Robocode Tournament 1 Ideas/Hints

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.

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

See the 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 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.

• Simple strategy that could work if the SittingDucks are lined up just right
  • Start in a corner.
  • See image.

• 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.
• See image.

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