Pathogenic bacteria at the multicellular+ stage

[domin2ktr]

I have an idea that at the multicellular stage, single-cell pathogens will develop, developed with the help of auto-evo, which can be fought with the help of strengthening the immune system and medicine.

[multicraft (go vote up every decent khan academy program)]

you’re saying we resulted in a partnership with Ndemic Creations
(this post just got me sentient)

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@multicraft

resulted in a partnership with Ndemic Creations

Thrive isn’t or ever was partnered with whatever “Ndemic Creations” are (I think).

[JustaDumbThriver (May or may not have quoted Oliver Lugg)]

Ndemic Creations made Plague Inc, if you didn’t know.

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Oh, I see. That makes sense now lol.

[Croco (''Im a crocodile baby!'' -Crocodile from Mokey's show. Yeah you get it.)]

Pathogens could also only be active at certain difficulties or activated manually in the custom menu if you want a more simple experience, maybe there could also be multicellular parasites similar to tapeworms.

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@Croco

maybe there could also be multicellular parasites similar to tapeworms.

There probably will be in macroscopic+ stages. Afterall, there are many miches which could increase the game’s quality greatly once the correct time comes…

[Croco (''Im a crocodile baby!'' -Crocodile from Mokey's show. Yeah you get it.)]

I wonder if viruses would be a thing too, like auto evo cells turning into a virus type cell or something, or maybe the player could play as a pathogenic bacteria or parasite if they wanted too. Would be funny if you could reach awakening as a pathogen.

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@Croco

the player could play as a pathogenic bacteria or parasite if they wanted too.

Dead end for reaching sapience, won’t be added.

[Croco (''Im a crocodile baby!'' -Crocodile from Mokey's show. Yeah you get it.)]

that is true although can’t the player like stay in a stage for as long as they want? maybe there could be a warning telling the player that turning into a pathogen wont allow them to reach sapience, in my opinion it would be pretty fun making the ultimate pathogen and fighting the immune systems of alien creatures.

And i just realized that’s just plague. inc

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

The problem lies in the fact that it might just not be worth is to create a full-blown “pathogen stage”, as it could be better to spend the effort elsewhere. Had the devforce been implementing features of such kind, we’d never think multicellular development could be ever reached.

[Croco (''Im a crocodile baby!'' -Crocodile from Mokey's show. Yeah you get it.)]

yeah i know im mostly just imagining, we probably wont get a playable pathogen stage, just bacteria that would infect the player.

Edit: oo im multicellular now

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Forum ranks will soon enough take much longer to attain for you…

[Croco (''Im a crocodile baby!'' -Crocodile from Mokey's show. Yeah you get it.)]

cant wait till i become aware.

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There are ranks way above “Aware”…

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@aah31415

The problem lies in the fact that it might just not be worth is to create a full-blown “pathogen stage”, as it could be better to spend the effort elsewhere.

I feel like if we do get “staying in a stage for a bit after the AI leaves the stage”, which I think we should, we could just add a connected patch to each patch with an environment made of the macroscopic species of the area. They could be barely procedurally generated, not like you do any real serious infecting, you just play in a patch with hostile immune cells and tons of compounds you don’t get in the ocean. Plus multicellular parasites aren’t a dead end at all. You likely won’t get that far inside something, but you can leave yk.

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@Deathwake

Plus multicellular parasites aren’t a dead end at all. You likely won’t get that far inside something, but you can leave yk.

Except internal parasites don’t generally get all that complex in their structure or mind…

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

True. But it isn’t a dead end. It can be a roundabout where you make a big old stall, or it can be a time of change, just not increased complexity. You can evolve a complex multi-staged life cycle you take with you out of parasitism, you can evolve abilities like immune system suppression and blood-eating that are useful as a general predator of animals larger than you. Having a bit of time as a parasite would be plenty useful to a vampire bat or mosquito, and one of those could totally develop brains and take over.

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

Right… Through are we sure the player would have enough time to become sapient when such advanced creatures are already around?

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

I mean, why stop them? It’d be a good challenge run. I’d do it. Also, reminder than we had “advanced” animals in the early Permian. That’s in the realm of 300 million years ago. That’s enough time to catch up. Obviously It’s luck, the Permian animals could have had a brains explosion early on, and taken with a few dozen million years to find actual sapience, but they didn’t. The dinosaurs could have done the same, and seemed to be on the way by the Cretaceous, but the meteor got them. We finally did, and it only took us 65 million years from being rat things (who were, admittedly, quite smart). Imagine if a Permian endoparasite got out after the Great Dying killed off most of it’s hosts, got really smart (monkey smart) by the Cretaceous, and and became sapient tens of millions of years before we humans got around to it. Very possible.