All prior measurements ran on server 0.35.5. The default is now the current
1.3.1 jar, with the legacy jar kept and switchable via TR_SERVER_JAR (no code
edit). test_gauntlet_5bots.nim no longer clobbers a caller's TR_SERVER_JAR -
it used to putEnv() unconditionally, so an override was silently ignored.
RE-BASELINE (controlled RulesProbe battle, stationary bot, powers 0.1/0.5/1/2/3):
dimension 1.3.1 0.35.5 verdict
bullet damage per hit 0.4/2/4/10/16 identical SAME
bullet speed (20-3p) within noise within noise SAME
post-fire gun heat (1+p/5) identical identical SAME
cooling 0.1/tick 0.1/tick SAME
bulletDamage SCORE exactly 100/round 104..113/round DIFFERENT
bulletKillBonus (20%) 20/round 20..23/round DIFFERENT
LOUD FINDING - a SCORING rule changed, physics did not: 0.35.5 credits
OVERKILL to bulletDamage (the killing bullet's full damage even past 0 energy);
1.3.1 caps it at the energy actually removed. Every 0.35.5 score is therefore
inflated ~5-6%, and bulletKillBonus inherits the inflation. Gauntlet totals
shift accordingly (SittingDuck 1936 -> 1800, WaveSurfer 1886 -> 1669).
Consequence: score-based numbers recorded on 0.35.5 are NOT comparable to 1.3.1.
Our gun A/Bs used real HIT RATE, not score, so those conclusions stand.
Runner 1.0.2 (unchanged, no newer one on the box) is measured compatible with
the 1.3.1 server. Note TrBattleCapture uses the runner's EMBEDDED server, which
is 1.0.2 - so the capture path still runs an older engine than the gauntlet.
Also re-ran acceptance_offline_vs_online on the new default: 12/12.
- Document exception handling, zero-value BotResult trap, shared adversary bots
- Add offline parsing example using parseServerOutput
- Skip tests gracefully when JARs missing (guard before suite blocks)
- Fix blocking readLine in runner_process.nim: poll with 50ms sleep + atEnd check
(was preventing timeout enforcement, now blocks correctly during battle)
- Add test task to QBot.nimble and config.nims setup docs to AGENTS.md
- Add debug logging to TestBattleRunner for bot identity tracking
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Implements:
- BattleResult type and JSON-lines parser (#127)
- TR server lifecycle manager (#128)
- Bot compiler using nim c (#129)
- runBattle() orchestrator (#130)
- Example test in OscillatorBot_garage (#131)
- Framework usage guide (#132)
- TestBattleRunner.java for external server (#133)
- BattleRunner process lifecycle (#134)
Fix: runner_process.nim was redefining TimeoutError locally; now
uses std/net.TimeoutError consistently with server_manager.nim.
SirStone