Designed complex behaviour bots

[Ammeh]

This may just be my fail-coding, but it seems to me that designed complex behaviour bots rarely survive.

I've been playing with Jeffalish, trying to get it to survive long enough to evolve and adapt, and I'm not getting anywhere :|

It just seems like the best bots are those that have simple behaviour, which evolves into more complex things.

Thoughts? (and also advice, I want my jeffalish to livvveee  )

[ikke]

Complex bots have much code. With equal mutation rates they will have more mutations than simple ones. Survival of the least defective is the result. I typically set the global mutation rates to 1/32 and increase the individual scores (5000->50000). This slowes muation rates giving naural selection the time to select for better fitness before other mutations occur.

[Billy]

Also, disable point mutations. They may be realistic, but they do nothing for evolution.

[bacillus]

Jeffalish? I can't find it in the bestiary...

[Ammeh]

http://www.darwinbots.com/Forum/index.php/topic,3443.0.html

right here