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Houshalter:
This is a noob question since im sure someones tried something like this before, but what if we sped up evolution by putting all the best human created bots together in a simulation and forcing them to sexually reproduce. That way all the best genes would mix together and with survival of the fittest the best combination would survive (hopefully). You would just have to get a bunch of bots and change their .repro to .sexrepro and make a veggie that would target bots and fire -8 shots at them. You could make the costs low so the mutant hybrids would have some chance at survival. Mutations would hopefully modify the genes so they work together with each other better, and since its sexual reproduction only, the best genes would be spread through the population quickly. Just wondering if anyones tried anything like that and what the results were.

Numsgil:
I don't think anyone's tried this.  You're welcome to give it a go and see what results.  I imagine most bots are too different from each other to produce viable children, though.

Houshalter:
I did all that and after about 20k cycles all the bots were dead except for a bunch of tie bots. something about there dna lets them produce successful offspring when fertilized by the modified animal_minimalis I used as a veggie. I ran the simulation without the tiebots and the other bots survived for a bit but then all but a small handfull of the bots I had in the sim died. Its something about the competitive nature of the bots. I can't get them to intermingle and combine their dna. I'm going to try some other things like smaller sim sizes. It might also be because I disabled the vision on the vegs to keep them from combining dna from more powerfull bots and wiping out everything.

Pascal666:
You could program a mod for darwinbots that scrambles a gene list, and lets 2 scrambled bots compete with each other, and let the winner compete with a new scrambled bot.

Houshalter:
Sexual reproduction doesn't work at all for some reason. The female doesn't use any of the males dna when she reproduces making it just another form of asexual reproduction. I have another idea though. What if you copied the entire dna of each bot and pasted it at the end of a single bot making one super bot with hundreds of genes from dozens of bots. It wouldn't be very efficient but with mutations in place it could evolve some interesting behaviors.

EDIT: Heres FrankenstienBot in the attachment.

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