getPlaceArmiesMoves method:

(state.attackTransferMoves).add(new AttackTransferMove(myName, fromRegion, toRegion, armies));

would that work?

Edited 3/26/2014 12:37:58

Yes, that would work. Of course,

(state.attackTransferMoves).add(new AttackTransferMove(myName, fromRegion, toRegion, armies));

will only add one attack/transfer order to the list.

Also, you could declare attackTransferMoves private, with public getters and setters.

The BotStarter's getAttackTransferMoves method, then, only contains one line:
"return state.getAttackTransferMoves();"

Edited 3/26/2014 13:14:54

yes, i'll declare it private and put a public setter & getter. Thank you very much!

125: what i been doing in c# is to create a new list called schedule attacks fill it up during the deployment phase with things that make sense happen, and then on the attack phase go through it and execute it.

ps: yes that is what i want to do, but i didn't know how to access a list declared in the PlaceArmiesMoves method from the AttackTransferMoves method...turns out you can't, that's why i need to put this schedule attacks list in the BotState. I'll give it a try tonight, i hope it'll work :)

125: ok. can you update my link on the main page? i changed the name of my bot:
http://theaigames.com/competitions/warlight-ai-challenge/game-log/pswarlighter/

I don't know how you do it Norman.