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Trying to evolve symbiosis

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Ammeh:
Well, I had to force it a bit, but I may have sort of maybe almost got it

Keep an eye out for MultiSimBiot-unfinished on IM. It should latch onto plants, branch out, catch other bots and make them part of the network. Tested it with HSLiteSammeh(the original) and it worked fairly well. I don't know if it's symbiosis in it's truest sense, but the captured bot gets a share of the energy of the whole network, as well as a free load of shell.

EDIT: Scratch that. HSLS is not playing nice

Numsgil:
That's always the danger with cooperation.  All it takes is once cheater and the system is ruined.  That's why I think you'll find more success if you run separate sims and mix them occassionally.  Each sim is essentially competing against the other ones.  So cheaters prosper only in the local sim, then die out when they're invaded from another sim.

Houshalter:
Well if they're truly interdendent on each other then there will be strong selection pressures against cheaters. My idea is to have one bot that can't reproduce on its own and another that can't feed on its own. The second will shoot memory shots to make it reproduce (or do it through ties), as well as provide other functions so it doesn't become useless if the other learns how to reproduce. The other functions could be like waste management, body/energy management (done through ties), making venom shell, poison, etc...

By the way, every so often a weird bot pops up in my sim and gradually dies but never becomes extinct. Theres always one or two struggling in an enviroment built against them. Some of these are your bots by the way...

Ammeh:
Oh? What species are they?

Houshalter:
Well, I was wrong, they all died execept for alga_minimalis, AlgaHairy3, Tibbles first Bot, andat one time a fruit fly was living on its own. I was also visited by your multiSimbiot and your evolved HSLS but both died after a while. Then there was "First", Sentinel 3, and PlantSimbiot.

Anyways is anyone else connected. Everytime I look at it it says im the only one on, but then I get swarmed with nonNative species.

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