Ideas for the Aware Stage [Put your ideas in this thread]

[hhyyrylainen]

This is starting to sound quite a bit like animals with photosynthesis

Plants (No not plant civs)

Except due to the meager energy returns of photosynthesis, complex plants sacrifice almost all their ability to move to maximize their returns from photosynthesis, becoming even more static with size. Animals, however, can move to collect compounds and being able to move allows them to profit off of moving themselves (requiring lots of power, or energy over time). A human walking is about 87 Watts (joules/second or mass*speed), which is about the power cost of a good flourescent bulb. The ener…