Hi everyone
I'm new to posting here, but I've been using DB, and browsing the forum, for the last couple of months. I'm currently trying to set up a basic predator-prey system using modified versions of the Animal_Minimalis_Connubialis. The idea is to have two populations of mobile robots- one population serving as predator, one as prey- with repopulating Alga_Minimalis as food for the prey organisms. The issue I have been encountering is that the predators, who are necessarily more sparse and have slower breeding times, keep getting impregnated by the prey. This leads to offspring that are ostensibly predator robots, but act like the prey. This problem is self-solving to a certain point, as the predators often eat these offspring, but it wastes the resources of the parent organisms and alters the overall dynamic to an unacceptable degree. I am wondering if anyone has a good technique for avoiding this, short of making one species asexual. I have already altered the DNA of both organisms so that they should not seek to breed with each other, and the prey has been designed to flee from the predators, but I think that the predator robots are getting hit by stray sperm shots when they get too close to the prey while they are having their reproduction orgies lol
Thanks for any help. And my apologies if this question has been asked before. I checked through older threads but didn't see anything on this topic