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Numsgil:
Define a rule set that would fix these problems.

There isn't anything stopping a mother and child from physically eating each other.  There are some insects, etc. that will eat their young.  If a bot is stupid enough to eat its babies, who are we to say it can't?

Likewise with reproducing non stop.

If it's a bad behavior, it will die out.  If it's a good behavior, it'll stick around.

Chweck out Enitor Comesum (or is it comesum enitor...) in the beastiary.  It's a cannibot where the children have to fight their parents and siblings since their first waking moment.

PurpleYouko:
Why not use the scripts to help prevent it.

Griz:

--- Quote ---Why not use the scripts to help prevent it.
--- End quote ---
ah! scripts.
how? and what scripts can be used to do what?
some examples?

another question:
could one design a particular bot ...
put an instruction in the DNA ...
to have it die off after a certain age?
and if so ... could this be made a variable?
something that could be altered from the program, a setting or script?

Numsgil:
You can insert such a thing into the bots' DNA, but it will probably quickly evolve to break it.  Evolution is really good at breaking certain parts of the DNA, it's among the first things it "tries".

Scripts I haven't much played with to be honest, they're primarily PY's baby.

Endy:

--- Quote ---You can insert such a thing into the bots' DNA, but it will probably quickly evolve to break it. Evolution is really good at breaking certain parts of the DNA, it's among the first things it "tries".
--- End quote ---

Sure, it's only logical. For further evolution the bots have to break any restrictions.  More or less the bots are asexual so one bot's evolution has to occur at the expense of all others. One bot will break it first and then replace/destroy the others that have the restrictive genes. The same thing is commonly seen with Canni's.

I normally just use restricive or specific genes with the knowledge that evolution will come along and break them in sucessive generations. Normally something like:

--- Code: ---'Last Gene
cond
*.robage 10000 >
start
.delgene inc
stop
--- End code ---

works best. I've deliberatly tried restricting mutations with a dnalen restriction, and evolution still wins out. :)

They really like using the new flip mutation to do break them for some reason. I think it makes it easier, since it is more likely to affect more dna.

I don't know if we should call such behavior cancerous, technically the vegs are just playing the system. Evolution is "telling" them that the cost of attempting to reproduce is les than the penalties.

Basically the vegs are restricted by veggie population size and total veggie nrg. Since they can expand their total population size by continually reproducing it's better if they do. Increasing the total size decreases the chance of any specific vegie from being eaten. If they're being eaten this depletes total nrg and is again a good time to try and reproduce.

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