Slither.io-bot: Bot gets stuck circling food

[Evanito]

Bot gets stuck trying to eat a single piece.

Potential solutions:

• Ignore food closer than n units to the left or right (Do we have currentBotAngle detection?) since these food will most likely be within our turning radius.
• Solve issue #13
• If we solve #23 then the bot would be very unlikely to get stuck on one.

[FliiFe]

Do we have currentBotAngle detection?

We don't. The bot is currently not working with angles, and that is something we should implement...

[FliiFe]

Needs #22

[ghost]

maybe it checks if a food is close to it and if it hasn't been eaten for a certain amount of times it chooses a new food? @FliiFe

[FliiFe]

@Classicanon That is more of a workaround than a real fix. Could temporarily works, but @ErmiyaEskandary and I are working on angles.

[ghost]

@FliiFe yea but at least it would work until you and @ErmiyaEskandary get angles working i really should learn JavaScript so i can at least help with things

[FliiFe]

@Classicanon Help on logic is still really helpful. For example, I'm almost sure no one in the team thought of that.

[FliiFe]

So, assuming we have angles working. Should we avoid food on the sides, or use only the food in front of the bot ? Please see this for visual representation of my question.

[ErmiyaEskandary]

I would say go only after food in front as that would help with clustering food and with eating food in a straight line without zigzagging constantly from food to food e.g when a snake dies

[ErmiyaEskandary]

Who agrees ?

[K00sKlust]

I do. :)

[dracco1993]

@FliiFe I think it needs to be a combination of angle and distance.
For example:

• Close on the side: Bad
• Close in front: Good
• Far on side: Okay
• Far in front: Okay

[FliiFe]

@dracco1993 Note taken.

[ErmiyaEskandary]

Please read #22. Angles will not be implemented anymore. We need another way to fix this.
Ideas ?

[Seple]

@Classicanon maybe it checks if a food is close to it and if it hasn't been eaten for a certain amount of times it chooses a new food?

or sideways after (for example) 3 circles?

[FliiFe]

@Seple These are workarounds. I am working on this.

[Seple]

@FliiFe Thank you! Your band is magnificent!

[ErmiyaEskandary]

@Seple band ?

[ChadSki]

@FliiFe I like your visualization, but I had a thought while looking at it.

Really the snake is not bounded by straight angles, but continuously curved angles -- whatever is the tightest possible turn the snake can make at its present size.

[Seple]

Thank you! Your band is magnificent!

*band = group dewelopers

[FliiFe]

@ChadSki That's a great idea !
I will first implement the angle version, as it is almost finished.

Would that work ? Snake can take food behind, on the sides, etc, without getting stuck circling food

[Drflash55]

Wow. Look how far we came...

We were finally able to fix one of the bot's very first bugs...
Pat on the back to those who contributed.

[ErmiyaEskandary]

^