Author Topic: Its a bot-eat-bot world out there...  (Read 4056 times)

Offline EricL

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« on: January 13, 2008, 12:43:09 PM »
I think it's curious that CostX in my IM sims has been zero for quite a long time.  I don't know whether it's the difficulty in catching veggies such as shrinking violet or the effectiveness of macro preditors such as Lionfish 7, but the populations have been self regulating without costs for days and days...
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« Reply #1 on: January 13, 2008, 01:11:33 PM »
Probably macro predators would try always to push the sim to lower costs. They have more to gain than bots with lesser consumption. Then, when they are at even level about costs, they get the full advantage from their 'weaponry'.

I've been off IM several days. If there's any LF7 still alive, I'll try to catch one and see what changed.
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« Reply #2 on: January 13, 2008, 01:35:14 PM »
Woah! Sim populations sure got small!
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« Reply #3 on: January 13, 2008, 02:04:18 PM »
I'm not sure why, but I think this sort of self-regulation is an indication of ecosystem health.

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« Reply #4 on: January 13, 2008, 02:28:23 PM »
Meh, I started a sim with 'anemone' veggies only, but I'm not receiving any bot.

Also, LF7 graph is doing weird things. It was at 100 a while ago, then jumped to 300, then spiked to 1000.
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« Reply #5 on: January 13, 2008, 04:22:41 PM »
Quote from: MacadamiaNuts
Also, LF7 graph is doing weird things. It was at 100 a while ago, then jumped to 300, then spiked to 1000.
Every once in an LF7 ballistically reproduces.  Mutatutions....

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Meh, I started a sim with 'anemone' veggies only, but I'm not receiving any bot.
All of my sims have large shapes.  The IM teleporter doesn't respect shapes so while it is inside them, no bots get sent from that sim.  Thus it is not uncommon for my sims to go an hour or two or more without teleporting anything out for this reason...
« Last Edit: January 13, 2008, 04:24:59 PM by EricL »
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