Activity for Biogenesis
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MarcoA posted a comment on discussion Open Discussion
Hi, I remember a Spencer Chrysler. I still think you need to thank Joan more, but I appreciate it. :) More content will be added in the future. I don´t plan to stop working on it. The Discord community (that link should work https://discord.gg/EBCm9NGF8h) is far more active now, if you are interested.
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Spencer Kraisler posted a comment on discussion Open Discussion
Hi Marco! I used to go by a different in this forum many many years ago (hatter98 I thin) but I wanted to say thank you for the amazing contributions you've done to this application over these many years. Biogenesis is perhaps the best evolution simulator out there on the internet (trust me, I've tried them all), not to mention the best one that also works on macs. So, thank you for this work. I greatly appreciate it.
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Hi, I am an amateur programmer myself, and started with my Color Mod as a fan, when Joan Queralt stopped working on it. I am also the only active Admin now. Biogenesis is open source, and you can find the newest sourcecode of the Color Mod here: https://sourceforge.net/projects/biogenesis/files/Color%20Mod/2.0/ You can also just mod the vanilla simulation of course. If you add something substantial enough (like a new Color function, but that is only an example), I can also add your mod to the main...
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Hi, I am an amateur programmer myself, and started with my Color Mod as a fan, when Joan Queralt stopped working on it. Biogenesis is open source, and you can find the newest sourcecode of the Color Mod here: https://sourceforge.net/projects/biogenesis/files/Color%20Mod/2.0/ You can also just mod the vanilla simulation of course. If you add something substantial enough (like a new Color function, but that is only an example), I can also add your mod to the main download. And if it fits with the Color...
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Jeffery Michael Sergent posted a comment on discussion Open Discussion
Hey Marco and everyone. I am an amateur programmer who is interested in playing around with the code of this game and adding stuff to it. I was also thinking about making my own new game about microbial evolution in Game Maker Studio 2 once I have enough experience with game design and programming. What does everyone think? Anything I can do to help?
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This is mostly a balance update, because I did not have a PC, that worked well enough for the first half of the year, and did not work on Biogenesis. Have a good one now, runs the simulation with 800000 CO2. :) Color Mod 2.01 mainly balances photosynthesis for all plant symmetries: -Exact formula: -for 8-symmetric organisms: ((1961 + (6000 / (number of genes + 2)) + (6315 / symmetry)) * 0.0006) * segment length -for 1 to 7-symmetric organisms: ((1961.329 + (6000 / (number of genes + 2)) + (6315 /...
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This is mostly a balance update, becasue I did not have a PC, that worked well enough for the first half of the year, and did not work on Biogenesis. Have a good one now, runs the simulation with 800000 CO2. :) Color Mod 2.01 mainly balances photosynthesis for all plant symmetries: -Exact formula: -for 8-symmetric organisms: ((1961 + (6000 / (number of genes + 2)) + (6315 / symmetry)) * 0.0006) * segment length -for 1 to 7-symmetric organisms: ((1961.329 + (6000 / (number of genes + 2)) + (6315 /...
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Biogenesis released /Color Mod/2.0/ColorMod 2_01 and sourcecode.zip
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Hoophy97 modified a comment on discussion Open Discussion
Today, I have shut down the BiogenesisHub2.00 server because the ecosystem has stagnated. The server's inhabitants have optimized themselves to such an extent that I can no longer justify the cost of upkeep. The environment is almost entirely static, and this even holds true when someone opens a fresh connection; foreign lineages can no longer find any footholds. That said, I see this venture as a huge success; over its lifetime, the Hub has received organisms from 61 distinct users, and sent organisms...
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Today, I have shut down the BiogenesisHub2.00 server because the ecosystem has stagnated. The server's inhabitants have optimized themselves to such an extent that I can no longer justify the cost of upkeep. The environment is almost entirely static, and this even holds true when someone opens a fresh connection; foreign lineages can no longer find any footholds. That said, I see this venture as a huge success; over its lifetime, the Hub has received organisms from 61 distinct users, and sent organisms...
