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Suggestions / Excess nrg -> body, excess body -> death

« on: December 12, 2006, 05:30:53 AM »

Maybe if the program is designed so the genotype doesn't have to be an exact match for bots to recognize each other. It could be like the more different they are the less percentage the bot will think it is a conspecies. For instance if 90% of the genes are the same it will be recognized as a conspecies. That should prevent a bot to get killed right away by it's relatives just because it got a single mutation, much like in reality I believe. In reality; the more different the genes the more different the species look. We could just PRETEND the bots think other species LOOK different.  

This is already possible, consider this gene for example:

cond
(some conditions)
*.refeye *.myeye ~=
start
(some actions)
stop

Correct me if I'm wrong on the operator, can't remember exactly but there is an "is almost equal to[/I[ operator.

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Suggestions / Set colour to memory location

« on: December 11, 2006, 04:19:59 PM »

IMHO colours should be invisble to bots at night in pondmode

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Suggestions / Set colour to memory location

« on: December 11, 2006, 04:52:26 AM »

That's actually an interesting idea.  But there are alot of in/out pairs...

maybe connect the first 3 to RGB?

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Suggestions / Set colour to memory location

« on: December 11, 2006, 03:30:15 AM »

Why not link the .outX/.inX sysvars to colours?

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Suggestions / An 'infertility' option

« on: December 07, 2006, 06:52:27 AM »

Hi,

In addition to the 'fixed in place'  'vegetable' 'disable vision' etc option, could we have a 'disable reproduction' option? It could be used to prevent 'cleaner bots' from reproducing for example.

What do you think?

Henk

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Bot Challenges / Challenge #1: The Ravine

« on: December 07, 2006, 05:20:24 AM »

I'll surely have a go at this after my exam on cellular biology  

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Bot Tavern / Discerpo Inscribo

« on: December 05, 2006, 03:47:46 PM »

Maybe if bots exploded into a mass of blood and mucous when they died, we could attract the more mainstream audience

Yeah and they should curse once in a while.    

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Suggestions / Genome structure

« on: December 02, 2006, 05:57:02 PM »

That would be "translate" not "transcribe".

Just being anal.

Yeah whatever  I allways mix those terms up  I really shouldn't though as I've got a cel biology/genetics exam next week

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Suggestions / Genome structure

« on: December 02, 2006, 03:13:23 AM »

Sounds like a great idea!

Do take in mind that not all organisms have introns and exons, that's a eukariotic thing. Prokaryotes can transcribe multiple genes (and thus multiple proteins) from a single mRNA.
So if this is a -let's make DB more realistic- decision then take that in mind IMO.

But then again Shvarz is problably more of an expert in this matter...

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Interesting behaviour bots / Devious Eraticatorus (MB)(irishguy) - 06.28.07

« on: December 01, 2006, 05:47:04 PM »

(...)
'my virus - a.k.a. the down syndrome virus (lol)
'he doesn't replicate, because of the AVs that kill replicators.
'but his payload does 2 great things
'1. he make a extremely small child, which is is easy pickings for my other bots!!
'2. he deletes the first gene, over and over until all the genes, including the
'   the virus are gone. now the infected bot is free food for his attacker.
'   because he is reproducing, each child he makes, will be more retarded than the last!
cond
  *41 256 !=
start
1 .repro store
1 .delgene store
stop

end

Maybe you can replace .repro with .mrepro, that really ought to mess'em up

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Bot Tavern / Missing bots

« on: December 01, 2006, 05:43:08 PM »

Out of the 29 bots I found missing from the Bestiary, I have found all but 13, if you can provide the code for any of the following bots it would be appreciated...

Asterus Igni (SB)(Esrever)
Batavus Minimalis (MB)(Henk)
Black Flower (SB)(Henk)
Daedelus (F2)(Light)
Potissimus Terminator (Unknown)
Robotdog (SB)(Viplex)
Shoonmaker Alternate (SB)(Henk)
Shen's Evobot (F2)(Shen)
Simplebot20 (F2)(Unknown)
Symboticus 2.5 (MB)(Elite)
Symboticus (MB)(Elite)
Terminator MkVII (Unknown)
Vector 1.0 (SB)(Abylayly)

I'll get you the bots on the list when I get my old computer up and running here at my new place, should be within a few days...

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Bugs and fixes / 2.43 Changes

« on: November 30, 2006, 09:18:04 AM »

I can't see any such checkbox. I only see the 2 that says "Bots can see through shapes" and "Shapes absorb shots".  

That'll be in the next buddydrop

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DNA - General / Negative Protection?

« on: November 29, 2006, 03:46:14 AM »

But a virus could cause a bot to not be able to make more slime, or maybe even destroy the slime it has (I don't remember if the code allows bots to unmake slime or not).

It is if I remember correctly. It's a weapon of one of PY's earlier F1 bots.

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Off Topic / My Biota.org interview

« on: November 26, 2006, 06:49:51 PM »

Nice  Hope this brings in some new users, perhaps

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Bot Challenges / Bot Challenge!

« on: November 23, 2006, 02:11:33 PM »

I like it  What's the first challenge?