After being reminded of my old attempt at a gardener veggie, in a recent topic, I decided to go back and have a nother shot at it.
This time I took the code for Destinatus preliator and modified it somewhat. The result is a veggie that chugs around the screen trying to find other robots then shooting them with energy. It also forces them to reproduce by firing an mrepro shot at any one that has more than a couple of thousand energy.
You can find it
Here in the bestiary
Use it with a very simple bot and see if you can make anything useful evolve. I tried it overnight with a special bot that has nothing but a gene that makes it slowly move in a straight line. I needed something to drain its energy or the screen would just fill up with stupid-bots
This morning I found a little over 4000 bots that had all lost the ability to move.
I am thinking of doing the same thing again but with a script to kill any bot that loses .up from its genome.
Don't forget to make it an autotroph or you won't get far.
Darn it.
They are finding ways around it.
They keep the .up but don't store anything in it.
I might have to reprogram the gardener bot to clear the weeds out.