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Viral Mutation? RESOLVED 2.43.1d

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googlyeyesultra:
I've noticed that on occasion, in a sim with every bot being mutation-disabled, a spreading virus can sometimes mutate, always in my experience being the first bp (which, also, is always a cond, don't know which it is connected to). This is changed to a 0, which makes me believe that the word cond is somehow being corrupted and the interpreted is reading the unknown word as a zero. I am using the latest buddy drop, although I recall this happening in earlier versions. I haven't tested this with the sim-wide mutations disabled. Furthermore, the only mutation registered in the mutations dialogue area is the viral infection itself, so I don't think actually mutation code is being run (and if it was, it wouldn't happen in the same place and way every time.)

Tell me if you need more info.

fulizer:
that is very intesting I still cant get any of the buddy drops working so I will never tsee this for myself.
just as a noob idea maybye the reproduction gene on the origonal virus bot has mrepro on it causing them to mutate anyway. I have never used this so it may not be the case.

googlyeyesultra:
No, there's no mrepro in any of the bots. Furthermore, I'm assuming that it isn't the mutation routine kicking in, seeing as how there isn't an extra mutation in the mutation history section, and this always happens in the first bp (always a cond) of the virus.

Numsgil:
Cond is represented in the program as two numbers, one of which is 0.  What must be happening is that the type of that first bp is being corrupted and the program is interpreting it as a number, in this case 0 (start would be interpreted as a 1 if it were interpreted as a number).

EricL:
Havn't foudn a smoking gun, but 2.43.1d makes some changes to virus insertion for perf reasons, maintaining a dna length instead of recalculating it.    May have picked this one up.  It als fixes a problem where slime can be made at virus insertion time.

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