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Purple Pestilence. Akash Garg Bhagyashree Bohra John Cieslewicz. Phase I. Analysis of Black Plague. Phase II. Improving Black Plague Decided to experiment with thresholds and ratios. Reduced reproduction threshold. Changed ratio for environment heuristics. Phase III: Starting Over.
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Purple Pestilence Akash Garg Bhagyashree Bohra John Cieslewicz
Phase I Analysis of Black Plague
Phase II • Improving Black Plague • Decided to experiment with thresholds and ratios. • Reduced reproduction threshold. Changed ratio for environment heuristics.
Phase III: Starting Over • Nascent strategy: • Black Plague is conservative initially • Decided to probabilistically make our organism aggressive when it’s born • Gives good trade off between risk taking and risk averse behavior
Phase III: Starting Over • Moving: • Move onto food • Move probabilistically if no food around (conservative strategies) • Move based on how good you expect the environment to be • Move away from “friends” if possible • Move without backtracking, if possible
Phase III: Starting Over • Reproduction: • Do not reproduce till you have eaten • Reproduce onto food whenever possible • Force reproduction when we are sitting on a “cache” of food which we are too full to eat.
Conclusions: Tournament results: • Single Player: We finished in the top 50%, in terms of population, in 75% of the tournament • Multiplayer: Our player survived in 75% of the tournament configurations and was in top 30%, in terms of population, in 50% of the rounds and was in the top 50%, in terms of population, in the remaining 25%.