Wrapping Up The Microbe Stage

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@hhyyrylainen

But what’s the counter to that part? I see people bringing up a feature of adding toxin resistance all the time, but no one ever says how that is then countered. For example if we add an organelle that just flat out increases your toxin resistance, why wouldn’t the player always place that?

If we make it so that this part is only targeted towards a specific toxin so that modification makes it targeted towards one at a time only, balancing can be a lot better than a simple “put-down-and-forget” part with general resistance. That way, players will have to remain aware of the type of toxins in the environment, and will have to judge whether or not stacking expensive parts is worth it.

@hhyyrylainen

Just last week I made hydrogen sulfide diffuse between patches, so now low levels of it are basically everywhere. I think that warrants further tweaking of this concept.

Does hydrogen sulfide react negatively to oxygen? On Earth, our oceans became much less sulfuric as oxygen began to reproduce, relegating sulfur-dependent metabolisms to more geologically-active or anoxygenic environments. So even if sulfur does spread throughout patches, the presence of oxygen would make sulfur deteriorate like iron as well.

@hhyyrylainen

I don’t think we have enough time to settle on a definite answer, meaning that if this is to be done I think it needs to be left as an optional thing for people to turn on if they want for 1.0

I think that’s fair. If we get enough positive reception to that option, we could just tweak the starting presets at some point during Multicellular development.