Using the "Move to Me" command and the binding agent,you can bind to more cells than your total patch population

[EZ_7_Nova]

When using the Binding Agent in cell stage, if you use the “Move to Me” command, and wait a few minutes, you can ended up binded to more of your cell than the total patch population of it. Also, when using the binding agent repeatedly with upwards of 30 cells, you can make (from what I’ve seen) at least 10 cells of your species stack on top of each other. And a third thing similar to these, when you’re binded to upwards of 40 ish cells, cells of different species stop appear; upwards of 70, and only a few new cells of your own species appear every ten or so minutes; usually in groups of two.

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

That’s because patch population isn’t “1 cell” when it’s “1” or “139 cells” when it “139”, it’s more like when it’s “1” it’s “1 billion” for example.

[EZ_7_Nova]

Thanks for the quick feedback! But why can ten of them stack on top of each other when using the Binding Agent repeatedly?

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

You mean they clip onto eachother, right?

[EZ_7_Nova]

Not quite? I’ve gotten up to 9 to all occupy the exact same spot and move in sinc, and then a tenth one clipped onto that when I activated the Binding Agent, and when I deactivated it the tenth one left, but the original 9 stayed in one spot all on top of each other.

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

I can imagine that’s a harder-to-fix issue, or one not relevant enough for the developers to take the effort of fixing it.

[EZ_7_Nova]

True. Thanks for the feedback! And if you don’t mind, one other thing. When binded to any number of cells, you stop automaticly producing ammonia and phosphate. I can imagine this is intentional so that players focus on binding to more rather than evolving, but I’m not sure. Do you have any idea as to whether it’s supposed to do that?

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

It’s supposed to be the reproduction progress not going on when you’re bound. You may’ve noticed that you can’t enter editor when bounded…

[EZ_7_Nova]

Oh! That makes enough sense. Thanks!

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

Perhaps some text could clarify this occurring if one isn’t provided by the tutorial already…

[EZ_7_Nova]

It might, I’ve been playing the game for around two years, so I always just skip through the tutorial at this point unless I see something distinctly new or different.

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

I see. The tutorial is apparently going to have some major updates put into it next release…

[EZ_7_Nova]

Sounds fun and good to know! Thanks for all the feedback!

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

Also pretty sure you can too achieve the “above-the-population-number” amount of cells bound to a colony by using the “follow me” command.

[EZ_7_Nova]

Probably, just didn’t mention it in the originial post because I hadn’t tried it yet.
Didn’t wanna mention it if I hadn’t already made sure it was accurate through a couple recreations of it.

[Itookausername]

I’m pretty sure the only thinfg the patch pop affects is the proportion of your species spawns compared to others.

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

Also no other members of your species spawn when you’ve moved to a new patch (when your population is 1).

[lady_deaths_head]

@EZ_7_Nova

When binded to any number of cells, you stop automaticly producing ammonia and phosphate

We’re working on this! Thanks for the feedback

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

Oh, I thought it was intended to be a permanent feature of the colony system…

[EZ_7_Nova]

Thanks for the feedback! What about the other things mentioned?