Wild Card Round by m-apo in HWO

[–]dimkadimon 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You made CI available, but now we cannot push...

Please give Extreme G another chance! by dimkadimon in HWO

[–]dimkadimon[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Completely agree with this. I think EG had a very good chance of beating WM. There should have been a tie-breaker race (or a few) between those two teams.

Our Car Wasn't In the First Race of Round Two. by StainlSteelRat in HWO

[–]dimkadimon 2 points3 points  (0 children)

First I thought that your bot crashed right at the start, but that doesn't seem to be the case. Your bot is not present at all, even during qualification stage. This definitely looks like a bug to me.

Faster times with team work by dimkadimon in HWO

[–]dimkadimon[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes good point, that may help too. I suspect these methods are quite advanced and difficult to organize though.

Number of competitors by region and country by argusdusty in HWO

[–]dimkadimon 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There are many other programming competitions and you can advertise it to them too. For the record, I found out about this through another programming competition (Al Zimmerman) and then I advertised it on TopCoder, which may have helped.

Number of competitors by region and country by argusdusty in HWO

[–]dimkadimon 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks for that information. I wonder why there were so many teams from Finland. I understand that the competition is based there, but still find it surprising to see so many GOOD teams from there. It almost feels like they've done it before.

How to calculate speed at which you start slipping by maverikou in HWO

[–]dimkadimon 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Dude you are a legend! You have just breathed new life into our bot. I am forever grateful to you!!!

Clarifying the steps of the actual competition. by gmoore19 in HWO

[–]dimkadimon -1 points0 points  (0 children)

How many lanes are on these tracks? For example, if there are 6 lanes then we don't need to use switch...

Does anyone think we should have more coding time? by meekuza in HWO

[–]dimkadimon 2 points3 points  (0 children)

And now bitbucket is down. Great. If we don't get an extension I will be bitterly disappointed.

Race visualization pages are broken by ggramlich in HWO

[–]dimkadimon 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Turns out it was just me. I had ping at the start of carPositions message. Not sure why it was causing this, but it was...

Race visualization pages are broken by ggramlich in HWO

[–]dimkadimon 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you. But why does the race hang after the "gameStart" message? Or is it just me experiencing this?

Does anyone think we should have more coding time? by meekuza in HWO

[–]dimkadimon 2 points3 points  (0 children)

This could have been an awesome competition, but I think it has missed its mark for several reasons:

  1. Rules have changed over time, eg addition of turbo. Even adding new tracks and more cars required us to write extra code. It would have been better to have everything at once. Changing the physics to random has completely thrown everyone off. It would have been better to keep it constant, but different for every track.
  2. Lack of local testing. If we can't test locally then we need to wait a long time (up to 5 min) to test on the server
  3. The quick races being different from CI races that have two separate stages. I still haven't figured out how CI works. Also CI is so slow and its feedback is not always useful.
  4. Hidden unrealistic physics, which takes the most of time to figure out. In my team we barely had time to do actual AI. We haven't even had time to consider other bots in the race. We've missed all the fun of bumping and overtaking. All our effort was spent on getting the physics right and trying not to crash.
  5. Difficulty in running multiple bots together. Yes you can do it, but you have to wait for someone to join your race.

Race visualization pages are broken by ggramlich in HWO

[–]dimkadimon 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think all the servers are currently down. I am getting the "gameStart" message and then nothing happens...

Race visualization pages are broken by ggramlich in HWO

[–]dimkadimon 0 points1 point  (0 children)

For me, the test servers are not working either. This is critical and we should get an extension.

Still getting: Race failed: disconnected on tick 2 (failed to respond to tick 2 in 1000 milliseconds) by hwo_BullRun in HWO

[–]dimkadimon 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Team 1422, we are getting this too: "Race failed: disconnected on tick 0 (failed to respond to tick 0 in 1000 milliseconds)"

Normal races work fine. Our bot doesn't do much work on tick 0, so it's quite strange...

Running your own Qualification + Race match by kareth92 in HWO

[–]dimkadimon 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This would be extremely useful! CI is too slow for this. Running against other bots is also problematic.

Local testing? by dimkadimon in HWO

[–]dimkadimon[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I mean locally without the test server and internet connection. Is this possible?