Track the age of each fish

[mokun]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.

• Currently, the age of each fish in Fishery is not specified.
• growPerFrame() is called once in each frame, regardless the length of time of a frame. This leads to unpredictable outcome of the size of a fish.

Describe the rationale

• Adding the age param will enable better lifecycle modeling

Describe the goal(s) you have in mind

• Further Implement the growth of a fish
• Add age param in Organism

Describe the solution you desire to see

• growPerFrame() will have a new param that will increment the age

Specifications

• pre 3.7.0 build 9058

Additional context

• Tracking the passage of time of a living organism is crucial when we start modeling the growth of Bee in settlements near future

[mokun]

@bevans2000

It turns out Animal's growPerFrame() already have the time param.

Strangely, Plant doesn't have that ability to sense the passage of time. So weeds in the fish tank are timeless.

I have in mind for modeling trees as well.

Crop seems self-limiting and already is very complicated.

May be in future we could work out the inheritance relationship among Crop and Plant and possibly simplify the code.

[bevans2000]

I seriously think that modelling individual fish would be a lot of processing for little gain

[mokun]

I seriously think that modelling individual fish would be a lot of processing for little gain

it's already in the code that it tracks the age in Animal class, without me adding it.

Is it a good idea to grow bee yet in a settlement ?

[bevans2000]

Yes i don't think we use the Animal class anywhere. The Fishery just tracks the total number of Fish.

[mokun]

Yes i don't think we use the Animal class anywhere. The Fishery just tracks the total number of Fish.

Fishery already tracked the size or weight of each fish as an object.

Each weed is an object as well.

We may or may not need that detail.