What happened since Season 1?

[876584635678890]

Season 3 now already, crazy.
Someone interested to tell me what happened since season one, i.e. significant changes, history?

If you are wondering what I have been up to, it’s this.

[yay784]

Cool app! Sawtooth has fallen if you haven’t already figured out. Speed for non-scrambler units have been changed. Units have also seen a slight rework, you will see a slight discrepancy between the instructions (this may have been fixed). I think they changed the way your elo is calculated. They added weekly competition as well. Probably missed somethings but this should help

[IWannaWin]

Welcome back! You might not remember me, I used to be @zigzagninja on this forum. I remember you left right before season 2.
First C1 introduced the new glicko rating system, allowing you to rank up very fast.
In the beginning of season 2 me and @Ryan_Draves where fighting for first spot, and eventually some others joined, for example @paprikadobi and @Clinch, pretty much everyone was using a demux and mazes where completely gone.
@kkroep, who developed the demux everyone was using and @KauffK, the season one champion, where suprisingly missing. The season 2 finals (round robin, same as season 1) consisted of a total of 7 demux-similar strategies, one dynamic by @arnby and two corner attacking strategies. Interestingly enough the final battle was between those two corner attacking strategies and the winner was @quincyc3. As you can see on the season 2 leaderboard, @Ryan_Draves was first in ranking but lost in the round robins.
Season 3 started of with a bunch of rule changes that are listed here:

Welcome to Season 3!

Season 3 Rules During Season 3, we are going to be trying out some changes to the standard rules of terminal to keep the game fresh. A number of changes have been made which we believe improves the game and / or allows users to try out new strategies. We will be listening to feedback and making adjustments, especially in the first month or two of the season. The rules and docs will be updated to reflect these changes shortly. Unit Speed: All unit speed and damage has been doubled. This is a q…

And my raptor was introduced as a new boss in the playground:

New Boss: Iwanawin's "Raptor"

Hey everyone! Thanks to IWannaWin’s contribution, the newest boss ‘Raptor’ is up, and uses strategies only possible in S3. It’s defensive strategy uses large numbers of slow scramblers to defend itself, while it slowly saves up for large ping rushes. The tracks along its sides allow it to stagger out its units, and opening holes in them allows for some dynamic attacks. It may even have a few more tricks up its sleeve! If anyone is interested in contributing a boss, feel free to message me with…

In the middle of season 3 C1 started new weekly ranked competitions, bronze, silver and gold, and they gave terminal a completely new look.
Season 3 is about to end and we will see who wins this one.

By the way, the terminal tools you created broke soon after you left and @Isaac has been taking care of them ever since. @Ryan_Draves sometimes posts your leaderboard matches thread thing:

Leaderboard Matches 03/11/2019

I figured I’d try my hand at recreating @876584635678890’s leaderboard matches posts. Rather than do that by hand I wrote a markdown generator to do it for me (source code in the About section). All else below this line is generated. This post contains replays of matches from all algos which are currently ranked on the first 2 pages of the leaderboards. Matches out of the last 100, favoring more recent matches, were selected for each algo. Entries are formatted in the following way: Heading:…

[876584635678890]

Thanks @yay784 and @IWannaWin.

Very comprehensive @IWannaWin. I think your algo was called this back then, wasn’t it?

The changes sound really interesting, especially the removal of shield decay, that sounds crazy.
The timing of the season is very unfortunate for me, as these changes require completely new thinking and I will not be able to put in the time to get a good one up and running before the end of the season and after that I will not be able to code for a while.
I saw the redesign and really liked it, especially that it is a lot more welcoming now and the new stats.
In the future, I might try out some algos again, however, I will be a lot less active on the forum if I do so as this was taking up most of the time I spent with Terminal.
Regarding that, it would be very beneficial to have something like a quick changelog with a few bullet points over at terminal.c1games.com. I see the “What’s happening” section, but that is still a bit much and you need to “dive” into the forum.

Thanks a lot for the replies and to the C1 team for these nice changes.

Oh, and I just realized that I had an algo with a rating of 2131 for season 2. I wonder how that happened as I “left” before the start of the season. Congratulations to the top 10!

[Ryan_Draves]

Algos weren’t removed from season 2 leaderboard so old algos still competed. I think one of the top ten was even an old algo whose elo skyrocketed in the last couple weeks because it countered Demux-like algos, which was almost the entirety of the leaderboards.

Season 3 cleared out old algos.