Genome map?

[hhyyrylainen]

I suppose this would be a pretty cool looking feature to add. There’d need to be a very enthusiastic programmer about this feature to get this implemented though as I estimate this to take quite a ton of programming work to do.

@Dracalia

Introducing plasmids could also offer an interesting anti-viral immune-system for microbes if this was ever in store for the future of the game (restriction enzymes & CRISPR-CAS9 which are extremely important irl tools for GMO).

Plasmids has been suggested before.

Differentiating Prokaryotic Gameplay?

I am kind of re-igniting this old discussion (Prokaryote Gameplay) , but now that we have prokaryotic game-play i think its time to start a new thread with ideas that can be put into our newly added prokaryotic gameplay to at least partially differentiate it from eukaryotic gameplay. So right now as of the most recent change which added prokaryote gameplay it almost feels like we could pull off two different microbe “stages”, the prokaryotic microbe stage and the eukaryotic microbe stage. To …

Untrustedlife casually asked in 2019:

Do we still want plasmids?

Another thread where plasmids were mentioned:

Prokaryote Gameplay

So the idea has been raised a few times of having the Microbe Stage start earlier, as in with the first cell, not just the first eukaryotic cell. Here we can discuss whether it’s a viable idea and how it would work. I think it’s a good idea, but it does bring up many questions about how we would transition from prokaryotic to eukaryotic gameplay. One option is to simplify the prokaryotic phase a little bit so the it’s just a few generatons of swimming and hunting until you evolve a nucleus+ER+Go…

@Dracalia

This would be for much further down the line obviously after the microbe stage is nearing completion and would be more for extra learning.

The microbe roadmap is finished (see: Finishing the microbe stage roadmap). I’ll only allow adding things to it if it is required to polish an already planned / implemented feature or it is deemed an extremely important addition. I don’t see this feature matching either of those criteria, which is why I said that there’d need to be a very enthusiastic programmer who would champion this feature through the development process.