WuliBot

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The new protoss WuliBot is on top of the SSCAIT ranking today. The ranking is unstable, of course, but even so it’s doing well. WuliBot is an offshoot of UAlbertaBot, and I can’t see what it is doing differently than UAlbertaBot protoss. Can anybody tell me?

The name “Wuli” looks to me like a reference to The Dancing Wu Li Masters. But if so, I don’t know the meaning of the reference. What is it really?

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Xiangyu Li on Sunday, November 6. 2016:

Hi there,

Happy to find someone feel interested in our bot.

I am the team leader of Wuli. Wuli is a joke from Chinese people on singer Zitao Huang. We call him Wuli Taotao, and it's just for fun.

Our bot is on UAlbertaBot and we made some new features on micro of Zealot, Dragoon and some other units. Also the UAlbertaBot Protoss is pretty simple and we made some new macro strategies on it.

This is a student course project and it's not very complicated if you read the code of UAlbertaBot carefully.

Jay Scott on Sunday, November 6. 2016:

Thanks for the info! Can you tell us anything more about the new micro and macro?

Xiangyu Li on Monday, November 7. 2016:

For micro part, we made the preference of target more complicated. I remember the UAlbertaBot is based on a simple preference list. We add some arithmetic function on the target choose(As result, it is not very clear and easy to see). Also for low health units, we change the strategies of retreating based on their health and the distance from base instead of only health. Other changes I forget, but we revised it and make them more complicated or "intelligent".

For macro part, the UAlbertaBot just rush Zealot and make more time to generate higher level fast rush. We set some timer on first rush and make the first rush more powerful than UAlbertaBot. Also UAlbertaBot makes second base based on time(it is stupid, cuz game time or game pace for different maps are different). We try to make defend manager and analysis manager to the Bot, but after we tried more than 100 games, we found there is a long way to go for real AI.

In conclusion, I programmed it several month ago and as my opinion, the AI is a bot not just mimics what human do, it should use the advantages such as fast actions. I attended the Blizzcon 2016 and the deep mind bot can easily beat professional human player! LOL, it will be released in the future in StarCraft II.

Xiangyu Li on Monday, November 7. 2016:

Oh for "Wuli" part, I do not know it before today also!!

I check in the Chinese forum. It is from Korean meaning "We" or "Our" and pronounced as "Wuli". Because the singer Zitao Huang is a Chinese in a Korean singers group named EXO.

Is interesting? ha?

Jay Scott on Monday, November 7. 2016:

Ha ha! And thanks for the extra info!

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