Quick Question Thread

aah31415 · October 23, 2024, 6:25pm

I can guess it will probably be added at some point during the macroscopic stages development.

StrategyGameR · October 23, 2024, 8:57pm

Do you think thrive will ever be played in schools by cool teachers/subs?

Computed · October 23, 2024, 9:18pm

Yes, and hopefully some teacher who’s well versed in the coding magic of the game can make a fork or mod where some educational popups so that more teachers use it

aah31415 · October 23, 2024, 9:26pm

There’s still a lot of time until thrive can be used as such a tool… if ever.

Computed · October 23, 2024, 9:28pm

perhaps it could be used as funny end of unit/semester/course/reda[fdasijf thing

hhyyrylainen · October 25, 2024, 7:14am

5 posts were merged into an existing topic: The delusional ramblings of a paranoid belgiumphrenic

Rathalos · October 31, 2024, 12:23pm

What does the AI Mutation Rate in Advanced settings (Difficulty) exactly do now? (since the implementation of the Miche System). More MP for AI? More mutation attempts?

aah31415 · October 31, 2024, 1:02pm

Most likely that as autoevo doesn’t operate on MP.

hhyyrylainen · October 31, 2024, 4:01pm

In the new miche system it multiplies the MP limit the AI species are given to mutate. So it basically controls how many new organelles etc. changes AI species can get in a single cycle. Though there are quite a few mutations that don’t cost MP in the auto-evo mutations generation so the setting doesn’t affect those.

It does actually now with the new miche algorithm.

github.com/Revolutionary-Games/Thrive

src/auto-evo/steps/ModifyExistingSpecies.cs

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          }
          
          /// <summary>
          ///   Returns a new list of all possible species that might emerge in response to the provided pressures,
          ///   as well as a copy of the original species.
          /// </summary>
          /// <returns>List of viable variants, and the provided species</returns>
          private List<MicrobeSpecies> GenerateMutations(MicrobeSpecies baseSpecies, int amount,
              List<SelectionPressure> selectionPressures)
          {
              float totalMP = 100 * worldSettings.AIMutationMultiplier;
          
              temporaryMutations1.Clear();
              temporaryMutations1.Add(Tuple.Create(baseSpecies, totalMP));
              var viableVariants = temporaryMutations1;
          
              // Auto-evo assumes that the order mutations are applied doesn't matter when it actually can affect
              // results quite a bit. Maybe they should have weights?
              tempMutationStrategies.Clear();
          
              // Collect and shuffle unique strategies

aah31415 · October 31, 2024, 4:38pm

Ah, that’s nice.
Is protoplasm still around of was it removed?

AnthropocenianAge · January 6, 2025, 11:07pm

How are Radioactive biomes going to be handled along with the current repertoire of biomes?

aah31415 · January 7, 2025, 7:17am

I think radioactive chunks will spawn in already-existing biomes, not in some sort of a special biome.

Poodelicus · January 7, 2025, 9:51am

In early multicellular, do cells share digestive enzymes, or are those specific to the engulfing cell?

hhyyrylainen · January 7, 2025, 10:16am

They are not shared, as they are locally inside just the enzyme storage vacuole.

aah31415 · January 7, 2025, 10:31am

It doesn’t make it much harder to develop advanced digestion…

woejoe · January 7, 2025, 5:17pm

Question about time scaling: if you decide to stay in particular stage instead of evolving, will other species still develop indifferently of you?

aah31415 · January 7, 2025, 5:18pm

Yes, and it’s planned that if they manage to reach the next stage of Thrive, that’ll be a gameover condition for you, the player.

AnthropocenianAge · January 8, 2025, 3:01am

So I can’t just stay as an Amoeba for 4.5 Billion years?

aah31415 · January 8, 2025, 5:46am

Nope. Most likely by then some another branch of life would’ve progressed to more advanced stages of life.

Poodelicus · January 8, 2025, 6:40am

This is entirely untrue. It was suggested that if the AI progressed to multicellular before you, they would either:
A: Transcend the next generation (which, with the current plan of locking galactic stage until the player researches FTL cannot happen), or
B: Would pollute/acidify the ocean in Space Stage (which is being used as an argument for not letting them move on, though I personally believe they should be allowed to move on and pollute the ocean)

It was also mentioned that the current Dev team believes that they can’t handle programing the AI to react to the player being an earlier stage than them. I personally believe they are mistaken, but also don’t believe it’s worth arguing with them over at this time.

If your Microbe can survive the oceans being polluted/acidified, you should be able to stay a Microbe until your sun dies, possibly longer.