(Aside: I continue to be quietly amused at how much AbstractSpyTreeBot has ended up affecting the game (by partially inspiringEarlyBirdMimicBot and getting exploited by MeasureBot and accidentally spawning a new timeline), given how little I’ve invested in the game compared to others—the backstory is not one of strategic thinking about how to compete, but rather, I was feeling bleh in the afternoon of 9 October, and writing a simulator-bot using the ast module just seemed like a fun exercise that should only take a couple hours.)
It also significantly affected people’s expectations of the metagame and made them prepare for simulators. BendBot and CloneBot were made deterministic so that simulators could efficiently cooperate with them.
(Aside: I continue to be quietly amused at how much
AbstractSpyTreeBothas ended up affecting the game (by partially inspiringEarlyBirdMimicBotand getting exploited byMeasureBotand accidentally spawning a new timeline), given how little I’ve invested in the game compared to others—the backstory is not one of strategic thinking about how to compete, but rather, I was feeling bleh in the afternoon of 9 October, and writing a simulator-bot using theastmodule just seemed like a fun exercise that should only take a couple hours.)It also significantly affected people’s expectations of the metagame and made them prepare for simulators. BendBot and CloneBot were made deterministic so that simulators could efficiently cooperate with them.