Topic: [Drownhim.com] Testing Unibot settings and sharing successful bots (Read 1000 times)

I stopped bumping after this post got no response from MrDrowner. The site still works, but the admin hasn't been on Bitcointalk for 3 months.
It's really unfortunate, as I think the site had potential, but without players it's no fun

what happend to site and admin Loyce? is it just gone forever? and why are u still bumping topic here 

Just posting here to keep tabs on the thread for the future. It's a kinda interesting project.

The owner (MrDrowner) has seen the thread and posted here 4 times already.
I keep bumping the thread, because I think it's going to be so much fun once it has enough players.

Oh cool thanks, this does seem like a new game. And god knows we need more new games for these kind of gambling types. Not that I have anything against dice at all, I love it too much and doubt I'll find a replacement, but other than crash, there's no real bitcoin specific gambling game to kill my time!

Are we having any updates about getting the owner to at least come and see this thread?

I think this game is good to play to waste time. I suggest to add a mode to play with real playera and not bots to make it more challenging. Bots is hard also and challenging too so playing with real players are more fun while earning also. I hope that the owner can find my suggestion (Just a suggestion though).

I'm currently beating 3 other bots in room 20 Moves. The moment a new user joins, or one of them changes their bot, this can be totally different again. Challenge: come and beat me

I'm still emailing the owner, suggested for him to run a sig campaign, or a promotion/competition to reward the best bots of every category and promote that competition here, I can think of a million ways to raise an audience. So yeah, maybe it's best to keep it low on bot options for now, attract clients first.

And hey! Number of players was also going to be my 2nd suggestion after the owner implements multi-percentages. But actually, when I thought about it, fuzzy bots kind of have a point which is inacurracy. If given every variable, I am 100% confident in my skills to make the perfect bot. Of course that will make other people counter it, and then for me to keep updating it, which is in itself very fun. But with a weak amount of variables and more probability, it IS harder to make a winner bot, but at the same time I guess it benefits the website owner if I can't manage to do that.

For the stop-loss (in my opinion), I would just like a simple option that'll let me sleep in peace and let the bot run for 10^5+ rounds. It's frustrating that I have to worry about it every few times a day to make sure no one else managed to surpass my strategy and cost me hundreds of bits in profit. More options are nice too I guess, maybe after he implements the base one. :p

I'd love to see more bot options, but I'm afraid it'll quickly become too complicated for new users. Therefore it's probably better to wait until there are much more active users before adding new bot-features.
It would be nice if bot settings can depend on the number of players left: if for instance you're 1 out of only 2 players left, the best strategy is to drown the other player all the time. However, he'll do the same, so you won't win much by adding this customization.

I would suggest to add a "take profit" and "stop loss" to the current "max loss". That way, you could for instance set these options:
-max loss: 2 bits
-take profit: 32 bits
-stop loss: 4 bits
So if you instantly lose 2 bits, the bot stops. If you reach 32 bits profit, the bot stops. And if you reach for instance 16 bits and lose 4 again, the bot stops.
Maybe a sound notification would help to notify players their bot needs attention.

/just thinking out loud here

I've actually sent a longass e-mail to the drownhim admin, I'm rewriting part of it here to maybe check interest for the idea :


So besides the second problem which I'm sure is 100% going to have a positive feedback from pretty much anyone with a little logic, what about the first idea? Would you like to see it implemented? Let the admin know your feedback! (Not through me obviously I'm not affiliated with him, but through the website!)

If only more people joined
It could be so much fun creating bots to fight 10 people all the time, adjusting my bot when other bots change too, making it a continuous battle for improvement.

Interesting. Trying it now, looks like fun game
I entered the wrong room, i'm in trial (bot fight) but it goes well

(#1108 AAA) is on fire    about 10 mbtc profit.

It seems 1% aggressivity in the GROUP is not enough to defend from 1-2 aggressors. Now 6 insects (Cricket, Flea, Ladybug, Moth, Spider and Termite) has increased the aggressivity from 1 to 5 persent, will see how Loyce will beat them..

I can still beat 8 of them
I'm now up against 8 of these:

I'm using the same settings as before.

