PnP Sim ant?

How did they get so much green mana?

Current upgrade notes:
Pheromone communications
Improved Pheromone projection
Improved Hive Bond

Ant numbers: 300, 300 larva. -- Hourly food requirements, 900 ants worth, 300 per half hour for larva and 300 on the hour for ants.
Directional notes:
North -- A smooth rock which has the fungal growth on it.
South -- A field of flowers and some flying unidentified species.
West -- Sweet oozing plants.
East -- No significant notables.

>>5533251
HAHA!

>>5533251
>how did they get so much GREEN mana
oh u

>>5533255


Fuck it, Send 100 west to get that sticky sweet.

Have any of these threads been archived?

Currently scheduled change to hive work orders:
75 ants harvesting fungus
10 ants on grasstop sentry duty
55 ants expanding the hive itself
100 ants heading west to begin collection of sweet ooze
20 ants tending larva.

Negative, no threads have been archived in suptg.

Can we extend the colony into the roots?

Pull 10 ants from expanding nest to sentry duty.

Pull 25 ants from harvesting fungus to tend to larvae

Get the scouts to try to identify the flying creatures

Timestamps will be regularly scheduled for every 30 minutes after this next one. Each timestamp notifies how much total time has passed from the awakening of the queen.
New timestamps will include time passed from previous timestamp.
Requests by 4 advisers will result in extended time before next timestamp.

Updates: 20 ants on grasstop sentry duty.
45 ants expanding nest.
45 ants tending larva -- each ant is tending slightly more than 6 larva. Projected larval losses: 0
50 ants harvesting fungus -- rate: 6 ants worth of fungus per half hour.

Scouts are too distant from the field, a half hour's travel there, half hour back, to be able to identify flying species -- Flower field was found on a scouting mission earlier in the life of the hive.
Timestamp update in 15 minutes.

Send half of the scouts to the south to identify the fliers and send the other half east to recheck for anything of use.

Send single ant from sentry duty to investigate flowers.

>>5533490
Send four more with him, for back up and better scouting. If something bad happens better chance of one returning to the hive to report.

5 ants on sentry duty -- 10 sent east to explore.
5 ants sent south to identify flying species 1 and investigate flowers.
(Is this acceptable?)

>>5533552
Send 4 more from harvesting fungus to help him investigate flowers.

>>5533552
I vote
10 sentry
5 east to explore.

>>5533577
Second.

TIMESTAMP! 3 hours.
The first batch of larvae have metamorphosed into ants -- Hive size increased to 450.
150 eggs have been laid -- 150 larvae will metamorphose into ants in 1 hour.

Little progress has been made in expanding the hive.
Food storage chambers can store 1000 ants worth of food -- reducing the number of workers in the hive has reduced excavation.
Food stores, 1350.


The one hundred ants sent to gather the sweet ooze will return with the food in one hour's time. Projected harvest rate minimum, 200 ants worth of food harvested every hour -- unknown quality of food may produce greater yields.

Ant deployment:
10 ants on grasstop sentry duty.
45 ants expanding nest.
45 ants tending larva -- each ant is tending slightly more than 6 larva. Projected larval losses: 0
50 ants harvesting fungus -- rate: 6 ants worth of fungus per half hour.
5 ants investigating flying species and flowers
5 ants exploring east
150 ants idle
100 ants heading west to begin collection of sweet ooze.

50 ants to expanding next.
50 to Sentry Duty

not sure what to do with the last 50 yet.

>>5533647
expanding nest*
and this is from the idle pile by the way.

Ant distribution updated.
60 ants on grasstop sentry duty.
95 ants expanding nest.
45 ants tending larva -- each ant is tending slightly more than 6 larva. Projected larval losses: 0
50 ants harvesting fungus -- rate: 6 ants worth of fungus per half hour.
5 ants investigating flying species and flowers
5 ants exploring east
50 ants idle
100 ants heading west to begin collection of sweet ooze.

>>5533736
idle ants to continue work on expanding nest, expecially food storage.

