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(Message started by: JohnDoe on Apr 13^th, 2008, 9:13am)

Title: bot vs bot
Post by JohnDoe on Apr 13^th, 2008, 9:13am

Hi,
Is there any way i can test by bot against other bots?
and if so, what do i need to do to make it happen.

Title: Re: bot vs bot
Post by IdahoEv on Apr 13^th, 2008, 10:13pm

There are two ways: first, you can set up two accounts and have the bots play each other through the gameroom. I've done this when testing different versions of my bot, Zombie; I use bot_Zombie for the stable version and bot_ZombieX for the version with whatever experimental feature I am testing.

Alternatively, you can go to the downloads page (http://arimaa.com/arimaa/download/ ) and download "matchOffline", which allows you to run a match between two bots on the same computer. I actually couldn't get it to work the one time I tried, but I didn't spend very long at it.

Title: Re: bot vs bot
Post by IdahoEv on Apr 13^th, 2008, 10:39pm

Oh, rereading your post i see you meant other bots not your own. You should be able to test against the bot ladder bots, but at the moment I can't remember exactly how to do it. :-)

Title: Re: bot vs bot
Post by Janzert on Apr 14^th, 2008, 9:54am

From the game room you can got to Players->Top Rated Bots then a link at the top of that page give you Bots Available to Play (http://arimaa.com/arimaa/bots/index.cgi). From there you can have any of the server bots start a game and then have your bot join it. If you have the standard interface configured to run your bot the command is "bot play bot_name_you_started" to join the game you started.

Janzert

Title: Re: bot vs bot
Post by JohnDoe on Apr 14^th, 2008, 12:26pm

Sorry, I meant my bot vs other bots or players.
*edited*
done =)

Thanks I appreciate your help.