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Testlund:
I don't remember. A couple of times I picked the best bots and started a new sim with them. First it was only autotrophs, then I picked two and started two instances, made one to be heterotrophs and the other to be autotrophs, connected with a teleporter. Then Eric broke it. Hehe. Had to edit out code to make them work.
Moonfisher:
I think someone managed to evolve a league bot to get better than the original.
Also you should usualy be able to evolve a bot in some kind of environment where a certain hand authored bot can't survive.
But I think the point is that when you set up a lot of different environments the "flat" bot will be able to adapt to the environment and changes in it, but a specialized hand authored bot with no mutations will only be suited for a few of them and it may die out if the environment changes too much, and it will only break down if it has mutations enabled. A good example of this is that the top bots in the leagues are often the first to break because of an update.
But if you introduce a specialized bot in the right environment it will usualy whipe out any evo bots in it, because there was no time to adapt, like releasing rabits in Australia, the new bot is an outsider and noone knows how to defeat it.
Testlund:
Yeah. My evosim could be compared to a harsh scandinavian climate. Very costly to live in. Then global warming happend and all bots declined and tropical bots started poring in and killing the ones that were left.
EricL:
--- Quote from: Testlund ---Then Eric broke it. Hehe. Had to edit out code to make them work.
--- End quote ---
So sorry! It was that damned relentless march of progress thing....
Testlund:
But it was for the greater good. I'm eager to see what difference there will be running my current evosim compared to the last one.
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