how to virus

[MrMound]

could someone tell me how to make a virus that puts this gene into another bot?

cond
*.nrg 1 >=
*.refaimdex 2 =
start
60 .repro store
stop

 :)

[Numsgil]

This post explains it pretty good.

Then you have *.thisgene, which works well in tandem with .mkvirus.

[MrMound]

wich post? :huh:

[Numsgil]

Lol, my mind is going...

This post.

[MrMound]

so if it was gene 6 I wanted in another robot would the virus genes look like this?

start

6 .mkvirus store

stop

cond

.vtimer 0 =

start

-1 .vshoot store

stop

[PurpleYouko]

Not quite

You won't get anywhere with "-1 .vshoot store" since for vshoot, the stored number represents both the range of the virus shot and the energy cost to the originator.
Try something like "50 .vshoot store" to get a reasonable range for your virus. Yes it is expensive. It was designed to be. Making and shooting a virus should not be undertaken lightly.

[MrMound]

so it would look like this?


start

6 .mkvirus store

stop

cond

.vtimer 0 =

start

50 .vshoot store

stop

[PurpleYouko]

That should do it.

Only one problem is that once one of your robots gets hit by one of its own viruses, the chance are that the intended gene (gene 6 that is) probably won't be gene 6 any more so the next virus sent out could be anything.

It gets really messy really fast

[MrMound]

it doesn't work heres my bot and would you see if you see anything wrong with it?

 I mean the virus

[Numsgil]

You have a misspelling.  It's refaimdx, not refaimdex.

Also, and I quote myself in the now pinned virus thread:

vtimer is 1 when there is a virus ready to fire. 0 if there is no virus ready to fire, > 1 if there is still time left to wait.

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[PurpleYouko]

When a robot doesn't work properly and you don't know why, pause the sim, double click the robot and look at its DNA.

Any misspelled words in the code will appear as zeroes because the interpretter cannot recognize them as commands.

This is a really good way to find problems quickly.

[Numsgil]

One more thing:

I strongly urge you to look into Spanish Conquistador's virus.  I kid you not, that thing is a monster.  A monster in its ability to leave SC unscathed.  It's ability to kill off other species (even species with intelligent anti-viral genes).  It's ability to create a self propogating virus that quickly takes over.  It's masterful (if I do say so myself) use of the stack.  It's definately the most deadly virus to date (deadly not because it causes instant kills (tried that, it wasn't as successful) but because it manages to leave the victim going for a few hundred cycles, reproducing like mad and creating new viral particles in each daughter cell).

[Zelos]

sweet :D he used my simple bot to start whit :D

[MrMound]

so  are you saying it should look more like this?

cond
.vtimer 0 =
start
6 .mkvirus store
stop

cond
.vtimer 1 <
start
'donothing
stop

cond
.vtimer 1 =
start
50 .vshoot store
stop

 :)

[Numsgil]

You've got the > and < signs confused, but other than that, yeah, looks good.