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Potential Benefits of Bot Altruism

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SlyStalker:
What I mean is would it be helpful to your species is some of the 'well-off' bots shared their energy with the weaker bots to help them survive too?

Numsgil:
There isn't much cost to reproducing, so if a bot has extra energy it probably makes more sense to reproduce and make a new critter instead of trying to save an existing bot (maybe it'll reciprocate in the future, maybe it won't).

You could definitely build a sim with a species that did this, but I would expect the sharing "gene" to break after several generations.

SlyStalker:
what about in a competitive match?? and what if its only a small percentage of the giving bot's energy?

Numsgil:
It might make sense in a competitive match.  You'd have to try it and see if it's worth it or not.

SlyStalker:
When I try it, energy particles go flying everywhere! D: Then I set it so that they only fire -2 particles at point-blank range but then they don't fire at all!  :sad:

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