Difference between revisions of "Cannibot"

Revision as of 16:07, 31 January 2006

Cannibots, or Canni's for short, are bots that attack everything, including their own population.

Problems:

• The Cannibot population attacks everything but the Cannibot's source population does not attack the Cannibot population.
• Cannibots attack everything, including their own children.
• It is hard to determine if a target is the same population as itself.
• Cannibots whipe out their source population(s) without leaving any descendents.
• Cannibots use a lot of the ecosystems energy to battle each other instead of using it for more complex behaviour evolving.

Advantages:

• More individual food supply.
• Higher evolutionary pressure speeds up evolution.
• A population raised out of a newly discovered food source can survive for some time on cost of its weaker individuals after the food source runs out.

Ways to avoid Cannibot extinctions:

• Make offspring smaller since a weaker offspring is unlikely to kill the parent...
  • by decreasing birth .nrg
  • by decreasing the value stored in .repro
• Genes that allow a bot to fight or flight if attacked are guaranteed to help.
  • Use Poison and Venom when attacked by "the same population".
• Let the Cannibot child run and hide...
  • by rotating parent and child after reproduction.
  • by making a bot move more untill it reaches a given age.
  • ".refage 20 >" don't attack children.
  • ".age 50 >" don't attack as a child.
• Make bots that act as a social group, feeding and guarding each other and hunting together.
  • Tie feeder