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Bot Tavern / Interesting Evolution
« on: November 16, 2005, 03:14:05 AM »
Well, I thought to be interest id have two types of Algae and two types of bot, I chose Alga Hairy and Alga Minimalis - The alga Minimalis was to be stationary, the Alga Hairy moving(it looks cool, clumps together in almost colony like swathes when its moving).
For my Animals I chose Black ant and C_Filans.
The C_Filans where promptly wiped out, but I left the simulation running overnight on my laptop, this morning when I checked, there was two CLEARLY distinct new species(which have both been saved as neither are like the black ant really anymore).
One species, seems to have forgone moving atall except spinning at one point into its evolution, instead it gets caught up in the somewhat sticky moving colonies of Alga Hairy and lives off them
The other species moves about rather speedily eating pretty much anything...the population seems to boom right after theres been some big birth event in the other species, but it tends to be protected from being completed wiped out by the alga tangled around it sometimes.
The fact the Alga hairy gets stuck around everything stationary (like the Alga Minimalis, which one would expect to have been eaten out of existance) seems to have led to interesting protection and feeding methods...
if anyone wants me to I can probably upload the species once I get a copyable disk?
For my Animals I chose Black ant and C_Filans.
The C_Filans where promptly wiped out, but I left the simulation running overnight on my laptop, this morning when I checked, there was two CLEARLY distinct new species(which have both been saved as neither are like the black ant really anymore).
One species, seems to have forgone moving atall except spinning at one point into its evolution, instead it gets caught up in the somewhat sticky moving colonies of Alga Hairy and lives off them
The other species moves about rather speedily eating pretty much anything...the population seems to boom right after theres been some big birth event in the other species, but it tends to be protected from being completed wiped out by the alga tangled around it sometimes.
The fact the Alga hairy gets stuck around everything stationary (like the Alga Minimalis, which one would expect to have been eaten out of existance) seems to have led to interesting protection and feeding methods...
if anyone wants me to I can probably upload the species once I get a copyable disk?