60 ants on grasstop sentry duty.
145 ants expanding nest -- primarily food storage ability. Expected food storage area within half hour: 1400 ants worth. Larval chambers will not be increased in size. Royal chambers will not be increased in size.
45 ants tending larva. Projected larval losses: 0
50 ants harvesting fungus -- rate: 6 ants worth of fungus per half hour.
5 ants investigating flying species and flowers
5 ants exploring east
100 ants heading west to begin collection of sweet ooze.

Timestamp! 3.5 Hours; .5 hours have passed.
Eggs have hatched -- 300 larvae.

The ants from the southern scout detail return -- with knowledge of the flying species and the flowers.
The flying species appear to be Drosophila Melanogaster.
!! Upgrade earned - first new species encountered!!
The flowers are of a wide variety, but they are in full bloom, brimming with pollen and nectar -- they do not appear to have attracted any species beyond the flies right now. None of the investigated flowers had any large seeds or particularly tasty looking seeds.

The grasstop scouts have noticed a number of the grass plants have a number of grain seeds up in the high levels. It might be edible.

Food stores: 1350 ants worth. -- all exposed to the elements.
Food storage capacity: 1400 ants worth.

Ant distribution:
60 ants on grasstop sentry duty.
150 ants expanding nest.
45 ants tending larva. Projected larval losses: 0
50 ants harvesting fungus -- rate: 6 ants worth of fungus per half hour.
5 ants exploring east.
100 ants collecting sweet ooze from the west.

Upgrade choices:
-Mandible strength
-swarm speed
-antenna sensitivity
-chitin thickness
-lifting strength
-improved hive bond
-improved egg clutch size
-improve intelligence
-Mutate new strain - Warriors or scouts
-Mutate 1d4 random strains. (1d20 to determine quality of each strain. >5 is detrimental. 6-11 is odd. 12-16 is good. 17-19 is great. 20 is Incredible strain.)
-Produce new queen.
-Random adaption (d30)

10 ants from nest expansion to bring food from outside into the nest (if by exposed to the elements you mean the food is sitting outside the hive and not in it's proper food area, if not ignore this)

Generalize Nest expansion, they can stop focusing on food storage for now.

Vote for improve intelligence upgrade.

>>5533873
-Mutate new strain - Warriors
or
-Mandible strength
>>5533208

I'm going to change my vote to mutation strain warriors actually. That's a better idea.

>>5533873
I vote for warriors

>-Mutate 1d4 random strains. (1d20 to determine quality of each strain. >5 is detrimental. 6-11 is odd. 12-16 is good. 17-19 is great. 20 is Incredible strain.)

Vote Mutate random.
On average, you get 2 strains, of which one will be good or better.
There's no downside, over time.

Mandible strength guys. We need to dig faster.

Also, stop harvesting the fungus for now so we don't exhaust our main food supply. We have enough for now, and later on we can use an Intelligence upgrade to start farming that shit in our nest.

Let's send ten of the former fungus-gatherers to make contact with the fruit flies and see if they're friendly. If so, make friends. If not, hunt them for food.

>>5533962
Also, please define:
Detrimental: To the nest, or to that strain of ant?
Odd: Not quite as good as normal? Or does it mean something else?

>>5533979
It probably means like an extra antennae or some weird shit like that. It might hwlp, or it might get in the way.

>>5533994
*help

/x/ approves

>>5534015
You said it yourself that you are actually /b/.
Now go home troll.

Detrimental strains are produced in incontrollable numbers, and are less useful than workers, actively harmful to the hive, passively harmful to the hive, or useless in general. (1 would probably be cannibalistic or similar such issues. the higher end of detrimental might just eat more, or work slower.)
Odd, on the other hand, can be things like honeypot (higher end of odd), poisonous to things which might eat them, resistant to poison, specialized for dealing with one species. . . That kind of thing.
Good is on par with warriors, scouts and the like.
Great could be inclusive of drone spawns, renaissance ants. Incredible are things which are truely one of a kind, and would represent multiple mutations to reach through other means. They might be the combination of everything good from digger, warrior, scouts, and harvester ants.

Oh. To elaborate on what I mean by uncontrollable numbers, is you don't get to determine how many larvae become those kinds of ants. Other strains you will dictate the individual #s of each strain with each generation.

