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What are you trying to describe here?

My planned parasite cell has failed. The host cell was set to female, massive amounts of chloroplasts and starches, shared energy and connected to anything. THe parasite cell was photosynthetic with no chloroplasts and four starches, connected to everything and was assexual. They connected well enough, but the parasite wouldn't breed.

Just deconstruct the bench. They should get going.

Quote from: Gamerlord on July 26, 2011, 06:29:40 pm

It works for me now but a few questions:

a) The window is bigger than my screen, how do I make it smaller?
b) What do myocyte, photocyte, haptic and the rest mean?
c) How do I maximise the reproductive rate of a cell?
d) How do I make a predatory cell?

Answers to any of these would be very helpful, but I really need answers to a) and b) most.

Thanks for trying it out

a) Presently you cannot, but it is a low hanging fruit which I will address, probably in the next release.
b) Myocyte means it contract like a muscle, Photocyte means it produces light (presently not implemented, may be removed), Haptic means it senses touch, heterotrophs need to eat, photosynthetic cells need to be in the light.
c) Currently, most cells that can survive also have the capacity for max reproduction rate.  The reproductive rates are going to get tweaked so that balance in a cells design is even more important.
d) A predator might be motile (the ability to move under their own power), with a chance of 1 or 2 and a strength of 2 or more, have the behavior to wander when hungry, be a heterotroph, have a couple points in weaponization, have the aggressive behavior, and sufficient lipids reproduce itself.

Quote from: kilakan on July 26, 2011, 06:12:43 pm

For some reason when I open it, the droplet menu thing appears on the bottom bar of my screen but nothing opens and I can't close it without useing ctrl alt delete.  I'm running vista what's wrong?

Apologies, there are compatibility issues. From what I can tell, Droplet works the best on Windows 7. Upcoming releases should resolve some of these issues, hopefully.

Thanks mate. Just one last question. (For now ) What is the purpose of starch and lipids? If a creature eats a lot and has many lipids and starchs, does that mean it can survive for a while without eating? I want to try to make a parasitic cell that will latch onto other creatures that share energy with their neighbours and suck them dry. Will making it have many starches but no chloroplasts, 1 connection and the ability to connect to anything accomplish this? Would I need to turn on sharing energy to allow them to recieve energ?

It works for me now but a few questions:

a) The window is bigger than my screen, how do I make it smaller?
b) What do myocyte, photocyte, haptic and the rest mean?
c) How do I maximise the reproductive rate of a cell?
d) How do I make a predatory cell?

Answers to any of these would be very helpful, but I really need answers to a) and b) most.

Where can we obtain plans? I have a desert mountain that would really look nice with one of those attached...

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