Although in the end, we would have to decide whether to keep it as one bot and chuck in all those drawbacks, or keep them separate and risk some species being slaughtered before they latch on to the main organism.
Here's a bit of code I developed while playing around with this idea:
cond
*.numties 8 >
start
.fixpos inc
stop
'not sure if this works...
else
0 .fixpos store
stop
that way, centralised bots can anchor while bots on the fringes go and hunt. This may not seem very efficient, but I thought that if a certain species makes tendrils that seek out food, this could make the whole colony act as a giant fungus (If they thrived, they would look like penicillin!).