3 for warriors
1 for mandible strength
1 for random strains

bringing it back to page 0

I don't agree with stopping the fungus harvesting but what we can do is take 10 off the fungus farming,
send 5 of that to make contact with the flies, and see if they are friendly as suggested, and send 5 to the grass plants to investigate the seeds.

what do we use fungus for anyways?

>>5534135
food

Updates: Upgrade chosen, Warrior strain.
Please include quantity of warriors for current metamorphosing larvae -- 150 total. Defaults to 150 workers.

Nest expansion generalized -- tunnels, royal chambers, larval chambers and food storage chambers all in excavation.

60 ants on grasstop sentry duty.
140 ants expanding nest.
45 ants tending larva. Projected larval losses: 0
Fungus not being harvested.
10 ants storing food from outside. Gatherers will now return food to food stockpile rather than leave it outside. Storage rate: 150 ants worth of food every half hour.
10 ants seeking to make contact with fruit flies -- arrival to field in half hour.
5 ants exploring east.
100 ants collecting sweet ooze from the west.
40 ants idle.

Timeskip will be posted in 15 minutes.

Reevalutating updates -- 35 idle ants will be reassigned back to harvesting fungus.
5 ants will investigate the grass grains.

>>5534147
50 to warrior

Make all 150 larvae warriors. Let's go fuck something up.

>>5534164
this but with even less on fungus.
5 on fungus
40 on gathering seed
5 on flies

>>5534175
I want to stick with just 50, we need the workers for other things.

I'm going to bed

>>5534167
I agree, 50 to warriors

>Drosophila Melanogaster is a species of Diptera, or the order of flies, in the family Drosophilidae.

>Females lay some 400 eggs (embryos), about five at a time, into rotting fruit or other suitable material such as decaying mushrooms and sap fluxes.

>It has a high fecundity (females lay up to 100 eggs per day, and perhaps 2000 in a lifetime).

The colony should attempt to enslave them for use as cattle. Future intelligence upgrades would facilitate this.

>Ant RPG

Also, take all those dudes off fungus duty. The fungus is heading towards extinction if I'm not mistaken, and more to the point, we've got plenty of food already and sweets coming in from the west. We're sitting pretty as far as food goes for the moment, and we can use the fungus in the future to farm within the hive, as someone mentioned earlier.

>>5534201
Concur.

>>5534234
agreed

Any idle ants should bring food in from outside, or if there is no food, excavate housing.
No ant should be idle, idleness is treason.

Attempt to make a strain that can grow the fungus on their backs.

>>5534260

CONCUR, GET THOSE ANTS MOVING

Timestamp: 4 hours.
The second set of larvae have metamorphosed into ants.
Hive population: 600.
All workers ants are now referred to just as "ants". Warrior ants are referred to as "warriors".


60 ants on grasstop sentry duty.
140 ants expanding nest.
45 ants tending larva. Projected larval losses: 0
Fungus not being harvested.
10 ants storing food from outside. Gatherers will now return food to food stockpile rather than leave it outside. Storage rate: 150 ants worth of food every half hour.
5 ants seeking to make contact with fruit flies -- Arrived. Unknown return timeframe.
40 ants are gathering grass seeds, at a rate of 40 ants worth of food per hour.
5 ants exploring east.
100 ants collecting sweet ooze from the west. -- Returned! They have brought with them a HIGH energy ant food! The 200 ants worth volume-wise estimate is able to feed five times as much as predicted, however it reduces ant efficiency at digging and exploring by 10%. !! First High energy food located! Upgrade gained!
100 ants idle. 50 warriors idle

Food storage capacity: 1600 ants worth.
Food stores:
750 normal energy food -- fungus. x1 feeding ability. 150 stored.
200 High energy food. x5 feeding ability. 150 to be stored.

Southern diplomacy ants have located the fruit flies and are attempting to make contact. Time allocation unknown. Chance of success, unknown. Estimated time to return, unknown.

-Mandible strength
-swarm speed
-antenna sensitivity
-chitin thickness
-lifting strength
-improved hive bond
-improved egg clutch size
-improve intelligence
-Improve strain - Warriors -- size and interdigitation
-Mutate new strain - Scouts
-Mutate 1d4 random strains. (1d20 to determine quality of each strain. >5 is detrimental. 6-11 is odd. 12-16 is good. 17-19 is great. 20 is Incredible strain.)
-Produce new queen.
-Random adaption (d30 -- 1 chance at improved adaption roll, various other chances for various levels.)