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Server updated to Biogenesis Color Mod 2.0! Enjoy :) As of 12/27/2021, the two most dominant surviving lineages belong to Yzzubalife and MarcoDBAA.
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Server updated to Biogenesis Color Mod 2.0! Enjoy :) As of 12/27/2021, the two most dominant lineages belong to Yzzubalife and MarcoDBAA.
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Promoted Biogenesis at itch.io: https://marcodbaa.itch.io/biogenesis Just linked it to the sourceforge download.
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Greetings! I am pleased to inform you that I've begun hosting a persistent Biogenesis Color Mod 2.0 cloud server. Furthermore, the port is fully mapped, allowing anybody to link their own (2.0) world(s) to the 'Hub World' in real time over the internet, using Biogenesis' convenient networking features! You'll notice that I call it a 'hub' throughout this post, this is simply because the server world can serve as a common node between different worlds on the network of worlds. I'll explain how it...
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Server updated to Biogenesis Color Mod 2.0! Enjoy :)
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Greetings! I am pleased to inform you that I've begun hosting a persistent Biogenesis Color Mod 2.0 cloud server. Furthermore, the port is fully mapped, allowing anybody to link their own (2.0) world(s) to the 'Hub World' in real time over the internet, using Biogenesis' convenient networking features! You'll notice that I call it a 'hub' throughout this post, this is simply because the server world can serve as a common node between different worlds on the network of worlds. I'll explain how it...
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Greetings! I am pleased to inform you that I've begun hosting a persistent Biogenesis Color Mod 2.0 cloud server. Furthermore, the port is fully mapped, allowing anybody to link their own (2.0) world(s) to the 'Hub World' in real time over the internet, using Biogenesis' convenient networking features! You'll notice that I call it a 'hub' throughout this post, this is simply because the server world can serve as a common node between different worlds on the network of worlds. I'll explain how it...
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Greetings! I am pleased to inform you that I've begun hosting a persistent Biogenesis Color Mod 2.0 cloud server. Furthermore, the port is fully mapped, allowing anybody to link their own (2.0) world(s) to the 'Hub World' in real time over the internet, using Biogenesis' convenient networking features! You'll notice that I call it a 'hub' throughout this post, this is simply because the server world can serve as a common node between different worlds on the network of worlds. I'll explain how it...
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Color Mod 2.00 mainly adds a third substance methane (CH4) and the new color PURPLE, that can use this substance to get energy by methanotrophy. Methane (CH4) added as a new substance: -CH4 is produced by dead decaying organisms (and destroyed spores) and PINK feeding -CO2 is not produced by dead decaying organisms anymore -CH4 and CO2 turn into each other (adjustable in Parameters/World) -Can be used by methanotrophs (new color PURPLE) to generate energy -Intitial amount can be set in "Parameters"...
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The Hub World network's ecosystem is a composite of different people's organism lineages, filling different niches or competing directly. If you want to place on future leaderboards, please use the 'username' feature so I can take note! Lineage Dominance Leaderboard - 2/24/2021: 1. MarcoDBAA - So far, Marco has connected 6 worlds to the Hub. His lineages are by far the most dominant in the plant, herbivore, AND carnivore categories, originating from his oldest world. His DARK-GRAY-enhanced SPIKE...
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The Hub World network's ecosystem is a composite of different people's organism lineages, filling different niches or competing directly. If you want to place on future leaderboards, please use the 'username' feature so I can take note! Lineage Dominance Leaderboard - 2/24/2021: 1. MarcoDBAA - So far, Marco has connected 6 worlds to the Hub. His lineages are by far the most dominant in the plant, herbivore, AND carnivore categories, originating from his oldest world. His DARK-GRAY-enhanced SPIKE...
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The Hub World network's ecosystem is a composite of different people's organism lineages, filling different niches or competing directly. If you want to place on future leaderboards, please use the 'username' feature so I can take note! Lineage Dominance Leaderboard - 2/24/2021: 1. MarcoDBAA - So far, Marco has connected 6 worlds to the Hub. His lineages are by far the most dominant in the plant, herbivore, AND carnivore categories, originating from his oldest world. His DARK-GRAY-enhanced SPIKE...
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Greetings! I am pleased to inform you that I've begun hosting a persistent Biogenesis Color Mod 1.97 cloud server. Furthermore, the port is fully mapped, allowing anybody to link their own (1.97) world(s) to the 'Hub World' in real time over the internet, using Biogenesis' convenient networking features! You'll notice that I call it a 'hub' throughout this post, this is simply because the server world can serve as a common node between different worlds on the network of worlds. I'll explain how it...
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Greetings! I am pleased to inform you that I've begun hosting a persistent Biogenesis Color Mod 1.97 cloud server. Furthermore, the port is fully mapped, allowing anybody to link their own (1.97) world(s) to the 'Hub World' in real time over the internet, using Biogenesis' convenient networking features! I'll explain how it works below, alongside a brief tutorial for those who are new to this feature of Biogenesis: {Option A} You don't know what port forwarding is, or are unwilling to do so for Biogenesis:...
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The Hub World network's ecosystem is a composite of different people's organism lineages, filling different niches or competing directly. If you want to place on future leaderboards, please use the 'username' feature so I can take note! Lineage Dominance Leaderboard - 2/24/2021: 1. MarcoDBAA - So far, Marco has connected 6 worlds to the Hub. His lineages are by far the most dominant in the plant, herbivore, AND carnivore categories, originating from his oldest world. His DARK-GRAY-enhanced SPIKE...
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The Hub World network's ecosystem is a composite of different people's organism lineages, filling different niches or competing directly. If you want to place on future leaderboards, please use the 'username' feature so I can take note! Lineage Dominance Leaderboard - 2/24/2021: 1. MarcoDBAA - So far, Marco has connected 6 worlds to the Hub. His lineages are by far the most dominant in the plant, herbivore, AND carnivore categories, originating from his oldest world. His DARK-GRAY-enhanced SPIKE...
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The Hub World network's ecosystem is a composite of different people's organism lineages, filling different niches or competing directly. If you want to place on future leaderboards, please use the 'username' feature so I can take note! Lineage Dominance Leaderboard - 2/24/2021: MarcoDBAA - So far, Marco has connected 6 worlds to the Hub. His lineages are by far the most dominant in the plant, herbivore, AND carnivore categories, originating from his oldest world. His DARK-GRAY-enhanced SPIKE consumers...
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The Hub World network's ecosystem is a composite of different people's organism lineages, filling different niches or competing directly. If you want to place on future leaderboards, please use the 'username' feature so I can take note! Lineage Dominance Leaderboard as of 2/24/2021: MarcoDBAA - So far, Marco has connected 6 worlds to the Hub. His lineages are by far the most dominant in the plant, herbivore, AND carnivore categories, originating from his oldest world. His DARK-GRAY-enhanced SPIKE...
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The Hub World network's ecosystem is a composite of different people's organism lineages, filling different niches or competing directly. If you want to place on future leaderboards, please use the 'username' feature so I can take note! Lineage Dominance Leaderboard 2/24/2021: MarcoDBAA - So far, Marco has connected 6 worlds to the Hub. His lineages are by far the most dominant in the plant, herbivore, AND carnivore categories, originating from his oldest world. His DARK-GRAY-enhanced SPIKE consumers...
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The Hub World network's ecosystem is a composite of different people's organism lineages, filling different niches or competing directly. If you want to place on future leaderboards, please use the 'username' feature so I can take note! Lineage Dominance Leaderboard as of 2/24/2021: 1. MarcoDBAA - So far, Marco has connected 6 worlds to the Hub. His lineages are by far the most dominant in the plant, herbivore, AND carnivore categories, originating from his oldest world. His DARK-GRAY-enhanced SPIKE...
