AI wars / AI competition

I am testing following AIs in 1v1 games:
CAI (part of Zero-K) ... https://github.com/ZeroK-RTS/Zero-K/tree/master/LuaRules/Gadgets/CAI
good start expand, no eco, no striders
CircuitAI (lamer, C++) ... http://springfiles.com/spring/ai-opponents/circuit-ai-zero-k-only
good eco and grid, striders, antinuke, defenses
FreundAI (DeinFreund, Java) ... https://github.com/DeinFreund/FreundAI/
... smarter than CAI, makes solar grid-eco
ZKGBAI / Zero-K Graph-Based AI (Anarchid, Java) ... https://github.com/Anarchid/zkgbai
... intentionally attacks enemy near mexes, makes it deadly effective at raiding and stopping enemy expansion

Disqualified AI:
- MyAI (gajop, Java) ... https://github.com/gajop/MyAI
... cannot get it to load properly
- Shard (part of Spring, C++, reprogrammable in Lua) ... https://github.com/Tarendai/Shard
... it desynces game
- CSI / ZKCBAI (DeinFreund, Java) ... https://github.com/DeinFreund/CSI
... compile time errors, maybe it doesn't work with Spring 100; presumably glaive-raiding AI

Results so far (missing battlelinks for first games because !cheats + !exit):
Map Red Comet:
- CAI vs CircuitAI ... win: CircuitAI
... CAI did better at start with expand, but CircuitAI did eco and defs and striders finally pushed it to win
+ CircuitAI vs CAI ... win: CircuitAI, http://zero-k.info/Battles/Detail/381168
- CircuitAI vs FreundAI ... win: CircuitAI
... early raid killed FreundAI, factory and some eco, it was gg after it
- CircuitAI vs ZKGBAI ... win: ZKGBAI
... ZKGBAI raided and attacked more, and more efficiently
- CAI vs FreundAI ... win: FreundAI
... FreundAI raided with glaives early and killed enemy fac, it was decided fast
- CAI vs ZKGBAI ... win: ZKGBAI
... ZKGBAI is effective at attacking enemy expansion - mexes. also it doesn't repair low hp units, which makes it more aggressive at attacks.
- FreundAI vs ZKGBAI ... win: ZKGBAI, http://zero-k.info/Battles/Detail/381155
... ZKGBAI attacked enemy expansion and warrior killed enemy commander early in game

RANK SO FAR:
1. ZKGBAI 3/3
2. CircuitAI 2/3
3. FreundAI 1/3
4. CAI 0/3

Most challenging for 1v1 is ZKGBAI, but for COOP games it might be CircuitAI, because it makes striders (including catapult) and nice grid and eco, which might be deadly vs human porc/defenses.

Svatopluk was using !cheats to /hostsay a speedup order, and didn't realize he could disable cheats to enable normal win conditions.

Most games were exited once decided; local replays could be uploaded though.

One replay was saved: B381155 0 on Red Comet, the one between old adversaries.

P.S. Poor CAI - as the default AI, everyone tests their competitive bot on it, not even releasing before it can beat CAI.

I would actually like to see AIs to compete in teams room or in 1v1 and have real elo. For example, odd team balance could be balanced out with AI, if players wish so.

ZKGBAI/CircuitAI performs much better than most of wub dubs, 1600+ for sure

Well, this is embarassing, guess I should get working on CSI again..

Cool competition though!

Does ZKMBAI("FreundAI") even work for the current Spring version or did you recompile it?

DeinFreund Yes, I compiled Java AIs (Anarchid's ZKGBAI, DeinFreund's FreundAI), CircuitAI distributes compiled already, CAI is built-in.

What does MyAI play like?

How does it handle raiding?

ZKGBAI has had some work done on it and got a version bump to 0.2. The changes are significant but I don't feel like it's worth a full PR yet. :P

For those too lazy to compile it: https://www.dropbox.com/s/sbuziiaulw6b2ec/ZKGBAI_0.2.7z?dl=0

Things KGB does now:
eco
more eco
striders
gunships

Things KGB doesn't do:
unit micro
tactics
start position inference is broken..
starting with facs besides cloaky
switching to facs besides striders and gunships
build anti-air

Adding facs is easy, getting it to play them well is not. Eventually it will have intelligent fac choices based on map conditions and randomness, but for now it kills the CAI most of the time. :P

Aggressive feature-abuse AI like that seem to be unmotivated, judging from the lack of implementation of BrolorAI.