Yeah, I noticed the same thing. Thought about giving viruses a shot, but the complexity made it kind of pointless.
I actually gave up on that method and have been working on developing a truly blind bot and letting it evolve. Currently it's good enough to survive, but I'm trying to use what evolution comes up with to help improve on it. Kind of cool project since it is easier to understand what is occuring and why.
So far it's come up with a several cycle randomized turning, following reproduction, presumably to give the child and parent time to seperate. I'm trying to find a method to make it less canabotistic, possibly useing poison shots(ID non plant) would help.
Is there something wrong with *.shflav and *.shang? They seem to stay at whatever the last value was.
P.S.
Found that eyes(when .view 0 =) stay at 150 past robage 1.