Cannibot

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 wipe out their source population(s) without leaving any descendants.
• Cannibots use a lot of the ecosystems energy to battle each other instead of using it for more complex behavior 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.
  • Don't use Poison and Venom when attacked by a Cannibot. It has no effect on members of the same species.
• Let the Cannibot child run and hide...
  • by rotating parent and child after reproduction.
  • by making a bot move more until it reaches a given age.
  • ".refage 20 >" don't attack children.
  • ".robage 50 >" don't attack as a child.
• Make bots that act as a social group, feeding and guarding each other and hunting together.(Although that defeats the purpose of a cannibot).
  • Tie feeder