Improve genetic evolution of skills

[sir4ur0n]

Random ideas, food for thoughts.

• Chromosome-like definition at beginning of game + beginning of skill-generation, that would impact this or that stat during breeding or mutation.
• Have more than 2 parents during breeding. Maybe a random number?
• Should the breeding/mutation processes be a strict improvement? A possible regression?
• Should the breeding/mutation processes be weighted by the difficulty of the level? The number of times a skill was used? "The number of times a skill was used compared to the time it could have been used"?

[sebastientromp]

I've also been questioning the fact a skill evolves from two parents. Let's say you have two skills, one for offense, one for defense. The child will be a mix of the two, so it's genome will be less oriented towards offense, or less towards defense. The only hope of having something better is the mutation part. What if we only kept that part? We take the three most used skills, and evolve each of them for the player to take.

[sebastientromp]

Current version includes another algo (by default) that works like unicellular organisms: the three most used skills each evolve, only through mutations.