I think that we should make the queen build a nest with tiny bots, like proposed in
this thread. They would be fixed.
They would shoot any enemy bot with 1/3 of their total energy in .shootval.
Then we wouldn't have to restrict the preybots to a part of the screen, any preybots coming close to the nest will be killed.
I think we should also make the preybots run away terrified whenever they see these guardians. Perhaps make them store the x,y pos of the nest in their out/in and racial memory, and avoid the area around it.
We could perhaps later on make each queen store a random number in the racial memory. This would make two different queen's bots attack each other. Then we could add another bot the Bodyguard. They're armed very well (venom, poison, shell etc.). Their work is to defend the hive from enemy wraithbots.
Perhaps we could make another bot which job is to store energy. Then whenever a bot runs low on energy, especially the minebots, they could come and get some from the store with ties or shots.
Just throwing around lots of ideas here. Tell me what you think.
Martian
PS. I'd like to help, Could someone please deal me in?