mutation: unconditional reproduction

[EnderCrypt]

mutations... fun.. except when a bot gets the idea to, whitout a condition, reproduce, xD

the simulation speed drops, and yeah... so i was wondering, is there a way to have like.. custom script or anything, to kill a bot, when a bot gets like.. below 50 energy?

i hope im not missing an obvious solution or anything, xD
thanks for taking your time, reading

[Botsareus]

add some costs and enable "nearly kill robots who are greedy to kids" in global settings. The latter one should take care of parents initially trying to reproduce that way. The first one should kill very small robots. There is no perfect solution, sorry.

[EnderCrypt]

ah, ok.. problem is, im running a zero simulation.. thing.. and i got cost turned off, just cause of that.... ill just turn up the age cost for a short time, to kill them, thanks anyways

btw, hows the development of darwinbots2 going?

[Numsgil]

Note that reproducing cancerously is one of the first steps in zerobot evolution, so you don't want to curtail it too much.

You could try turning on "brownian motion", assuming it still works.  That'll break up clumps of bots, which should make the physics engine faster.  But if most of the cost is in DNA execution, there's not much you can do.

[Botsareus]

Numsgil, I make mistakes but why would I break something that was working? If it is not broken do not fix it, I hope.
Also, I am adapting your tests first philosophy, so you should hopefully see less broken code from me from now on.

[EnderCrypt]

hm, ok, and where is the "brownian motion" options?

[Botsareus]

See picky