Yeah that’s the point, because adding too many lysosomes would get redundant. Plus the difference from going from 0 Lysosomes to 1 Lysosome is a lot different than going from your 9th to your 10th. It makes it not worth it to stack up on them unless that’s the playstyle you are going for, or because it’s a cell that is being evolved to become a specialized digestive cell in a colony. It’s also because compound yield can never exceed 100%.
The digestion time idea is interesting though, I’m wondering how we could tie it in. I know that phagocytosing cells ingest granules of food and use lysosomes to degrade them over time, but I’m not sure how long it actually takes. It would also likely mean we’d have to simulate some way of showing food being in your cell and gradually being digested.
On a separate note, there are some new organelle ideas that I had been reading about and was interested to see what you guys thought:
- Glycosome - A eukaryotic organelle that specializes in performing Fermentation. It’s basically a Mitochondrion for anaerobes, although Mitochondria are always going to be a lot more efficient since they use oxygen.
- Hydrogenosome - A eukaryotic organelle that performs a unique kind of Fermenation. Instead of producing Lactic Acid as waste, it produces Hydrogen (We could call it “Hydrogen Fermentation”).
- Melanosome - The eukaryotic organelle that contains melanin pigments. A cell without this will die to solar radiation unless in the deep ocean or other areas devoid of sunlight.
- Chlorosome - A prokaryotic organelle. Is the anaerobic equivalent to thylakoids. Instead of using water and carbon dioxide and light, it uses hydrogen sulfide and carbon dioxide and light. Instead of producing sugar and oxygen, it produces sugar, water, and solid granules of elemental sulfur.
A picture of the chemical reaction of Chlorosomes.
