aah31415
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โSignificantly, the first cell in your selected growth order is also the โcoreโ cell of your organism which the rest of the cells turn around.โ
Does this mean we can now functionally switch the cell type we start a new gameplay session with?
Regarding the hexagonal cell shapes in multicellular, I remember that there was a discussion in making the cell โshapesโ fully dependant on the placed organelles in a cell, like the microbe editor. So youโll be placing and connecting clumps of organelles which may have a seperate membrane generated around them instead of hexagon grids
How has the team decided to go forward?
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aah31415
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I think the current membrane system is already set in stone and probably wonโt be getting changed anytime soon
this system would just make the multicellular membranes an extension of the microbe one, but placing down clumps of organelles instead of just one and wrapped in a โseparateโ membrane, with much greater shape variety
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aah31415
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I donโt recall irl multicellular species having their own โseparateโ compartments filled with organelles like that
you donโt seem to be understanding me. instead of having the current hexagon grid based multicellular cell placing system, which is very limited and often tricky to represent the editor placements in actual gameplay, cell placement would work the same as placing organelles in microbe stage. Clumps of organelles (cell 2) will be attached to the stem cell, and that clump will visually be represented as a second cell in gameplay, perfectly and smoothly attached instead of hanging by threads
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aah31415
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I am not sure the developers would have the time needed to implement this whilst still trying to finish the rest of multicellular within 2026.
There was a prototype for placing cells in exact locations instead of a grid of big hexagons. But it has the problem that the layout became invalid if you change the shape of the cell types afterwards. So it would need a solution for that.
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aah31415
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This discourse reminds me of that discussion on the decision on whether should multicellular have freely placeable cells or locked to hexagon grid, where the later option won, held sometime before 0.5.8 iirc
aah31415
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Thatโd be for aware stage evolution probably, assuming immune system is made to allow such cellular specialization (which considering the lymphatic system may not even be included, wouldnโt even surprising to be omitted too)
