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Bot Tavern / Spider Bot
« on: April 28, 2010, 05:10:12 PM »Quote from: Sammeh
Was contemplating this the other day, making a bot that replicated the behaviour of a spider. IE: set up a web, hide in the corner of the web, wait for something to get caught in said web, kill and eat thing.
Now, obviously bots can't (at the moment *glances at DB3*) produce anything that changes the environment. By that I mean, a bot can't leave behind a trail of slime that other bots stick to. The only way to create a web then would be to create offspring that just tied to other bots that weren't the spiderbot.
Okay, so once that's done, you've got a sticky web. Now you need a way of detecting that something is stuck in the web. The way I was thinking of doing this is having the web cell's refpos be put into tout, so that anything reading tout would know what the cells where seeing. So spiderbot reads tout's, and webbot fills them with refpos and repeats any other touts for other web cells it happens to be connected to, so that the whole web knows when something has been seen.
Kay, so spiderbot knows where food is, food is trapped by ties with the web, then kicks in basic feeding/repro routines.
Penny for your thoughts?
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