Ok, that was weird. I never thought it was a bug. I just thought it was the way the bots decided to evolve. I'm thinking the genes are just set to send very little energy to offspring when they reproduce, and I'm running with 'per kilobody point' setting so tiny bots wont get any energy, or at least very little. I've been waiting for some bot to evolve to give 50% of it's energy to offspring, like the '50 .repro store' gene, but I haven't seen it yet in my sim. Instead I have a bot with these genes that reproduce tiny bots:
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dup and
14 >
rnd sqr xor
*.dn and
rnd *.sx << or
inc
0 mult * *.dx 2 or
rnd and
mult pyth not
rnd *.dn - and
or
=
store
| dist and
rnd *.sx | and
>
else
<< ++ dist angle rnd *.sx | 1 2 cond
xor
dist xor
sqr *.sx ~ and
inc
start
else
cond
xor
1 and
rnd *.sx | and
inc
cond
mult else
cond
~ dist pyth rnd *.sx mult 1 >
cond
xor
dist and
rnd *-1 | <
inc
3 else
cond
or
dist and
rnd *.sx | and
store
else
else
cond
xor
dist not
rnd *.sx and
dec
inc
else
start
cond
xor
dist and
div *.sx | and
inc
else
cond
xor
start
.up inc
*.sx | 9 *.dn cond
xor
dist and
cond
*.sx -- and
inc
else
else
cond
or
dist and
5 *.sx and
not
inc
else
cond
stop
''''''''''''''''''''''''Gene 13: Last 'stop' at position 158''''''''''''''''''''''',
xor
And evolved genes look like a mess and I have now idea why this one multiplies on occasion. But of course all of you may not be running evosims so if you have a bot with a '50 .repro store' gene that produces tiny bots it must be a bug I guess. So I'm looking forward to see how the next drop will look like.