Tie Tutorial - Revision history

PhiNotPi: Fixed typos

2014-02-15T00:36:16Z

Fixed typos

Chq: /* Tie ID */

2007-09-18T09:07:24Z

‎Tie ID

Elite at 09:51, 1 August 2007

2007-08-01T09:51:08Z

Numsgil at 23:59, 27 November 2006

2006-11-27T23:59:15Z

Elite: Added some more stuff

2006-06-19T18:57:50Z

Added some more stuff

Endy: /* Sharing */

2006-05-04T07:10:45Z

‎Sharing

Endy: /* Leaching and Counter-Leaching */

2006-05-04T07:01:49Z

‎Leaching and Counter-Leaching

Endy: /* Leaching and Counter-Leaching */

2006-05-04T06:48:36Z

‎Leaching and Counter-Leaching

Endy: /* Feeding through a tie */ working on this

2006-05-04T06:46:48Z

‎Feeding through a tie: working on this

Numsgil at 03:32, 13 March 2006

2006-03-13T03:32:55Z

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 === Tiepres ===
-You can readback the value of the last tie created by using [[.tiepres|*.tiepres]]. For example:
+You can read back the value of the last tie created by using [[.tiepres|*.tiepres]]. For example:
   *.tiepres .tienum store
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 === Deleting the Birth Tie ===
-If you're a combat bot then efficiency counts. You definately don't want to be mucking about with an umbilical cord for the first few cycles of your life.
+If you're a combat bot then efficiency counts. You definitely don't want to be mucking about with an umbilical cord for the first few cycles of your life.
 Combat bot programmers use a neat trick to remove that pesky birth tie.
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   stop
-For a basic tie feeder thats all there is to it.
+For a basic tie feeder that's all there is to it.
-The bot ties to non-family(normally), thats the reason the robage and refage check is there to prevent parent and child from tieing to one another. The next part is that the bot will store the number of the latest tie into tienum. Next it will attempt to feed. The -1 stored into tieloc initiats nrg transfer. The -1000 specifies the bot attempt to take the maximum allowed level.
+The bot ties to non-family(normally), that's the reason the robage and refage check is there to prevent parent and child from tieing to one another. The next part is that the bot will store the number of the latest tie into tienum. Next it will attempt to feed. The -1 stored into tieloc initiates nrg transfer. The -1000 specifies the bot attempt to take the maximum allowed level.
 === Leaching and Counter-Leaching ===
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 When our basic tie feeder ties to feed from a bot with these genes, it will begin giving nrg to the bot rather than taking it.
-Fortunatly there is a number of ways we can thwart these nasty leaches. The best course overall is to simply better distinguish between your feeding tie and another's.
+Fortunately there is a number of ways we can thwart these nasty leaches. The best course overall is to simply better distinguish between your feeding tie and another's.
   cond
   *.robage 0 =
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   stop
-This gene's bennefits are two-fold nrg is tranfered at a rate even higher than during normal tie feeding and harmful waste is transfered to the other bot. This gene is SG'ized (*.multi mult) causing the bot to auto-matically start sharefeeding as soon as it becomes available without spending any nrg repetitivly checking for multi-bot status.
+This gene's benefits are two-fold nrg is transferred at a rate even higher than during normal tie feeding and harmful waste is transferred to the other bot. This gene is SG'ized (*.multi mult) causing the bot to automatically start share-feeding as soon as it becomes available without spending any nrg repetitively checking for multi-bot status.
 == Multibots ==

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 The number that you put into .tie will be the tie's ID, sometimes called its port or (more rarely) phase.
-If you want to [[.deltie|detete]] a tie, you will need to put the tie's ID into [[.deltie]]. If you want to [[.tieang|change]] or [[.fixang|fix]] the angle of a tie, or [[.tielen|change]] or [[.fixang|fix]] it's length, or if you want to feed through a tie or use it to alter another bot's memory values you will need to store the tie's [[Tie ID|ID]] into [[.tienum]].
+If you want to [[.deltie|delete]] a tie, you will need to put the tie's ID into [[.deltie]]. If you want to [[.tieang|change]] or [[.fixang|fix]] the angle of a tie, or [[.tielen|change]] or [[.fixang|fix]] it's length, or if you want to feed through a tie or use it to alter another bot's memory values you will need to store the tie's [[Tie ID|ID]] into [[.tienum]].
 === Tiepres ===

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 == Meet Animal Minimalis ==
-Note that this tutorial refers to 2.4 and prior.  An entirely new interface is presently being worked on for the next version.
+Note that this tutorial refers to 2.4X and prior.  An entirely new interface is presently being worked on for the next version.
 This is Animal Minimalis:

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 Put an anti-birth tie gene into Animal Minimalis and see how much better he does.
 In [http://forum.darwinbots.com/index.php?showtopic=526 this forum thread] Nums comes up with a few very concise anti-birth tie genes.
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 This will select the most recently formed tie, which is usually the one you're interested in anyway.  Remember that this will automatically select any tie to your bot, including those accidentally attached by family members.
-You can select other, older ties if you remember what "port" they were on.  That is, the number you used for .tie.
+You can select other, older ties if you remember the 'tie phase'.  That is, the number you used for .tie.
 .tie store
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 This time the tie feeder uses a random number to store it's ties to. This allows it to rapidly distinguish between its ties and those of friends or foes. It also prevents rapid deletion of it's ties by causing enemies to have to wait at least one cycle for [[.tiepres]] to read back the number of the tie.
-The number stored into tieloc has also been modified to change with tieval. If tieval is changed(nasty leaches) the bot will stop tie feeding and begin messing with the enemy's [[.up]] command.
+The number stored into tieloc has also been modified to change with tieval. If tieval is changed (nasty leaches) the bot will stop tie feeding and begin messing with the enemy's [[.up]] command.
 Last the bot will attempt to delete any tie that's not it's own. This both prevents accidental family feeding and enemies from tie feeding for greater than one cycle.
 == Sharing ==
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 == Changing the Angle and Length of Your Tie ==
 == The Tie Ports ==

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 == Sharing ==
-(Work in progress)
+As nice as sharing nrg sounds, it can also be used to take up to 99% of another's nrg. It's best to design even combat bots to take advantage of the occasional share situation that may arise from the hardening of ties.
 == Multibots ==

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	Fortunatly there is a number of ways we can thwart these nasty leaches, from simply deleting strange ties or more excitingly reversing their attacks.		Fortunatly there is a number of ways we can thwart these nasty leaches, from simply deleting strange ties or more excitingly reversing their attacks.
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		+	cond
		+	*.robage 0 =
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		+	31999 rnd 1 add 50 store
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	== Sharing ==		== Sharing ==

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	== Meet Animal Minimalis ==		== Meet Animal Minimalis ==
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		+	Note that this tutorial refers to 2.4 and prior. An entirely new interface is presently being worked on for the next version.

	This is Animal Minimalis:		This is Animal Minimalis: