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 CYAN spores can be produced before death of the organism, if the reproduction energy is 1/2, and they are grown and there is no reproduction delay.
The photosynthesis formula was changed a bit, making plants with a median number of genes slightly more effective in comparison to a really high number (less photosynthesis gene stacking hopefully). Organisms with lesser symmetry might also be a bit more effective, but 8-symmetric organisms still dominate (and I like it that way).
Performance was improved by using a division for photosynthesis once in life instead of every frame.
I also improved growing and shrinking of organisms slightly, so that it isn´t possible anymore for very small organisms , that are starving, to repeatedly shrink and grow again until finally shrinking, when the energy decreases further. That was a bug really. They just shrink now, until getting more energy again.
There are many more balance changes, and the README was changed.
Have fun. :)
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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 CYAN spores can be produced before death of the organism, if the reproduction energy is 1/2, and they are grown and there is no reproduction delay.
The photosynthesis formula was changed a bit, making plants with a median number of genes slightly more effective in comparison to a really high number (less photosynthesis gene stacking hopefully). Organisms with lesser symmetry might also be a bit more effective, but 8-symmetric organisms still dominate (and I like it that way).
Performance was improved by using a division for photosynthesis once in life instead of every frame.
I also improved growing and shrinking of organisms slightly, so that it isn´t possible anymore for very small organisms , that are starving, to repeatedly shrink and grow again until finally shrinking, when the energy decreases further. That was a bug really. They just shrink now, until getting more energy again.
There are many more balance changes, and the README was changed.
Have fun. :)