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Metabolism part 1: Catabolism in animals
PurpleYouko:
So you think that digesting prior to actually feeding may be a good idea?
I think it might make stuff simpler to work with since robots will only actually receive an energy shot instead of a bunch of stuff which might or might not be digestable. More like shooting out a glob of saliva then taking back the digested food. It still isn't going to be easy to work out but it might weel discourage robots from trying to feed on stuff that they just don't get a return from.
As you say the -1 shot can be more of a weapon that a feeding method, giving limited or no food back in return
This really is a minefield isn't it?
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Numsgil:
That's why I keep putting off coding it. I keep coming up with new things that improve things a little, but drastically change how it works.
PurpleYouko:
Backward compatability is an issue too.
We really don't want all the old bots to be useless lumps that are unable to survive without massive DNA surgery.
That is why I thought of using the shots to digest the target rather than internal enzyme control.
Never mind what is in the stomach. Just leave that the way it is now. Bots eat energy simple as that.
Just put all available enzymes in the shot and work out the reaction when the shot hits something then send back the appropriate amount of pure energy.
You don't have to worry about regulating the enzymes too much that way.
Same thing applies to e-grid reactions. Just assume that all possible enzymes are present in exactly the right proportions to get the job done. If a bot is capable of making enzymes to metabolise sunlight and CO2 into cellulose, energy and O2 then it just has to do that based on the proportions of those things that are present in the e-grid square that the bot currently resides. Remove whatever needs to be removed from that e-grid square and dump the O2 back into it.
There really doesn't need to be that much complexity.
Keep the present form of internal controls so that a bot can store protein or fat with a simple DNA command. never mind stoichiometrically balancing the chemistry. We simpy don't need it. If a bot wants to convert fat to energy then simply assume that all the necessary balancing has been done and give it the damned energy already!
Complexity is fine but let's not get too carried away here. We don't have to model every electrolyte reaction to know if we are dehydrated or hungry.
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Botsareus:
"That's why I keep putting off coding it. I keep coming up with new things that improve things a little, but drastically change how it works. "
....I was afraid of that....
PurpleYouko:
HUNGRY!
Now there is a thought.
How about we introduce a sysvar that tells us how hungry a bot is.
I know we can model it now from DNA but it might be more fun if we have it directly linked to the size of body or the average energy consumption rate. We could even automate fat spend-down if a robot is very hungry.
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