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Multiplayer Genetic Cars

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Re: Multiplayer Genetic Cars

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Post by GhotiFish »

pubnub wrote: post #60
eterm wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's worse than that, if you're on a world on your own your top 10 cars becomes copies of your best car. You destroy diversity even quicker with fewer players! At least with lots of players, as pubnub said, some of those identically named cars were actually different generations and different cars, but were cousins or otherwise related from a common ancester. One recommendation would be to incorporate any mutations i…

Updates have been made and now we are at 2.52 for improved Champion Generation.

What did you do? Now most champions don't actually work. They get stuck at the start.

Re: Multiplayer Genetic Cars

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Post by extrapolate »

emehrkay wrote: post #62

Hmm, things started off interesting with the best car i've seen thus far (short, wheels covered the top and bottom, etc) then this http://imgur.com/a/XFCYZ

The track/car generation is done through JS, so some modifications aren't anything Chrome Dev Tools can't handle. Add to that the fact that the "best" car is populated into the gene pools of all the other users and that's the outcome.

Re: Multiplayer Genetic Cars

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Post by ynniv »

The biggest problem here is a lack of server-side validation. The "remote champion" is determined by the score claimed by a client, so set a breakpoint in the function that posts the score and you can claim that any car parameters achieved any score... You see where this is going.

A proper implementation would run the simulation server-side to verify that a configuration achieves a high score. Almost as good would be to rank configurations based on the average runs across clients. This still lets a client submit an absurd configuration, but won't let an inferior configuration continue to be "champion".

Re: Multiplayer Genetic Cars

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Post by alan_cx »

pubnub wrote: post #54
alan_cx wrote: post #36

Probably missing something ... Which is my car? Is it competing? If so, against who? How can I tell? I have no idea what Im looking at, which is my car, who Im competing against, who is doing well. Is there some sort of dummies guide for the likes of me???? :) Despite all that, Im mesmerized!!! Edit: I see down votes? How is it wrong to not understand something and ask for some help. Why is that a down vote?

Good question! See "Your Car" in the list of car health meters.

Yes. Its all of the health meters.

Re: Multiplayer Genetic Cars

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Post by prithee »

qwerty_asdf wrote: post #52
alan_cx wrote: post #50

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yeah. I've been sat here watching people trying it as they update the site to combat it. Still dont know what Im looking at though...

Hmmm... people are complaining about their browsers mysteriously crashing, interspersed with random strings of Russian conversation...

likely a 100k gen bot gone sentient, learned Russian.
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