Suicidal Microbes Abound

[Poodelicus (Crazy, Curious, and Stubborn)]

@WeberCooks

I’ve noticed and seen some other reports in other threads about an issue where other microbes will hyper aggressively swarm any source of glucose to the point that microbes will come from all around and throw themselves by the dozens at my player cell.

@hhyyrylainen

(First impressions about new update (0.8.1.1) - #6 by hhyyrylainen)

@thriveuser1454

For some godforsaken reason, I’m able to leave my game idle with engulf active because a gigantic horde of cells is following me with single-minded determination to the point of starvation, for no apparent reason, staying targeting me even if I turn around and go the other way. In fact, I’ve stopped engulfing them because they all got too big to do so! They’re still chasing me and when they all divide I’ll start engulfing again, no doubt. Ridiculous!

@Poodelicus

I had a similar thing happen, but I was moving between 3 patches and this only happened in one of them.

So it is just gameplay variety from stuff evolving. Though, this shouldn’t be too common as it leads to people reporting it as a “bug”. So hopefully it isn’t too prevalent as I have no idea what would need to be adjusted to make this less likely to happen.

@thriveuser1454

It seems to have no impact on the species’ population, although in one editor step they vanished without a trace and a new species appeared. (Editorwise. They’re still loaded in the patch.)

So it did affect them? Probably the external effects dropping the population due to deaths on screen would have been very massive.

It’s an amusing glitch that seems to be rarish, and our head programmer is not an AutoEvo/AI guy, so this, while maybe worth noting to look at later, can probably wait awhile til someone with skill in that area can look at it. Though when we do get someone with the skills needed for this rare glitch, I think are more important AutoEvo/AI things that should take priority. Assuming this is as rare as I think it is. It it becomes more common, than maybe it should be bumped up in priority.