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

[Zahyyy (the one who spent 4 hours writing a single post)]

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I would like to know your opinion regarding an idea that I’ve already mentioned in the Quick question thread a few days ago, but I feel like it should be here among other fellow microbe stage ideas.

@Zahyyy

As you were talking about some people picking thylakoids in places where there’s no light, I had another idea. What if an organelle gets unlocked once you come in contact with the thing it is supposed to process? So if you’ve never encountered iron, you won’t be able to get rusticyanin. Similarly, if you’ve never encountered sunlight, you wouldn’t be able to develop thylakoids. I think it would not only prevent some people from dying in the very first gen, but it also makes sense from the evolutionary perspective. Why would you evolve to process something you have never encountered? In my opinion, this would be a cool “unlock” system at least as a placeholder for now.

I will be looking forward to any feedback, questions or improvement of this idea. I think this would not be the hardest thing to implement, would make more sense and would prevent deaths caused by the player not knowing which organelle does what, which might discourage some players.