Glucose-producing Vacuoles & Rubisco

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Rubisco was scrapped because it would make photosynthesis too annoying iirc

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but if it was an upgrade it could be ran the same as current. just include the rubisco upgrade as part of thylakoids by default, and if the player doesnt want it then the player can downgrade it.

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You mean you’d want rubisco to be an on/off toggle for photosynthetic organelles?

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if you buy a photosynthetic organelle, and you place it down, it would have the rubisco upgrade already. then, if you dont want to make glucose with it, you remove the upgrade.

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Wouldn’t this make the organelle useless?

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what do you mean exactly? by removing the upgrade? if you remove the upgrade, the thylakoid would simply make ATP

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Yeah but this is the same as if it was a cytoplasm hex. Why would you ever disable it like that?

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the difference is that the cytoplasm uses glucose to make ATP, but the downgraded thylakoid would use sunlight to make ATP

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You sure this is how rubisco-less photosynthesis works?

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rubisco is just the working name for a Thrive part converting ATP to glucose, i don’t know how accurate the name is

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I think if you take out rubisco this sort of photosynthesis will yield 0 results

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it could use a different name, but it would make sense as an upgrade

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Even if it uses a different name I don’t think this makes much sense, as shown on the image. You just remove the ability to intake CO2 that way

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if we are going by that graph, it does show thylakoids making ATP directly (without involving Rubisco) which is what you disagree with, but I am not here to argue about realism but about gameplay

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Idk then, will probably let someone else figure out if that’d work

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the ideas i am discussing in this topic currently:

  1. an upgrade (“Rubisco”) could be used to convert ATP to Glucose
  2. all existing organelles that produce glucose could be refactored to include this upgrade by default
  3. if those organelles have Rubisco removed, they would just make ATP instead of making Glucose.
  4. a vacuole could have this upgrade added and produce glucose for you

Old idea not being discussed as much: a subtype of vacuole that exclusively produces glucose as a factory

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including the thermoproteins and thermoplasts?

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you could even include metabolosomes if youd like, it would just be counterproductive.

a rationale is, why produce glucose from the environment? if thermo production is making glucose, and my cell cannot digest glucose, why would I not just make ATP instead?

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…But they are submerged in cytoplasm that breaks down glucose?

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good point there, still could be refactored to make ATP and then if you have a different enzyme you could add that to make a different chemical like nitrogen fixing or something

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