Request: Hacker Battle Tournaments

[Durante]

Hacker battles are great, but the current setup encourages building "simple" programs to take out specific individual opponents rather than trying to design something more involved which can deal with arbitrary situations.

It would be fantastic to have a "game-wide" tournament format.
I imagine it looking somewhat like this:

• For each hacker battle level, you can nominate one program to participate in the tournament.
  
• All participating programs are matched against each other once every set time interval (e.g. once a week), server side.
  
• In the interface for the level you see the ranking of your program for the last tournament period (if you want to get fancy, with a chart of the relative position over the last several).

Obviously this isn't a trivial feature, but I think it would be awesome. And make Ghast proud.

[r4m0n]

The idea is interesting, if a bit too much to implement as stated.

Maybe a compromise would be being able to pick 2 of your friends programs and running the competition locally? Then someone could organize the tournament and stream it, running the competitors locally.

[daxxy]

Originally posted by r4m0n:

The idea is interesting, if a bit too much to implement as stated.

Maybe a compromise would be being able to pick 2 of your friends programs and running the competition locally? Then someone could organize the tournament and stream it, running the competitors locally.

For self-hosted tournaments, where the results aren't to be tracked on anyone's in-game profile, just the ability to pit two solutions hand-entered by the organizer would be sufficient, and trivial to implement.

I would love to see some form of server-side global tournaments too though.

[Schippi]

Pretty sure even that would not be as trivial as you think, but I very much would like to see a feature like this.

Also the rules of each battle should be displayed somewhere like the amount of Exas allowed. In the capture the flag name for example I wanted to block my opponent but I was only allowed to create one file