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by Dameon » Mon Mar 29, 2004 4:07 pm
I think the color of plant you cannot eat when you go up in BS is random, as I cannot eat white ones and I am pretty sure I have heard others with BS2 have different diet restrictions. I also have yet to have anybody respond to my query as to if there are any BS2 plants out there at all. In any case, if saturation requirments and movement are indeed going down as I suggested, I think that will help solve the problems that folks are having feeding themselves.
I am still opposed to instinct loss when you spy on empty squares, though. Considering it takes four rounds to spy, you are losing 1% instinct there, and another 4% when you don't find anything. That means 5% instinct loss total, which takes another four rounds to get back. Way too expensive- I know for one I am going to avoid using spying, it takes me long enough to keep my instinct high as it is without losing some unnessecarily.
And BTW- I am eating red plants now, they are size one. I have also seen white plants, yellow plants, and green plants at size one. I would imagine there would be some kind of correlation between colors and the diamond color scheme, of course, which COULD mean that white/yellow/red/green are size one, blue are 2, grey are 3, and black are 4. I have heard of up to BS 4 plants being found so that's where I base those calculations; I do stick to the fact that I don't believe anybody has found any actual BS2 size plants in Everglades. If that correlation is correct, I would change it so it was just white/yellow/red that are size 1, green and blue for 2, and then grey and black for 3 and 4, respectively. There seems to be an overabundance of BS 1 plants when the BS 2 mutation really isn't THAT unusual to see within the first 5-6 cycles.
On a related note I would also imagine that means that white plants would ALWAYS be the first to not be edible by BS2 species, however, I am pretty sure I heard somebody (UD?) mention that it was another color of plant that went inedible when his BS went up, although I could be mistaken.
Oh, and I also think that the dev team should really stop using the "private" chatrooms. I would love to chat about some things I have noticed and get actual real time feedback, and it's frustrating not to. Pile on the fact that we have no access to a manual, and I'm getting moderately irritated with this beta testing.
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