Veggie waste feeding

[Welwordion]

Just a thought but you also could implement an enzyme system that works as following:
To produce an enyzme you need a certain amount of energy lets say 5 and you can store up to 500 enzymes. Every enzyme enables you to convert 10 units per cycle of a certain type of food into energy.
However enzymes itself are related to a certain food type such 1 enzyme destroys
1 enzyme per cycle that is related to the food type they digest(without the gain of energy)

Such with 100 enzymes of type X that digest type Y, 10 Y that digest type Z
and 40 Z that digest X
after one round you only would have: 60X 0Y 30Z

and after 2 more rounds  0X 0Y 30Z

[Numsgil]

We could do it that way.  In fat, there are like 100 different ways we could do it, and none of them would be necessarily more or less correct than another.  Which is what the problem is.  How do we decide?

[shvarz]

That's easy - you ask me and then do as I say :)

[PurpleYouko]

:P

[Numsgil]

How about all methods up for consideration must be largely based on something else that's already been done or at least discussed in a scientific paper somewhere?  I can comb through some ALife and A Chemistry archives and see what I come up with.

This way we aren't just randomly comming up with solutions that sound good to us.

I'll go reread that link shvarz gave a few months back...

[Endy]

Whenever we come to a consensus on all the methods, we could just hold a vote on which is the "best" out of them all.

With a waste to nrg conversion method ou could make a waste feeder of a sort. The waste TF would allow you to feed off other bots' waste and convert your own waste back into food. Would still be limited in nrg like PY said just because there's only so much waste to go around.

(Is it just my imagination or is this place really active all the sudden :) )

[Numsgil]

No, its gearing up for the release of 2.4.  It's been sort of dead while I sat on my hands for the last few months.

Speaking of which, damn there are alot of bugs I need to fix!  At least I know how to fix them all.

[Botsareus]

How about we just make the avrage method. (I did not say I know how to avrage them correctly)

[Numsgil]

You mean with ties?  I think I've figured that out.  I have an equation anyway, I still have to check o see what it does.