After hunting with my cell and eating tons of cells, when I finished editing my microbe, all the cells I ate came back to life and exploded out of my cell.
It was quite strange.
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This happens because your new cell is smaller than your previous cell when you were about to reproduce. Those cells you engulfed in the previous session could no longer fit in the new cell and so were ejected.
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hmm…
maybe erase consumed cells after reproducing?
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I mean, sometimes it spawns a bunch of cell chunks around you instead of the full cells. I think that’s only if you have just moved to a new patch though
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The intention in the game is that it matters what you do before you get into the editor. For example, if you run out of resources or there’s a big predator next to you, you can “escape” to the editor to get an evolution in, but upon your return you have some problems. The reverse is also true: we want to reward players who take the time to setup their next life. And for that keeping engulfed objects and the previously acquired compounds is the way we do that. So taking away engulfed objects on reproduction is not something that is planned to be done.
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Isn’t this completely nullified by moving patches? Is the player migrating supposed to water down these consequences at it’s core or is this more like a side effect?
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You can change the difficulty options to not get a free compound refill on changing patches.
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It’s not dependent on if you had a bad exit from the previous round though.
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What? I don’t understand…
If you set the option for never getting a free compound refill, you won’t get a compound refill even on moving patches, so you purely get whatever compounds you had before. So it’s totally dependent on your previous life.
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Pretty sure if you exit the game round starving and move to an another patch, you will start off with some resources to begin with, before you get to the glucose cloud, while your sister cell does end up starving immediately instead.
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