Library Tactician Problems

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I am having problems with Library Tactician, I have done exactly what they told me to do (except the part that says “-- Create a variable containing your archers.” which I don’t understand because that variable already exists…) for some reason my soldiers still cannot survive in spite of following their instructions to the letter (along with trying various things of my own) here is my code;

-- Hushbaum has been ambushed by ogres!
-- She is busy healing her soldiers, you should command them to fight!
-- The ogres will send more troops if they think they can get to Hushbaum or your archers, so keep them inside the circle!

-- Soldiers spread out in a circle and defend.
local function commandSoldier(soldier, soldierIndex, numSoldiers)
    local angle = Math.PI * 2 * soldierIndex / numSoldiers
    local defendPos = {"x"= 41, "y"= 40}
    defendPos.x = defendPos.x + 10 * Math.cos(angle)
    defendPos.y = defendPos.y + 10 * Math.sin(angle)
    self:command(soldier, "defend", defendPos)
end

-- Find the strongest target (most health)
-- This function returns something! When you call the function, you will get some value back.
local function findStrongestTarget()
    local mostHealth = 0
    local bestTarget = nil
    local enemies = self:findEnemies()
    -- Figure out which enemy has the most health, and set bestTarget to be that enemy.
    for _, enemy in pairs(enemies) do
        if not bestTarget or enemy.health > mostHealth then
            bestTarget = enemy
            mostHealth = bestTarget.health
        end 
    end 
    -- Only focus archers' fire if there is a big ogre.
    if bestTarget and bestTarget.health > 15 then
        return bestTarget
    else
        return nil
    end
end

-- If the strongestTarget has more than 15 health, attack that target. Otherwise, attack the nearest target.
local function commandArcher(archer)
    local nearest = archer:findNearest(archer:findEnemies())
    if archerTarget then
        self:command(archer, "attack", archerTarget)
    elseif nearest then
        self:command(archer, "attack", nearest)
    end
end

local archerTarget = nil
local archers = self:findByType("archer")
local soldiers = self:findByType("soldier")
-- Create a variable containing your archers.

loop
    -- If archerTarget is defeated or doesn't exist, find a new one.
    if not archerTarget then 
        archerTarget = findStrongestTarget()
    end
    if archerTarget then
        if archerTarget.health <= 0 then 
            -- Set archerTarget to be the target that is returned by findStrongestTarget()
            archerTarget = findStrongestTarget()
        end
    end
    for i, soldier in pairs(soldiers) do
        commandSoldier(soldier, i, #soldiers)
    end

    -- use commandArcher() to command your archers
    for _, archer in pairs(archers) do
        commandArcher(archer)
    end 
end
2

Solved…Had to re-write my code in Javascript(Python didn’t work either, I didn’t try coffee script)…apparently the lua interpreter is too slow to run the code. :frowning:

3

@deeredman1991 I had to change the source code and then submit about 100 times :angry: