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hdggDalton:
Hey lads it's been a while. The last simulation i was running got corrupted somehow and i wasn't able to continue it so i started a new simulation by bringing over the bots from the corrupted save (for some reason it wouldnt run but i could still select and save the bots) and plonking them down in the new simulation. The conditions here are even more harsh with a cost of 5 every cycle just to stay alive. Well it turns out i forgot to disable chloroplasts so at some point some bots evolved into being plants and slowly took over the map. The only thing keeping them somewhat under control is the 100 million energy limit that turns it to night time whenever it goes above that, but they don't seem to be dying out even though i've been reducing the sunlight energy and doubling the cost to make chloroplasts.
There's still a small population of the original mobile bots around, but they're struggling to survive on the original chloroplasts that are being repopulated once in a while and maybe the occasional corpse of a dead plant bot because they simply refuse to eat the plant bots. They earlier (like way before the plant bots became a thing) evolved a behavior where whenever they see someone from the same species they run backwards while shooting at them. Very good at avoiding and fighting against cannibalism, and it still serves that purpose because bots that don't do that often just eat their own children. But at this point so many of the plant bots genomes related to shooting have degraded so much because they don't need that to survive (actually this behavior would be disastrous for plant bots because they're usually so heavy that they can't move away from their children and end up eating them) that they're totally incapable of shooting, so they don't pose a threat despite their massive size. There just needs to be some way for the mobile bots to be able to eat the plant bots while still avoiding cannibalism and they will absolutely wipe the floor with them
heres the dna of a mobile bot with 39 descendants
--- Code: --- substore
cond
ceil -1435 *.refeye *.myaimdx <
start
angle
'''''''''''''''''''''''' Gene: 1 Ends at position 9 '''''''''''''''''''''''
'''''''''''''''''''''''' Gene: 2 Begins at position 10 '''''''''''''''''''''''
start
.up addstore
false
*.eye6 <
-6 .shoot store
div *342 dup -92 *-323 *.eye5 =
<< <=
dropbool
anglecmp ~ store
root clear 415 *.kills 216 277 | 570 .aimright floorstore
*.nrg stop
'''''''''''''''''''''''' Gene: 2 Ends at position 43 '''''''''''''''''''''''
'''''''''''''''''''''''' Gene: 3 Begins at position 44 '''''''''''''''''''''''
start
true
31852 >
pyth 344 .repro store
<<'''''''''''''''''''''''' Gene: 3 Ends at position 52 '''''''''''''''''''''''
--- End code ---
and heres the dna of a plant bot with 17 descendants
--- Code: ---
cond
sqr 614 -1458 *.myaimdx start
angle
'''''''''''''''''''''''' Gene: 1 Ends at position 7 '''''''''''''''''''''''
'''''''''''''''''''''''' Gene: 2 Begins at position 8 '''''''''''''''''''''''
start
.up addstore
xor
*.eye6 <
-88 -6 xor
.shoot store
*.refup dup *493 -25 & *-323 *500 =
<=
dropbool
sqr & store
*-813 5 .mkchlr floorstore
*.nrg stop
'''''''''''''''''''''''' Gene: 2 Ends at position 37 '''''''''''''''''''''''
'''''''''''''''''''''''' Gene: 3 Begins at position 38 '''''''''''''''''''''''
cond
31138 >
pyth 344 300 start
store
<<'''''''''''''''''''''''' Gene: 3 Ends at position 46 '''''''''''''''''''''''
--- End code ---
Numsgil:
I'm glad you're still running simulations. I find your results really interesting.
For the mobile bots, their genome is mostly trashed at this point, except they've conserved the ability to eat ('-6 .shoot store') and reproduce ('344 .repro store'), which makes sense since otherwise you aren't going to produce any children.
Likewise the plants genome is mostly junk except for '5 .mkchlr floorstore', which allows it to make chloroplasts.
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