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Motor.On:
Hey guys

I've been messing with DarwinBots for about a week now, and have a question about two possible alga and how I would go about making them:

the first is thus:
I've created a simple multibot, but I've noticed that the little "herbivore" I've made manages to utterly destroy it every single time, so I was wondering if there was some way that I could make it grow to be  certain number of bots in size (say, 10) and then all further offspring would be "shot" off in random directions, so that the species would have a better chance of survival.

Any ideas about how to do this?  Or where I would find how to do this?

my second idea:
After messing with gravity, I created an alga that maintains a depth of 5000 and I've discovered that it survives a lot better than minimus or my multibot alga, and Now I was wondering if I could combine the two, because it seems that a multibot is supposed to be better, but my little guy keeps winning.  my idea was thus:
have a multibot where the first cell "floats" at whatever depth I choose and then the offspring dangle below it.  Unfortunately I don't know how to only make the first bot float.  Also, it seems that I should have the top bot start creating other strands of itself after creating the first attached bot, allowing the attached one to continue to grow down.


I don't know how hard these would be to do, and I'm not even sure if anyone checks these forums anymore... but, I figured that it's no harm in asking and it could seriously help.

Thanks

EricL:
Welcome aboard.

The forums are quite active.

You can certainly do what you suggest but answering your questions in detail is probably beyond the scope of the Newbie forum.  What I suggest is that you post your bot code (in the DNA help forum) and go from there.  Otherwise, it is impossible for us to know what you mean by things such as "the little "herbivore" I've made manages to utterly destroy it every single time".

Motor.On:
Thanks.

I realized that the forums are active right after I posted that and felt a little bad about it, sorry.

I will do that, thanks

Welwordion:
Hmm for the shooting there you could use a tiesnapping gene, basically set the tielength to an insanely large value and the two bots involved shot in opposte directions, that is if there was not any change to the tie phsyics like I know them.(remember there once was a gene for this in the gene depository, do not know if its still there )

fulizer:

--- Quote from: EricL ---The forums are quite active.
--- End quote ---
they don't seem like it in. some subforums the newest post was a post I added four days ago (lasst day of school that thursday   )

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