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Offline Numsgil

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« Reply #15 on: March 18, 2005, 05:31:45 AM »
Two comments (for my own reference :P)

1. No slime eating bots?  Aww...

2. I was planning on differentiating protein (which could be used to make things like shell, and poison, etc.) and muscle (which specifically increase a bot's abilities.)
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« Reply #16 on: March 18, 2005, 10:27:57 AM »
1. No problem, w can let them eat slime.  I just don't want to bother with it at this point.  The other three are much more important and give me headaches already.

2. I think protein is protein.  You make a stock, then at no cost differentiate it into watever you need.  This is more elegant and true to nature.
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« Reply #17 on: March 18, 2005, 10:29:57 AM »
Some creatures actually specialize in eating slime (I think)

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« Reply #18 on: March 18, 2005, 10:45:41 AM »
Basically, muscle (or protein, whatever you want to call it) taken from other bots needs to be broken down or converted into a form you can use.  By that, I mean that if I eat a huge chunk of cow meat my own muscle doesn't grow right away.  But it does give me the raw materials to make muscle when my body is ready.

That's why I was thinking that muscle <-> protein + nrg.  Then protein is the stock and can be used to make shell, poison, muscle, or whatever.

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« Reply #19 on: March 18, 2005, 11:16:24 AM »
Proteins are a special case.  The reason is that they are custom-built.  Take fats - they just go straight to your fat storage.  Or sugars - straight to wherever they are needed.

For muscle it is:

muscle> am.acid + energy
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« Reply #20 on: March 18, 2005, 11:24:14 AM »
For simplicity we could treat all proteins as the same thing.  Then you build muscle, shell, or whatever from them.  That way you can differentiate a little between the slime making process and the muscle making process.

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« Reply #21 on: March 18, 2005, 11:42:59 AM »
That sounds like a viable approach to me.

These complexities will drive us all insane if we try to model all of them.

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