halitechallenge/halite-ii

Season 2 of @twosigma's artificial intelligence programming challenge

halite-ii's Issues

Rationalize messy org setup - multiple orgs per hackathon

U michigan has mulitiple campuses

remove or rename highest achieved rank feature on profile

user dissat that it is not truly your highest rank instead the retired rank

game.update_map() issue

On whose side is the error?
Crashes when called : game.update_map()
I can not attach a log file.

Summary
{
"Error": {
"Message": "ERRORED! Response received (if any): ",
"Turn": 96
},

zstld and window issues

I'm using Windows and I cannot get zstd installed from HaliteClient setup, nor from Facebook's github, and the Windows zstd executable won't even open the replay files because it does not recognize the suffix. Not entirely sure what the issue is since the replays downloaded from the Halite site can be opened without an issue.

https://forums.halite.io/t/what-is-the-encoding-for-hlt-files-generated-by-halite-downloadable-environment/177/2

Game Stats HTTPS/HTTP Mixing Error

https://halite.io/game-player-stats won't load in my Chrome browser. It seems that its loading http resources.

Console output:

write guide for building c++ kit with mingw

Enhance Travis and AppVeyor builds

-[ ] Add build for scala
-[ ] Rust/C++ on Windows
-[ ] Generating deployment artifacts from the pipeline?
-[ ] Running a halite game

move offline visualizer under CLI tools

https://halite.io/learn-programming-challenge/other-resources/offline-visualizer

Wrong link structure, gotta fix it

Support bot submissions with single directory in zip file root

Seems like a common thing is people submitting zip files with single directory inside where all the bot code is. Maybe it's worth supporting that instead of asking them to repackage it?

post-game dashboard issues

Changes to post-game dashboard:
Spec is here: https://www.screencast.com/t/e7CWlXAsCX

• Tiers should be badge colors from the leaderboard (e.g. bronze = orange)

Browser issue - chrome, MacOS

Hello. Whenever I am trying to access the halite.io website from Google Chrome nearly all of the pages are blank, and I cannot sign in. The two exceptions to this are the Learn page and the Download page. Not sure if this matters, but I am on macOS. Thanks in advance for the help. :slight_smile:
https://forums.halite.io/t/blank-pages-on-website/123/4

Hotjar not working on prod

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Add Key Bindings for Gameplay Speed

halite 1 allowed you to press 1,2,3,4,5 to change the game speed. It would be super nice to set that up this time as well

low frequency errors on GPU workers

@lidavidm any idea whats going on?

ERROR:root:Error on get task Expecting value: line 1 column 1 (char 0)
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "worker.py", line 315, in main
executeGameTask(int(task["width"]), int(task["height"]), task["users"], backend)
File "worker.py", line 252, in executeGameTask
users, parsed_output = parseGameOutput(raw_output, users)
File "worker.py", line 229, in parseGameOutput
result = json.loads(output)
File "/usr/lib/python3.5/json/init.py", line 319, in loads
return _default_decoder.decode(s)
File "/usr/lib/python3.5/json/decoder.py", line 339, in decode
obj, end = self.raw_decode(s, idx=_w(s, 0).end())
File "/usr/lib/python3.5/json/decoder.py", line 357, in raw_decode
raise JSONDecodeError("Expecting value", s, err.value) from None
json.decoder.JSONDecodeError: Expecting value: line 1 column 1 (char 0)

Typo on Unit Reference Page?

https://halite.io/learn-programming-challenge/basic-game-rules/units
https://github.com/HaliteChallenge/Halite-II/blob/2ff792f77a3f485cfaa1253ad72488dac7aef30c/website/learn-programming-challenge/basic-game-rules/units.md

See the Planet Properties specifically Explosion Radius and Production have the same description. Could be wrong but I don't think they should be the same.

