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DNA - General / Self Inflicting Virus

« on: November 27, 2006, 07:38:04 PM »

Welcome.  DNA takes a bit of practice, but you should be able to pick it up fairly quickly.

The problem is that you replaced code in the wrong places.  The first gene is the one that fires the virus.  The second one is the actual virus.  Here's what I think you meant to do:
That should do what you want (just replace the 2nd and 3rd genes in your bot with these.

This is a little more stable against viruses infecting your own bots:

Thank you, it makes more sense now.

Sorry if this is a really stupid question, but how do you change values to make the virus fire after you have started a simulation and the virus has been generated?

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DNA - General / Self Inflicting Virus

« on: November 27, 2006, 06:24:42 PM »

Hey, I'm really new to DB and have had a problem making my bot. I basically copied the animal minimalus in the tutorial made to generate viruses, but altered it slightly.  My goal was to make them cause the other bots to reproduce so rapidly that they died, but it seems to infect my own bots right at the start before they can generate the virus. Here is the coding I have for it:

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cond
 *.robage 0 =
start
 7 989 store
stop

cond
 *.vitmer 0 =
start
50 .repro store .mkvirus store
stop

cond
 7 *989 !=
start
 *.thisgene 1 rnd 2 mult -1 add add .delgene store
stop

cond
 *.eye5 0 >
 *.refeye *.myeye !=
start
 *.refveldx .dx store
 *.refvelup 30 add .up store
 50 .vshoot store
stop

cond
 *.eye5 50 >
 *.refeye *.myeye !=
start
-1 .shoot store
 *.refvelup .up store
stop

cond
 *.eye5 0 =
 *.refeye *.myeye = or
start
 314 rnd .aimdx store
stop

cond
 *.nrg 15000 >
start
 30 .repro store
stop
end
Please let me know what I did wrong