I've done about 5 simulations now, two of them being at 100k simulation hours. Some of the behaviour I've seen has straight up astonished me and I think I have a few ways to spice things up even more. I'm going to try to list these suggestions from probably easiest to probably most difficult to program. Bear with me, I don't have programming experience:
- The ability to add and subtract food. I think this would do wonders in creating environmental pressures so that my bibites don't get too comfortable and are forced to evolve.
- The ability to add and subtract walls. They've gotten so amazing at finding food that they've started to last over 3000 seconds and I can't help but wonder if they could solve mazes and puzzles.
- Hot/Cold environments. Think the wall would be easier though this would still make for some interesting selective pressures. Like the walls and the food it would be neat to be able to vary it up at will or at random.
- The ability to fuse with and/or connect to other Bibites. This one came to me in a dream as I pictured these guys being able to form these long, colourful chains. But they don't necessarily have to connect front to back if it's possible to connect them in other ways. But regardless of what happens it would be absolutely cool if they could mix their genes.
- The ability to evolve new inputs. I'm not sure if this one is possible or if it would even be practical but as someone who studies taxonomy it's amazing to see how creatures repurpose the sensory organs of their ancestors.
I've been playing with this giddily and have very much enjoyed it so far. I tend to leave it running while I'm away or asleep and it's become an exciting thing to return/wake up and see how my Bibites are doing.