How do you be top in a niche?

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

It would still be a substantial increase in the times, especially once one gets into multicellular

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

How do you think a Player-based miche would work? Would it take into account difficult settings?

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

HOW would it work like though? Would it base it’s liking of one’s species by their playstyle, or by what they set up in the editor?

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

Probably a combination of Player’s playstyle, what the Player created in the Editor, and how well the Player species did (number deaths/lack of deaths, number of cell divisions, e.t.c.).

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

I feel like that would take A LOT of coding to add, which’d be especially burdensome in this time of multicellular development

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Maybe it could be added for Macroscopic first?

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

Perhaps, but late on if at all since macroscopic is the critical stage for Thrive to get proper funding

[Rathalos]

@aah31415

Wouldn’t this DOUBLE autoevo times assuming all the extra slots get filled?

Absolutely, double the species is double the calculations.

@AnthropocenianAge

I was thinking of this. For the sake of resources usage, let us say that now the miche tree is doubled; there will be a Large and Small sized organism based miche tree for each food source. The predator of small organism size niche would be the top of its size miche tree, while the large organism size predator niche would b the tope of its size miche tree.

I think I’ve said it before, but simple size is a poor representation for IRL niche division. Niches are primarily about what, where, when and how life survives while finding food.

@AnthropocenianAge

One of these new size-based miche slots (not just predation) could be reserved for the player organism.

It’s worth thinking again about why you think it is necessary for the player to be the top of a miche. It’s not necessary for avoiding extinction.

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

Is there any additional planned benefit to being the top of a niche besides being favored by Auto-Evo?

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Maybe it could weaken the distraught brought by mass extinctions for you?

[Rathalos]

@AnthropocenianAge

Is there any additional planned benefit to being the top of a niche besides being favored by Auto-Evo?

Essentially no. Species get a share of the energy from a niche proportional to their score share, regardless of what miche they are top in. But non-player species that are not occupying miche and did not only just migrate somewhere get essentially deleted. That’s really all we need from it.

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

Speaking of miches, I presume they will feed into how one domesticates a species, right?

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So being able to live in Anthropogenic biomes would be one requirement for domestication, correct?

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I suppose so, though in the past now gone animals like wolves were domesticated while living in relatively primordial environments when compared with what they are like now, didn’t they?

[Poodelicus (Crazy, Curious, and Stubborn)]

That depends on how you define an Anthropogenic area. They did more or less move into the Social Centers the Homo sapiens lived in at the time. Given that some modern livestock essentially live on a grassland, those wolves may have adapted more that the modern livestock, coming inside of houses or equivalent.

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

Tbf I am not sure you can even domesticate a species without interacting with it, so by definition you’d need the domesticated to, in some way, interact with anthopogenic environments

[Rathalos]

@aah31415

Speaking of miches, I presume they will feed into how one domesticates a species, right?

Currently, starting endosymbiosis creates a new miche for them wherever you are. I imagine we could do something similar for domestication.

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I presume such animals would get protection for their miche representing the interests of their domesticators, like how humans usually protect their own livestock?