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The Hub World network's ecosystem is a composite of different people's organism lineages, filling different niches or competing directly. If you want to place on future leaderboards, please use the 'username' feature so I can take note! Lineage Dominance Leaderboard as of 2/24/2021: 1. MarcoDBAA - So far, Marco has connected 6 worlds to the Hub. His lineages are by far the most dominant in the plant, herbivore, AND carnivore categories, originating from his oldest world. His DARK-GRAY-enhanced SPIKE...
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The Hub World network's ecosystem is a composite of different people's organism lineages, filling different niches or competing directly. If you want to place on future leaderboards, please use the 'username' feature so I can take note! Lineage Dominance Leaderboard as of 2/24/2021: 1. MarcoDBAA - So far, Marco has connected 6 worlds to the Hub. His lineages are by far the most dominant in the plant, herbivore, AND carnivore categories, originating from his oldest world. His DARK-GRAY-enhanced SPIKE...
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Greetings! I am pleased to inform you that I've begun hosting a persistent Biogenesis Color Mod 1.97 cloud server. Furthermore, the port is fully mapped, allowing anybody to link their own (1.97) world(s) to the 'Hub World' over the internet, using Biogenesis' convenient networking features! I'll explain how it works below, alongside a brief tutorial for those who are new to this feature of Biogenesis: {Option A} You don't know what port forwarding is, or are unwilling to do so for Biogenesis: 1....
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The Hub World network's ecosystem is a composite of different people's organism lineages, filling different niches or competing directly. If you want to place on future leaderboards, please use the 'username' feature so I can take note! Lineage Dominance Leaderboard as of 2/24/2021: 1. MarcoDBAA - So far, Marco has connected 6 worlds to the Hub. His lineages are by far the most dominant in the plant, herbivore, AND carnivore categories, originating from his oldest world. His DARK-GRAY-enhanced SPIKE...
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Greetings! I am pleased to inform you that I've begun hosting a persistent Biogenesis Color Mod 1.97 cloud server. Furthermore, the port is fully mapped, allowing anybody to link their own (1.97) world(s) to the 'Hub World' over the internet, using Biogenesis' convenient networking features! I'll explain how it works below, alongside a brief tutorial for those who are new to this feature of Biogenesis: {Option A} You don't know what port forwarding is, or are unwilling to do so for Biogenesis: 1....
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No new major content update again, but I won´t simulate another game until I already started to add the methanoautotrophs I mentioned earlier. Else the balance hell will surely continue. :P And it has to stop now, because it is time to add new colors. I won´t bore you with another 1.9X, except if someone really finds something game breaking. 1.97 fixes 2 bugs, adds a pop up, where you need to confirm, that you want to start a new world (people hit that button accidentally, or by hitting the space...
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No new major content update again, but I won´t simulate another game until I already started to add the methanoautotrophs I mentioned earlier. Else the balance hell will surely continue. :P And it has to stop now, because it is time to add new colors. I won´t bore you with another 1.9X, except if someone really finds something game breaking. 1.97 fixes 2 bugs, adds a pop up, where you need to confirm, that you want to start a new world (people hit that button accidentally, or by hitting the space...
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I was inactive for nearly two months, so this is just a balance update mostly. Changes: Fine-tuned the photosynthesis formula, so that smaller and lower symmetry organisms (but 1-symmetric ones should be weaker) are a bit more competitive than before. FOREST is slightly stronger when a plant touches only one other plant, but slightly weaker, if it touches two or more. Colonies that starve the world of all CO2 should be less common. Organisms with MAGENTA (but not consumers, that also have GRAY segments)...
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Another balance update for 1.9X, mainly for spores, but non-plant FALLOW also attacks PINK again in general The performance improvement from 1.94 wasn´t as good as it can be (because of bad precision https://stackoverflow.com/questions/322749/retain-precision-with-double-in-java), and is optimized now. But there also is a new feature: -A gene can be cloned: -The new gene will be before or after the old gene. -Chance to have a cloned gene instead of a new gene is 1/8 -Length will be randomized in...
