After billions of years of dramatic physical and chemical changes to the planet, including intense meteor swarms and severe volcanism, conditions on the planet Artemis V finally calmed to the point that life could emerge. And emerge it did, for microbial life began soon after and dominated the planet for several billion years more. But now a new age is starting, the age of multicellularity.
A species of microbes has evolved the ability to coagulate into a bind into a single colony and work in unison. This primitive multicellular species, Primum Thrivium, is the first of its kind on the planet. But now that its lineage has evolved, there is nothing to stop the gears of evolution from spawning a whole host of new multicellular species from this pioneer species.
Primum Thrivium is spherical in size and very small, only 1cm in radius. It is a very simple species. It survives by feeding off of free floating clouds of glucose that wash into the tidepool from the ocean. Primum Thrivium randomly swims back and forth through the tidepool, and detects the glucose using simple touch receptor cells on its skin. The receptors can sense the change in viscosity of the water when passing through a cloud of dissolved glucose, at which point Primum Thrivium absorbs the surrounding sugars. Then, once fully satiated or once all the available food is gone, Primum Thrivium will spend the remainder of its time replicating its cells until it can reproduce.
Primum Thrivium inhabits a tidepool with the following stats:
Primum Thrivium has a relatively simple evolutionary history. However, it will expand as the years pass.
Primum Thrivium lives in a series of tidepools off the coast of one of the major continents. Their population has been relatively stable at around 100 members for the past 100,000 years, with birth rates almost always exactly matching death rates.
It is now up to you to control the evolution of multicellular life past Primum Thrivium and create a species that thrives and prospers!
The first two people to post will get to be the first two species that branch off of Primum Thrivium. All remaining players who sign up will be waitlisted and will have a chance to join on each following round. For the first two people, please post the name that you want your species to have, and how you want to spend your 100 MP evolving your species from Primum Thrivium.
@TeaKing You’re in! Since you posted first, your lineage will count as the direct descendants of Primum Thrivium. Just to clarify, unicellular species are not represented in the simulation (so you can’t add them as a prey). Think of the glucose clouds as representing the microbial life. Also, the Energy Yield of your muscular tissue is how much energy a predator gets when eating your muscle tissue, so it’s typically something you would want to decrease to make yourself less attractive as a target for predators. Would you like to change your MP spending?
@blackjacksike You’re in! Same as with what I said to TeaKing, the unicellular species are not represented in the simulation (so you can’t add them as a prey). Think of the glucose clouds as representing the microbial life. Would you like to change your MP spending?
Once all the final MP spendings are confirmed, I’ll post the first round. Also, this thread has already taught me that I should consider how to represent unicellular life in the simulation.
At the moment, the only possible prey other than the glucose clouds is TeaKing’s species, Locevin. Since I haven’t implemented combat yet, the only rule for predation is that your species must have a larger body size (body volume) than your prey. Since you are increasing your body length by 1cm this round, that makes it possible for your species to prey on his.
I was a BOS enemy, they hated me for being an “abomination”, so in retaliation declared war on them. now enough talking about other games and focus on this one.
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zenzonegaming
(Steve Buscemi Fish Clown Detective Cult Leader)
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I just got an idea for reproduction.
My idea is that once you have mated the female’s flesh becomes very nutritious in order to attract a predater that will eat flesh that has the eggs inside of it so that the embros grow and eat their host and then burst out like a Chestburster or a Bacterophage.
@TeaKing Just so you know, reducing your muscle tissue energy yield makes you less attractive to predators but no predators are currently hunting you. Meanwhile, reducing your muscle tissue metabolism means your species requires less energy per day. What do you prefer?
Alright! All MP spendings are in and I’ll crunch the numbers in the algorithm and have the first round posted soon! If you have any last minute changes to your spending now’s your last chance.
