Issue 42 September 9, 1996
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Core Warrior is a weekly newsletter promoting the game of corewar. Emphasis
is placed on the most active hills--currently the '94 draft hill and the
beginner hill. Coverage will follow where ever the action is. If you have
no clue what I'm talking about then check out these five-star internet locals
for more information:
FAQs are available by anonymous FTP from rtfm.mit.edu as
pub/usenet/news.answers/games/corewar-faq.Z
FTP site is: ftp.csua.berkeley.edu /pub/corewar
Web pages are at: (Please note new Stormking's address)
http://www.koth.org/ ;Stormking
http://www.ecst.csuchico.edu/~pizza/koth ;Pizza
http://pauillac.inria.fr/~doligez/corewar/ ;Planar
Newbies should check the stormking page for the FAQ, language specification,
guides, and tutorials. Post questions to rec.games.corewar. All new players
are infinitely welcome!
If ftp.csua.berkeley.edu is unreachable, you can download pMARS at:
Terry's web page--http://www.infi.net/~wtnewton/corewar/
Planar ftp site--ftp://ftp.inria.fr/INRIA/Projects/para/doligez/cw/pmars
Fechter ftp site--ftp://members.aol.com/ofechner/corewar
A collection of Bezzi's hints in the first issues is available at:
ftp://ftp.volftp.vol.it/pub/pc/msdos/games/solutions/bbhints.zip
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Greetings.
The pizza hills are back and so are we. Sorry for the short vacation, but
there just wasn't much to report on in the last few weeks. The new 'test'
option is seeing heavy use. There are disagreements whether tests results
should be included in the standard output reporting option. Personally, I
would like the option of not receiving test results. Also, the 'testing'
will greatly reduce artificial hill aging (wasn't that the point?), and along
with it--entries into the Hall of Fame. Is there something we should do
about this? Perhaps the most important question about the 'test' option is
whether it is safe or not. Should test warriors be allowed to ;kill a warrior
on the hill?
--M R Bremer
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Current Status of the Internet Pizza Server ICWS '94 Draft Hill:
Hill Specs:
coresize: 8000
max. processes: 8000
duration: after 80,000 cycles, a tie is declared.
max. entry length: 100
minimum distance: 100
rounds fought: 200
instruction set: ICWS '94 Draft
The current ICWS '94 Draft hill:
# %W / %L / %T Name Author Score Age
1 38.6/ 20.4/ 41.0 unrequited love kafka 156.7 22
2 43.3/ 36.7/ 20.0 Probe Anton Marsden 150.0 102
3 46.5/ 43.6/ 9.9 Q^2 Miro Anders Ivner 149.4 152
4 37.4/ 25.7/ 36.9 Simple v0.4b Ian Oversby 149.2 53
5 39.5/ 31.0/ 29.5 Flimsy v0.5a Ian Oversby 147.9 1
6 43.4/ 41.5/ 15.1 Blur 2 Anton Marsden 145.4 101
7 29.6/ 13.8/ 56.6 Return Of The Jedimp John K W 145.3 90
8 32.8/ 20.4/ 46.8 Rosebud Beppe 145.1 775
9 42.6/ 40.8/ 16.6 Goldfinch P.Kline 144.4 43
10 37.0/ 29.9/ 33.1 September Beppe 144.0 4
11 40.3/ 38.1/ 21.6 mrb-test m r bremer 142.5 8
12 39.7/ 37.3/ 23.0 Yogi Bear P.Kline 142.0 306
13 40.0/ 38.7/ 21.2 Test Anton Marsden 141.3 12
14 36.0/ 31.0/ 33.0 Falcon v0.3 Ian Oversby 141.1 7
15 39.5/ 38.2/ 22.2 T.N.T. pro Maurizio Vittuari 140.9 820
16 41.4/ 43.1/ 15.5 Earthquake v0.2 Bjoern & Ian 139.7 59
17 41.4/ 43.7/ 14.9 myVamp5.4 Paulsson 139.1 150
18 26.5/ 14.0/ 59.5 ompega Steven Morrell 138.9 217
19 41.5/ 46.0/ 12.5 Mist P.Kline 137.0 42
20 28.4/ 21.3/ 50.3 Armory II John K W 135.5 241
21 40.0/ 44.7/ 15.3 Harmony P.Kline 135.2 67
22 32.7/ 31.7/ 35.6 Jack in the box II Beppe Bezzi 133.7 459
23 29.5/ 25.6/ 44.9 Ties, Ties, Ties! (+3) Ross Morgan-Linial 133.5 2
24 38.3/ 43.5/ 18.2 Twister Beppe Bezzi 133.2 556
25 36.3/ 41.6/ 22.1 Paper, Scissors and Stone David van Dam 131.0 230
Top 25 Averages:
37.7/ 33.7/ 28.6 141.7 180
Weekly age: 9 in a month! ( 26 last issue, 7 the week before )
New warriors: 5 Turnover/age rate 56% (will be higher with 'test' option)
Average age: 180 ( 186 last issue, 176 the week before )
Average score: 142 ( 137 last issue, 141 the week before )
The top 25 warriors are represented by 14 authors: Beppe and Kline with 4;
Oversby with 3 and 1/2; Marsden with 3; and JKW with 2.
