Ifelse Nested within If resulting in Expected Command Error - netlogo

I am trying to get a certain breed of turtles to lay down more or less chemical than the base amount depending on food-quality, a patch variable randomly set from 0.2 - 1. Prior to addition of the asterisked code, it worked fine. How can I make this work? Thanks!
to pickup-food
if food > 0
[set color violet
set food food - 1]
if color = violet
[facexy nest-x nest-y
jump 2
set chemical chemical + 60
**[ifelse food-quality > 0.6
[set chemical chemical + 90] ;; drop some chemical
[set chemical chemical + 30]]**
]
if (distancexy 25 14) < 2
[face patch food-x food-y
fd 3]
end
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the ifelse condition should not be in brackets, just the actions to be taken. You want:
ifelse food-quality > 0.6
[ set chemical chemical + 90 ]
[ set chemical chemical + 30 ]

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With this model I need the code for the first year (tick = 0) to be different to the remaining 4. I've run the code below and the first tick runs ok, it then ticks and stops - none of the tick = 1 code seems to be running.
globals [num_agents difference year leader_test ]
breed [tasks task]
breed [managers manager ]
tasks-own [requirement leadership matched ]
managers-own [ability wealth matched requirement task_leader]
to setup
clear-all
set num_years 5
set tolerance 5
set num_agents 100
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set shape "box"
set leadership one-of [10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100]
ifelse who < 50 [setxy 0 who set color blue][setxy 45 (who - 50) set color blue]
set heading 90
set requirement who + 100
set matched 0
]
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setxy random 30 + 10 random 50
set shape "person" set color green set heading 270
set ability (who - num_agents + 100)
set wealth 0 set matched 0
]
reset-ticks
end
to go
;;first year -different to remaining
ifelse ticks < 1 [
ask managers with [matched = 0]
[show ticks
move-to one-of tasks with [matched = 0]
fd -1
set requirement [requirement] of one-of tasks-on patch-ahead 1
set task_leader [leadership] of one-of tasks-on patch-ahead 1
set difference abs(requirement - ability)
set matched 1
set wealth (requirement)
show wealth
show task_leader
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if difference > tolerance [set color red ask tasks-on patch-ahead 1 [set shape "circle" ] ]]
]
; years 2 - num_years
[
ask managers [
if ability > (requirement + tolerance) [
ask tasks-on patch-ahead 1 [set matched 0 set shape "box" ]
setxy random 30 + 10 random 50
set shape "person" set color green set heading 270 set matched 0
]
]
ask managers with [matched = 1]
[ set leader_test random 100
if ability < (requirement - tolerance) [
if leader_test <= task_leader
[;;leader should make correct decision and fire manager
ask tasks-on patch-ahead 1 [set matched 0 set shape "butterfly" ]
setxy random 30 + 10 random 50
set shape "person" set color green set heading 270 set matched 0]
]
]
]
ask managers with [matched = 0]
[move-to one-of tasks with [matched = 0]
fd -1
set matched 1]
ask managers with [matched = 1][
set requirement [requirement] of one-of tasks-on patch-ahead 1
set task_leader [leadership] of one-of tasks-on patch-ahead 1
set difference abs(requirement - ability)
set wealth (wealth + requirement)
ask tasks-on patch-ahead 1 [set matched 1 set shape "arrow" set heading 0]
if difference > tolerance [set color red ask tasks-on patch-ahead 1 [set shape "circle" ]
]
]
ifelse ticks > (num_years ) [
stop] [tick ]
I have had problems with ticks and stop before - there is obviously something I'm not getting.
Per LeirsW
It runs just fine for me. You are using a forever button right?

NetLogo Battle Simulation: Placing soldiers in between specific coordinates?

