This update includes some spec changes that require you to immediately update your CLI tool and or kaggle-environments to the latest version. This should be the final patch of the season!
- Base CityTile upkeep is now 23, previously was 30
- Carts build roads at a rate of 0.75 per turn
- Wood regrowth increased to 2.5%, previously was 1%
- Mining is now symmetric and there is no longer a marginal "side" preference on the map anymore
Bug Fixes:
- Carts no longer mine when on a citytile
This update includes some spec changes that require you to immediately update your CLI tool and or kaggle-environments to the latest version
- Coal and Uranium's fuel per unit have been doubled, but collection rate has been halved
- The average amount of Coal and Uranium per resource tile at the start of a game has been approximately halved
- Workers can no longer mine while on a CityTile. Instead, if there is at least one worker on a CityTile, that CityTile will automatically collect adjacent resources at the same rate as a worker each turn and directly convert it all to fuel.
- Bug fix: If an agent errors out, the CLI tool now does the same thing the competition servers do, and lets game play out but errored out agents cannot make any actions
- Map generation updated to create more dense, separated clusters of like resources
- Max wood per tile bumped to 500
Motivation:
- Previously you could exploit the following simple strategy and win quite easily with little effort: Build a long line of CityTiles. At the head of it, stack all of your worker units. Now as you move this line of CityTiles to new resource locations, the stack of worker units will all instant mine and deposit resources as fuel extremely fast and this is very unbalanced. Our goals with game designs are to always maintain some kind of logarithimc curve on a time+skill vs bot performance graph, with this simple strategy adding a discontinuity to that.
- Changes to Coal and Uranium raise the opportunity cost of building CityTiles with Uranium and Coal whilst keeping the total fuel value in a map the same now. This is to encourage more use of Wood which is an interesting resource as it must be collected early on but also conserved as it becomes more important in the late game. This variation we believe will help diversify strategies more with regards to wood collection
- Furthermore, raising the opportunity cost of losing a unit of coal or uranium at night may encourage more varied strategies with handling night time, potentially encouraging the use of roads and or other combination of aspects of the game
- Changes here are kept small and directed such that these should not affect current leadeboard rankings much
- Fix bug where a team can build an extra unit above unit cap if they build workers and carts simultaneously
- Fix bug where empty resource tiles are sent to agents
- Add a tournament running tool to evaluate
nagents using trueskill, elo, or win/tie/loss counts. See--helpfor instructions on using the--tournamentoption
- Docker option for compilation for C++ bots (preferred) and arbitrarily any other languages that can be compiled to a machine executable
- Any 100 resources held by worker can be used to build a city. Will expend in order of wood, coal, then uranium to build a city (which in current specs means all held resources)
- Changed syntax for text annotations
- Starter kits have been updated with new readmes, apis, etc. and should be redownloaded
- Python users can now specify which python command to use if their default python is not python 3.7 e.g.
lux-ai-2021 bot1 bot2 --python=python3
Full Changelog:
New:
- Docker option for compilation for C++ bots (preferred) and arbitrarily any other languages that can be compiled to a machine executable
- Any 100 resources held by worker can be used to build a city. Will expend in order of wood, coal, then uranium to build a city (which in current specs means all held resources)
- CLI tool accepts a
--memoryargument to specify max amount of memory in MB allowed for agents - Python users can now specify which python command to use if their default python is not python 3.7 e.g.
lux-ai-2021 bot1 bot2 --python=python3
Changes:
- Changed syntax for text annotations
- Starter kits have been updated with new readmes, apis, etc. and should be redownloaded
Fixes:
- Java, Python, C++ kits have correct annotation commands
- CLI tool's engine tiebreaker now matches Kaggle's
- Wood auto regrows each turn by 1% of its current valued rounded upwards and is capped at 400. Wood tiles with more than 400 wood do not regrow.
- Uranium made more powerful. Collect at 4/turn and convert in ratio of 1 uranium to 20 fuel
- Pilage rate bumped up to 0.5
- Resource generation has been tweaked
- Starter kits now updated with main.py files that will output stderr to kaggle servers, previously it did not
- Maps are restricted to square sizes only now, with sizes being 12, 16, 24, 32
- Bug fixes
Full Changelog:
New:
- Wood auto regrows each turn by 1% of its current valued rounded upwards and is capped at 400. Wood tiles with more than 400 wood do not regrow.
- Uranium made more powerful. Collect at 4/turn and convert in ratio of 1 uranium to 20 fuel
- Pilage rate bumped up to 0.5
- Resource generation has been tweaked
Fixes:
- Resources sorted correctly
- Workers now actually spend 100 wood to build cities.
- Starter kits now updated with main.py files that will output stderr to kaggle servers, previously it did not
Changes:
- Output messages to agents after match is declared over
- CLI tool now lets you convert replays into replays with human readable state information and can also directly run matches and generate these stateful replays. You can also choose where the replay file is stored at. Moreover the tool has some syntax changes.
- Through the JS API only, you can reset a match's state to a given state (following the schema stored in stateful replays)
- You can now debug by adding text onto the game map or onto the side using two new debug functions
- All kits have been upgraded to have nicer syntax, along with a few bug fixes. Please download the new kits
- Cell
cooldownis now renamed toroadin all kits. - Typescript kit has been added!
Full ChangeLog:
New:
- CLI tool now lets you convert replays into replays with human readable state information and can also directly run matches and generate these stateful replays. You can also choose where the replay file is stored at. Moreover the tool has some syntax changes.
- Through the JS API, you can now start a match and reset its state to a given state (following the schema stored in the stateful replays) and continue running the match as normal. This is not provided via the CLI tool at the moment.
- Python kit made to be more intuitive and has better syntactical sugar
- Typescript kit has been added!
Changes:
- Cell cooldown (which is the road level) now renamed to road in all kits and in game engine code. Same with all the constants files too.
- All kits default to using manhattan distance now instead of euclidean.
- Some code refactoring
- Bin file / CLI tool has its own dedicated folder now.
- Moved get results function from design.ts to logic.ts and made it static / functional
Fixes:
- Fix bug where wood tiles may spawn under cities when the starting 2 city tiles are adjacent
- Fix bug with header files in the C++ kit.
- Fix errorneous comment and erroneous transfer function in JS kit
- Fix various typos in kits and specs
- Some undefined errors with map gen
Fixes:
- One off error with day/night cycle
- Carts consuming fuel rate at rate workers consume
- Fixed error messages to say CityTiles instead of City when referring to the actual tiles/buildings
Changes:
- Visualizer will no longer accept replays without the same minor version number (2nd digit in vx.y.z)
Initial release!