Living in the Underground

[JustaDumbThriver (Thrive is the only environment where I am not too lazy to capitalize)]

There are 2 AI players for every non-AI player, and the number only increases if players join. When a player joins, 2 AI relatives will be created.

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

And the AI lineages can do go extinct, correct?

[JustaDumbThriver (Thrive is the only environment where I am not too lazy to capitalize)]

Yes, but they will automatically be replaced the next round.

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

You mean like all of them or only a select few?

[JustaDumbThriver (Thrive is the only environment where I am not too lazy to capitalize)]

All AI species to go extinct will be replaced the next round.

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

How do you determine which species go extinct?

[JustaDumbThriver (Thrive is the only environment where I am not too lazy to capitalize)]

By which have the worst mutations compared to the rest. Although I am biased and that could always mean any species I don’t personally like.

[willow (they/her or yours are was/were)]

how many modifications to the cells would be too many modifications to the cells?

[JustaDumbThriver (Thrive is the only environment where I am not too lazy to capitalize)]

Anything along the lines of turning, say, a storage cell into a leaf.

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

And what if multiple cells types are being modified at the same time?

[JustaDumbThriver (Thrive is the only environment where I am not too lazy to capitalize)]

The more cell types modified at once, the less crazy you can go with each modification. That’s the general rule.

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

Hm. I can suspect that’d go… against willow’s plans.

[willow (they/her or yours are was/were)]

would making my would-be polyps produce and release egg cells, putting another membrane around all my cells as a result of how the eggs work, around the chlorosomes, which split their cytoplasm by making a membrane around the nucleus and any endosymbionts, then having the ‘cell’ within the egg cell go through normal cell fission twice, and the go into maintenance only mode due to running out of resources to grow, be too crazy?

[JustaDumbThriver (Thrive is the only environment where I am not too lazy to capitalize)]

Well gametes and extra-membraning organelles is acceptable, but gametes will be produced slow.

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

Are willow’s mutations acceptable for a 2-round timeframe?

[JustaDumbThriver (Thrive is the only environment where I am not too lazy to capitalize)]

Yeah, two-round timeframe is acceptable.

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

CAN a mutation be made to evolve in 2 rounds instead of being developed in 1?

[willow (they/her or yours are was/were)]

the eggs don’t use gametes, they’re just big cells for sending elsewhere via water currents, so they can grow into a polyp that’s genetically identical (or at most distinct, genetically very similar) to the parent polyp

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

So are the eggs just better spores then?

[willow (they/her or yours are was/were)]

actually, spores are generally made via genetic recombination, or are themselves the gametes, or will grow into the gametes
these are more like parthenogenic eggs