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Code center => Darwinbots Program Source Code => Topic started by: Botsareus on August 05, 2012, 11:44:31 AM

Title: Difference between -7 and -8 shoot
Post by: Botsareus on August 05, 2012, 11:44:31 AM

What is the difference between -7 and -8 shoot? I am trying to update the internal help docs.

Found the rest at: http://wiki.darwinbots.com/w/Operators

Title: Re: Difference between -7 and -8 shoot
Post by: Numsgil on August 05, 2012, 04:38:01 PM

IIRC, and I'm reading the code right, -7 is a virus shot and -8 is a sperm shot.

Title: Re: Difference between -7 and -8 shoot
Post by: Botsareus on August 05, 2012, 06:40:51 PM

eh thx

I thought .vshoot was shooting viruses, what is going on there?

Title: Re: Difference between -7 and -8 shoot
Post by: Numsgil on August 05, 2012, 11:53:46 PM

Internally viruses are treated as a special shot type.

Title: Re: Difference between -7 and -8 shoot
Post by: Botsareus on August 06, 2012, 11:58:04 AM

oh, ok

Title: Re: Difference between -7 and -8 shoot
Post by: SlyStalker on March 13, 2013, 03:32:39 AM

sperm shot? i thought that sperm were individual cells?  :huh: arent the bots in DB induvidual cells?

Title: Re: Difference between -7 and -8 shoot
Post by: Tilthanseco on March 13, 2013, 11:49:27 PM

The sperm shot sends a copy of the robots dna over to the robot that is hit. The hit rob can then decide to reproduce sexually using this dna.
The dna only stays for a limited time indicated by *.fertilized (10 cycles).

These shots act like the other shots found in the sim. There is not much need for simulating tiny sperm cells. Also, I don't think single-celled organisms use sperm anyways.

If you wanted, you could make a multibot that released sperm "cells" to go shoot sperm shots. That would be fun to figure out.

http://wiki.darwinbots.com/w/Sysvar (http://wiki.darwinbots.com/w/Sysvar) is your friend.

Title: Re: Difference between -7 and -8 shoot
Post by: SlyStalker on March 14, 2013, 02:52:03 AM

Google is my friend too!  :)