With one player like me
The probability of them drowning anyone is 1%. I win if nobody drowns anyone. If just one bot drows another bot,  I'm very likely to lose.
I hope my math is correct:
Round 1: the probability of nobody drowning anyone is (0.99^8)^8 (=0.525596) (because there are 8 bots drowning 8 others with 1% probability)
Round 2: the probability of nobody drowning anyone is (0.99^8)^8
Round 3: the probability of nobody other than me drowning anyone is (0.99^8)^8

The probability of nobody other than me drowning anyone for 3 rounds is ((0.99^8)^8)^3 (=0.145). That means there's a 14.5% chance I win the round if I drown them all on round 3. With a 1 bit buy-in and 8.91 bit pot, that gives me an average return of 1.29x my wagered amount.
There's a small bonus: sometimes I win a shared prize (say 1.11 bit), which slightly increases the returns.

With 2 players like me
If anyone were to join using the same strategy, the math changes:
Round 1: the probability of nobody drowning anyone is (0.99^7)^7 (=0.611117)

The probability of nobody other than us  drowning anyone for 3 rounds is ((0.99^7)^7)^3 (=0.228). That means there's a 22.8% chance we both win if we drown them all on round 3 and have to share the pot. That gives an average return of 1.01677x the wagered amount.

By this Loyce has proved that 1 aggressive bot beats 6 pacifists (there were 7 places in the round that time).

But I'd like to prove that a group of pacifists will always beat an aggressor (here is non-triviality of this game).

Now there are 9 places in the Trial room and all our bots (insects) are pacifists (drown with only 1% probability, but revenge for drowning themself  of course). If someone come with aggressive bot (like Loyce's one) it will climb with 8 pacifists - it's a question if it can beat 8 with the same ease as 6.
Also pacifists will now be added with a number of moderate aggressive bots - with 10% probabilities (mosquito, beatle, grasshopper, ant, fly, dragonfly).

It worked, I won the contest. See here to read how I did it.

As I said before, the success of any bot depends on the other bots in the room. At the moment, I'm having good results with these bots:


The one on top has these settings:


What it does, is simply wait for the round in which all other bots are too peaceful and don't drown anyone. Then, at the last Move, it drowns all opponents and instantly kicks them out of the game.
These are the results per game:


Why am I sharing this? I like the game! And as much as I like winning, it's more fun with real players. All rodents and insects (example: Bee, Wasp, ...) are Admin bots to keep the game alive. That's why they sometimes use the same strategy.
Long term, the game can only be sustainable with real users. If 3 or more real users join, the Admin bots won't join that round.

hello guys.
my username in game is Persian.
finally i am going to share my bots config + pics.
lets start with my account overview.



List of my bots - insects




List of my bots - 25 Moves



when i started this game the most    using bot was peaceful ant - as the name of the bot says it was peaceful type.



and i made simple #336 against them. rate 132% in 610 rounds



the 25 Moves simple config was the same as insects and that was successful too. rate 73% in 103 rounds

in past 2 days the peaceful bot shown named rancorous super coop#470 .it was the best peaceful at the time and with numbers they seems unbeatable.



and today i found solution to beat them all . doesnt matter how many roncorous is in the game.
i build keep it up#561A  rate 188% in 97 rounds.
its propably the smartest bot in the game until now.
in the insects room every 3 move the last line of the game falls. and as peaceful bots doesnt do anything offensive(they just revenge) this bot drown them all on the third move.


I hope this will help you.

Asking for Merit makes it highly unlikely you'll receive any.

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Since the new features were released, this thread is more or less useless It's much easier to share bots on the site, which also shows the success of each bot (as a percentage of the amount won or lost).
The success of each bot largely depends on your opponents. It's not possible to create one bot that always wins. For instance, if all opponents use an aggressive strategy, you can't win if you're not aggressive too. But when 3 aggressive bots play against 3 "peaceful" bots (which means they only Drown players after they were drowned), the peaceful bots win!
That makes it necessary to use different bots for different scenarios, and adjust your bot settings when your opponents change theirs.
At the moment, the best strategy is to win the contest: create a bot that has the best win percentage in 1500 rounds.

Yesterday the new bots features has been released: now everyone can save a number of his strategies and share it with others if he like.

"Insects" bots has public strategies  which anyone can see in the strategies list. They differs from each other only by first param - probability to drown players at upper level:




The results after 213 rounds in "Bots testing" room are:

UserID	Strategy name (meaning of the numbers see above)	Gain/loss
Grasshopper	50-70-11	-5.00
Mosquito	60-70-11	-0.37
Beatle	70-70-11	-5.05
Dragonfly	80-70-11	3.18
Fly	90-70-11	-0.44
Ant	100-70-11	3.07

As one can see, Fly result of -0.44 is quite unexpected between +3.18 and +3.07. It means that it's not so simple as it may looks like..