honestly the if numbers on it are being fudged, they’re probably being fudged down, rather than up
irl green sulfur bacteria can survive off of less light than the stars in the night sky alone give to the earth, esp since they can survive off a few photons per chlorophyll per day, which they regularly do in their natural habitat
would mine still be processing, or do i already have them?
(iirc i got 1 extra mutation and 1 extra action)
Also I recall it was mentioned that the more OAs there are, the less impact does an individual OA have. Would that mean if one got 4 OAs, each OA would have as much impact as half an OA before the acquisition then?
I was thinking more of a “bandwith” limitation, you will get “full” upgrades eventually, but the more you have trying to install at the same time, the more rounds it’ll take
Have you considered putting a hard limit to the amount of OAs one can harness considering their semi-exponential nature if used in certain ways?
this entire FG is about stuggling against impossibility. I might make some sort of diminishing returns feature, but not a hard cap
Will we be allowed to know where this cap’s effects start (if they only start from some point) or will that only be revealed once the cap’s start is reached?
I will reveal it once I actually decide how to implement it, it won’t be at least for a couple more rounds
I see. So I suppose OA counts up to 10 OAs are still permitted without the cap effects starting?
people, could you please submit your stuff for the round? or if you’ve lost interest, notify me?
Both OAs: Develop more OAs
m1: outer membrane stabilization(cells only expand via cytoplast mitosis, for now)
m2(?): cells pull all their cytoplasts to either ‘pole’ of their membrane before mitosis, and genetically identical pairs are pulled to opposite sides
OA1: make a few robots for making large structures
OA2(?): fly a temperature sensor and a few vials of different gasses down to earth to see what molecules are suitable as refrigerants
the ones with (?) in them are for if the things to give me those have finished processing
and would i have a bunch of unspecialized organelles and 2 nucleoplasts or just a bunch of cytoplasts because of the cells with no dna not replicating?
if it’s the latter i’ll probably be making smth like a dinokaryon later, but if it’s the former i’ll actually need to undo that for one of the plans i have
oh and cytoplast literally means cell plastid, and is just for differentiating between the cell as defined by the cell membrane, and the cells as defined by the plasma membranes
cytoplast is for the latter, and cell would be for the former
at least for now, you have no complete upgrades, so is it ok if I take M1 and OA1?
how long til they complete?
I think… 2 more rounds, since I haven’t fleshed out the “bandwidth” mechanic
How many people are left to submit their votes?
around half I believe, but there’s the issue of people who might have outright lost interest
What will you do with those then?
I’ll do one last ping this weekend for them to submit their stuff, if they don’t, I’ll assume they don’t care and remove them, with their species being archived
I see. Not many FGs experience this sort of revival…