But, how will you know if you managed to replicate EURISKO’s success? Are people still playing this? Or is there some archive of tournament entries available so you could see how your program’s fleet compares against them?
This is partly for my own reference. May as well cut and paste the whole thing in case the link goes bad:
Winning TCS fleet—TL 12
Four Garter class:
TB-Garter TB-K1567F3-B41106-34009-1 MCr 17,584.104
Bearing C 1 EE 7 12,000 tons
Batteries C 1 EE 7 crew=170
Agility=4; Fuel=840; Cargo=4.3 low=170
Note: L-Hyd drop tanks add 6000 tons of fuel and mass,change the agility to 4, and cost MCr6.01.(TB-K1344F3) The ship is designed to manuever when carrying up to 72,000 tons of drop tanks and one Wasp fighter.
Four Cisor class:
BD-Cisor BD-K9525F3-E41100-340C5-0 MCr22,291.175
Bearing 1 11 1U 19,980 tons
Batteries 1 11 1U crew= ?
Agility=0; Fuel=999; Cargo=19.1 low=95
Note: L-Hyd drop tanks add 9,990 tons of fuel and mass, and cost MCr10. (BD- L9313F3) The ship is designed to manuever when carrying up to 29,970 tons of drop tanks.
Three Queller class:
BH-Queller BH-K1526F3-B41106-34Q02-1 MCr27,802.392
Bearing Z 1 NN1 N 19,600 tons
Batteries Z 1 NN1 N crew=263
Agility=0; Fuel=1,176; Cargo=10.72 low=232; marines=200
Note: L-hyd drop tanks add 9,800 tons of fuel and mass, and cost MCr9.81. (BH-L1314F3) The ship is designed to manuever when carrying up to 29,400 tons of drop tanks and two fighters (one Wasp and one Bee).
Seventy-five Eurisko class:
BA-Eurisko Ba-K952563-J41100-34003-0 MCr13,030.385
Bearing 1 11 V 11,100 tons
Batteries 1 11 V crew=131
Agility=2; Fuel=555; Cargo=8 low=0; marines=35
Note: L-hyd drop tanks add 5,550 tons of fuel and mass, change the agility to 1, and cost 5.56. (BA-K931363) The ship is designed to manuever when carrying up to 16,650 tons of drop tanks.
A Google search turns up no references to recent iterations of the tournament, which makes me think it’s not still going on. The first test, I think, is to see what kind of fleet the computer program comes up with and see if it matches the descriptions I’ve found of the fleet EURISKO came up with. Finding an archive of the tournament entries would be helpful to. Really, the more information I can find on the history of the tournament, the better, but that may be moderately difficult, since this happened in ’81-’82, before every damn thing that happened got archived on the internet.
This sounds like a great idea.
But, how will you know if you managed to replicate EURISKO’s success? Are people still playing this? Or is there some archive of tournament entries available so you could see how your program’s fleet compares against them?
Ah, found Lenant’s fleet:
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This is partly for my own reference. May as well cut and paste the whole thing in case the link goes bad:
Winning TCS fleet—TL 12
Four Garter class: TB-Garter TB-K1567F3-B41106-34009-1 MCr 17,584.104 Bearing C 1 EE 7 12,000 tons Batteries C 1 EE 7 crew=170 Agility=4; Fuel=840; Cargo=4.3 low=170 Note: L-Hyd drop tanks add 6000 tons of fuel and mass,change the agility to 4, and cost MCr6.01.(TB-K1344F3) The ship is designed to manuever when carrying up to 72,000 tons of drop tanks and one Wasp fighter.
Four Cisor class: BD-Cisor BD-K9525F3-E41100-340C5-0 MCr22,291.175 Bearing 1 11 1U 19,980 tons Batteries 1 11 1U crew= ? Agility=0; Fuel=999; Cargo=19.1 low=95 Note: L-Hyd drop tanks add 9,990 tons of fuel and mass, and cost MCr10. (BD- L9313F3) The ship is designed to manuever when carrying up to 29,970 tons of drop tanks.
Three Queller class: BH-Queller BH-K1526F3-B41106-34Q02-1 MCr27,802.392 Bearing Z 1 NN1 N 19,600 tons Batteries Z 1 NN1 N crew=263 Agility=0; Fuel=1,176; Cargo=10.72 low=232; marines=200 Note: L-hyd drop tanks add 9,800 tons of fuel and mass, and cost MCr9.81. (BH-L1314F3) The ship is designed to manuever when carrying up to 29,400 tons of drop tanks and two fighters (one Wasp and one Bee).
Seventy-five Eurisko class: BA-Eurisko Ba-K952563-J41100-34003-0 MCr13,030.385 Bearing 1 11 V 11,100 tons Batteries 1 11 V crew=131 Agility=2; Fuel=555; Cargo=8 low=0; marines=35 Note: L-hyd drop tanks add 5,550 tons of fuel and mass, change the agility to 1, and cost 5.56. (BA-K931363) The ship is designed to manuever when carrying up to 16,650 tons of drop tanks.
Seven Wasp class: IL-Wasp Il-A90ZZF2-J00000-00009-0 MCr896.75 Bearing 1 1,000 tons Batteries 1 Crew=19 Agility=6; Fuel=60; Cargo=0 low=0
Three Bee class: FF-Bee FF-0906661-A30000-00001-0 MCr127.945 Bearing 1 2 99 tons Batteries 1 2 crew=2 Agility=0; Fuel=5.94; Cargo=0
A Google search turns up no references to recent iterations of the tournament, which makes me think it’s not still going on. The first test, I think, is to see what kind of fleet the computer program comes up with and see if it matches the descriptions I’ve found of the fleet EURISKO came up with. Finding an archive of the tournament entries would be helpful to. Really, the more information I can find on the history of the tournament, the better, but that may be moderately difficult, since this happened in ’81-’82, before every damn thing that happened got archived on the internet.