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Spores?

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Ramiro:
Is there any way a DBots can make a structure like a spore?

BAsically:

VERY low methabolism (energy cost)

no active search for food

resistant to the attack of other bots

very slow or no locomotion at all

no reproduction

ready to go back to the active form when it comes across an anergy source

shvarz:
Sure.  Just make it turn off all its genes except for eyes.  You should also create a bunch of slime and shell before you go dormant - that will make it resistant to a lot of attacks.

Ramiro:
Thanks, but I have no idea how to transform this ideas into actual "genes". I guess  I should start reeding the guides...

Any idea if there is any bot with similar characteristics?

Jez:
It's not really a spore, more a super resistant bot being a bit lazy!

Easy enough to do though, take a working bot and decide on your conditions to become a 'spore', something simple like (*.eye5 0 =) will do to show how it would work.

All the genes in your working bot now need the extra condition (*.eye5 0 !=) so that they become inactive when your 'spore' conditions are met and only work when the condition is not met.

You then have a bot that will do nothing when its 'spore' condition is met and can add another gene to tell the bot what to do when it is a spore. (100 .mkshell maybe but this costs energy!)

A more complicated version with multiple spore conditions or a whole set of conditions to meet before it switches the bot back on can be done by using a memory location but I'm guessing you aren't worried about that yet.

The last bot I posted, Bubbles, uses a similar technique, switching off most of its genes if it is poisoned or paralyzed and activating a suicide gene instead of a 'spore' gene.

BTW (Question for someone:))I take it that shell and slime can be used at the same time? Are there any disadvantages to using them together now?

PurpleYouko:

--- Quote ---I take it that shell and slime can be used at the same time? Are there any disadvantages to using them together now?
--- End quote ---
yes they can and no there isn't

Remember that slime gradually goes away though. It gets dissolved into the surroundings. And shots can diminish the shell barrier.

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