Standing like a nuts!

Why most the RACC template #2 bots don't move , only one of ten of the bots move ? Is it a problem ?

[Onno Kreuzinger]

it's a template, not a working bot, it wont work on its own.

no but sometimes al the bots move and sometimes not , I believed it a bug , I study the RACC code and found something ... I change it and then you know what happend ? The bot run like a mad dog all over the map!

[Terran]

Is the "mad dog" behavior good or bad? I simply don't understand what you want to say with that phrase...

no good or bad , they just run with no target , like blind people !

[Pierre-Marie Baty]

The combat/navigation code in the templates is very basic, and very old, dated from about 2 years now. It has been kept for showing people bots that run around, but the point of these templates is to help programmers design their OWN bot : I expect a bot coder to REDO this combat/navigation code. Remember, the RACC templates are NO working bot. The real bot code is on my hard drive

The bug you are experiencing comes that the bots evaluate each frame if they should pause or not. But since 2 years ago computers weren't as fast as they are now, these bots decide to pause much more often on nowadays computers (since they think about it more often). At the extreme you can have 10 bots paused and 2 running at the same time.

But as I said the AI code in the template is completely outdated and without real interest. The interesting things in the template are the sensing and motile parts of the AI, not the core AI itself. You have to write it yourself.