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Greven:
Very nice idea Shvarz...

shvarz:
Let's establish a moratorium on development of biological, chemical and nuclear weapons in F1 :)

I don't see why viruses necessarily have to be used as a weapon.  They can be used just for evolution purposes (you just wait, I'm sure someone will figure out how to use them as weapons :)  )

Numsgil:
Well, the fact that they have been used as a weapon.

See, I have this nice rock-paper-scissors attack to defense system that's nice and balanced.  If viruses aren't used as a weapon, then that leaves a hole in my nice little table.

Endy:

--- Quote ---We should not just introuce functionality, we need to come up with general rules. Viruses are not something special, they are normal cellular processes gone wrong. So what we need are normal DNA commands that can be used for normal bot function, but also for making virus. Then they will be on equal grounds and different exploits and counter-exploits can be developed.
--- End quote ---

I was kind of thinking something like this could be done with continual shots, but they can't really make/replicate multiple copies or carry all the information required to reproduce themselves(.shootval). I was originally hoping this would be something like RNA, but we'd need the ability to store way more info into the shots.

I think the SG bots would be more amenable for use with a code snippet virus than normal bots. Maybe have the virus be equally likely to find itself in an active gene as in the junk dna.

I'd like if the bots could also have other retrolife inside their dna. For us these seem to be benneficial in introducing new slight mutations, instead of massive radiation or reproductivly caused ones.

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