At least until the silly bots start getting eliminated ASTB is indeed only a small boost for MeasureBot, but MeasureBot is still only a small detriment to ASTB (currently about 4% of ASTB’s matches). ASTB also gets near-perfect performance against most of the silly bots, and it plays a combination of invert and tit-for-tat against anything it can’t simulate. I expect ASTB to continue doing fairly well against the rest of the pack despite MeasureBot’s exploitation of it (I think ASTB is around 9th place right now).
As more of the silly bots get eliminated, I think ASTB will transfer most of it’s population-share to MeasureBot, but that might take some time unless MeasureBot gets a large enough early lead to become a significant proportion of ASTB’s matches.
At least until the silly bots start getting eliminated ASTB is indeed only a small boost for MeasureBot, but MeasureBot is still only a small detriment to ASTB (currently about 4% of ASTB’s matches). ASTB also gets near-perfect performance against most of the silly bots, and it plays a combination of invert and tit-for-tat against anything it can’t simulate. I expect ASTB to continue doing fairly well against the rest of the pack despite MeasureBot’s exploitation of it (I think ASTB is around 9th place right now).
As more of the silly bots get eliminated, I think ASTB will transfer most of it’s population-share to MeasureBot, but that might take some time unless MeasureBot gets a large enough early lead to become a significant proportion of ASTB’s matches.