Cell membrane and extracellular structure

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@hhyyrylainen

The reason why external organelles can be placed wherever is that if that was not the case, then placing new organelles could be a major hassle. If you placed flagella early and still wanted to increase your cell size, you’d need to move the flagella around each editor cycle.

What about removing the mp cost for moving the organelles?

The placement of the internal organs don’t change the functionality of the cell, only the external ones do^[1], it doesn’t matter if we can move them or not. Also the positions^[2] and even number^[3] of the organelles can change, so its not a fixed thing. Why should evolution care enough to make the cytoskeleton keep the mitochondria on the left side of the chloroplast or something like that.

@Lan

The external organelles placed inside the ‘External’ may take angle coordinates and map them to the coordinates of the hexagonal grid.

Angle coordinates and centroids are already measured in the game and they effect the gameplay,

@hhyyrylainen

a line is drawn to the center of the cell. And the angle between that line and straight vertical line, determines how much thrust the flagella generate. So for example if you place a flagellum directly at the back of your cell (and your membrane shape ends up being circular enough to not displace the flagella away from directly behind), then that flagellum has 100% of thrust available. Instead if it’s slightly pointing to the side, you get much lower percentage of thrust.

its just that we can’t directly use them to place organelles. Your suggestion should be a relatively easy thing to code, it just requires some visual designs.

@Lan

Possible overlap of external organelles.

I don’t think they would overlap. Since we have hexes, the placement would necessarily be discrete, not continuous, so the minimum angle for placing two organelles next to each other can be low in some places and higher in others. If the cell had a really weird shape where a straight line emerging from the centroid exits the cell, enters it again and exits again, the latest exit spot can be where the hex of the external organelle is placed.

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1. like how a spike can be defensive when it is placed on the back and offensive when it is placed on the front, the front being the direction you can go faster, a front may not exist functionally ↩︎

2. during ameboid movement ↩︎

3. during replication ↩︎