help....again

[MrMound]

so I had an idea to make a bot that lures its prey into it.  is there a way to make a packet of energy a bot drops stay where it is and not go away.  make the energy like bait so a bot could attack from behind or somthing to that effect.

[Numsgil]

Two ways I'd see to do this:

1.  With the egrid.

2.  With "mines", like I outlined in the "shots stuff" thread in suggestions.

[MrMound]

soo the mines are in the process of being programmed? any ideas how long it will be untill that function is usable

I left right when the e grid was being desigened(or a little after that) so I don't know really what it is or how to use it.  is it in the wiki tutorial somewhere?

[Numsgil]

Both aren't implemented yet.  The ideas in the shots thread need to be discussed and a general concencus reached one way or another.

[MrMound]

ok I guess that bot idea will have to wait then

[Botsareus]

Try making a fast robot that reproduces with less energy , and compicatizes your opponent.

[Numsgil]

compicatizes?  Root word: compicate?  Um....

[Botsareus]

Had to break out microsoft word: Kamikazes

[Numsgil]

Ah.  Should ahve guessed.   :rolleyes:

Bots with english = bad.

Bots with Japanese =  :banghead:

[Numsgil]

How would you Kamikaze another bot, and what does that have to do with luring your prey to you?

[MrMound]

I was kindof wondering that to

[Welwordion]

I think the idea is that you have two different kind children.
Real descandants and baits.

You produce baits, wait near them and  when another bot approaches to eat the bait, the bait weakens the attacker(poison. shots etc) and after the enemy comsumed the bait ,the trapper knows an enemy attacked and comes to finish him of.
thats what I think he means

Or he could mean to produce low energy swarms that can sacrifice most of their members, sacrifice a few so the rest get the big catch.

[MrMound]

so are you saying to make a 2 bot multibot and when one of the bots in the chain gets attaccked make it transfer most of it energy to the other one and make poison,venom, ect. and when the second bot recocnises the other bot is dead it goes in for the kill

[Numsgil]

It wouldn't even need to be a multibot.  You could just have the larger member hide in the corner watching a smaller bot sort of just mvoe around to attract soemthing to eat.  When something too large comes by, the smaller bot asks for help and the larger bot comes to make a meal.

[Numsgil]

Seems overkill now that I think of it though.  Most bots aren't smart enough to see that something is "too large" to eat.  They're kind of dumb that way.