>>5534233
Can Drosphilia eat matter ants can't? If so, good idea.
Otherwise, its just a waste, converting food into food.

>>5534260

An idle ant is a commie mutant traitor ant. You don't want to be a commie mutant traitor, do you citizen?

Idle ants assigned to hauling.
210 ants hauling. Entire food stores will be inside within an hour.

**edit:
Returned western ants should've been idle.

I propose the high energy food be kept in reserve for warriors only.

Improve intelligence or hive bond.

50 warriors to guard queen, reassign drones.
Reassign all food harvesters to harvest high energy ooze.

Total 150 idle ants assigned as follows:
10 exploring north
10 exploring south
10 exploring west
10 additional to expanding nest
50 additional harvesters
50 ???

Upgrade Mandible Strength

>-Mutate 1d4 random strains. (1d20 to determine quality of each strain. 5 is detrimental. 6-11 is odd. 12-16 is good. 17-19 is great. 20 is Incredible strain.)

I feel like gamblin', let's get this shit rolling.

>>5534376
Agree'd, let's try this Xom style.

>>5534336
agreed
40 warriors to Sentry duty
10 warriors to protect queen

50 idle Ants to hauling food inside
25 idle ants to next expansion
20 idle ants more high energy food
5 idle ants to larva

new mutant strain intelligence.

>>5534336
Good idea. Concur high energy food for warriors.
Also for emergencies, high energy density for the storage space.

>>5534364

Really, shouldn't we be lacing the warriors in with the workers? Probably should've sent some on the fruit fly negotiations.

Well then again, we don't have a whole lot yet.

>>5534305
-Mandible strength
or
-improve intelligence

>>5534376
Disagree. We don't have enough warriors to deal with failed ants. If we get a 1, and 150 cannibal ants, our hive will be ruined.

>>5534416

Only if we can't find a rival colony to eat.

>>5534416

But Xom will be amused. I vote for random mutations.

>>5534305
Let's see 1d4 random strains, bitch

>>5534305
intelligence

>>5534416
You say that like it would be a bad thing. We can just roll up a new hive if that happens, we're still in the early stages of this game.

>>5534416

Fair point. Let's hold off until we have more muscle.

rolled 23 = 23

I'm always one to go all or nothing, RANDOM

Debate extension wanted?

>>5534449
Oh fine, I withdraw my sensible suggestion, and request 1d4 random strains.

>>5534464

Nah, screw it. Let's roll the dice, it's what we like to do anyway.

We could just massacre the mutants
Kill the xenos in the name of the Emperor!

>>5534464
Nah, lets keep it moving.

>>5534458
Only if we can go with this roll :3

>>5534465
We'll get intelligence next time, I promise.

rolled 4 = 4

Very well. 1d4 strain mutations has it. Rolling number of mutations.
Result will be number of valid d20 dices after this post to determine strain qualities.

>>5534487
oh fudge

rolled 10 = 10

>>5534487

>>5534487
awuh, hell yeah!

rolled 18 = 18

>>5534487

>>5534519

Man, I'm a pretty cool guy sometimes.

inb4 I'm upstaged by a 20.

rolled 15 = 15

fuck yeah

>>5534487
Get those warriors off guard duty and back inside.

rolled 2 = 2

Let's do this

rolled 3 = 3

Roll up, roll up.

ONE MORE STRAIN

C'MON, THERE'S GOTTA BE MORE THAN THREE GUYS IN THIS THREAD

>>5534546
>>5534543
bad roll mind

>>5534543

FUCK

>>5534551
So glad only 1 is getting used. Let's see the damage.

>5 is detrimental. 6-11 is odd. 12-16 is good. 17-19 is great. 20 is Incredible strain.)

2 - detrimental
10 - odd
15 - good
18 - great

>>5534580
almost 1 of each kind

>>5534580
I think the gamble was paid off.

