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Welcome To Darwinbots => Newbie => Topic started by: LazyBot on April 09, 2007, 02:30:25 AM

Title: Apoptosis in Dawinbots?
Post by: LazyBot on April 09, 2007, 02:30:25 AM

Apoptosis is when a cell in a multi-cellular organism commit suicide for the benefit of the organism.
I was wondering if this is possible in Darwinbots(without making it do something like reproduce a thousand times in a second and crashing the program).
This can be useful for preventing cancers or for stabilizing a muti-celled bot in a mutation causing environment.
(Also, does anyone know how the C++ version is coming?)

Title: Apoptosis in Dawinbots?
Post by: Numsgil on April 09, 2007, 07:04:20 PM

There is no direct suicide command.  However, you could achieve this if you added a line like:

-2 .shoot store
*nrg .shootval store

To your organism.  This would have it fire all of its nrg (or most anyway) in the form of a shot.

Title: Apoptosis in Dawinbots?
Post by: LazyBot on April 09, 2007, 07:56:28 PM

Ah.  Thanks.

Title: Apoptosis in Dawinbots?
Post by: Jez on April 09, 2007, 08:11:10 PM

Also you could use the delgene instruction to delete it's own genes. This wouldn't be to the advantage of others though.

Title: Apoptosis in Dawinbots?
Post by: kage on April 14, 2007, 09:18:24 PM

Lol. I wouldn't exactly reccomend that one personally. *shudders*