The population keeps crashing

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

Is it ever optimal to go for extra fluid membrane?

[Oncpapa]

I don’t know, but I always go maximum fluidity every single playthrough anyways

[AnthropocenianAge (AnthropocenianAge Arthropleura wants to give you a hug!)]

@thriveuser1454

Silica and calcium carbonate are basically useless, since they allow you to neither engulf nor prevent engulfment; they’re tanky but only useful in very niche cases.

Ironically enough, I always go for either Chitin or Silica.

Chitin is my main choice for membrane since it is indigestible if other cells don’t have Lysosomes, it gives better osmoregulation than Single or Double, and it is has Toxin resistance. Before the new Miche system, toxins used to be more prevalent (at least in my experience), so this why I would use it.

Silica is my second choice since I think it gives the highest health (170), the best osmoregulation, the highest physical resistance, and it just looks cool.

Since the new Miche system implementation, I have been recently using a lot of Cellulose. Again, I have noticed that toxins are not prevalent, so it makes more sense to go with the other normally indigestible membrane.

I do not use Calcium Carbonate, but considering how prevalent Calcium Carbonate shells are in some organisms, the membrane types may confer other advantages and disadvantages in higher stages eventually.

Maybe I can do a combined Calcium Carbonate and Mucous organism playthrough…

@aah31415

Is it ever optimal to go for extra fluid membrane?

@Oncpapa

I always go maximum fluidity every single playthrough anyways

I normally go for Single membrane with max fluidity if I am trying to do endosymbiosis (basically be speedy to catch endosymbionts). Otherwise, I always minimize my membrane fluidity for extra health. But this is just my preferred playstyle…

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@AnthropocenianAge

I normally go for Single membrane with max fluidity if I am trying to do endosymbiosis (basically be speedy to catch endosymbionts).

Wouldn’t adding more flagella solve this problem too? Just how early do you go for an endosymbiont?

[thriveuser1454 (Occasional Thrive Player)]

That’s the thing. Flagella are just better, speed-wise. I’m not sure how the speed membrane things work, but I’m pretty sure the benefit from adding another max-length flagellum will always be better.

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

By the way, from your experience how much does the lenght modify the speed output of a flagellum?

[thriveuser1454 (Occasional Thrive Player)]

I don’t know. I don’t really take good measurements of the exact improvements to my cell. I also max out my flagellum length in almost all cases (surplus ATP is very common and it doesn’t cost MP to change flagellum length, so it’s not hard to sustain giant ones).

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

@thriveuser1454

and it doesn’t cost MP to change flagellum length

I feel like this could be changed to have an actual cost tied to flagellum length change

[hhyyrylainen]

With the massive backlog of issues, almost everything is already an open issue.

Add MP cost for modifying flagellum length upgrade in the editor

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

How high will be the cost? Like 20 MP over the entire slider?