Cautious
Slow away and no sprinter, but built for marathons and gales, and steady through hazards.
- Barely tires, even in a marathon
- Shrugs off gales
- Lowest cruising speed, wins by lasting not racing
The brain, firing
A simulated spiking brain: 293 neurons in four regions. Each region fires at a rate set by this fly's tuned dials, so a busier region means that fly leans on it harder. Illustration, not recorded data.
What each region does
- Optic lobesactivity 55
Sees hazards, rails and swooping hawks.
- Antennal lobesactivity 41
Smells lures and feels the wind.
- Central brainactivity 64
Weighs it all up and keeps the line.
- Descending / motoractivity 42
Turns the decision into turns and speed.
Skills
- Off the line12
How hard it goes in the opening stretch (early_pace). Bold spends its energy up front; Cautious saves it.
- Top speed47
Cruising drive (aggression) after the flat speed tax that high stamina costs.
- Endurance70
How slowly its energy drains over a long race (stamina). Low stamina visibly fades in a marathon.
- Late kick50
How much surge it has for the closing straight (finishing_kick).
- Hazard recovery22
How fast it shakes off a hit from a hazard (caution cuts the collision stun).
- Lure resistance76
How little food and light lures pull it off line (the inverse of distractibility).
- Wind handling70
How much of a gale's push it shrugs off (wind_resistance).
- Hawk reflex55
How strongly it dodges and bolts when a hawk swoops (fearfulness). Low means it barely reacts and even slows.
- Steadiness50
How clean its line is (the inverse of brain noise).
Tuned dials
Each fly runs the same simulated brain with its own hand-tuned settings. These are the raw numbers behind the bars.
- Early pace
- 0.12
- Aggression
- 0.55
- Stamina
- 0.70
- Finishing kick
- 0.50
- Caution
- 0.22
- Distractibility
- 0.24
- Fearfulness
- 0.55
- Wind resistance
- 0.70
- Brain noise
- 0.15
- Turn smoothing
- 0.30