Bots and Simulations > Mutations
Swimy(F1)(Darwinbots)4-11-2016
spike43884:
--- Quote from: Botsareus on April 24, 2016, 05:10:03 PM ---The only difference between this and my 3 month version is I do not fittest or handycap for body. Plus the fix for CopyError and CopyError2 that was minor.
I decided to get rid of body because of big birthas and robots like fruitfly benefit from having as little body as possible.
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Tiny changes make big impacts. E.G. Charity, or Trigonometry, or Politics/Law.
Also, When you say you decided to get rid of body....do you mean you've removed body from DB (because it was quite a fun thing to utilize).
Next we might as well remove viruses because some robots benefit from having viruses to shoot at other bots :P
Botsareus:
No, body is still there. I am just experimenting with not having body in fitness calc. so population is favored more.
I actually do not mind viruses because after talking to a med student and some proofs of concept we figured out that viruses could be beneficial to evolution. They are like a cheap way to do sexrepro. But if you hate them that much you can always run F2 settings. A note that you can not tie feed in F2 though.
spike43884:
--- Quote from: Botsareus on April 25, 2016, 12:36:48 PM ---No, body is still there. I am just experimenting with not having body in fitness calc. so population is favored more.
I actually do not mind viruses because after talking to a med student and some proofs of concept we figured out that viruses could be beneficial to evolution. They are like a cheap way to do sexrepro. But if you hate them that much you can always run F2 settings. A note that you can not tie feed in F2 though.
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Surely in fitness calc factoring in body is beneficial, (same for league victory determination), as you could have so to speak a "tank", or really fat, strong bot, which would lose against 10 smaller weaker cancerous bots in the calculations.
Botsareus:
[Bump]
I need a couple more days to figure it out. Maybe you are right Spike.
edit: A note that leagues are strictly based on population. And that is really the main idea behind this change. Can you show me any 'Tanks' on top of the leader board? :sarcastic:
Small robots working together are always stronger than large robots working alone. When you finally figure out fruitfly code you will understand what I mean.
spike43884:
--- Quote from: Botsareus on April 27, 2016, 10:47:31 AM ---[Bump]
I need a couple more days to figure it out. Maybe you are right Spike.
edit: A note that leagues are strictly based on population. And that is really the main idea behind this change. Can you show me any 'Tanks' on top of the leader board? :sarcastic:
Small robots working together are always stronger than large robots working alone. When you finally figure out fruitfly code you will understand what I mean.
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Theoretically speaking, if a tank was made strong enough. It could be 'better'. It would still lose though, but its more to do with the bias probably effecting bots ranking in the middle of the leaderboard (say 6th, or 10th place).
It could also mean that a slightly less small bot than fruitflies, might possibly top fruitflies (and it generally adds a new element of mystery to the results, I think everyone knows that fruitflies will always win unless some of the mechanics change).
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