Seeking

Seeking is an attack behavior characterized by a projectile following a moving bloon so that it can hit more often. it is part of the damage types family.

Seeking is represented on Bloons Wiki as, the upgrade icon for Guided Magic in Bloons TD 6, which depicts a magical bolt bouncing in multiple directions, presumably hitting multiple moving bloons. Unlike other subsets, the only difference to Seeking subsets is the varying strengths of the seeking and not the how the seeking itself is done.

The forms of Seeking are:


 * Weak Seeking
 * Moderate Seeking
 * Aggressive Seeking
 * Lightning Behavior

Weak vs Moderate Seeking
"Weak Seeking" and "Moderate Seeking" are subjective descriptors, but Aggressive Seeking is objective because it bypasses a seeking curve. What sets both "Weak Seeking" and "Moderate Seeking" apart is the use of quantifying the apparent size of the seeking curves. "Weak Seeking" has a large seeking curve, while "Moderate Seeking" has a small seeking curve.

Based on Topper64's calculations from testing out the "seeking curves", calculating angular velocity versus angular speed of the projectiles, some calculations for the radial magnitude of various seeking curves are as follows:


 * Inferno Ring lava ball: (200 / 130) * (180 / pi) = 88.147353097
 * Sub: (170 / 360) * (180 / pi) = 27.056340326
 * Aircraft Carrier sub-plane missile: (25 / 25) * (180 / pi) = 57.2957795131
 * Fighter Jet anti-MOAB missile: (25 / 25) * (180 / pi) = 57.2957795131
 * Neva-Miss Targeting: (180 / 160) * (180 / pi) = 64.457751952
 * Spectre: (400 / 80) * (180 / pi) = 286.478897565
 * Apache Dartship: (135 / 250) * (180 / pi) = 30.939720937
 * Seeking Shurikens: (300 / 9999999) * (180 / pi) = 0.001718874
 * wizard 100: (200 / 360) * (180 / pi) = 31.830988618
 * wizard 101: (400 / 360) * (180 / pi) = 63.661977237
 * Obyn: (130 / 360) * (180 / pi) = 20.690142602

Note that the smaller the number is, the stronger the seeking power is for that projectile.