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PurpleYouko:
I have always thought that DB was too simple to allow decent mutations.

Here are some of my reasons why I think decent mutations are so rare

* The environment is homogeneous. No niches, no reson to specialize!
* Food is way too easy to find and all food is exactly the same Can't differentiate between veggies and meat as far as feeding is concerned.
* the sim is too small. Robots are able to traverse great distances very cheaply. Again no reason to adapt to present surroundings when they are all the same.
* Robots move too fast! For the same reason as above. Bit controversial maybe.
* The most important one in my opinion is that The VB code that runs DarwinBots does not allow for enough variability More complexity has to be built in or we will never see speciation take place.
* using .sexrepro, any robot can mate with any other robot. No possible speciation :D  PY  :D

Zelos:
well, ure right, there is no need for specializatoin, we need to make the bots unable to move across the entire board in matter of seconds, it shall cost alot. and it should take alot of time, like 5 min ti cross the board is more than 2 generations for them. and we need SEX (I mean in db), the sex shall only be capable whit bots who have most 5% different dna

Botsareus:
zelos just make larger maps in order for that to happen. Your problem is not really about the size of the board, but: Its about how mutch energy you want in your simulation. Another approch for you is to have very little energy on the map , try using F1 conditions.

Anonomous Guest Person:
I like how sexrepro can work between different species.
Though I wish it were more random.

If the whole survival of the fittest thing starts working better, then bots that have sex with anything that move will hopefully mutate to only have sex when it'd produce an actual working offspring.

PurpleYouko:
I think .sexrepro should be restricted to work on similar DNA a little like Zelos suggested.

I would also like to suggest that sexrepro should be completely overhauled in such a way that it actually requires both parents to be actively involved in combining their DNA in an offspring. A lone robot should not be able to use .sexrepro  the way it can now.

 B)  PY  B)

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