<lmargin%:5><rmargin%:95><font:Arial Bold:20>Demo Teams and Arenas
<font:Arial:14>NERO comes with several arenas and armies meant to provide examples of the system's capabilities.  These may provide inspiration for your own armies or projects, or you may even further train them yourself.  

Robots in NERO are capable of learning quite sophisticated maze navigation. For an example, load the "Virtual Navigation Arena" and place a flag at the center of the far end of the maze, where the walls are closer to the outer bounding wall.  A pretrained team called "DispersionDemo" has been provided that can navigate the maze.  The team was trained with "Approach Flag" rewarded and "Disperse" rewarded, and with collision off.  To see a demonstration, choose "Load then Go," load the "DispersionDemo" team, and turn Evolution and Collision off on the bottom panel.  You will see the team both navigate the maze and attempt to stay away from each other at the same time.  This demonstration is provided to give you a sense of the navigation capabilities that are possible.  

To train your own team with similar capabilities, you need to start with a single wall, and incrementally make the path more and more complex.  It took us about an hour of such incremental training to train the DispersionDemo team.

Several sample battle teams have been provided as well.  These include simple aggressors and avoiders as well as several more interesting teams that were trained by the NERO programming team.  This set of teams was trained specifically for battle in the "Shadow Grove" arena.  All 8 special teams start with the letters "Grove" and can be loaded into the Grove for battle or further trained.  Some teams, such as "Grove-Trung-DeathFromAfar," have quite sophisticated abilities, such as hanging back and acting like snipers without running away.  Many teams can run around the large dividing wall in order to attack their opponents in the “Shadow Grove”.

These demonstration teams provide a glimpse at what is possible in NERO.  There are many other arenas to train for and other skills to develop.

