[Strategy Market] [Switch] Element: Aptamer Gate

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Original Link: https://getsatisfaction.com/eternagame/topics/-strategy-market-switch-elements
Original Author: Eli Fisker

What eternabot doesn’t know - yet

I was looking at some of the eternabot strategies that were uploaded before last round closed. And I thought to myself, the bot is all over the place. Because it has no idea what elements are important in the puzzle - besides making a legal solve.

Many of its switches are full moving or it doesn’t know when it pays to tie the tails together, to decrease the switching area.

Strategy

Aptamer gates usually prefer something like 3-4 bp in exclusion labs (turnoff labs) and something like 3-6 bp in Same state (turn on labs.) With 5 being best.

Turnoff labs
Reward 3 base pair aptamer gates with 3+
Reward 4 base pair aptamers with 2+
Decrease rewards for aptamer gates if longer (in the switching half of the aptamer, the end turning towards the MS2 sequence

Turnon labs
Reward 3 base pair aptamer gates with 1+
Reward 4 base pair aptamer gates with 2+
Reward 5 base pair aptamer gates with 3+
Reward 6 base pair aptamer gates with 1+
Penalize for more base pairs and up.

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Implemented with 29 lines of code.