I'm new to NetLogo and I'm unsure of how to place 300 spartans in a narrow row. Let's say an area of 2x5 patches, turtles overlapping one another. I have tried using sprout, this achieved the specific coordinate requirements but the turtles are only one per patch.. Here is some code I have.
ask patches with [pxcor > 0 and pycor > -2 and pycor < 2]
[ sprout 1 [ set color red ] ]
or
to setup-spartans
create-spartans 300
set-default-shape turtles "person"
ask spartans
[ setxy random-xcor -3 ;; makes only a single row and goes across entire screen
;; (I need it to be in a specific area)
set heading 180
set color red ]
end
How about something like this?
create-spartans 300 [
set xcor -2 + random-float 5
set ycor -1 + random-float 2
]

Problems creating a x% fraction of turtles using n-of command

I want x% of turtles, called pholders, to change their choice from a good 1 to a good 2.
The code is as follows:
ask pholders [ifelse random-float 1 <= probkauf
[ask (n-of (count pholders with [choice-num = 1] * 0.01) pholders with[choice-num = 1]) [set choice-num 2]]
[ifelse random-float 1 < 0.5[imitation set typeofchoice 1][beratung set typeofchoice 4]]
]
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Thank you very much in advance.
Your problem is that you are running the probabilistic code multiple times. Your code has this structure:
ask pholders
[ ifelse random-float 1 <= probkauf
[ ask (n-of (count pholders with [choice-num = 1] * 0.01) pholders with [choice-num = 1])
[ set choice-num 2]
]
[ <do something else> ]
]
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Based on the description in your comments, I think you want this:
globals [probkauf]
turtles-own [choice-num]
to setup
clear-all
set probkauf 0.5
create-turtles 1000
[ setxy random-xcor random-ycor
set color blue
set choice-num 1
]
reset-ticks
end
to go
update-choices
tick
end
to update-choices
ifelse random-float 1 < probkauf
[ ask turtles with [choice-num = 1]
[ if random-float 1 < 0.01
[ set choice-num 2
set color red
]
]
]
[ ; whatever happens with other part of probability
]
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I am trying to create home ranges for 3 types of hosts for a model that aims to simulate the movement of ticks across a landscape based on the presence of three host-types.
Using some code that was described in a previous post I created the following code. When I run the model I eventually get the following error message:
DISTANCE expected input to be an agent but got the number 0 instead.
Any help with the issue is greatly appreciated.
to-go
if ((week-id = 13) or (week-id = 25) or (week-id = 33))
[ask patches
[sprout-mice 2
[set color gray
set shape "mouse side"
set size 0.5
setxy random-xcor random-ycor]
]
]
if week-id = 17[
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[sprout-deer 1
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set shape "deer"
set size 1
setxy random-xcor random-ycor]
]
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let total-raccoons count raccoons
ask n-of (total-raccoons) patches
[sprout-raccoons 1
[set color black
set shape "wolf 2"
set size 0.5
setxy random-xcor random-ycor]
]
]
mice-mortality
;print (count mice)
if (week-id = 40)
[deer-mortality]
;print(count deer)
if (week-id = 45)
[raccoon-mortality]
print (count raccoons)
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[deer-move]
ask raccoons
[raccoons-move]
ask mice
[mice-move]
the submodels:
to deer-move
right random 50
left random 50
forward 1
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to raccoons-move
ifelse distance home-patch > 10
[face home-patch]
[right random 90
left random 90]
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to mice-move
ifelse distance home-patch > 2
[face home-patch]
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How to ask turtles to avoid a patch with specific color at patch-ahead 1 but turtles move forward by bigger number (not fd 1) in one step in NetLogo

I am trying to ask turtles with any heading (random 360) to avoid the patches with red color. But, I observed that if a turtle is asked to move " fd 1 + random-float 2.0" then sometime turtles turns (set heading heading - 180) when there is a red patch ahead and sometimes(even most of the times) do not turn. Also when I ask the turtles to move " fd 1 " or " fd 0.1 + random-float 0.9 " the code works all fine. Hopefully the reason behind is the number of patches I am asking the turtles to move in one step. What will be the next patch for the move "fd 0.1 + random-float 0.9" and how could I make this working with patch-ahead 1. My code and the interface is added.
to setup
clear-all
ask patches [set pcolor green ]
ask patches with [pycor = 3] [set pcolor red]
create-turtles 40
[
set color blue
set xcor random-pxcor
set ycor random-pycor
set heading random 360
set size 1
set speed 1 + random-float 2.0
]
end
to go
ask turtles [
fd speed
avoid-walls
]
end
to avoid-walls
if [pcolor] of patch-ahead 1 = red [set heading heading - 180]
end
Try using in-cone instead of patch-ahead
to avoid-walls
let front-patches patches in-cone 2 75
if pcolor of one-of front-patches = red [set heading heading - 180]
end