ho boy, 2 new fresh oven in one day.
welcome to the forum!!
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Why didn’t you welcome this fresh eye earlier? I recall you were online yesterday after they’ve already joined I think
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Well… that’s because I wasn’t 100% available. I had to finish writing Arabenhem before bed.
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What is this thing you were writing may I ask?
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Welcome to the forum @IronOrganism, hope you like it here.
Quick question what’s you preferred play style in this game?
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Usually, (based off my most recent playthrough) A stationary Iron build in an underwater cave. Why? Photosynthesis, is sometimes a hassle for me due to pesky prokaryotes and the global glaciation event that’s not really that bad. Chemosynthesis is eh… usually a back up option. Heterotrophy, I mean I’ve tried, however hunting once glucose is depleted around all the patches essentially is well… hard currently.
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Hunting as a Eukaryote requires locating your preys food source, waiting, killing them with minimal chasing, and slurping up their liquefied remains. I suggest being an Iron Eating Heterotroph who eats other Iron Eaters. It doesn’t help that Toxins have been unbalanced since their introduction, though that is being worked on. Combining Suction Cilia with Poison Pili can be viable, or, used correctly, not only can Mucus be used to rocket towards prey, but shot in front of you, it slows down other creatures that do not use mucus more effectively that the Toxins that are suppose to slow down prey. As a Eukaryote, I do not recommend trying to chase down Prokaryotes, and Engulfing other Eukaryotes reliably can be challenging, so killing the biggest creature you can find in the most energy efficient way possible and slurping it up while avoiding toxins is better than trying to engulf as a Eukaryote.
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Can’t you just engulf them?
I do know to chase down prey with toxins, it’s just this specific run, doing predation by the time I had settled in as a eukaryote, would’ve caused a major dent in my patch’s biological stability. As there were eventually only 3 species, mine and 2 other eukaryotes, the other 2 species had toxins, I didn’t. Those species used the toxin so rarely, and never for hunting that there was no active predation going on at all in the patch, I have no idea how the prokaryotes all died off. So I just chose to make a build that just literally eats Iron only. However I could have done a Iron Heterotroph, I chose not too because the option I chose was safer, and also because it would be cool to live in a patch with no predation. Some of this information may not be true, as I have no idea how auto-evo works, so the patch stability could’ve changed minorly, or improved the biological stability even, that’s a guess of mine.
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A prokaryotic dieoff is common when a player induced eukaryote-genesis occurs
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Yeah, that is one area that needs some balancing. IRL, it is possible for predators to eat things with driving them extinct. It certainly should be a possibility, but I think it happens too frequently now.
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Isn’t that the overall destructive player problem that needs to be solved then?
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