I still think an increased number of more specific miches would solve the problem, but I also think that progressing towards bigger features and later stages to bring more money and manpower in is more important now. Later, when it’s more feasible, having distinct specialist and omnitroph miches would lead to more specialists and greatly increase the diversity of organisms in your patch, but I don’t think it’s worth delaying the “completion” of microbe and moving to multicellular to do that just yet. Though “niches” will definitely need to be more numerous and specific.
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