Default settings save for sexual preference to big creatures and 100% energy to offspring.
Resulted in a handful of mostly identical creatures (With a few offspring) floating about. They actually tended to migrate around the place, eating all the food in one area, then migrating to another while the old area recovers.
Changing the settings to food growth delay = 0, food spread = 8000, food bit energy = 40, hunger threshold = 85, and energy to offspring = 53. Also, sexual preference is set to hyper. Note that the swimbots are the same ones from before. Let's see how this works out, shall we?
EDIT: The pool has more greenspots than decade old meat and the green line of the population graph is literally off the chart. Going well so far. Setting food growth delay = 25, for the sake of my laptop.
EDIT2: Watching these things starve is really macabre. They turn darker colours, begin sort of seizing, and eventually curl up before disappearing. It's sort of disturbing. On a happier note, population's exploded. It's gone from 85 to 213 already. They seem to be forming herds. Not sure why. Despite the ludicrously high food spawn rate, they've already cleared out one corner. They're beginning to expand outwards more.
EDIT3: Figured out the herd thing. They're basically massive, incestuous orgies. They're breeding at massive rates, before joining into it. It's kind of disturbing. Also means less new genes to develop. Should I begin zapping things? Anyways, ~25% already cleared of food. 302 swimbots. Blue coloration is slowly gaining a foothold, now making up a rough estimate of 3% of the population, deviating from the standard pale green. Bright green remains very rare, with only three specimens left. Though, dark blue population is beginning to drop. Also, a slight blue tinge is beginning to become prevalent in the pale greens.
My, in the context of evolution and a closedish system, this does what it says. You can see 'waves' of life, and efficiency winning out in the long run. Well, you would if you set breeding to select for non-efficiency.
My current world, at its end:
What you see is a huge population of moderately efficent life, with three tails. I find that the 'worms' are the second most efficient, after the immobile ones (discounting those psuedo-immobile ones with '1.5' limbs that barely move). This is right before a crash in population.
So, really is neato to see chance play a role in it.
And my favorite doodad:
Its not incredibly efficient, but then it doesnt have to be. It has a moderate speed and consistent rhythm (which worms lack), and also moves pretty synchronously.
I wish they would have put predatory behavior in as well, but then the simulation wouldn't have been about 'evolution', having that wrench thrown in.
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