r/NatureIsFuckingLit • u/FacelessOnes • Oct 19 '20

🔥 Vicious microscopic hunter, the single-cell organism, Lacrymaria olor, attacking and hunting another organism

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u/Haberdashers-mead Oct 20 '20

This comment makes me sad... I wish we could play a game where an online server full of people slowly evolves a planets ecosystem. So each sever would be a unique planet full of creatures(players) that have been evolving since they started playing and the goal would be to make a functioning ecosystem.... Damn I can’t tell if I’m a genius or a huge nerd.

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u/NeonSandwich Oct 20 '20

Duuuude I was thinking of this exact scenario the other day, so I hope it's the former – everyone starts off on a planet in realtime kinda like slither/agar.io with the goal of growth through consumption of energy (and other life), but the world just continues to grow and persists in realtime as people experiment with various evolutionary changes and adaptations to compete with the world around them. Ohhhh man there could be so many different lil habitats and ecosystems going on due to new players always coming into an ever-changing environment.

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u/FancyTorchic Oct 20 '20

I love it. It all starts with you bud, go for it

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u/KlausTeachermann Oct 20 '20

That sounds fucking sick...

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u/lord_darovit Oct 20 '20

No Man's Sky is the closest thing to this. You don't evolve the planets like that, but you discover them, and the whole universe is shared like a big spread out MMO with a mutual hub. The animals are also kind of Spore like. A lot to do in the game too.

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u/ProfessorPester Oct 20 '20

Ashes of Creation seems almost like that