So, what did we get?

rolled 3 = 3

2 -- Glutton ants or Sloth ants? These are supplimental. Neither will be explained exactly how they will affect the ants.
10 -- Kamikazi ants or Diver ants (Kamikazi ants can kill themselves to release a toxin into the air which can harm some species. Diver ants are able to fall great distances without sustaining as much damage.) These are supplimental strains -- One supplimental strain can be given to all ants in addition to their primary strain (Worker or Warrior)
15 -- Digger ants or Harvester ants?
18 -- Drone spawns or Infernic larvae?

Glutton, diver, digger, and infernic. We've got food, but we don't have much dug out yet.

>>5534623
I agree with this.

DIVER ANTS

WE SHALL TAME THE FLIES AND USE THEM AS MOUNTS

THE BEST PARATROOPERS ARE ONES THAT DON'T NEED PARACHUTES

>Infernic larvae

What will these do?

Sloth ants. Worthless is better than hungry. Also, easier to find and kill.
Kamikazi ants. That makes every ant dangerous. Also, suicidal ants tell us about what killed them.
Harvester ants.
Infernic Larvae!!

Sloth? At least they won't dig into the food for the good ants.

I don't think we have much need for either kamikaze or divers at the moment, but divers sound cooler so I vote them.

Diggers I say.

And finally I just want to know what infernic does, so let's go for that. Besides, it's an 18, can't be bad.

>>5534629
Who cares?! Infernic!

sloth
diver
digger
Infernic Larvae

>>5534623
>>5534628

This and especially THIS FUCK YEAR AIRBORNE ANTFANTRY

>>5534640

Infernic seems to be the one uncontested choice.

>>5534628

THAT IS AWESOME

Sloth can be more easily purged. Losing ants is automatically bad, so diver. Diggers are all kinds of useful, and harvesters only one type, so diggers. Drone spawn sounds useful, but infernic sounds FUCKWIN, so infernic.

Requesting total ant designation.
50 warriors.
550 ants.

Non-reassignable:
5 ants seeking to make contact with fruit flies -- Arrived. Unknown return timeframe.
5 ants exploring east.

Infernic Larvae will affect 1/2 larvae population -- All infernic Larvae will gestate in half an hour, as opposed to one hour. Additionally, infernic larvae will not consume food during their existance.
Infernic ants (those which come from the Larvae) will be more efficient than regular ants, and are significantly more aggressive.
Drone spawn will produce an additional number of ants equal to the number of eggs laid at the time of being laid. These spawn will not eat, and are effective as workers in general tasks; however they reduce the time it takes them to travel a given distance by one half hour. -- These drones only live for one hour though -- in short, they are very useful for scouting, recon, suicide rush, or just boost of productivity -- but are limited in range.

There is a TED talk on ants.
Learn while you play.

>>5534607
Sloth to kill the lazy bastards
Kamikaze Workers for extra defense
Digger ants will work to get deeper into the ground
A little more info about the last 2 would be nice

>>5534680
Kamikaze and Drone seems like a fuckwin combo

Sloth ants and Digger ants have been chosen. Will wait to see if any minds are changed by additional information on the Great Strains.
And divers vs kamikazi is still in debate.

Note, Drone Spawns do not have any form of strain beyond drone.

We need to start making inroads on our new mounts, and we need to enlarge our living quarters, but those might be better delayed for when the divers and diggers are spawned.

We should get an intelligence upgrade soon, so we can get started on farming fungus and taming flies.

>>5534686
Well, fuck. There goes my idea on Kamikaze Drones

If we need to start killing of our own bloody ants on the off-chance that the poison will kill whatever monstrosity is raping us, we deserve to have to reroll. DIVERTROOPER ANTFANTRY MUST HAPPEN.

>>5534687
That might take several upgrades...

>Infernic ants (those which come from the Larvae) will be more efficient than regular ants, and are significantly more aggressive.

Fuck yes. We should make all ants infernic. Devour the larvae that do not express the trait.

Let's go with Infernic Larvae and the Diver Strain

>>5534687
diver
Infernic Larvae

Int next.
Loyalty does what? Its not like ants are going to go treasonous or anything, are they?

Diver and infernal.

>>5534709
Fuck no. They'd eat our allies and farm animals and such. We need to keep them tucked away to unleash on our foes.

Diver. People, AIRBORNE FUCKING ASSAULTS.

Diver ants have it, as does infernic Larvae.

The more permanent an upgrade is, the better, in times like this...

