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Coral
Jul 23, 2015 10:47:15 GMT
Post by StealthStyleL on Jul 23, 2015 10:47:15 GMT
I've been curious about this for a while. Will coral reefs be in the game? Will they just be assumed to have formed because I can't see how they would naturally occur in game?
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Coral
Jul 23, 2015 12:47:12 GMT
Post by Captain McDerp on Jul 23, 2015 12:47:12 GMT
A coral reef could be a biome. I think it's best if the coral is treated like passive plants that provide shelter and other bonuses to creatures. Some coral reefs could make the normally dark and grey water enviroment a bit more colourful.
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Coral
Jul 23, 2015 21:56:08 GMT
Post by iaintevenmad884 on Jul 23, 2015 21:56:08 GMT
that would be cool on an alien planet, because if it's in the game, the colors could be completely randomized, and the shapes and patterns could be different, leading to a cool underwater experience.
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Coral
Jul 23, 2015 22:00:53 GMT
Post by mitobox on Jul 23, 2015 22:00:53 GMT
Something else is that, apparently, coral reefs are like canaries in a coal mine; they tell us when something is up when they start dying.
They'd be a valuable tool for players who want to keep track of how much pollution they're making, if there's no given amount told by the game.
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Coral
Jul 24, 2015 3:34:24 GMT
Post by iaintevenmad884 on Jul 24, 2015 3:34:24 GMT
and also algae is the stuff that makes coral alive and colorful, and nobody likes lots of algae, so that's what the cause of the problem with dying coral is. people are always killing algae in ponds and tanks, as well as lakes and natural bodies of water, because algae bloom can kill everything in a body of water. edit: OOPS!!! coral doesn't have a symbiotic relationship with algae, the color comes from chlorophyll and some other thing i can't remember. coral do however have symbiotic relationships with cells called zooxanthellae cells, that are sensitive to light. i can't remember what is symbiotic with algae, it's on the tip of my tongue....
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Post by mitobox on Jul 24, 2015 3:40:45 GMT
and also algae is the stuff that makes coral alive and colorful, and nobody likes lots of algae, so that's what the cause of the problem with dying coral is. people are always killing algae in ponds and tanks, as well as lakes and natural bodies of water, because algae bloom can kill everything in a body of water. Actually, pretty sure it's polyps that die and leave skeletons that pile on each other until you get coral.
Incidentally, algae blooms could be another coal mine canary, since nutrients in fertilizer flow downstream to the ocean, feeding algae blooms. This would be more harmful, since there would be less fish for the player to catch.
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Coral
Jan 23, 2016 2:04:33 GMT
Post by alexthe666 on Jan 23, 2016 2:04:33 GMT
I assume that they would be randomly generated, just as if they were creatures in your game. Perhaps you could even evolve into a coral?
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Coral
Jan 23, 2016 10:01:00 GMT
Post by StealthStyleL on Jan 23, 2016 10:01:00 GMT
Yeah, but the creatures that evolve are dictated by AutoEvo. What're the chances it'll recreate coral?
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Post by Atrox on Jan 23, 2016 12:53:40 GMT
Yeah, but the creatures that evolve are dictated by AutoEvo. What're the chances it'll recreate coral? I believe AutoEvo is intended to fill every possible niche to simulate a stable ecosystem. That way no matter what path the player takes there's always going to be competition and there's always going to be a reason to keep evolving, until of course, the ecosystem reaches equilibrium. By that point it's not so much a game of seeing who fills up what niche first, than it is a game of optimizing your chances of staying within that niche. More simply: Every niche will be attempted to be filled by AutoEvo in order to provide enough competition for the player. If you choose to become a coral, AutoEvo will attempt to become a better coral. If you choose to become a predator, AutoEvo will still create a coral as the niche is open, but AutoEvo will create its own predator to compete with yours. At least that's how I've come to understand that AutoEvo will work.
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Post by GRODOG on Aug 22, 2016 0:41:58 GMT
well.... some cells will have the ability to create solid matter to protect themselves so if a bunch of them behave in a way that they make a colony but instead of stcking to eachther in a pile they make a solid matter hive... so if they keep making more and more matter it could be big egnough to be seen from the perspective of a multicellular organism... thus that rock keeps growing and growing since the microbes keep building it up and thus it turns into an evergrowing coral... kinda like those rock like colonies that appear on the shore of that beach... they were formed by microbes...
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Coral
Aug 22, 2016 4:11:45 GMT
Post by Moopli on Aug 22, 2016 4:11:45 GMT
Yeah, if we can get Auto-Evo to make proper plant-like things, then it should be able to make corals too.
Edit: Also, anyone ever try Subnautica? Beautiful underwater game, lots of alien corals and fish.
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Aug 22, 2016 13:10:00 GMT
Post by timetraveler22 on Aug 22, 2016 13:10:00 GMT
Coral should also be able to attack. Most cnidaria are voracious predators, from the beautiful Staghorn coral, to the menacing box jellyfish. Like this guy's damselfish that was eaten by a baby brain coral. Damselfish are usually aggressive, active fish, but the sticky tentacles were able to catch and proceed to eat the fish alive as the tentacles stung it to death. It's funny too, that clownfish are a type of damselfish that've been able to use these tentacles as a home.
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Aug 22, 2016 19:49:23 GMT
Post by alohameanshello on Aug 22, 2016 19:49:23 GMT
Something else is that, apparently, coral reefs are like canaries in a coal mine; they tell us when something is up when they start dying. They'd be a valuable tool for players who want to keep track of how much pollution they're making, if there's no given amount told by the game. That's brilliant! Elements of previous stages should be incorporated into later stages to feel like it's adding up to something.
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Post by ThreeCubed on Aug 23, 2016 1:56:30 GMT
What would an Alien-Coral even look like? Could it be a unique color? Would it possibly feel spongy? I think it would be awesome to see some sort of Coral-Creature, like, a bipedal creature made of coral... If thats even theoretically plausible
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Coral
Aug 23, 2016 10:32:08 GMT
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Post by mitobox on Aug 23, 2016 10:32:08 GMT
What would an Alien-Coral even look like? Could it be a unique color? Would it possibly feel spongy? I think it would be awesome to see some sort of Coral-Creature, like, a bipedal creature made of coral... If thats even theoretically plausible Spongy coral would be sponge. I'm not sure if alien coral being spongy would work, since the point of coral is that it's the buildup of polyp skeleton minerals. A spongy skeleton would be organic, and thus decay before buildup could happen.
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