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At 8/19/08 12:20 PM, SpamBurger wrote: So who is going to organize the next AS Wars, since Arby doesn't want to do it? If I'm not the one who organizes it, then whoever does better not make it AS3 only. I don't understand why people are so obsessed with it. It's not like AS3 would help you create a better AI, besides the speed boost which allows for more intense calculations. But if you really need to make a loop that loops like 50 billion times, you better rethink your strategy. So, we should keep this at AS2 :\

I've been thinking a lot about hosting an AS war where the bots have to fight like in Megaman battle network. There would be a field of 18 tiles, 9 for each bot, and you would have to select 5 attacks at the start of a round (shoot cannon, heal, minigun, bomb, heal, etc.) and then would have to use those moves in the order they were chosen. You would be able to move 1 tile in any direction on only your tiles. You would start with, like 200 HP, and different attacks would do differing amounts of damage. The battles would have as many rounds as needed for one bot to lose, and attacks would be selected at the start of each round.

I'd host the war, but not enter because school is starting for me really soon. (It would also have to wait like 2 weeks because I'm going on vacation for a while.)

here's the 2007 one.

Hosted by Jmtb02 no less.

At 8/19/08 11:46 AM, SpamBurger wrote: Anyone have a link to all the AS Wars threads? The search bar here is crap, so it is hard to find them.

Here's number 2.
linky mcLink-link. XD

Why not just use _root.ant.gotoAndStop(7) ?

Is there some sort of glitch with that?

You probably have some sort of for or while loop that isn't written properly.
Did you use any loops in your script?

It happens a lot.

At 8/18/08 03:21 PM, Cecemel wrote: Hah, i won't tell anyone :3
And i have teh same problem, mine is too good for bots that fail :D

Yeah, I was having the same problem with bots that didn't evade very well, so I kind of over-worked my new shotgun. It looks pretty ridiculous, and I think I geared it a little too much towards taking out still bots.

it looks really weird. kinda like: >-o-<

lol

At 8/18/08 01:31 PM, Cecemel wrote: Gonna be epic :D

Oh, you bet boi! Ma bots of awesomeness are gonna take you dowwwwn!
Fear the wrath of the shotgun!

FEAR IT!

It seems that a lot of people are using BitmapData to check to see if drawn lines intersect with their bots. But why not simply take the distance between your bot and the bullet, and then project a point along the bullet's path exactly that far from the bullet, and if that point hits your bot, move out of the way. Wouldn't be virtually the same, but without having to use BitmapData?

That's what I did, and doesn't seem to lag at all.

That's not to say that my bullet-gridding system doesn't lag a crapload. =P

Hey, guys? This is probably a stupid question, but how do you send another user files in a PM?

Last time I did it over eMail...

At 8/17/08 04:21 PM, Cecemel wrote: still more than mine :3

Crud! I can already tell that you won, Cecemel... :(
Well, sending my bots in.

They really suck because of my stupid glitchy bullet-gridification thing that I spent like 7 days on...

At 8/17/08 09:18 AM, rahvin-the-vampire-hunter wrote: Canada wins! Even though I'm in Oregon right now..and have always been a US citizen..the fact states that once you beat the school bully, you win. right? How bout if you beat him twice and he then wants to be your friend? That's hella winning. Canada hella wins.

But, in Canada, you have to drink Perrier (tastes like soap water >.< ,) say "Eh?" after every sentence, and watch "Mounties" waltz around in parks and gardens wearing oompa-loompa pants and picking up garbage.

I did not mean a word of what I just said.... (well, maybe the Perrier part....) and I have nothing against Canada or its Mounties, I was just trying to make a funny reply. Really, I love your maple syrup! Please don't flame me.
Wait, do mounties still exist, or is that just an old stereotype?

I'd name it the Enterprise, and stick two huge poles out to the side. Then, when sailing, everyone would have to call me "Kirk" and speak-in-be-tween-choppy-breaths.

XD

At 8/17/08 07:46 AM, infernocpf wrote: ......you see U.S.A and Great Britain people like this are people who we should both complan about not eachother.....we gave you guys tea...and "the who"....and you gave us.......erm.....what did u give us.....oh macdolalds.........-_- thanks........