>>5534715
Tucked away and as awesome diggers and divers. We're doing divers, damnit. Also, we better get a fucking upgrade again soon so we can get intelligence.

RE-Requesting total ant designation.
50 warriors.
550 ants. (10 non-reassignable)

Non-reassignable:
5 ants seeking to make contact with fruit flies -- Arrived. Unknown return timeframe.
5 ants exploring east.

Frankly, just the chance at paratrooping ants is enough to sell me on divers.

Also, I'm kinda sold on infernics.

>>5534712
If there is another queen then it's possible that it could use it's pheromones to take control of our ants

Increase intelligence, evolve exceptional leaping capability, combine Infernic and Diver ants, learn how to manipulate tools and craft armor and weaponry.

Bam. Ant Dragoons.

>>5534734

What's the hive looking like now?

40 warriors guarding queen
10 warriors guarding entrance
30 ants exploring non-east cardinal directions
150 ants excavating
No harvesting moss
50 ants bringing food in from outside
150 ants harvesting high energy goo
140 ants harvesting seeds &c

Archived for awesome
http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive/5533208/

Requested hive status --

Food storage capacity: 1600 ants worth.
Food stores:
750 normal energy food -- fungus. x1 feeding ability. 150 stored.
200 High energy food. x5 feeding ability. 150 to be stored.
600 total ants, 150 larvae.
General digging orders.
Royal Chambers fit for 1 Queen, and 2 Mates.
Food Storage Chambers: 1, size large, 1600 ants worth of food storage capacity.
Tunnels: 5 exploratory tunnels, one halted due to encountered wiry roots.
Nursery size for 600 larvae.

Next set of hatching larvae, we need another 40 warriors to be doing patrols around the hive. We should probably find out what those roots are, they might be more food we could use.

Let's have a team look at the wiry root situation. 5 or so should be sufficient to get a handle on things.

>>5534766


What is the current ant asignment?

Agree about checking the roots

>>5534791

Also, pull those 5 from excavators.

I'm asking for people to distribute ants to assignments again -- I lost the exact count at some point.
550 workers, 10 are away from the hive and cannot be reassigned (5 to flies and 5 headed east)
50 warriors.

>>5534759

I like this arrangement fine, except I'd want to pull 10 warriors from the queen and just have them patrol around the general vicinity of the hive; and also the 5 from the excavators to go check out the wiry roots situation.

>>5534759
This is seconded, except pull 40 ants from gathering seeds and and crap and move them to food hauling, to get it all inside.

Lets hatch 50 warriors, and 100 ants.
Then set the 50 warriors on patrol around the hive.

>>5534835
>>5534854
I second both of these.

>>5534854

Guy above you here, that's also fine by me.

>>5534858

Didn't know we had hatchlings coming up.

Edited:
40 warriors guarding queen
10 warriors guarding entrance
40 ants on patrol
30 ants exploring non-east cardinal directions
150 ants excavating
No harvesting moss
50 ants bringing food in from outside
150 ants harvesting high energy goo
100 ants harvesting seeds &c

>>5534870
I think we get hatchlings every turn.

I count 5 players in addition to Anti-Fate, btw.

>>5534874
you left non for larva

>>5534874
100 to high-energy, 50 to fungus.

>>5534914
We can't have 50 on the fungus, we'll kill the damn thing! Send those 50 to tending the larvae.

only 100 to harvesting energy goo,
other 50 to larva care

Timestamp: 4.5 hours. .5 hours have passed.
The queen has devoured 25 ants worth of fungus, and laid 150 eggs.

Food storage capacity: 1600 ants worth.
Food stores:
575 normal energy food -- fungus. x1 feeding ability.
5 hour mark will reduce food by 750. 575 stored.
100 medium energy food -- Grass seeds. x2 feeding ability. 100 stored.
200 High energy food -- Sweet ooze x5 feeding ability. -- reduces digging and exploration ability by 10% -- Reserved for Warrior consumption only. 200 stored.
600 total ants, 150 larvae, eggs 150.
General digging orders.
Royal Chambers fit for 1 Queen, and 2 Mates.
Food Storage Chambers: 1, size large, 1600 ants worth of food storage capacity.
Tunnels: 5 exploratory tunnels, one halted due to encountered wiry roots -- examined by 5 ants.
1 Nursery size for 600 larvae/eggs.

