Miscellaneous Talk That Doesn't Deserve A New Thread Thread

We wish you a merry Thrivemas

We wish you a merry Thrivemas

We wish you a merry Thrivemas

And a grand old update!


Combat systems we bring

For good ol' killing

We wish you a merry Thrivemas

And a grand old update!


Now bring us AI improvements

Now bring us AI improvements

Now bring us AI improvements

And a new batch of colour


We'll be happy when we get some

We'll be happy when we get some

We'll be happy when we get some

So bring it to the game please


So please bring AI improvements

So please bring AI improvements

So please bring AI improvements

And a new organelle please


We wish you a merry Thrivemas

We wish you a merry Thrivemas

We wish you a merry Thrivemas

And a grand ol' update!




I have no idea why I did this but I did
Hopefully this isn't obnoxious
I know it's nowhere near Christmas but I'm in the mood OK

Silly Omicron!

It's nowhere near Christmas!

That and there'd be a massive "THRIVE 0.3.5 RELEASED" and I'd be too busy playing the thing

I just found out that I have noble ancestors . Turns out the last name of my grand grand mother was "VON DOBRZEWINSKI" , and while it doesn't change anything it's still interesting to know that the small German part of my family was aristocratic (and apparently they even owned some kind of castle !)

Here is a funny quote from a unfunny man regarding the pope.

'The pope? how many divisions has he got?'
-Joseph Stalin

Do any of you realise how difficult it can be to translate a text between languages? Because of the elections in Germany (no this wont be a discussion on politics!) I translated a commentary from German into English, as a favor to someone. I think I'm fairly fluent in English, but it was hard! It's not only because the constant switching between languages is confusing, but because these languages operate quite differently in sentence structure etc and there are so many words that don't have an exact translation in either language.

Just for example the German concept of "Recht und Ordnung" wich describes a situation in wich the rule of law is followed but also implies that the law of said rule of law is a just/morally right law; whereas the English "rule of law" (in my opinion) does not make any statements on whether the law is actually a GOOD law, only that it is followed.

TLDR: I have a newfound respect for professional translators and I am in awe of simultan-translators

Isn't it "die Wendung" or something?

Dammit quantum I thought you were better than this

Now is time for the ultimate punishment

The silent treatment

Farewell, mon ami.

Noticed these two questions on the Dev Forum that I figered were worth talking about:



The first question brings up intercellular bonds being broken, and implies another question regarding the one cell binding two halves of a group together deciding to break away from the whole colony. In either case, if parts of colonies being able to survive on their own (by being treated as colonies in their own right by the game) is possible, then I’m all for it. If not, then it’s easier to have the whole colony either break up entirely (and possibly recombine, if the predator leaves), or die.

As for the second one, I think it makes sense that, if signal agents are enough to coordinate an entire colony’s movement, then they should also allow coordinated agent release on one side.

If it can’t just be the piece with the most cells, then I reckon the game should be able to give each cell a “priority value” based on traits that align with real cells; nervous cells (again, not concrete, but labelled such due to how the player made them) would have a higher value than digestive cells, which would have a higher value than mobility cells.

For example, cells considered nervous cells would have the “synapse” external organelle. Either that, or the synapse would add up to a cumulative priority value given to the cell, rather than one based on its arbitrary “type.”

The exception I’d make, based on discussion in the thread, is the original cell type, AKA the stem cell. It would have a preassigned priority value too high for its derivatives to feasibly reach, based on Microbe Editor constraints. This is because, without stem cells as described in the thread, an early-stage colony would be unable to reproduce, be it through colony budding or detaching a single stem cell.

So, technically, it could still be based on cell amount, if the species isn’t specialized; every cell would have the same priority value.