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Bots and Simulations => Bot Tavern => Topic started by: viplex on February 01, 2006, 07:26:08 PM

Title: What is this thing?
Post by: viplex on February 01, 2006, 07:26:08 PM

I have attached a picture. I have found some interesting bug. There is clearly a cancerous bot to be seen here that leaves behind a smoke-like trail of dying descendants while moving on(?)ward. Condition for birth control in DNA has been erased.
But if you look at this thing closely, its TWO bots tied to one another. (One bot has an energy of zero, the other some 20, and both are apparently feeling well.) In this sim there are now 4-5 of this creature. I will attach a savefile if I can.

Title: What is this thing?
Post by: viplex on February 01, 2006, 07:29:21 PM

Seems savefile is 2 megs  :banghead:

Title: What is this thing?
Post by: Numsgil on February 01, 2006, 09:04:47 PM

That is odd.

I'm not sure how anxious I am to debug visual basic anymore...  I'm pretty tired of looking at code in general actually.

Title: What is this thing?
Post by: Endy on February 01, 2006, 10:23:06 PM

Do you have the mutant dna? We could just restart with that bot and see if we can get the glitch to repeat.

Looks kinda like a free nrg bug. Bots gaining nrg from reproducing than they're losing.

Title: What is this thing?
Post by: viplex on February 02, 2006, 02:20:57 PM

Yes I have the code, and I can reproduce the bug, if I set the specific species' starting energy to 14 (tried also 1,2,3,4 they dont do it). Giving birth energy transfer is 20% to the son.
All the costs are set to 0.
Not a typical or annoying bug though, just interesting. Maybe its something with rounding.

Title: What is this thing?
Post by: viplex on February 02, 2006, 02:24:19 PM

Robby DNA attached, if interested, repro part is right at the beginning.

Title: What is this thing?
Post by: Numsgil on February 02, 2006, 03:40:10 PM

This sounds alot like a bug I thought I fixed once.