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Code center => Suggestions => Topic started by: havingphun on October 13, 2011, 05:17:31 PM

Title: Spore repro
Post by: havingphun on October 13, 2011, 05:17:31 PM

Sorry if this was already suggested but here it is. So how about having the option of bots reproducing with spores. you could specify the amount of spores and also have a variable called sporedef that would allow you have a specific code for the spore if you wanted to. I dont think this should be added because it is already possible to code spores with db, but i just wanted to throw the idea out there.

Title: Re: Spore repro
Post by: Panda on October 14, 2011, 02:55:59 AM

There's sperm... it's not exactly like spores but...

Title: Re: Spore repro
Post by: havingphun on October 15, 2011, 09:35:03 AM

Is that for sexrepro i never use it?

Title: Re: Spore repro
Post by: Panda on October 15, 2011, 09:50:50 AM

Yeah, that's for sexrepro.

Title: Re: Spore repro
Post by: havingphun on October 15, 2011, 10:10:26 AM

Can sexrepro be used between different species to create hybrids?

Title: Re: Spore repro
Post by: Panda on October 15, 2011, 10:35:05 AM

I'm not really sure how sexrepro works other than getting bots to do it, to be honest. I might look into the code for you at some point, though. Or Numsgil will know.

Title: Re: Spore repro
Post by: Numsgil on October 15, 2011, 02:54:38 PM

I'm pretty sure it runs some pretty sophisticated DNA shuffling.  So If the bots are entirely dissimilar, it usually ends up just picking one of the parents' DNA.  If the bots are somewhat similar, it matches up similar DNA markers and then shuffles the DNA a bit.  So it makes it possible for two mutations in different lineages to be shared.