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Velocity, maxvel, mass & like that

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AZPaul:
Let me begin by thanking y'all for all the answers past , present and future. Y'all are all much appreciated.

OK, so let me summarize:  

The maxvel is calculated using cell size and mass of cell and what?

Cell size is what? # bodyfat points? .nrg? amount of poison, venom, waste stored?  Shell value? Is .robage part of the calculation?

Mass is what (yes I know what mass is, but, I mean what does the program take as "mass" determinants)? # bodyfat points? .nrg? amount of poison, venom, waste stored?  Shell value? Is .robage part of the calculation?

My problem is this: My preditor bot starts out maxvel 55 and slowly deteriorates. Makes sense. No Prob. Poor girl gets old, puts on some fat (waste), slows down. So now comes Missy. She is born with maxvel 52? Huh? So I watch and I fiddle (console view) etc. I don't like what I see.

I find lots of Alphas (prey, piece of meat) with about the same amount of energy, same waste accumulation, same age as the predator Delta. I do not use poisons, shells, venoms, body fat, none of that. Maxvel of the lunch is considerably better than for the diner.

Leads to poor diet habits, starvation, hooliganism, grows hair on the palms. All in all, not good form.

Here is a more extreme example, but a true one I assure you:

Delta:  age    615     waste   29     nrg   3315    maxvel  28
Alpha:  age  3644     waste   95     nrg   3295    maxvel  51

Where is Delta's velocity?  Who took it? (Yeh, I know, the Alpha took it. How?)

As I said, I do not use shell, poison, venom, body, etc. etc. etc.  Just plain old shoot and poop.

What other determinants affect maxvel?  DNA length? Bot color? Phase of the moon? Dark energy?

Thank you, again, for your patience.

Let's see now. Some wonderfully interesting and useless bit of trivia.
Ah, I know.

We cannot see planets around other suns in our telescopes but can infer their existance by the wobble a massive planet imposes on its sun. Thing is, we cannot see the sun's wobble with our telescopes either.

What we can see is the light spectra of the distant sun. We infer the wobble by the small slow periodicity of the red/blue shift in the star's spectra over many months. And the raw data of this shifting must be modified by the relative velocity of Earth, away from and toward that distant sun, as we pass through our own orbit over those many months.

Arrivederci, y'all.

-P

Numsgil:
Maxvel is determined soley by body fat and shell (much more by shell than by slime).  Surprise surprise!  All returned food shots contribute a little bit to body.  So that's probably what you're seeing.  If you found 2 bots with seriously different max vels and aboutthe same shell and body, then you'd have found a bug.

Mass too is determined soley by body and shell.

PurpleYouko:
So basically, the older a bot gets without reproducing, the bigger its body fat value gets so the slower it gets.

The returned food shots or energy taken via ties is split approximately 20:1 with 20 going to enrgy and 1 going directly to body.

We have to do it this way or all the robots end up with zero body and babies start to go POOF as soon as they are born due to being given no body at all during birth.

If you want to keep your predator's speed up through out its life just add a gene to spend down body points when they get above a certain level. Something like this.


--- Code: ---cond
*.body 1000 >
start
100 .fdbody store
stop
--- End code ---

AZPaul:
Oh, you two wonderful people. DB wizards. I thank you, Delta thanks you. Alpha doesn't care for you at the moment, though.

-P

PurpleYouko:

--- Quote ---Alpha doesn't care for you at the moment, though.
--- End quote ---

Well  :P  to Alpha then!

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