Virus - Revision history

MysticalDumpling: /* Overview */

2014-04-08T18:55:12Z

‎Overview

Jarbon: /* Virus Creation Guide */ Updated since viruses can no longer be aimed.

2008-07-21T03:02:45Z

‎Virus Creation Guide: Updated since viruses can no longer be aimed.

Endy: further help, we forgot viral gene inactivation

2006-05-06T09:38:31Z

further help, we forgot viral gene inactivation

Endy: Basic draft for virus h-gene transfer

2006-05-06T09:33:20Z

Basic draft for virus h-gene transfer

195.93.21.72: Modified by Elite

2006-02-04T12:14:40Z

Modified by Elite

Endy: gen edit

2005-11-25T00:52:43Z

gen edit

Endy: gen edit endy

2005-11-25T00:48:10Z

gen edit endy

Endy: /* Overview */

2005-10-16T00:50:48Z

‎Overview

Numsgil at 13:47, 22 September 2005

2005-09-22T13:47:14Z

66.91.141.218 at 00:16, 21 September 2005

2005-09-21T00:16:22Z

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 == Overview ==
-Like real viruses DB viruses are not able to reproduce by themselves, they must steal nrg from bots to duplicate themselves. Outside of the bot they exist as shots.  Whithin these cyan colored "shots" is the viral DNA.
+Like real viruses DB viruses are not able to reproduce by themselves, they must steal nrg from bots to duplicate themselves. Outside of the bot they exist as shots.  Whithin these cyan colored "shots" is the viral DNA. The shot flavor ([[.shflav]]) of a virus is -7.
 Viruses are made up of a single gene (note: Numsgil is currently working to losen the constriction to simply a length of DNA) that can be shot out and infect any bot it hits.  "Infected" means it is inserted randomly into the effected bot's genome.  A virus could look like, for example:

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 * 3 It takes a finite amount of time to copy this gene into the virus so at the beginning of the process, the gene length is calculated and this value is placed into a count-down timer which can be accessed by the robot via .vtimer(vtimer is the length of the DNA being copied * 2). This is a read only value indicating how long you have to wait until the virus is ready. Vtimer is 1 when there is a virus ready to fire. 0 if there is no virus either ready or being constructed, > 1 if there is still time left to wait.
-* 4 Once .vtimer reaches 1, the virus is ready and can be fired by placing any non-zero value into .vshoot.  This will shoot the virus straight forward. As of last check both backshot and .aimshot work with viruses.
+* 4 Once .vtimer reaches 1, the virus is ready and can be fired by placing any non-zero value into .vshoot.  This will shoot the virus in a random direction.
 * 5 The virus will appear as a cyan colored shot. It can most easily be distinguished by the normally longer distance it travels.

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 Note: Normal shot color is determined by the color of a bot firing it. If a shot is cyan, but no cyan bots are on the screen chances are it is a virus.
 == Little Viruses ==
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 If your using viruses to transfer genes its important to limit which genes you allow to activate in other species. Instead of trying to prevent viral activation in your bots your trying to only allow the transfered genes to activate for your species. The easiest way to manage this is by setting some memory location to one and then multiplying your storage locations by that number.
-cond
+ cond
-*.robage 1 =
+ *.robage 1 =
-start
+ start
 inc
-stop
+ stop
-−
-cond
+ cond
-*.refeye *.myeye !=
+ *.refeye *.myeye !=
-*.eye5 45 >
+ *.eye5 45 >
-start
+ start
--1 .shoot *77 mult store
+ -1 .shoot *77 mult store
-stop
+ stop
-Since it's highly unlikely another bot such as a veggie will store that exact value into their sysvars, the gene is safe from exploitation. Some genes for things like reproduction are safe to allow, since they provide no tactical advantage to another species.
+Since it's highly unlikely another bot such as a veggie will store that exact same value into their sysvars, the gene is safe from exploitation. Some genes for things like reproduction are safe to allow, since they provide no tactical advantage to another species.
 A further way to prevent dna misuse is to utilize the epigenetic locations. Since the original gene can be deleted there will be no way for any other species to ever gain the use of your dna.

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 [[Slime]] is a much underused way of defending against viruses. Slime defends against viruses and ties but it dissolves away slowly. A few hundred units of slime is enough to block most viruses.
 {| width="100%" style="background: transparent;"
 {{Divpurple}}
 ==[[Virus]]es:==
 {| border="0" style=background:#f0f0ff;

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	*.thisgene .mkvirus store		*.thisgene .mkvirus store
	stop		stop
		+
		+	== Other Viruses ==
		+
		+	Some more viruses.
		+
		+	This virus makes all the infected bots become zombielike conspecs:
		+
		+	cond
		+	start
		+	100 .vshoot store
		+	.thisgene .mkvirus .vtimer -1 mult 1 add mult store
		+	676 .myeye store
		+	676 *.memloc store
		+	.mkvirus 1 add .delgene .mkvirus *.thisgene sub dup mult sgn mult store
		+	stop
		+
		+	This virus breaks up multibots:
		+
		+	cond
		+	start
		+	*.thisgene .mkvirus store
		+	250 .vshoot store
		+	*.tiepres .deltie store
		+	stop
		+
		+	This virus randomly deletes the infected bot's genes:
		+
		+	cond
		+	start
		+	*.thisgene 1 rnd 2 mult -1 add add .delgene store
		+	stop
		+
		+	== Slime ==
		+
		+	[[Slime]] is a much underused way of defending against viruses. Slime defends against viruses and ties but it dissolves away slowly. A few hundred units of slime is enough to block most viruses.
		+
		+
		+
		+
		+	{\| width="100%" style="background: transparent;"
		+	{{Divpurple}}
		+	==[[Virus]]es:==
		+	{\| border="0" style=background:#f0f0ff;
		+	\|-
		+	\| [[.mkvirus]] \|\| 335 \|\| [[.thisgene]] \|\| 341
		+	\|-
		+	\| [[.dnalen]] \|\| 336
		+	\|-
		+	\| [[.vtimer]] \|\| 337 \|\| [[.vshoot]] \|\| 338
		+	\|-
		+	\| [[.genes]] \|\| 339
		+	\|-
		+	\| [[.delgene]] \|\| 340
		+	\|}
		+	\|}

