How do you be top in a niche?

[Rocketsgobrrrr]

When I’m playing Thrive sometimes I will look into the food chain and find myself in a niche but in the next turn another microbe that evolves from me just takes my spot. Does anyone have any tips to be number 1 in your niche?

Also say for example hydrogen sulfide medium rock consumption.

[aah31415 (The maker of SitF, Radiostrocity, The Lifenote and TGBing; The Second Ascended...; And just maybe a security warning come alive...?)]

This happens because the player doesnt (usually) fit neatly into the miche tree so a new species is created to fit their role better

[AnthropocenianAge (𝒜𝓇𝓉𝒽𝓇𝑜𝓅𝓁𝑒𝓊𝓇𝒶 𝓌𝒶𝓃𝓉𝓈 𝓉𝑜 𝑔𝒾𝓋𝑒 𝓎𝑜𝓊 𝒶 𝒽𝓊𝑔!)]

I wonder if other people play with trying to occupy specific niches from the beginning?

[aah31415 (The maker of SitF, Radiostrocity, The Lifenote and TGBing; The Second Ascended...; And just maybe a security warning come alive...?)]

Eh I don’t bother doing that, my population is usually good enough for me to begin with

[Rathalos]

There’s almost always some way to make a change to score slightly better in a niche. And if there is one, auto-evo will find it. Since the score also depends on all sorts of conditions, what’s “optimal” is also constantly changing.

That makes it very difficult to actually occupy a niche as a player, since auto-evo actually happens at a slightly different point in relation to where the niche occupants get set compared to the player.

[aah31415 (The maker of SitF, Radiostrocity, The Lifenote and TGBing; The Second Ascended...; And just maybe a security warning come alive...?)]

It’s good then that the player’s population doesn’t necessarily tie completely into the miche system