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Sprotiel:
Interesting! Physics at low Reynolds number is definitely weird. This might be an interesting option, though I don't really know how to program it.

However, I know that the environment could be anything but fluid friction has the advantage that there is a physical maximum velocity (well, depending on the force created by the bot...) To me, this feels better than having an artificial cap.

PurpleYouko:
There is no artificial cap on velocity any more.

Velocity is interdependant on the mass of the robot, moving factor, friction and a few other things. That is why we have the sysvar *.maxvel. This is different for every bot rather than a fixed value of about 40 like it used to be.

Agreed that we need some serious improvement in evolution. There have been some fairly major changes in the last year or so but you just can't see them at first glance.

The ultimate aim is to blur the line between veggies and animals so that it will be possible to have aspects of both. Read some of the threads on enzymes in the suggestions forum for an idea of where we are trying to go.

Sprotiel:
Well... the artificial cap is on momentum, not velocity. It's not fundamentally different.
I'll try to make concrete suggestions when I understand the code better.

A question: how can I get the latest version of the code?

PurpleYouko:
Well momentum is just mass times velocity so the only cap possible is due to the physical constraints of mass getting too big.
The main problem is that we currently use single variables for robot memory locations which limits all values that are read directly to the sysvars, to about 32000.

Numsgil:
The almost current code should be on the FTP as 2.36.5.  The changes that PY and I have made since are incredibly minor, so much so that it hasn't even warrented a release.

So whatever you can figure out in the 2.36.5 code should hold true for everyone.

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