Genetic Modding of Pop?

[jimbob]

Post 600!!!

Anyway. As a biologist, I've gotta agree with you on this one. It will be relatively easy to modify a genome soon - what's adding a little enzyme here, a little metabolic pathway there, when you can just drop in the genes from other organisms that do live in those environments anyway? It should be a lot easier to just genetically modify your population than to change the entire atmosphere of a planet!!

The best addition (to SEv) would be to let the player choose multiple atmospheres in which their population can function, but then have genetic projects that can let you add more atmosphere types to their genome as the game progresses. As I see it you could do genetic swapping where the population gets to breath a new atmosphere, or genetic switching where they add more and more pathways to their genome (that is, can breath multiple atmospheres).

But as for doing it in SEiv, I think we're out of luck

cheers,
jimbobo

[ June 24, 2003, 00:14: Message edited by: jimbob ]