Communicate with your bots!

[EricL]

What do people think of the idea of exposing some UI in the simulator that would allow the human to change the values of say no more that 5 named memory locations accessable to all bots via sysvars?  In this way, bots could be coded to switch modes, change behaviour, modify thresholds, etc. based upon the values of these as specifed by the human at sim run time.

I'd use them for example, the tweak the population level my evo sim preditors used to self regulate their population.

Just an idea.  Not implemented yet.  Interested in whether there is support/desire for this.

[Numsgil]

I think it's reasonable.  There's already a few sysvars (one I can think of: .maxvel) that return information about the system.  There's nothing inherantly different from that and custom information.

[Martian]

I like the idea.  

[googlyeyesultra]

Obviously, this would have to be disabled from leagues, since one person is running them, who is usually not the bot's creator.

"Sorry, you didn't place."

"Well of course I didn't place, you didn't put in the right values!"

. . .

Otherwise, quite neat.

[EricL]

OKay, I'll put this on the list.  Not for 2.43b, but not too far away...

As far as leagues go, I'm very happy to disable this or anything else people want in league mode.

[Jez]

As far as leagues go, I'm very happy to disable this or anything else people want in league mode.

So long as leagues are fixed, I.e. always the same, I'm happy.