If some organelle had no mp cost thatโd be broken.
Btw, could some easteregg alluding to the removed protoplasm organelle exist?
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Maybe renaming your cell to โProtoplasmโ allows you to have temporarily increased cytoplasm storage for one turn, and it works only once to prevent exploiting? Or maybe have Cytoplasm be renamed to โProtoplasmโ only on the first editor session? Probably the easiest thing would be to add a random floating Cytoplasm chunk in the environment named โProtoplasmโ.
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True, but even with that, what I am talking about is that you can just disable single genes to get things like โno branchesโ or โall the branchesโ, and everything in between.
Yes, because you are deliberately limited to only having one without the nucleus.
Sure, that would also mostly have the same effect, though even more far-reaching since it doesnโt only apply to newly placed organelles.
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As in a piece of marine snow?
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Donโt know if this has been suggested or not before but should we add Parasitism and Symbiosis, it could solve the issue of Heterotrophy being unreliable
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Wouldnโt parasitism need a whole new organelle to function?
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Donโt parasites typically lack some organelles/functions, which why they get nutrients from other organisms in the first place? Perhaps Parasitism in Microscopic could be an evolvable trait under behaviorโฆ
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I think weโd need a sucking pilus of some sort for parasites to use and โbe defined byโโฆ
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There are a wide variety of ways to be a symbiote/parasite/mutalist/commensal/ectosymbiont/endosymbiont. I donโt think one organelle could cover half the possibilities of any one of those relationship types.
Microscopically? People have suggested being able to live inside a macroscopic organism, but I donโt think that is what you mean. Also, it has been suggested a microbe could latch on to another microbe and/or use a proboscis variant of the pilus. Not sure why that second one didnโt make the cut.
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I meant that new pilus variant as just for the microbe stage, not the sole face of parasitism for the whole game.
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Perhaps if there was a game mechanism implemented to stay inside another cell, without being digested and ejected, would also be a good way to have parasitism.
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Maybe if you have an undigestable membrane or a mucocyst?
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Itโs possible to not be digested now. The question is . . . how do you keep the other cell from ejecting you?
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Maybe itโd be you keeping yourself inside?
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Maybe if taking damage not only prevents engulfing, but also ejecting, too? Perhaps ingested material could take more time to be ejectedโฆ
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Should there also be commensal stuff in the microscopic stages or no?
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I am pretty sure commensalism does exist between bacterial and/or archaeal species in real life, so it would make sense to add that feature eventually.
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I suppose it could be stuff like some microbes staying close to your organism to be safe from a predator that is weaker than you?
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That would be too deadly, you couldnโt spit out toxic cells.
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This is why I also suggest slowing down the ejection time as a possible improvement/alternative.
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