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Welwordion:
Well do not exaggerate the drawing of ties to much, its disturbing when there is to much stuff on the screen.

Regarding the boucing off, I have an easy idea:
When the third bot crosses the line between the tied bots split the tie in two, as if the third bot would be connected with 2 shorter ties to the other bots (of course these Would not count as true ties and would graphically just be two lines with a corner where the third bot is)
and if the third bot crosses the line of connection between the tied bots again the splitted tie merges again.

......(_)............(_).........(_)..........(_)............(_)
.........|...............|.............\............|...............|
.........|...............|...............\..........|...............|  
.........|...............|.................\........|...............|
..=(_).|...........=(|)...............(X)....(|)=....(_)=.|
.........|...............|................/.........|...............|
.........|...............|............../...........|...............|
.......(_)............(_).........(_)..........(_)............(_)

shvarz:
That's a good idea and all the physics should be there already

As far as thick ties, here are a couple of experiments I tried.  One with very thick ties and the other with thick ties and fill-in empty spaces.  Both look OK, not too heavy on the eye.  In fact, I think these would be even easier to see than the intertwine of thin lines that we have now.

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Numsgil:
The only problem really becomes what to do when not all the bots are interconnected.

Like:

0---0
|.../|
|..0.|
0---0

shvarz:
For physics or for drawing?

No problem with physics.

As for drawing, I changed my mind - that filled-in thing looks weird and you can't tell how many ties are inside, so just thick ties would be better.

Numsgil:
Here's what I have so far:

Birth ties are pill-like, as you describe, with each end being as wide as the bot it's connected to.

Voluntary ties are 30 units wide (Bots are generally 120 units wide) and do not taper as birth ties do.

Should I graphically differentiate between ties that are hard and soft?

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