Four of the top five warriors use quick scans, most likely the new Q^2 scans.
urequited love might use one too, but it is not mentioned in the ;strategy
lines. Return of the Jedimp and mrb-test are also using the Q^2 quick scan.
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94 - What's New
# %W / %L / %T Name Author Score Age
5 39.5/ 31.0/ 29.5 Flimsy v0.5a Ian Oversby 147.9 1
10 37.0/ 29.9/ 33.1 September Beppe 144.0 4
11 40.3/ 38.1/ 21.6 mrb-test m r bremer 142.5 8
14 36.0/ 31.0/ 33.0 Falcon v0.3 Ian Oversby 141.1 7
23 29.5/ 25.6/ 44.9 Ties, Ties, Ties! (+3) Ross Morgan-Linial 133.5 2
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94 - What's No More
# %W / %L / %T Name Author Score Age
26 4.0/ 0.0/ 0.0 Dura v0.1 Ian Oversby 12.0 122
26 25.6/ 30.5/ 44.0 Forked Lightning 2.0 Philip Kendall 120.7 29
26 36.1/ 47.1/ 16.8 Test Sc Ian Oversby 125.2 5
26 1.3/ 1.3/ 1.4 Ties, Ties, Ties! (+3) Ross Morgan-Linial 5.3 17
26 2.0/ 1.6/ 0.5 Pulp v0.2 Ian Oversby 6.3 197
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94 - What's Old
# %W / %L / %T Name Author Score Age
8 40.7/ 36.8/ 22.5 T.N.T. pro Maurizio Vittuari 144.6 820
14 31.8/ 21.6/ 46.5 Rosebud Beppe 142.0 775
21 38.7/ 41.9/ 19.5 Twister Beppe Bezzi 135.5 556
22 31.0/ 30.8/ 38.1 Jack in the box II Beppe Bezzi 131.3 459
12 39.7/ 37.3/ 23.0 Yogi Bear P.Kline 142.0 306
Yogi Bear joins the list. Twister and Jack could be pushed off very soon!
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HALL OF FAME
* means the warrior is still active.
Pos Name Author Age Strategy
1 Thermite II Robert Macrae 2262 Qscan -> bomber
2 Impfinity v4g1 Planar 1993 Stone/ imp
3 Jack in the box Beppe Bezzi 1620 P-warrior
4 Tornado 3.0 Beppe Bezzi 1567 Bomber
5 Torch t18 P.Kline 1539 Bomber
6 Chameleon Myer R Bremer 1437 P-warrior
7 Frontwards v2 Steven Morrell 1420 One shot scanner
8 Evol Cap 6.6 John Wilkinson 1299 Imp / stone
9 quiz Schitzo 1262 Scanner/ bomber
10 T.N.T. Maurizio Vittuari 1204 Bomber
11 Grilled Octopus v0.5 David Boeren 1154 P-warrior
12 Hazy Shade II John Wilkinson 1102 P-warrior
13 Stepping Stone Kurt Franke 1049 Qscan -> Vampire
14 Iron Gate 1.5 Wayne Sheppard 926 CMP scanner
15 Agony II Stefan Strack 912 CMP scanner
16 Barrage Anton Marsden 876 Qscan -> replicator
17 Blue Funk Steven Morrell 869 Stone/ imp
18 Flurry Anton Marsden 835 Qscan -> pwarrior
19 T.N.T. pro Maurizio Vittuari 820 * Bomber
20 Thermite 1.0 Robert Macrae 802 Qscan -> bomber
21 Rosebud Beppe Bezzi 775 * Stone/ imp
22 Blue Funk 3 Steven Morrell 766 Stone/ imp
23 Night Train Karl Lewin 755 Replicator
24 Mirage 1.5 Anton Marsden 736 Scanner/ bomber
25 Blizzard Anton Marsden 713 Qscan -> replicator
Good luck assulting this hill with the new 'test' option.
