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=== Bot Name ===
Stormrider

==== Author ====
[[User:Skilgannon|Skilgannon]]

==== Extends ====
[[AdvancedRobot]]

==== What's special about it? ====
It is purely [[Dynamic Clustering]], movement and gun.

==== Great, I want to try it. Where can I download it? ====
http://robocode-archive.strangeautomata.com/robots/jk.mega.Stormrider_0.1.8.jar

==== How competitive is it? ====
Very. No. 5 in the main rumble, before it was retired.

==== How does it [[Movement|move]]? ====
[[Wave Surfing/Go To|Go-To Surfing]] with [[Dynamic Clustering]].

==== How does it fire? ====
[[Dynamic Clustering]], using [[Guess Factor]]s.

==== How does it [[Dodging Bullets|dodge bullets]]? ====
By keeping tabs on which angles the enemy is most likely to shoot at in different circumstances, and avoiding them.

====  What does it save between rounds and matches? ====
Between rounds it saves all the targeting and movement data, between matches nothing.

==== Where did you get the name? ====
[[wikipedia:Stormrider|Stormrider by David Gemmell]].

==== Can I use your code? ====
Sure, but under the following terms:
*Your bot MUST be OpenSource.
*You give credit in your code, and in any documentation of your bot.
*Pleeaase don't just take my bot, tweak it and release it under another name. Rather tell me about the changes, and I'll give you credit. =)

==== What's next for your robot? ====
An [[Anti-Surfer Targeting|Antisurfer Gun]], speeding it up, and a major refactor!

==== Does it have any [[WhiteWhale]]s? ====
6 or 7 bots that I'm not sure what to do about.

==== What other robot(s) is it based on? ====
[[DrussGT]]

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