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Houshalter:
Ideally the tentacles would "curl" around food and pull it in into something akin to a stomach but for the moment I just want to get it to grow, move, and get the veggies in the first place.

By the way would a virus be ok if it was shot at a captured veggie. Just to delete all its dna wich might cause it to 'resist', mabey have it do something usefull as well (like move into the stomach on its own or reproduce, etc.)

bacillus:
Preferedly not, unless you've tested it meticulously. Viruses can't be aimed, and once they hit you back they start doing unexpected stuff to you. Viruses tend to be used very rarely out side combat (where they ususally degenerate themselves along) or evosims (I remember somebody, perhaps EricL, got a sim going where bots would shoot a virus containing all their DNA after reproduction as a safeguard against mutations.)
Btw. I just found out I may be called into Wehrplicht in germany, despite living on the other side of the world (quite literally)   . Another mess for me to sort out...

Houshalter:
Thats not good...

bacillus:
Another delightful surprise from the blue. Should be all right tough as long as no-one invades during that time  
Say, is anybody else getting a big lag on this site? Everything else seems to work OK. ATM it's quicker to log out and in again than reload the main page  

Houshalter:
Um, how are they going to know what type of cell they are. Can it/Does it store the type of bot the original cell intended it to be in a epigenetic memory location. And if it does would that be transfered if the birth tie was broken the next cycle by the parent tieing to its kid. Im trying to code the tentacle but It needs to be compatible with the type of cell that spawned it so it knows when its a tentacle cell and then only does tentacle cell things. Im confused about the code you wrote to. Doesn't def work like "Def varname MemoryLocation" and if it does then why do you have:

--- Quote ---'TYPE VARS
def head 0
def spine 1
def tail 2
--- End quote ---
none of those are free vars, are they? Sorry im just not good at figuring things out.

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