Actually, the United States technically gives Britain all of the products developed in Silicon valley, so you can thank the US for Adobe CS3.

Plus, Isn't NG stationed in the US? I'm not sure.

Hey, Arby, at what time (NG-time) of day are the bots due on Monday?

At 8/14/08 08:57 PM, Claxor the AS master wrote:

Some help along the way :)

Thank you, that should help me out a lot.

At 8/15/08 07:53 AM, GiantDouche wrote: What if somebody submitted like, the most revolutionary, artistic flash that NG has ever seen and the guy didn't know about clock day so his submission gets blammed?

I've seen a lot of people delete, then resubmit flashes that got caught up in the clock-day flood. People usually accept this violation of the portal rules.

but no really good artist would be dumb enough to submit a true masterpiece today. :3

P.S. Happeh clock day! <(^_^)>

Jeez, Claxor. I don't know how you got it right, but whenever I try to snap the bullets' trajectories to a grid (using line based math and such) it NEVER works quite right. My current system (the last of like, 4 tries) lags like molassas in an igloo... When this bot war is over, could you please tell me how you did it for your last bot?

Cuz I'm so dumb I can't decipher what your code is doing half of the time... >___________>

Me too, plox.

At 8/13/08 09:12 AM, FoodnSex wrote: Everyone in here makes me sick to my stomach.

Yeah, it's almost comical how quickly this thread degraded into a flame war.
It just goes to show, NG has a huge variety of heavily opinionated users.

who won't make a second thought about starting a huge flame-war if you disagree with them. XD

Yes, they look really good, do you plan on making more?

In SotC, number 16 on hard time-attack mode. Impossible, period.

/thread XD

Three men. One of whom practices his trade day after day, with extreme care and precision he swiftly performs his craft, never aspiring for higher stature as he knows his service to mankind is small but a vital one at that; another trains and conditions his body with vigor and determination, so that it may serve him in the field of battle to defend his homeland without fail, until his dying breath upon that field. The last is one among many, a man who does not know where his future lies and does not have any hope for things to come, he has endured the racking mental hardships of shear mediocrity his entire life. The last is the modern man, he looks upon the other two in awe at what they have achieved for themselves, never knowing he has endured hardships greater than both, and endured without any admiration or praise.

At 8/10/08 07:07 PM, Aleque wrote: I appreciate your suggestion :) I am not an obnoxious idiot that screams for attention for no effort. I am simply an artist who asks nicely for tips, and looks like you gave me on of them.

You're quite welcome my good sir.

British gentleman FTW. XD

You need to be careful of what you're asking. It almost sounds like you're one of those obnoxious idiots always posting in the flash forum, "Hai gaiz, how cans I make a popular flash without any effort at all. OLOLOL."

</ranting>

But people tend to vote higher on flashes that have well-written comedic dialog even if the skill of the animation is a little bit lax. I would try doing something like that.

Shadow of the Colossus.
That was the most epic game ever made.

</thread>

At 8/9/08 03:11 PM, SpamBurger wrote: I'm in of course! I might PM you with a few questions, though.

Awesome! looks like a ton of people are turning up for this one! This is gonna be one epic war.

I bet 3 bucks I get out by the second round. XD

AWW yeah! I've been waiting for this one. Get ready to really "feel my thunda" this time Cecemel!
It's good to see that a lot of people from the last one are coming back for another go.

You probably already loaded it previously and the file was still stored in your RAM

happens to me sometimes.

Why so serious.

clowns are people who need a different creative outlet.

At 7/29/08 10:55 AM, putzpie wrote: I'll MAKE A GUI TO HACK HIS COMPUTER AND STEAL HIS IP ADDRESS.

"But wait, Batman, what about the internal quasi-matrix of the frootloop server. You'll never gain access to his IP address if it sends you through an eternal loop through the sub-prime gagle-plaxor!"

"Of course, why didn't I see it before, we'll have to create another feedback insertifier to bruteforce the frootloop server and bypass the gagle-plaxer..."

"Oh, I get it... and then we'll have direct access to his IP address! Brilliant Batman!"

I swear I want to vomit when they put this kind of crap in a movie. Like in: Jurassic Park, The Andromeda Strain, and Star Trek.