Armor and Damage parameter in Simulation Controls

[xkortex]

Hi, first of all, awesome game! Been having a blast playing around with it.

I noticed in a lot of games, plants would evolve into "diatoms" with armor and killers, and pretty much dominate, with low complexity 3-cell "flies" periodically blooming on the food from overcrowding. It's challenging to grow really high complexity animals because the plants basically can just form a plaque.

I think it would be beneficial to be able to control the damage of killer cells and protectiveness of armor, e.g. default of 1.0 damage and 0.0 armor multiplier. This would allow tuning the benefits of either cells and favor offensive vs defensive, without resorting to "One hit kill". I think Simulation Controls would be a logical place to put it in.

Basically I'd just modify the killNeighbor cell to do a damage calc, and harm to take the value of that damage, rather than just damage++.

LifeEngine/src/Organism/Cell/BodyCells/KillerCell.js

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	killNeighbor(n_cell) {
	// console.log(n_cell)
	if(n_cell == null || n_cell.owner == null || n_cell.owner == this.org || !n_cell.owner.living || n_cell.state == CellStates.armor)
	return;
	var is_hit = n_cell.state == CellStates.killer; // has to be calculated before death
	n_cell.owner.harm();
	if (Hyperparams.instaKill && is_hit) {
	this.org.harm();
	}
	}
	}

LifeEngine/src/Organism/Organism.js

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	harm() {
	this.damage++;
	if (this.damage >= this.maxHealth() || Hyperparams.instaKill) {
	this.die();
	}
	}

Personally, I'd stick the controls after food drop probability, but I think that's less critical:

https://github.com/MaxRobinsonTheGreat/LifeEngine/blob/master/src/Controllers/ControlPanel.js#L176

[doo158]

really i'd take anything to get away from these little fucks

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