Parameters: Game modes (F1 / rounds)
Restart round with no heterotrophs
If only vegetables remain, a new round starts.
- Default
- no
- Usual range
- yes / no
- Variable
Restart- Key
opt:90- Live
- can be changed while the simulation runs
- Mode
- advanced only
F1 mode (species contest)
Rounds until one species wins.
- Default
- no
- Usual range
- yes / no
- Variable
F1- Key
opt:91- Live
- can be changed while the simulation runs
- Mode
- advanced only
- Note
- The contest starts with a new sim or from Compete: turning it on in a running sim does not start the species census.
Minimum rounds
Contest rounds (also writes optMinRounds).
- Default
- 5
- Usual range
- 1 to 32000
- Variable
MinRounds- Key
opt:97- Live
- can be changed while the simulation runs
- Mode
- advanced only
Rounds-won cap (0 = off)
Whoever reaches this many wins takes it.
- Default
- 0
- Usual range
- 0 to 32000
- Variable
Maxrounds- Key
opt:98- Live
- can be changed while the simulation runs
- Mode
- advanced only
Cycle cap per round (0 = off)
Ends the round after N cycles. Duels only: with more than 2 species it is turned off.
- Default
- 0
- Usual range
- 0 to 2147483647
- Variable
MaxCycles- Key
opt:99- Live
- can be changed while the simulation runs
- Mode
- advanced only
Max population per species (0 = off)
Bot cap per species in the contest. Duels only: with more than 2 species it is turned off.
- Default
- 0
- Usual range
- 0 to 32000
- Variable
MaxPop- Key
opt:100- Live
- can be changed while the simulation runs
- Mode
- advanced only
Disqualification
Which actions disqualify in the contest. Only active with F1 or with restart mode 1.
- Default
- 0
- Values
- 0 = off · 1 = level 1 (viruses; giving or taking through ties to another species) · 2 = level 2 (defenses, ties, viruses, deleting genes, memory shots, sexual)
- Variable
Disqualify- Key
opt:93- Live
- can be changed while the simulation runs
- Mode
- advanced only
Configured minimum rounds
Value MinRounds goes back to when a contest ends.
- Default
- 0
- Usual range
- 0 to 32000
- Variable
optMinRounds- Key
opt:101- Live
- can be changed while the simulation runs
- Mode
- advanced only
- Note
- Writing «Minimum rounds» also writes it: unless set on its own, it equals them.