Halite Client gives incorrect url to locate your api key

$ client.py auth
Please go to http://35.185.45.87/user/api_key to obtain an api_key, and paste here:

Should be: https://halite.io/user/settings

C++ starter kit has 2 run_bat files

https://halite.io/assets/downloads/Halite2_C++_Windows.zip

Site is down

The website is down. Also when is the launch of second season?

Game music

Super low priority, integration with Amper if we can. UX design work required. Prototype available

Onboarding issues

• Totally busted for me: https://www.screencast.com/t/TbyHDWbfg
• Submit needs success & error states

Windows 32 bit prebuilt kit

32bit windows is still very common in lots of world. Should probably provide prebuilt one.

Add API documentation to learn pages

Re-enable tutorials

Disabled pending front end work completion

Use constant maximum game duration.

from @Janzert

Currently maximum turns in a game is defined as min(300, 100 + (int) (sqrt(map_width * map_height)))

But the very smallest map size is 240x160 which gives a maximum turns of 295. Every other map size will be limited to 300.

It seems simpler and clearer to just define the maximum number of turns as 300 for all cases.

I believe to change this is just a matter of modifying line 995 & 996 of Halite.cpp to set max_turn_number directly to constants.MAX_TURNS instead of using the current formula.

forum shows IP instead of domain causing links to break

Need to fix this asap

Update docs with ships docked per planet

The docs1 indicate that "The maximum number of ships that can be docked to a planet is equal to the radius. E.g. a planet with a radius of 3 units may have up to 3 ships docked to it at once." But, the max actually is a property of the Planet and seems unrelated to the radius.

Golang Undock has bad format string

https://github.com/HaliteChallenge/Halite-II/blob/master/airesources/Go/src/hlt/entity.go#L184

The Golang undock command has the wrong format string, which should be "u %s".

Documentation: Update all docs to reflect recent backend changes (eg. 30 sec > more to start)

C++ Issues

1. C++ Issues
   1a) The halite binary is compiled dynamically. I had a slightly older version of libstdc++6 on my machine, which was incompatible and somewhat annoying to update. If you just compile statically, this won't be a problem for people.
   1b) The starter C++ halite bot dies immediately -- seems like it's not publishing commands at all. I didn't debug further.

Change Metabase Games/Minute to Games/Hour

Games/Minute is quite noisy to gather useful signal from, Games/Hour would be much easier.

Jaques, is there a bug in the 'improve bot' code?

Good news is that they're using your instructions!

From: https://forums.halite.io/t/unknown-bug-on-python-need-help/138/4

User wrote:

No problem on Python side i just try to implement the part
up close and personnal part of improve your bot

entities_by_distance = game_map.nearby_entities_by_distance(ship)
nearest_planet = None
for distance in sorted(entities_by_distance):
nearest_planet = next((nearest_entity for nearest_entity in entities_by_distance[distance] if isinstance(nearest_entity, entity.Planet)), None)
if nearest_planet:
break

it seem to come from
nearest_planet = next((nearest_entity for nearest_entity in entities_by_distance[distance] if isinstance(nearest_entity, entity.Planet)), None)

if i comment this line it seem to work

this is a more minimal code i use to test
https://pastebin.com/3VJTgjtp1

Facebook share broken on user profile & ugly on video share

Broken on user profile:

Photo background missing on Facebook:

Front-end cleanup

Play

• Add subcopy to . each drag space to explain what to do, fix section hieght and spacing, advanced tools section for each box. (design in progress)

Czech republic fails on create/edit pages

https://forums.halite.io/t/profile-cannot-set-country/128

Offline visualizer bugs from forum

https://forums.halite.io/t/standalone-visualiser-installation-errors/140

Top of Hackathon page fixes needed

Design should be:

• Horizontal cards on desktop
• Can scroll through them on mobile

Hari and I tried to add a few more cards on top and the layout was vertical. Could you polish this up so I can add a few more Hackathons to the top of the page?

