Lack of Specialisation Pressure

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

Which version were they in again?

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

It was in 0.6.3.0 and below…

[Poodelicus (Crazy, Curious, and Stubborn)]

Cells can get pretty big in real life though. The video @Rocketsgobrrrr linked has 6 different macroscopic single celled organisms.

Mod idea: polynucleation mod

The idea of this mod reminds me of some single celled organisms with multiple nuclei which means this is actually realistic. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9SLYdENgsog Edit: on a side note i think something like this would be really cool to put in the game.

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

I see. That’s quite some time ago already. I guess improving the auto-evo does take away stuff at times… But that’s the price we should we willing to pay for a realistic spore “successor”.

[Poodelicus (Crazy, Curious, and Stubborn)]

I think the mucus one might have been 0.6.7, but I might be miss remembering that.

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

I wonder if there will be support added for large, amoeba-like cells one day…

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

Maybe. An important step might be to re-add the mutation rate slider going all the way to 5.

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

It could also require adding things like pseudopods to microbe stage, which is rather certainly a feature for times after 1.0.0. Long after.

[Rathalos]

If you’re interested in more in-depth discussion on miches: Miche Suggestion thread

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

Macroscopic cells are 99% NOT getting into the game due to such a feature being highly niche.

[Poodelicus (Crazy, Curious, and Stubborn)]

Agreed, but it is an argument for huge cells that can engulf the (microscopic) player being plausible.

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

Would they player be able to become such a cell too in order to get to sapience or would it always be a dead-end path?

[Poodelicus (Crazy, Curious, and Stubborn)]

I think being that large would make moving to multicellular problematic. But you could always just evolve to be smaller again.

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

I guess so… afterall, removing is a lot cheaper than adding in-game.

[domin2ktr]

I think it’s worth adding a multi-niche debuff to the game due to the fact that species that occupy several niches at once will collect less energy than specialized species. Example: a bacterium that engages in both chemolithotrophy and chemosynthesis will be much less efficient than two separate species, one of which is chemolithotrophic and the other is chemotrophic. This should encourage the specialization of auto-evo species.

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

On the other side, if the species are too specialized it will become a lot harder to fill in a missing niche/miche…