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== Starcore v3.0 ==

== Starcore v3.0 ==

During the summer of 2004 in the middle of spearheading [[DSL-TC]] with [[DarkRat]] and [[Lu-Tze]], Starcore was also working on growing and expanding the Starcore AI pack. He added new AI routines like Omni.py and OmniRammer.py that have become defacto standards in the [[RA2]] community. And many people, seeing the success of Starcore v2.0, jumped in to have their bots included in Starcore v3.0. [[Lu-Tze]] provided the Starcore Arena, DarkRat provided a cool themed in-game selection screen and [[Rejected]] provided again a great pack splash screen. Instead of making new bots, Starcore's time became filled with AIing entries from others and tightening and/or rebuilding their bots to be more efficient and effective. [[The Troll]] being an example of shrinking a [[SHW]] down to a more effective though still funky [[HW]]. Many exotic bots were brought in including [[Vortex CE]], [[Rabid Pit Bull]], [[Hunter-Killer Tank]] and others by [[Rejected]]; [[3-2-1 Blastoff!]], [[Flying Sheep]] and others by [[Foolishevil]]; and the first stilt bot ever seen, [[Mome Rath]] by [[Corporate Goon]]. There was also a major influx of new 6-bot themed teams, manny following the pattern of [[LW]], [[MW]], [[HW]], [[AW]], [[BW]], [[SHW]] including teams from [[FoolishEvil]], [[C2]], [[Spawngeek]], [[Jimxorb]], [[Viper]], [[EpicentrE]], [[WardenX]], [[ACAMS]], [[Rejected]], [[Artitan]], [[Gemini]], [[Clutch]] and [[Karnage]]. This grew the pack to a whopping 35 teams of 6 bots each for a total of 210 effective, diverse, and dangerous [[Stock]] bots.

During the summer of 2004 in the middle of spearheading [[DSL-TC]] with [[DarkRat]] and [[Lu-Tze]], Starcore was also working on growing and expanding the Starcore AI pack. He added new AI routines like Omni.py and OmniRammer.py that have become defacto standards in the [[RA2]] community. And many people, seeing the success of Starcore v2.0, jumped in to have their bots included in Starcore v3.0. [[Lu-Tze]] provided the Starcore Arena, DarkRat provided a cool themed in-game selection screen and [[Rejected]] provided again a great pack splash screen. Instead of making new bots, Starcore's time became filled with AIing entries from others and tightening and/or rebuilding their bots to be more efficient and effective. [[The Troll]] being an example of shrinking a [[SHW]] down to a more effective though still funky [[HW]]. Many exotic bots were brought in including [[Vortex CE]], [[Rabid Pit Bull]], [[Hunter-Killer Tank]] and others by [[Rejected]]; [[3-2-1 Blastoff!]], [[Flying Sheep]] and others by [[Foolishevil]]; and the first stilt bot ever seen, [[Mome Rath]] by [[Corporate Goon]]. There was also a major influx of new 6-bot themed teams, many following the pattern of [[LW]], [[MW]], [[HW]], [[AW]], [[BW]], [[SHW]] including teams from [[FoolishEvil]], [[C2]], [[Spawngeek]], [[Jimxorb]], [[Viper]], [[EpicentrE]], [[WardenX]], [[ACAMS]], [[Rejected]], [[Artitan]], [[Gemini]], [[Clutch]] and [[Karnage]]. This grew the pack to a whopping 35 teams of 6 bots each for a total of 210 effective, diverse, and dangerous [[Stock]] bots.

== Starcore v4.0 ==

== Starcore v4.0 ==

== Starcore v4.0 Reboot ==

== Starcore v4.0 Reboot ==

In mid-2017 Starcore circled around to see if there was interest in helping to finish up the Starcore v4.0 pack. Many jumped to assist and be involved in a Starcore pack. To show off latest skills and abilities. It has been over 10 years since the Starcore packs have been touched. And while many are deep into DSL and its variants, there is still interest in finishing up the Meta of [[RA2}} [[Stock]] AI packs. The target is to fix any bots in need of fixing from Starcore v4.0 Alpha2, rebuild as needed using latest learnings and grow the pack by roughly 10 more teams to bring it to a grand total of 45 teams of 6 bots each with a double rotate system to bring 15 teams at a time into view for the internal [[RA2]] tournament system.

In mid-2017 Starcore circled around to see if there was interest in helping to finish up the Starcore v4.0 pack. Many jumped to assist and be involved in a Starcore pack. To show off latest skills and abilities. It has been over 10 years since the Starcore packs have been touched. And while many are deep into [[DSL]] and its variants, there is still interest in finishing up the Meta of [[RA2]] [[Stock]] AI packs. The target is to fix any bots in need of fixing from Starcore v4.0 Alpha2, rebuild as needed using latest learnings and grow the pack by roughly 10 more teams to bring it to a grand total of 45 teams of 6 bots each with a double rotate system to bring 15 teams at a time into view for the internal [[RA2]] tournament system.