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Newbie / Hello.

« on: April 07, 2005, 11:49:03 AM »

Ok, I'm uploading the (probably) final version of Igni. I added body, slime, and poison at robage 1 and it refreshes when the bot chases. Unless there are any major bugs or problems, this is going to be the version I'm entering into the Shortbots League.

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Newbie / Hello.

« on: April 06, 2005, 12:15:08 PM »

Ok, I tested Igni out with the new DNA in the F1 League, and it got destroyed by tie-feeders. I decided I'm going to make Igni a tie feeder too. I attached the new DNA to my post. I typed this up during break at school, so some periods and stops might be missing. Again, any help sorting out the DNA and advice is greatly appreciated.

I was looking through the tips and hints forum and saw the "using ties cheaply" post. Does the number reset to zero when the tie is broken or does it keep going up. Also, I know there's a way to transfer info and genes to other bots through ties, but I don't know the method. Can someone explain to me how to do that?

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Newbie / Hello.

« on: April 04, 2005, 10:15:42 PM »

It works now! :D  But only some of the time! :(

I was able to create a working virus. I thought about what you said about setting .nrg to zero, and realized that I could trick robots into reproducing. The effect the virus has is very cool looking, and nearly crashed my computer once.

The problem is that the virus doesn't always work. Most of the time nothing happens except the infected robot just shoots off viruses. Also, it once created a super I Venia. I  tried the robot out in F1 challenge, and beat Flamma and Perservans. I won one match against Venia, and the second round came down to a single Venia. The robots kept ganging up on the Venia, but kept getting destroyed. After about 30 minutes and still no end. I checked the Venia's health and saw that it now had 30000+ life and 213 genes. For some reason the 0.5 in the virus had switched to 0, so the Venia kept gathering life without any way for me to kill it.

Anyway, thank you for the help. I attached my new robot

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Newbie / Hello.

« on: April 04, 2005, 12:08:06 PM »

I found this program about a week ago, and I became interested in the league competition. I read some of the tutorials and I decided to make a short-bot. I'm posting the DNA here.

'Malificus Minimus

' Gene 1 Catch
cond
  *.eye5 0 >
  *.refeye *.myeye !=
start
  *.refveldx .dx store
  *.refvelup 40 add .up store
stop

' Gene 2 Eat Vegs
cond
  *eye5 40 >
  *refeye 0 =
start
  -1 .shoot store
  *.refvelup 5 add .up store

' Gene 3 Infect Enemies
  *.eye5 40 >
  *.refeye 0 >
  *.refeye *.myeye !=
start
  0 .nrg store
  *.thisgene .mkvirus store
  40 .vshoot store
stop

' Gene 4 Avoid/Search
cond
  *.eye5 0 =
  *.refeye *.myeye =
start
  471 rnd .aimdx store
stop

' Gene 5 Reproduce
cond
  *nrg 8000 >
start
  50 .repro store
stop

end

The Catch and Avoid/Search genes and part of the Eat Vegs gene were taken from Animalis Minimis. My main question is about the virus. I haven't had the time to test it, but it should work. If it does, can I use it in competition? It seems like a pretty unfair attack, and the only way I can see to defend against it would make the bot almost immortal. Any other advice would be greatly appreciated.