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Sprotiel:
And the third is mine. I've looked at the code but I don't really understand the logic. Why are robots of the same species immune to venom? IMHO, species is only a convenient label but shouldn't have any in-game effect.

Carlo:

--- Quote ---IMHO, species is only a convenient label but shouldn't have any in-game effect.
--- End quote ---
I totally agree

PurpleYouko:
Venom initially effected all robots but it very quickly became apparent that it was utterly useless as a weapon when it effected friends and enemies alike.

Besdies, species being immune to their own venom is hardly a new idea.

Th Komodo Dragon has such a weapon. It is actually more a concoction of deadly bacteria than true venom but the concept remains the same. A dragon is immune to venom from another dragon.

Likewise the different animals (of the same species) that make up many jelly fishes such as the portugese man-o-war, are imune to the stings of other nematocysts in the same, and other, comunal structures.

Sea slugs are not only immune to poison and venom from others of their own species (and often other species too), but they use the venom that they ingest to defend themselves.

The same is true all over the animal kindom so why should DB be any different?

Anyway, was the question, how to actually use venom in DB or was it just simply a comment about un/realisticness of it. (I think that may be a completely new word  :D )

Sprotiel:
I'm sorry but I find your explanation contradictory with the premise of DB. If animal species tend to be immune to their own venom (I think it's not the case for scorpions, by the way), it's because they have evolved so. Actually, I suppose they have either co-evolved their efficiency at producing venom and their immunity or become immune and then started producing venom. Anyway, DB is not about sea slugs fighting each other, it's about evolution, sea slugs being only one of the (hopefully) possible results.

Carlo:
Again, I agree. If some or many species are immune to their own poison it's because they evolved this feature. Some others don't.
So, if the point with poison is that it is useless unless it is innocuous to conspecifics, then - if you want to keep it - you have to redesign it in such way that organisms can evolve poisons, and evolve immunity to that poisons. Just deciding that organisms which share the same filename on your hard disk are immune to each other's poison, is a too quick and too dirty solution.

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