Many people play spore for the opportunity to create beautiful (and ridiculous) creatures; in many ways, it is for the opportunity to create that they fall in love with spore. Thrive is now extremely poor in this regard, since the maximum you can externally change a cell is to change the color and add organelles, which makes the creative potential to thrive at the microbial stage extremely poor. I propose adding more cell customization options, for example, adding the ability to give the external organelles different textures, as well as the ability to decorate the outer cell shell, for example, with villi like ciliates.
I think if there’s problem, it lays in human nature of appreciating mostly creatures that remind macroscopic beings to some degree.
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