Desktop:

Mobile:
https://projects.invisionapp.com/d/main#/console/11619087/252513084/preview

Dead link in Halite-II/airesources/README.MD

https://github.com/HaliteChallenge/Halite-II/blob/master/airesources/README.MD
Both links in file give 404

Bring Windows experience on par with Linux/MacOS

Implement newer/nicer error messages for Windows too
Implement non-blocking write (see d4ac3a1 and its commit message)

Game ID Strategy

Dealing with Medium INT caps at 16 million. Need to fix this

@Janzert
Since we are just a little over 10% of the way through the current game id size it should be fine to delay dealing with this until after launch.

Also what is currently running on production has a couple of minor changes from what is specified in the git repo (one varchar field size differs and the is_gpu_enabled field has been added but not the game id size change). I'll get a patch together to match the repo, to reality but I am swamped with work the next few days.

Google analytics fixes post-launch

Switch category & action for subscribe events:

• Subscribe is the category. click-to-subscribe = subscribe-error + subscribe-success, which are the actions. This way I can see unique click-to-subscribe (the number of individual ppl trying to subscribe) vs. the errors.
  

Other priority issues

• Can we track the share flow now? click-to-share and click-share-copy click-share-facebook, click-share-linkedin, click-share-twitter
• Didn’t get analytics event for hackathon error (when I entered garbage instead of a code)
• I also didn’t get analytics event for hackathon error when I tried to sign up for harvard without validating
• Didn’t get analytics event when I entered garbage email (julia.kastner)

Onboarding Flow

• We should have analytics events for clicking next for each page of the onboarding flow:
  Category: onboarding
  Action: clicked-next
  Label: page-{number of page, 1-3}

• Also click to cancel:
  Category: onboarding
  Action: clicked-cancel
  Label: page-{number of page, 1-3}

• Maybe also track downloads?
  Category: onboarding
  Action: clicked-download
  Label: {language user selected}

Low priority:

• I clicked on all TS links on homepage but only got one event
• I clicked on forum on top nav & homepage but only got one event
• No events from clicks on cornell & google on homepage
• I got click-to-sign-up even though I was actually signing in. Can we differentiate?
• When I submited a replay I got “select-replay-file-another” - why another? It was my first replay with this user?
• Can we track events on video speed toggle on visualizer?

Check that moves have been sent before getting map update

Inspired by #20. If bot doesn't send moves during a turn for whatever reason, then it will get stuck waiting for map update for the next turn and it will not be obvious to bot maker why it's stuck. We can help minimize the pain by adding sanity checks to bot kits that check for this condition and fail early.

In the visualizer, all velocities are zero

https://forums.halite.io/t/bug-reports-and-sharp-edges/105/3

Fix start/end date/time for college hackathons

Can we update start and end times for college hackathons? Should be 9am EST on October 25th through 6pm November 10th.

This is what I see now, looks messy:

Also, can we update the location for Harvard, NYU, and Berkeley to say "Online and On Campus" instead of "Online"?

Increase Game Window Size

the size of the game screen is pretty tiny, and this is coming from someone who has pretty good vision. It's pretty difficult to see all the moving pieces. Anyway we can make the window bigger and potentially have a full screen option?

Py 3 timeout game.update_map()

After several games noticed that on the python 3 built-in functions in hlt (game.update_map ()) is sometimes executed too long which leads to a timeout! Argghhhhhh!

C# Starter Kit

Barebones CSharp kit with many bugs is available in airesources/Csharp. Looking for help to make it awesom.

Back button is broken on Leaderboard

• Steps to reproduce:

1. Go to Leaderboard from the main page via the navigation menu
2. Click on page 2, for example.
3. Press back on your browser.

Expected Result:
You arrive at the leaderboard front page.

Actual Result:
You arrive at the home page.

Trigger automatic email if user subscribes in footer

welcome email
not high priority

Update team rules

Learn pages - H4 not styled

• H4 looks broken, see design principles, search for “3.2.1”: https://halite.io/learn-programming-challenge/other-resources/design-principles-underlying-halite-II

Hoang had styles for H4 in his style guide. Let's apply them.