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Most effective use of poison?

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Numsgil:
Though shots usually take a few cycles to hit their target.  So if you get hit with a shot chances are two or three shots are still incoming.

Moonfisher:
I'd agree with nums, you want to stop the shots first.
After that you COULD go for eye5 or eyef or maybe up. But you can't realy be sure the oponent is depending on those sysvars for essential tasks (If he doesn't turn or such)
So an easier way may be to go straight for the sysvars you know he'll be using, lige refxpos or refvelup (Not sure those are the correct names but you get the idea).
But shoot is a sure thing, he triggered the poison somehow, so he must be using it.
You can also zero out .deltie if you plan on counterattacking with a tie.
Or you can go for key locations like ploc, vloc or memloc. But again if the oponent doesn't use them it's a waste of effort.

You can also fire a venom shot in the direction you got hit from, this would give you more options.

Houshalter:
Maybe make a list of the most used sysvars that would be affected with poison. Then you can have them stored in racial memory and randomly modified every generation. Kind of like fruitflies.

Ta-183:
I always loved fruitflies, brilliant idea that one. I seem to recall that flyfruit had some kind of ability to become infected with foreign viruses and then use them as its own. Anyone care to enlighten me?

And yes, though poison is nice, firing venom in a targeted retaliation does offer far more options for screwing with the attacker. Instead of freezing him, you could get it to run backwards. Not to mention making it aim off to the side and fire its entire store of energy off, but IIRC, that was fixed as it was called a bug.

Houshalter:
You can use venom to but its nice to have a little poison stored up incase your stabed in the back. And since there may be 3 or 4 more shots incoming it would also be nice to have a rotating ploc while you prepare your venom. Which one is only effective on other species? The poison or the venom? Or was it both?

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