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PurpleYouko:
I don't much like using viruses (even though I was the one who first introduced them)
Virus code can mutate. A few generations down, you might end up catching a virualent plague that wipes out your entire population.

In combat, viruses are an effective weapon but in eco-sims? I wouldn't recommend them.

Elite:
How's this for a neat instant-kill virus:

cond
 ' conspec recogntion
start
-2 .shoot store
*.nrg 10 mult .shootval store
stop

Numsgil:
Instakill viruses tend not to be as worthwhile as viruses that cause the enemy to languish for a while (and thus be able to spread the virus).

Light:
Viruses as a combat weapon aren't that great, instant kill ones are maybe usefull against powerfull bots but other than that a waste, and ones that impare a species usually take to much time and energy to propergate to be effective.

abyaly:
I think you have the wrong outlook on viruses. Since in combat there is no guarantee that the virus will work on the enemy bot, viruses used for killing are not favorable. So, instead, you could have a virus that improves eating, similar to my veggie cancer virus.

I mean, you could create a virus that causes a veggie to consume all of its body except 10 and fire all of its energy in the direction it is shot from. While this does not act as a weapon of mass destruction and it wont be something the bot can fire at every veggie, it will increase the speed and efficiency with which the bot eats.

Also, you could have a spreading virus that makes veggies inedible to other bots. Any number of methods come to mind. The veggie could attack things that are not your species. Or it could blindly fire at everything with -1 shots -- but your species has an anti-firing poison. It could react by moving away from -6 shots, while your bots eat vegs with -1s.

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