Good afternoon/night/morning/ambiguous-space-time-period thivers.

We have been lately discussing about the lack of Focus on our development pipeline, and IMHO, to gain focus we need something clear and concise about we're heading towards. Since everything I saw lately was a lot of blablabla and some discussion about underwater civilizations, I'm going to open this thread as a recopilation of serious and feasible ideas that could get into thrive's first stage

My idea is to gather all the features proposed from the very beginning and list them all in this first post, so everyone developing anything of this stage can have a quick look and see what's the next important step to take. As the features are being listed, we'll discuss it's feasibility, and when something passes the "proposed" step, we'll give them a priority from 1 to 3.

All of us are free to propose new rules if we have a better way of organising this list .

As a sign of good will, an since I consider myself a very recent newcomer on the project, I will not list any feature right now, as I consider there's other people who can point to features that have been lurking since the very conception of this project.

So here it is, let's start the first:


Proposed features:

- Simplified Auto-evo system:

• One single Biome

• Specialized Food Web

• Simpler statistics for mutation decisions

Confirmed features:

Discarded features:

"Features" don't have much to do with programming, do they?

Ok, i'm gonna start with stuff from the current concept. This one is kind of hard to explain so i'm going to quote directly from the page here.



Proposed Feature: If a cell is unsuccessful, the computer will access what it needs to be less unsuccessful. Really there's only 2 factors I could gauge success with and that was the cell's population, and if that population can produce more members than members are being consumed. That can be put into a simple equation. If that cell population is selected that turn, and is found that more members have been lost then gained.


I think this is a pretty good idea, and it's simple. I'd say if I get three other member approvals it's a confirmed feature. Now, discuss and object.

You're doing fairly well here. evolutionary fitness is based on ability to produce fertile offspring. This, for us, is impossible ti measure, since our evolution happens on a generation by generation basis. however, if you read our procedural evolution system, you'll gain a better understanding of how evolution works in the game. The great thing about cell stage is that it's much less complex than multicellular stage, so we can run the procedures almost exactly in the same way, but they'll be easier to keep track of. I see no reason to reinvent the wheel and make a different evolution system for cell stage.

Ok, this idea's discarded then? Add it to trash pile then uverion. One problem solved.

uverion, very funny sig.
but yes this all sounds good to me, anyone want to type their opinions?

I think microbe stage should consist of no more than five biomes, but we should focus on one first. Food webs shouldn't be hard coded, but we're going to have to be clever to ensure that they work and don't collapse very easily. It will also be a bit hard to figure out how to program in the logic for the webs in the first place, but we can discuss that in the appropriate thread. I definitely agree that mutations should be simpler, but they needn't be simplified- for unicellular organisms, they'll already be very simple. the most important things we need to know are diet, membrane construction, what kinds of organelles it has, where they are, surface area, volume, etc.

ThankYou for summing that up for us, sciocont.
Who here has prgramming abilities?

I did make a concept for cellular evolution some time back. It isn't the greatest but it could help flesh things out I guess: http://thrivegame.forum-free.ca/t665p30-cellular-evolution-concept-questions
(look for my post with spoilers, that sums it up.)