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	Note: Normal shot color is determined by the color of a bot firing it. If a shot is cyan, but no cyan bots are on the screen chances are it is a virus.		Note: Normal shot color is determined by the color of a bot firing it. If a shot is cyan, but no cyan bots are on the screen chances are it is a virus.
		+
		+	== Little Viruses ==
		+
		+	Here are a few of the smaller viruses that have been thought up.
		+
		+	'Small but with increasing numbers inside a cell will steal more and more nrg.
		+	cond
		+	start
		+	.vshoot inc
		+	*.thisgene .mkvirus store
		+	stop

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	* 2 Store this value into the .mkvirus command. eg: This will copy the virus's gene into a temporary storage array to create the virus.		* 2 Store this value into the .mkvirus command. eg: This will copy the virus's gene into a temporary storage array to create the virus.
−
−	*.thisgene .mkvirus store

	* 3 It takes a finite amount of time to copy this gene into the virus so at the beginning of the process, the gene length is calculated and this value is placed into a count-down timer which can be accessed by the robot via .vtimer(vtimer is the length of the DNA being copied * 2). This is a read only value indicating how long you have to wait until the virus is ready. Vtimer is 1 when there is a virus ready to fire. 0 if there is no virus either ready or being constructed, > 1 if there is still time left to wait.		* 3 It takes a finite amount of time to copy this gene into the virus so at the beginning of the process, the gene length is calculated and this value is placed into a count-down timer which can be accessed by the robot via .vtimer(vtimer is the length of the DNA being copied * 2). This is a read only value indicating how long you have to wait until the virus is ready. Vtimer is 1 when there is a virus ready to fire. 0 if there is no virus either ready or being constructed, > 1 if there is still time left to wait.

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   stop
-<nowiki>*.thisgene</nowiki> tells where in the genome the gene is, .mkvirus makes the gene stored into it into a virus, and .vshoot determines how far the virus will go.  The larger the value in .vshoot, the more costly the virus is to fire.  The larger the code being copied into the virus, the longer the copying takes.  The above viral code, if inserted after the reproduction gene, would basically sterilize the bot, making it unable to reproduce.
+<nowiki>*.thisgene</nowiki> tells where in the genome the gene is, .mkvirus makes the gene stored into it into a virus, and .vshoot determines how far the virus will go.  The larger the value in .vshoot, the more costly the virus is to fire.  The larger the code being copied into the virus, the longer the copying takes. This time can be read from vtimer. The above viral code, if inserted after the reproduction gene, would basically sterilize the bot, making it unable to reproduce.
 == Virus Creation Guide ==

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-= DB Viruses =
+Like real viruses DB viruses are not able to reproduce by themselves, they must steal nrg from bots to duplicate themselves. Outside of the bot they exist as shots.  Whithin these cyan colored "shots" is the viral DNA.
-Like real viruses DB viruses are not able to reproduce by themselves, they must steal nrg from bots to duplicate themselves. Outside of the bot they exist as shots, similar to real viruses use of a protien shell. Whithin these cyan colored "shots" is the viral gene akin to the DNA/RNA inside of actual viruses.
+Viruses are made up of a single gene (note: Numsgil is currently working to losen the constriction to simply a length of DNA) that can be shot out and infect any bot it hits.  "Infected" means it is inserted randomly into the effected bot's genome.  A virus could look like, for example:
-DB viruses are made up of a single gene (note: Numsgil is currently working to losen the constriction to simply a length of DNA) that can be shot out and infect the bot it hits.  Infected means it is inserted randomly into the infected bot's genome.  A virus could look like, for example:
+  cond
+ start
-  cond
+.repro store
-  start
+ *.thisgene .mkvirus store
-.repro store
+.vshoot store
-  *.thisgene .mkvirus store
+ stop
 <nowiki>*.thisgene</nowiki> tells where in the genome the gene is, .mkvirus makes the gene stored into it into a virus, and .vshoot determines how far the virus will go.  The larger the value in .vshoot, the more costly the virus is to fire.  The larger the code being copied into the virus, the longer the copying takes.  The above viral code, if inserted after the reproduction gene, would basically sterilize the bot, making it unable to reproduce.
-= Virus Creation Guide =
+== Virus Creation Guide ==
 To make a virus you should follow these steps.

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−	~~= Biological Aside =~~

−	A Virus is not really a living thing. They can not reproduce by themselves. They have no metabolism. They are made up by a protein shell and in there is the DNA or RNA. They infect a cell and force the cell to produce new viruses.

	= DB Viruses =		= DB Viruses =