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This update doesn´t change much. However an old (not really severe) bug from the vanilla version was fixed , where especially very small organisms (growth stage) repeatedly shrink and grew, even though they should not grow, because their energy did not increase. This, and the change in the code itself, also is a small performance improvement. All spores grow to the second growth stage now, making it easier for other organisms to feed on them, which should help the balance. Some values for different...
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This is mostly a balance update. FALLOW has 2 new variants. One inhibits SPORE and always make them create viruses (if infected). The other makes the victim produce stillborn children, and the number that has to be produced until normal reproduction is possible again depends on FALLOW segment length. Unmodified SKY can only be attacked (forcing the shield) by WHITE plants, that aren´t consumers. Normal viruses cannot do it anymore. Organisms with MAGENTA segments are nearly safe from it. BLUE and...
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Hi Kitty Tac. :) Glad you like Biogenesis. Never used Discord, but created an account now. Account name is "MarcoDBBA" too.
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Hi Kitty Tac. :) Glad you like Biogenesis. Never used Discord, but created an account now.
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Kitty Tac posted a comment on discussion Open Discussion
Invite: https://discord.gg/EBCm9NGF8h It's small right now but I'm growing it and advertising the program in general elsewhere. Come join!
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Just found out, that a plant may use the "Obtained energy divisor" just once in life now, because of older optimizations, instead of once in a frame and therefore 2560 times, if it lives for just 10 time units. xD Well, the simulation runs faster again now. Not sure yet, if a default amount of 600000 CO2 makes sense. But I will need to upload a new version again, after testing it. Tomorrow maybe...
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Just found out, that an organism may use the "Obtained energy divisor" just once in life now, because of older optimizations, instead of once in a frame and therefore 2560 times, if it lives for just 10 time units. xD Well, the simulation runs faster again now. Not sure yet, if a default amount of 600000 CO2 makes sense. But I will need to upload a new version again, after testing it. Tomorrow maybe...
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Hoping for less viruses in the real world and more viruses (types) in Biogenesis for 2021... Would be a good tradeoff, I think. ;) Ok, uploaded Color Mod 1.92 with some balance changes. Readme was changed, if necessary. But will not list all changes here. You have to DEFAULT PARAMETERS again. Default parameters for CO2: 500000, organisms: 12500 and world size: 7000 * 7000. I use higher values, but should be good and fast like that. Small BLOND viruses are a bit less effective, because the early reproduction...
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Next balance update will be before 2021. ;) Need to revert and alter some late changes. Only a balance update. Default CO2 needs to be reduced too. Simulation is faster, but 600000 CO2 is too greedy, at least for my PC.
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Well, I finally uploaded Color Mod 1.91, including an updated Readme file. 1.91 should run clearly faster than 1.88 (and a bit faster than 1.90beta3). In comparison to 1.88, there is a new color SPORE, that allows organisms to create different small spores, that do not grow and may hatch later (see Readme). SKY has two versions now, one only freezes movement segments (modified Sky: No), the other works as before. C4 color was completely reworked since 1.88. It makes small segments and also small...
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Looks like Biogenesis was promoted on a chinese site (did not find that site), resulting in a large number of downloads. Have fun. :) P.S: I did not do that much these last months, but there will be further "Color Mod" updates for sure.
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The Color Mod exists since 2012 already, but I did not include it with Joan Queralts vanilla version. And it will get more updates in the future. Have fun. :)
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franavalon posted a comment on discussion Open Discussion
It's nice to see this app developed again. After a big break, I searched for it again and I found new versions. It is awesome. Thanks for your job
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Uploaded a new easter version, have fun. :) New feature for Spore 7-12: If the organism has nearly no energy left, is very small and not shown in color, it can sporify itself, trying to wait for better times. This can be done once for each organism. Spore costs (default value 0) are used, when the spore hatches (when it is created for spore 1-2) now. Was a mess before xD. More balance changes... Had to fix SPIKE (worked a bit different by accident, was mostly useless). For 3-symmetric organisms:...
