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Hi! Kerian Valentine here. I stumbled across A-Life about four years ago, but I lost most of my programs when my laptop up and died (foul thing). Running along Wikipedia in a fit of boredom, I discovered DarwinBots.
My old hobby flared up again, and I quickly downloaded the program, started messing with it, et cetera. (I've had sims running for over fourty hours to date!)
Well, about a day ago, I had the crazy idea to load one of my already-running sims in a new window, with a maximized mutation rate.
Autosaving every fifteen minutes as "Mutie_Peak," the program continued on to the next morning as I enjoyed a good, long sleep.
When I come downstairs, I find that all but one of them is dead. I quickly save its DNA and run through the sequence, checking for what was missing.
Sure enough, it was the reproduction genes.
Figuring I could add them later, I went onto the WikiManual and found the Viruses.
"Hey," I said, "This code that says it changes them into sorta zombies sounds pretty spiffy!" (Internal dialogue more complicated than that =P)
I hurriedly tapped it in, along with a reproduction code...
...fired up the simulation....
...five Mutie_Peaks, five Algae_Minimalis, five C_Ancestralis (I like seeing what they evolve into when they survive, and for some reason, they tend to).
Hit play.
About fifty seconds later, the 'Born' rate has gone up to...
2400.
I'm staring at my screen, watching five massive colonies - they could be cancers or something! - of bots, all tied together because I didn't put in the "Cut Birthtie" set.
And I'm thinking, "what in the heck did I do wrong?"
I'm hoping there's a way to at least cap the population, because it quickly reduces the program to the point where it can't even run, in Flicker and Fast mode without graphics.
If not, well, is there a way to at least fix this virus issue?
Edit: Full file is now attached - run it in a simulation with only one bot and five veggies, and see what happens.
Edit #Whatever:
Would it be possible to create a bot - one that would probably require untold amounts of energy - to continually reproduce, solidify the ties, force a reproduction from its child, and then inject the child with the virus listed on the WikiManual (this virus turns infected bots into zombielike conspecs)? Essentially, I'm thinking it would create a single colony with a massive set of 'dead' or catatonic ties.
My old hobby flared up again, and I quickly downloaded the program, started messing with it, et cetera. (I've had sims running for over fourty hours to date!)
Well, about a day ago, I had the crazy idea to load one of my already-running sims in a new window, with a maximized mutation rate.
Autosaving every fifteen minutes as "Mutie_Peak," the program continued on to the next morning as I enjoyed a good, long sleep.
When I come downstairs, I find that all but one of them is dead. I quickly save its DNA and run through the sequence, checking for what was missing.
Sure enough, it was the reproduction genes.
Figuring I could add them later, I went onto the WikiManual and found the Viruses.
"Hey," I said, "This code that says it changes them into sorta zombies sounds pretty spiffy!" (Internal dialogue more complicated than that =P)
I hurriedly tapped it in, along with a reproduction code...
...fired up the simulation....
...five Mutie_Peaks, five Algae_Minimalis, five C_Ancestralis (I like seeing what they evolve into when they survive, and for some reason, they tend to).
Hit play.
About fifty seconds later, the 'Born' rate has gone up to...
2400.
I'm staring at my screen, watching five massive colonies - they could be cancers or something! - of bots, all tied together because I didn't put in the "Cut Birthtie" set.
And I'm thinking, "what in the heck did I do wrong?"
I'm hoping there's a way to at least cap the population, because it quickly reduces the program to the point where it can't even run, in Flicker and Fast mode without graphics.
If not, well, is there a way to at least fix this virus issue?
Edit: Full file is now attached - run it in a simulation with only one bot and five veggies, and see what happens.
Edit #Whatever:
Would it be possible to create a bot - one that would probably require untold amounts of energy - to continually reproduce, solidify the ties, force a reproduction from its child, and then inject the child with the virus listed on the WikiManual (this virus turns infected bots into zombielike conspecs)? Essentially, I'm thinking it would create a single colony with a massive set of 'dead' or catatonic ties.