The roots appear to be the roots of the grass which surrounds the hive. Picture related to underground appearance. It is potentially edible.

Distribution of ants:
30 warriors guarding queen.
10 warriors guarding entrance.
10 warriors patrolling around hive.
30 ants exploring non-east cardinal directions. This will be non-reassignable after this timestamp until they return after having found something.
150 ants excavating
No harvesting fungus
90 ants finished food in from outside
100 ants harvesting high energy goo. This is a 1.5 hour round trip. Will return 200 ants worth of Sweet Ooze. Non reassignable. 1 hour remaining.
50 ants tending larvae.
100 ants harvesting 100 total grass seed per half hour.

>>5534888
been lurking. might wanna add me.

>>5534947
you can take my place, have fun, good luck guys.

Reassign 90 ants bringing food from the outside to seeds.
Do not eat the grass roots, grass hides us from predators.

Assess edibility of the grass roots.

>>5534970 has a point, but we should know if the colony can eat it in case of an emergency food shortage.


How is the Queen doing?

The Queen, is doing fine.
Actually, I now realize I should repost the intro stuff, because this thread will be archived. . . Gotta have that whole "WHO THE FUCK ARE WE ANYHOW?" explained. . .

>>5534935

Well, have one of the ants give 'em a nibble.

Although they might make for an interesting chamber if we can dig around them and avoid killing the grass; a room full of semi-columns!

In the beginning:

A vast cloth stretches endlessly in all directions, composed of thousands of colors, all unique threads, woven together in perfect harmony and elegance. A sparkle, and then a flash as the web of fate conspires to unravel -- the tiniest of sparks strikes upon a single thread, igniting it into the flame of independence.

A vast empty blackness consumes everything, endlessly large. Forward, inward, awareness creeps into one tiny point. A tiny insignificant creeping of awareness flares up within a single planet, though it shines throughout the web as a blazing light, blinding all that is nothing, until finally, you awaken.

You, it is instinctive that you realize, effortlessly, you are unique now. You have what no others have.
You, Queen of Ants, are conscious of your potential now. You are conscious of others potential, you can sense it.
You will not be alone for long -- the flame can only spread along the great fabric that exists, consuming all that fate had planned, leaving uncertainty and boundless potential.

You bless this world, as being the first, and, possibly the greatest thing, to ever be produced, made from the ashes of fate's work, you are made of change and growth. Your power flares once, changing you forever, beginning to shape you into something greater, forever changing your destiny. How are you changed, O Queen? Do you adopt a Grand Form? Do you access some latent strain of your species, to produce warriors unlike any other? Or maybe you produce a mobile scout strain? Do you develop a passive pheromone communication system? Maybe you are the ultimate breeder of Ants, your children hatching quicker than any other? Or is it that this power of yours has granted you a home, before all others? Or are you willing to let fate toy with your power?

Any news from the fly diplomats or the eastern explorers?

The fly diplomats have not returned yet.
The eastern explorers have not returned -- though they would not have returned quite yet, as they left at timestamp 3 hours and the first scouting party left at timestamp 0 hours and returned at timestamp 2 hours -- if I recall correctly.

Argentine ants are the final boss.

Lets have some time pass.

If we dig out new royal chambers among the roots, it'd be harder for enemies to tunnel directly into them, and she'd have an emergency food source if things go ploin-shaped.

>>5535068
Smart. Lets do it.

>>5535010

Dude, like, whoa. That's awesome writefaggorty, right there.

Also, I think we might need more warriors. Our defenses are spread thin as is, and although I don't quite know how big the hive is, 10 warriors sure won't be enough when we meet the hornets.

Let's imagine the worst horrors that could overtake us!

>>5535061

Better final boss.

>>5535088
1/3 of our larvae production goes to warriors.
And we have fully %20 of our ants on defense, either queen or patrol. More is unnecessary.

>>5535113

Thanks for clarifying, fellow ant.