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Ok, just uploaded a newer beta version 1.90beta2 https://sourceforge.net/projects/biogenesis/files/Color%20Mod/1.9/ColorMod%201_90beta2%20and%20sourcecode.zip/download Spore blocks infections, if the organism is not infected at all btw. Forgot to mention that before This versions balance is hopefully better. Important change to balance Spore better: If infected, it will only create a virus in 5 of 26-30 reproduction attempts: 5/26 for 1-symmetric organisms 5/27 for 2/3-symmetric organisms 5/28 for...
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Ok, just uploaded a newer beta version 1.90beta2 https://sourceforge.net/projects/biogenesis/files/Color%20Mod/1.9/ColorMod%201_90beta2%20and%20sourcecode.zip/download Spore blocks infections, if the organism is not infected at all btw. Forgot to mention that before This versions balance is hopefully better. Important change to balance Spore better: If infected, it will only create a virus in 5 of 26-30 reproduction attempts: 5/26 for 1-symmetric organisms 5/27 for 2/3-symmetric organisms 5/28 for...
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Download here: https://sourceforge.net/projects/biogenesis/files/Color%20Mod/1.9/ (main download is still 1.88) New strings not yet translated into other languages and no new readme, but everything is going well now. Thought that I could upload another version after 6 months and today was my birthday and this is the "birthday cake" for the people that liked the Color Mod. ;) Did not do that much, however: Simulation runs much faster now (I can run it on 50% larger worlds!), because of many optimisations....
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If you play without SPORE (probability 0), the simulation should be balanced btw. Think I will make all Spore variant costs adjustable for the real version.
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Download here: https://sourceforge.net/projects/biogenesis/files/Color%20Mod/1.9/ (main download is still 1.88) New strings not yet translated into other languages and no new readme, but everything is going well now. Thought that I could upload another version after 6 months and today was my birthday and this is the "birthday cake" for the people that liked the Color Mod. ;) Did not do that much, however: Simulation runs much faster now (I can run it on 50% larger worlds!), because of many optimisations....
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Interesting world here: 2 other consumer species seem to dominate, but this Orange-Omnivore with blue segments manages to survive by using the new dormant spore function. And there are really many spore capsules of them, even though only one individual is active now.
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A species, that uses the new spore function. :) It is inactive most of the time. Hatching ones may encounter many viral-plants and create many more spores. Not depleting the food source is useful. They are also able to survive mobile red consumers, which cannot kill all of them at once. Edit: RGB of the color will probably change a bit, looks too much like lavender. Even though it gets more and more complicated to find a color, that is not in use yet xD
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A species, that uses the new spore function. :) It is inactive most of the time. Hatching ones may encounter many viral-plants and create many more spores. Not depleting the food source is useful. They are also able to survive mobile red consumers, which cannot kill all of them at once.
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I nearly finished (I am sure that everything works) the SPORE color (could have done it faster, but lazy...). It will have 4 variants most probably: Protected BLUE dormant spores Mobile CYAN spores (stationary organisms can have a mobile phase) Infectious (need to be eaten to infect) fruit-like spores (might create a FRUIT color for later Color Mod versions too) Low energy spores (seeds), that make the organism a r-strategist The SPORE color might raise the number of organisms on the map, but there...
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I teased two of them already, but decided to include another one I already thought of. These three colors will exist in Color Mod 1.9, if everything works out (balance, coding them.., I could decide to scrap them again, just saying): The "LICHEN" (commensalist) color: Organisms that need to be around normal plants to photosynthesize. Just imagine, that they use some fresh metabolic waste the normal plants produce. Joan Queralt had an idea like that before. He might have done it different of course....
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This will be the final version of 1.8X. Will start to create new colors for 1.9 tomorrow (talked about it a bit in the 1.87 thread). 1.88 mainly adds a visual guide for all the colors. That guide was created by a 4chan user (thanks :)) and I just fixed some mistakes and made a few changes. Might be easier to understand my mod now. Well, I hope so xD Not many other changes (just the last version of 1.8X): ROSE symbiont added photosynthesis depends on the length of the ROSE segment now. Therefore you...
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