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====== Robocode Tournament 1 Ideas/Hints ======

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===== Hint: Don't try to be perfect =====

Your strategy to touch the SittingDucks may not work every time. Sometimes the SittingDucks aren't in the formation you need them to be in. But you have three tries.

===== Idea: Destroy the SittingDucks =====

You won't get time bonuses, but getting rid of SittingDucks simplifies the task of touching them all.

===== Idea: Use SittingDucks' energy level =====

See the [[http://robocode.sourceforge.net/docs/robocode/robocode/Robot.html#onScannedRobot(robocode.ScannedRobotEvent)|onScannedRobot]] method documentation.

For a robot //e// that you scan, you can get data such as distance (//e.getDistance()//) and bearing (//e.getBearing()//). But another item of data you can get is the //[[http://robocode.sourceforge.net/docs/robocode/robocode/ScannedRobotEvent.html|energy]]// of the scanned robot. A SittingDuck that hasn't been damaged yet has full energy; that's a SittingDuck that you haven't tagged yet.

===== Idea: Cover as much of the field as you can =====

  * Simple strategy that could work if the SittingDucks are lined up just right
    * Start in a corner.
    * [[https://piazza.com/class_profile/get_resource/hzkswvpxv2r2nu/i1bos4n135j470|See image]].

===== Idea: Don't go back =====

  * Start from the west wall.
  * Scan and collide with the SittingDuck that has an x-coordinate closest to your x-coordinate.
  * Try to move only in eastward directions, never westward.
  * [[https://piazza.com/class_profile/get_resource/hzkswvpxv2r2nu/i1bpxmf5ncu7pb|See image]].

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