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Metabolism part 1: Catabolism in animals
Numsgil:
What would hunger be, mathematically speaking?
Maybe it's the percentage of total energy (that includes fats and carbs, etc.) that's left n turns after the last time it ate?
There are some problems with that though...
I like the idea of moving digestion away from inside the bot. The only point: before I was going to have it so food sat in the stomach a while before getting digested (the enzymes have a fixed amount they can digest per cycle). That way we could model 'full'. As in "I'm stuffed. I couldn't eat another bite... KABLOOIE!"
In this new system that's a little harder. Maybe bots still have a set rate at which they can absorb energy per cycle into their bodies. Then the stomach is just a depository of 'food' awaiting digestion into 'nrg' at a 1:1 ratio. The rate of that digestion would be something up to the specialization system with muscles instead of the digestion system with enzymes.
PurpleYouko:
--- Quote ---In this new system that's a little harder. Maybe bots still have a set rate at which they can absorb energy per cycle into their bodies. Then the stomach is just a depository of 'food' awaiting digestion into 'nrg' at a 1:1 ratio. The rate of that digestion would be something up to the specialization system with muscles instead of the digestion system with enzymes.
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I like that thought. A secondary energy depository of limited size would be kind of cool. When it gets empty then the robot gets hungry
:D PY :D
Numsgil:
The only question of course is how big is the stomach? What's the maxiumum it can hold.
Or we can make food degrade in the stomach the longer it's there. Some kind of half life.
PurpleYouko:
Fuller it gets, faster it works?
No I don't really like that.
The size could just be anything initially but it should be mutatable so that some robots can hold a larger reserve than others. Maybe we can just set in in DNA like the enzymes.
Also make the diffusion rate from storage to usable energy, variable and mutatable.
Get the energy faster but lose some. Get it slowly and get all of it.
:D PY :D
shvarz:
Guys, guys, don't go away from all these ideas we had!
I had a breakthrough idea, it is all going to work juuuuust fiiiiiineee!
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