Making a Line For What Content Not to Include

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

I can imagine things like the sea sheep might be troublesome to justify having all it’s features implemented without it just being an effort-stealing niche feature.

[Poodelicus (Crazy, Curious, and Stubborn)]

I would imagine the barnacle that parasitically lives in a crabs reproductive tract might be problematic, depending on how thoroughly Thrive wishes to represent reproductive tracts.

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

I can guess that those might not end up in the game, especially depending on how complex will parasitism really get in-game…

[Poodelicus (Crazy, Curious, and Stubborn)]

Hopefully, other forms of internal parasite, such as intestinal, respiratory, cardiovascular, and/or neurological, will end up in the game in some form. Then of course, there are arboreal parasites, as well as external parasites for skin, hair/fur, feathers, and scales. Then there are the ocular parasites (which I find particularly disturbing). I just question reproductive parasites specifically for content reasons. Of all the types, that one seems the least likely/most problematic to include.

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

Can we be Hyperparasites, or parasites of parasites?

[Poodelicus (Crazy, Curious, and Stubborn)]

I assume that, other than possibly size minimums, they would not be harder than other parasites.

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

There are also parasite forms that infest the flesh of a creature.

[Deathwake (i nuked zenzone and will never let him forget it)]

I ING HOPE SO (char limit)

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

Would you like to play as one of those as to take revenge on the regular parasites?

[JustaDumbThriver (*Agressive kazotsky kicking*)]

The greatest uno reverse card in evolutionary history.

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

“You invented parasitism… And now you’ll taste your own weapon!”

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

“Don’t trust anyone. Not even yourself.” Meme

[fralegend015 (Shroudmaster)]

That’s an achievment right there.

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

“Parasitize the lineage of parasites that used to parasite upon you”

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

That is a lot of parasites used in one sentence.

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

I wonder how detailed would parasite simulation in-game get. Maybe you could send immune cells to specific places in your body with suspected parasite activity?

Also we should return to the topic of the thread.

[domin2ktr]

I would like to mention that at the awakening stage (When your species has already achieved intelligence) there will still be a function for switching to the organism editor and, accordingly, reproduction.

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

I am fairly sure the degree of how much can you change by awakening is supposed to be smaller than back when one was in aware. Which would probably remove the ability of changing reproduction type for instance.

[Deathwake (i nuked zenzone and will never let him forget it)]

I feel like aesthetic changes based on sexual selection are likely to happen on very small evolutionary time scales, and so would be pretty cheap in MP.

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

But still doing changes like going from budding-type reproduction to sexual reproduction shouldn’t be possibly by the time one developed a sapient species.