my AI is dropped from 76th place to more than 350th in Platinum Rift Episode 2.
So strange I did just some minor changes.
Anyway I checked last battles to try understand what was wrong and… surprise!
I checked only 5 or 6 lost battles: all of them was lost due to timeout, but when loaded in IDE no timeout was detected.
Is there something I can do with more care or is it just a matter of servers load?
Can somebody please try to submit his code (better if in C++ as I do) on Platinum Rift - Episode 2 to check if the problem is only for my code (so I have to change something) or to confirm there is some codingame problem?
I can’t believe my code timeouts about one half of times in ranking computation battles and never in the IDE
I found the cause. There was a bug in my code! A not initialized variable.
Anyway I think the fact programs in IDE does not crashes while in ranking computing battles it does, is enough to say that the program runs in two different environment.
I think you know who much can be frustrating for a programmer being not able to reproduce the error, so making more similar the two environments (IDE and ranked battles) could be helpful in such cases.