You know what, your ideas got me wondering....
I was thinking the folowing, what if a virus forced a sexrepro, in such a way..
That it gives any species the option for sexrepro, vegies and other animals..
Basicly even sexrepro in nature was invented once too, so thats not that strange.
Since its a form of replication a good change it think it will stay to exist. (depends on factors of virus spreading).
Since only the best mutations stay alive this might be a positive presure on DB evolution.
So a virus not killing the species, but maybe as a last resort infect another species with DNA pairs of its host who allow sexrepro.
These days in bioligy have noticed that sideways DNA mutations do happen (for example from a muscito to a human or plant).
It might not do much in the beginning, but the virus could only exist and multiply if it hosts also includes his DNA.
Maybe the plants reproduction method also uses only this virus
The virus not as an atacking mechanism as it is generaly used, but as a vehicle who exchanges DNA between species.
In origin the DNA could be plant based as origin.
But in the end even the plants might get updates trough DNA exchange.
Maybe the virus should only fire once or twice, maybe not even based on *.nrg level, but rather a few times based on a large cycle; like :
cond
*.botage 1500 mod 1498 >
start
...
Well better do that in a non Cond form in form like a single gene bot.. but above is more easy to explain
it might be more complex since infected bots should shoot this gene also to other bots (eye5) so they get forced into sexrepro too.
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ohyour question ***>> wel basicly most algey use *.nrg as a conditional selector for .repro;
by not using it the chance is lower that it will ever happen based on that.
Its a factor of chance too, even if .repro starts to exist or .mrepro; it still (since its random DNA) not be optimal tuned.
dough I have not done any viruses yet.