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Current Status of the Internet Pizza Server Beginner's Hill:
Hill Specs:
coresize: 8000
max. processes: 8000
duration: after 80,000 cycles, a tie is declared.
max. entry length: 100
minimum distance: 100
maximum age: At age 100, warriors are retired.
rounds fought: 200
instruction set: ICWS '94 Draft
The current Beginner hill:
# %W / %L / %T Name Author Score Age
1 55.3/ 24.1/ 20.6 Tsunami v0.3 Ian Oversby 186.5 18
2 53.5/ 23.3/ 23.1 Versatility 1.5 Ross Morgan-Linial 183.7 91
3 52.5/ 27.4/ 20.1 T-1 w/decoy Ross 177.7 28
4 46.0/ 24.3/ 29.7 Ick v1.5 Justin Kao 167.6 47
5 49.1/ 31.1/ 19.7 T-1 Ross 167.1 36
6 39.1/ 22.3/ 38.6 (-: :-) Ross 155.9 24
7 38.9/ 24.2/ 36.9 TIE Fighter Ross 153.6 23
8 42.5/ 32.7/ 24.8 Velveeta Shift-G shar 152.3 14
9 29.1/ 15.3/ 55.7 Ties, Ties, Ties! (+3) Ross 142.9 37
10 35.8/ 34.1/ 30.1 Vampirism 1.2 Philip Kendall 137.5 16
11 32.1/ 27.1/ 40.8 Together 0.3 Ilmari Karonen 137.1 25
12 25.5/ 16.7/ 57.8 Papyrus 6 Justin Kao 134.4 6
13 26.1/ 18.3/ 55.6 Microsoft v1.0 Justin Kao 133.8 57
14 20.0/ 10.3/ 69.7 Nematode v1.4b Jonathan Stott 129.7 98
15 16.9/ 9.7/ 73.4 Nematode v1.4e Jonathan Stott 124.1 65
16 19.2/ 18.4/ 62.4 CCCP harleyQ2 120.1 5
17 15.7/ 12.3/ 72.0 SIN harleyQ2 119.2 3
18 17.0/ 21.5/ 61.5 Bronze Dragonflies 0.1 Ross 112.5 4
19 10.1/ 8.2/ 81.7 si harleyQ2 112.1 15
20 25.1/ 51.0/ 23.9 Gravel 2 Justin Kao 99.1 1
21 20.2/ 44.1/ 35.6 bump harleyQ2 96.3 9
22 8.6/ 21.0/ 70.4 super-imp harleyQ2 96.1 7
23 7.5/ 19.9/ 72.6 Ties Engine Ross 95.0 26
24 9.5/ 24.2/ 66.3 silkstomp v2.i harleyQ2 94.8 33
25 5.3/ 38.9/ 55.7 Imp++ Justin Kao 71.8 2
Twenty-one challenges. Tsunami is new and sits atop the heap. But is Ian
playing fair when he has over three warriors to his name on the '94 draft
hill? Bad boy. Ross Morgan-Linial is trying out some super-imp program on
the draft hill, but it has yet to claim a solid rank. He is well represented
on the b-hill with 7 warriors.
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The Hint
Sorry no hint this issue. I probably won't have any hints until I start
actively playing again. Maybe when I get my class schedule under control . .
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Questions? Concerns? Comments? Complaints? Mail them to people who care.
authors: Beppe Bezzi <bezzi@nemo.it> or Myer Bremer <bremermr@ecn.purdue.edu>
or Anton Marsden <amarsden@comp.vuw.ac.nz>
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