so... we meet again

[Commander Keen]

I've implemeted a similar method to what Moonfisher suggested in Astronomo v2. It feeds of veggies by causing them to suicide all their energy in one giant shot which is (hopefully) directed at my bot. Sadly it doesn't work extremely well, and the veggie's body is wasted entirely, but the code causes havoc with other bots trying to feed off veggies, and it looks pretty silly too. And it leaves enough room for improvement in version 2.1...

[bacillus]

I'd consider this the best method:
1-Fix other bots to place by randomly firing a self-replicating fixing virus
2-If the bot is fixed, shoot venom at it
3-Using .memloc, find out if bot is .paralyzed. If it is, shoot at it to force devastating nrg shot

[Commander Keen]

I want to keep it F2-legal, since F2 doesn't have the really nasty bots like Pacifist, Etch and Fruitflies....
Also viruses aren't exactly the fastest and most reliable way, since you can't aim viruses and it takes time and energy to spread them.

[bacillus]

You can always use an info shot or something to the same effect.
By the way, does .shootval default to 0? I think that .shoot .shoot could be very funny.

[Commander Keen]

I don't think shootval is reset...
.shoot .shoot is quite nasty  

[bacillus]

So, did the -2 instakill work?

[Commander Keen]

Yes.

[bacillus]

I got something better to work: the MB league; turns out the MB league defaults to the F2 league. Sadly, most MBots are either made by me or really old, so the standard of competition might allow Animal Multi to come very high.