herbivore, but it is not on the list of viable herbivores. Maybe I changed my mind and submitted something else?
From what I remember, an organism like that is technically viable even if it has 5.1 size by adding a point of e.g. weapons, right? If there was no competition, then one of it would eat the seeds, getting 72 entries into a 1.96% lottery, and N-1 of it would eat lichen, getting 48 entries into a 1.96% lottery, yielding an equilibrium population of 8 organisms, which might be large enough to avoid randomly fluctuating to zero. Or did I get the mechanics wrong?
According to my data, GuySrinivasan submitted SmolFire to the Tundra instead of LivingTrenchcoat. It has 2 weapons, 0 armor and 0 speed. Eats Seeds and Lichen.
Your organism is technically viable, contrary to what I wrote in the post. However, it has a very small carrying capacity (though not quite as small as the Frostwing Snipper) and its lack of both defense and predatory ability got it annihilated in the initial feeding frenzy.
Hrm, according to my notes I should have submitted a
LivingTrenchcoat
eats seeds
eats lichen
cold resistant
Tundra
herbivore, but it is not on the list of viable herbivores. Maybe I changed my mind and submitted something else?
From what I remember, an organism like that is technically viable even if it has 5.1 size by adding a point of e.g. weapons, right? If there was no competition, then one of it would eat the seeds, getting 72 entries into a 1.96% lottery, and N-1 of it would eat lichen, getting 48 entries into a 1.96% lottery, yielding an equilibrium population of 8 organisms, which might be large enough to avoid randomly fluctuating to zero. Or did I get the mechanics wrong?
According to my data, GuySrinivasan submitted SmolFire to the Tundra instead of LivingTrenchcoat. It has 2 weapons, 0 armor and 0 speed. Eats Seeds and Lichen.
Your organism is technically viable, contrary to what I wrote in the post. However, it has a very small carrying capacity (though not quite as small as the Frostwing Snipper) and its lack of both defense and predatory ability got it annihilated in the initial feeding frenzy.
Thanks for looking! I am satisfied that the smol thing was viable. :D
It looks like that would have been eaten in the initial feeding frenzy?
Oh yeah definitely but I was wondering why its name didn’t appear—that I forgot I changed it, or that it actually isn’t viable, or both.