From news-rocq!jussieu.fr!oleane!news.maxwell.syr.edu!wn4feed!wn3feed!worldnet.att.net!207.24.196.41!nntphub.cb.lucent.com!oucsboss!callisto.cns.muskingum.edu!news Fri Nov 12 17:43:15 1999 Article: 10967 of rec.games.corewar Path: news-rocq!jussieu.fr!oleane!news.maxwell.syr.edu!wn4feed!wn3feed!worldnet.att.net!207.24.196.41!nntphub.cb.lucent.com!oucsboss!callisto.cns.muskingum.edu!news From: David Morgan Newsgroups: rec.games.corewar Subject: yet another newbie Date: Thu, 11 Nov 1999 23:44:33 -0500 Organization: Muskingum College Lines: 51 Message-ID: <382B9B31.49FEE4AC@muskingum.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: dhcp212.dhcp1.muskingum.edu Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.61 [en] (Win98; I) X-Accept-Language: en Xref: news-rocq rec.games.corewar:10967 After lurking around for a while, I finally decided to jump on the bandwagon :) I found a copy of an earlier version (no mention of SPL) of MARS over 4 years ago, but the disk it was on died or something all to quickly, so I have no real experience with strategy. So far, the first warrior I wrote has been the best vs the pizza beginners hill... With a whopping score of 36.0 :/ Only one of my other warriors even broke 30. Of course I wrote over it while "upgrading", so I have to reconstruct the comments & labels below... That'll teach me to not keep backups. ;name MIRV ;author Strike ;strategy mega imprush in front ;strategy dwarfbomb to rear ;strategy version 0.2.2 ORG START DEPLOY2: DAT # 0, # -40 DEPLOY1: DAT # 0, # 40 START: MOV IMPBOMB, @DEPLOY1 ;toss new impbomb SPL 2 JMP @ -3 ;execute imp SPL -3 ;repeat impbombing ADD # 50, @DEPLOY1 ;increment bombing locations SUB # 45, @ -7 MOV BOMB, < 3 ; whats that b-field doing?? JMP -1 ;keep bombing [should probably delete this line] BOMB: DAT @ -10 IMPBOMB: MOV 0, 1 Tried to pretty up the linewrap there... ah well. That wierd line above _should_ be MOV BOMB, < DEPLOY2 ...not sure why its the way it is now. Some other things could be touched up a bit, now that I better understand the way unused fields in spl & jmp are used.... I should probably delete the final JMP command, since the previous SPL does essentially the same thing, and the JMP preservation of processes will just bog this thing down in repeat bombing of the same spot... Any other things I should consider? thanks :) Strike & Co. -- Rule # 1: There are always exceptions to the rules.