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Bots and Simulations => Bot Tavern => Topic started by: Endy on June 04, 2005, 10:04:55 PM
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Made Alga Tier it's able to expand and snap any ties to it using the new
Tielens 1-4. Extremly dificult for SF's to feed off of, even TheOne had some trouble feeding from this. As a species it's able to survive extremly well, going long periods before repopulating.
Nice bot to see in action, good for evolving since it doesn't follow the typical repop patterns.
' Alga Tier
' Able to push itself away from family and enemies using new tielen1-4
' Bot started as experiment with new tie stuff and ended up one deadly plant :)
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.repro inc
.tie inc
314 rnd .aimdx store
stop
' Gene allows plant to expand and eventually snap any tie (even birth tie!)
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*.numties 0 !=
start
10000 .tielen1 3 rnd add store
stop
' Gene3 added to stop TF's slight advantage over plant
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*.numties 0 !=
*.pain 500 >
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*.tiepres .deltie store
stop
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So this should violently throw a tie feeder away if I read it right.
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Yep, it'll repel any bot away from it; since it spins and ties continually. It makes it pretty difficult to feed from. TF's seem to have the best chance since it takes awhile for the ties to completly break.
Made the dumbest use of DB ever with these :lol: Loaded up just the vegie(500 bots with an added continual shooting gene) took away restarts, and made the bots squares; making DB look like a screensaver. :)
Endy B)
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I would recommend that, as I said before, ties you don't fire take 1 cycle to register in the new tie sysvars.
That way tie feeders still get that 1 cycle free feed like before. I'm also not so sure about birth ties being registered into this tie array. I mean, this way we do get some new ways to break birth ties, but I think birth ties should be something you can't directly control.
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You probably have a point on ties taking a cy to register with the sysvars; although TF's still had a major advantage over the plant (ties take some time to snap). I kind of liked birth ties being effected, since it allowed the plants to spread themselves a reasonable distance. Still with the Temp ties comming I can see your point about the birth tie.
I only noticed the birth tie was affected after the plants started dropping the .tie inc command. :)
Endy B)
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I only noticed the birth tie was affected after the plants started dropping the .tie inc command. smile.gif
Oops!
I forgot about birth ties :redface:
The new tie commands shouldn't be working on anything until ties are permanent anyway.