The Mechanis system was quite the oddity. It had a large fusion reactor encased by metal, not the usual giant plasma ball. All 3 planets were also mechanical. However, only the 2nd one from the star, Mechanis C, had, albeit robotic, life.
How to play
You start out as this metal cube or whatever else players have made if you joined late.
The little ball is at position 0, 0. Using this grid is optional (to conserve forum space). You can just make a list of coordinates everything is at. Also, you CANβt replace the initial cube. This is so that I know the positions of everything.
Here are some organelles to use as templates:
Structure: What the original cube is. 16 EP. 1 Li β 5 EU.
Generator: Converts lithium (the glucose equivalent) into energy. 50 EP. 3 Li β 15 EU.
Solar cell: Uses The Sun⒠to charge up batteries, producing Lithium⦠somehow. 50 EP. +3 Li, -3 EU. Half as effective in mesopelagic zones, does not work in lower zones or underwater caves.
Motor: Basically a flagella. Makes you move faster, but consumes energy. 50 EP. -5 EU.
Primordial CPU: Acts as a nucleus for robots. 75 EP. -50 EU.
Locking Mechanism: Locked behind CPU. Allows robots of the same species to attach to eachother. 50 EP. -1 EU.
Radio transmitter: Locked behind CPU. Allows robots to communicate with others of the same species. 50 EP. -1 EU
You can make your own organelles from these. Also, after Microbe, you will no longer be limited by EP, but by the Insanity-o-Meter.
When youβre at red, thatβs not allowed. Anything else is allowed, but Iβd suggest aiming for yellow. Also, orange is unlocked at sexual reproduction, which is unlockable at Macroscopic. However, when you first unlock sex, you are twice as likely to get genetic diseases (or coding bugs?), so get an immune system (antivirus) ASAP to mitigate that.
Also, itβs already estabalished that a primordial CPU is needed for going multicellular, but you need some wiring to go macroscopic, a basic CPU for going into the aquatic stage, no CPU upgrades for land, a land habitat and general CPU for going tribal, and an advanced CPU to go technological and now you have finished and Iβm ending the FG and making another FG about you!
Since fralegend posted that robot crab video, I had the urge to make this. Round 1 Round 2
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aah31415
(The maker of SitF, Radiostrocity, The Lifenote and TGBing; The Second Ascended...; And just maybe a security warning come alive...?)
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Is this a throwback to your old evo FGs?
Also will our civs make bio-computers for a true inverse of real life?
No, not really. Just a big ball of metal. And the initial organisms are more like microbots, due to the scale of the components being on micrometers, not nanometers.
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aah31415
(The maker of SitF, Radiostrocity, The Lifenote and TGBing; The Second Ascended...; And just maybe a security warning come alive...?)
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yeah! Also itβs a throwback.