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Jez:

--- Quote from: PurpleYouko ---yes they can and no there isn't
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TY PY!  

Ramiro:

--- Quote from: 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!)
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Thanks Jez

Making a shell is quite expensive in energy terms for any bacteria, so I guess it should have to be steh same for DBots, but I did not know that there was already a command or intructions in gene languaje to create it, so my first question is not very relevant.

Much more interesting is selecting a condition to become a spore:

Sensing its own energy reserves?

Sensing the energy reserves of other individuals of the same species? It is called Quorum Sensing in biology

Is there any way that a Bots can send this information to another?

Numsgil:
To botain information from other bots you either need to be facing them or tied to them, so information flow works differently from in bacterial colonies that use chemical emissions.

Very possible though.  *.refnrg returns the nrg of the bot you're looking at, *.nrg gives you your own nrg.

Ramiro:
THANKS!!! Something to start working on...

PurpleYouko:

--- Quote ---To botain information from other bots
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Numsgil made up a new word. Cool  
You should get a patent on that one. It might catch on.

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