Timestamp: 5 hours. .5 hours have passed.
The eggs have hatched. Half the larvae will metamorphose as Infernic larvae in half an hour's time.
The remaining larvae will metamorphose into their designated strains in one hour's time.
Designate how many larvae will be warriors, ants, or diggers. Designate if all ants will be divers (only one sub-strain you can select)

Food storage capacity: 1600 ants worth.
Food stores:
100 normal energy food -- fungus. x1 feeding ability.
190 medium energy food -- Grass seeds. x2 feeding ability.
200 High energy food -- Sweet ooze x5 feeding ability. -- reduces digging and exploration ability by 10% -- Reserved for Warrior consumption only.
600 total ants, 150 larvae, eggs 150.
General digging orders.
Royal Chambers fit for 1 Queen, and 2 Mates.
Royal Chambers in construction -- defensive chamber, in a root cluster.
Food Storage Chambers: 1, size large, 1600 ants worth of food storage capacity.
Tunnels: 4 exploratory tunnels.
1 Nursery size for 600 larvae/eggs.

The roots appear to be the roots of the grass which surrounds the hive. It is edible. Queen chamber being constructed within root cluster -- careful excavation will take about 2 hours without focused excavation.
Distribution of ants:
30 warriors guarding queen.
10 warriors guarding entrance.
10 warriors patrolling around hive.
30 ants exploring non-east cardinal directions. This will be non-reassignable after this timestamp until they return after having found something.
150 ants excavating
No harvesting fungus
100 ants harvesting high energy goo. This is a 1.5 hour round trip. Will return 200 ants worth of Sweet Ooze. Non reassignable. .5 hours remaining.
50 ants tending larvae.
190 ants harvesting 190 total grass seed per half hour.

rolled 14 = 14

Err self=fuckwit.
Anyhow.

Is there a way of increasing egg production, other than producing more queens?

Increased egg cluster size is an upgrade.

>>5535113

We could distribute them better, though. 30 warriors to guard the queen? We don't need a single warrior for the queen if we put them all to perimeter defense.

We've got a whopping 150 ants digging. If we hatch half of the current crop as diggers and the other half as diver warriors, that should do us fine.

>>5535140
If all our enemies are going to come through the perimeter. There's a reason we're mucking about with the root chamber.

Larvae: 50 warriors, 100 diggers.
We already have 150 ants digging, we might as well replace those at maximum speed.

All ants get the sub-strain diver. No reason why not.

Upgrade intelligence.

>>5535146

Have the newly hatched diggers focus on excavating the new Queen chamber.

Oh, and the 1d4 random ants worked out last time, I think we should do that again.

>>5535151
I second this.

>>5535151

I don't believe we have upgrades available at the moment.

But yeah, we do need to bump that up soon. I want my fly-riding paratroopers!

>>5535174

We shouldn't push our luck with the random mutations.

No larvae have metamorphosed yet (Even infernic still exist in larval form for half an hour -- the eggs just hatched into larvae)

And there is no upgrade right now -- upgrades are given when something important happens, when a first occurs, or when you guys do something clever.

>>5534888
hey are you doing it on that now? can you give the link?

>>5535192
QUICK GUYS THINK OF SOMETHING CLEVER.

>>5535191

Oh yes we should.

>>5535191
Are you kidding?
Its 1/4 badass, 1/4 normal, 1/4 paratrooper-ninjas, and 1/4 lame.
Plus we get to roll dice! What's not to like?

Time passes.

>>5535207
I think the majority is in favor of increasing intelligence at the moment.

Besides, I think upgrades applying to all ants forever are generally better.

we need to build escape tunnels in case of rain, predators ect.

>Plus we get to roll dice! What's not to like?

The 25% chance of getting fucked over.

>>5535216
This

Oh, I noticed; there are 150 larvae due to metamorphose and 75 infernic larvae due to metamorphose as well. Full tally of 225 ants to be please.

>>5535231
we can kill them or exile them. If they come back to kill us whatever their was a reason we exiled them.

>>5535228
True.
Are you >>5535068?
If so, you're ant in charge of central planning.

>>5535216

They're certainly more reliable, but they're not gonna give us the new capabilities the strains will.

Still in favor of intelligence for next upgrade though.

>>5535240
75 infernal warriors.
150 diggers. Same logic as before.

Are diggers any worse at other things, like harvesting and fighting, than generic drones?

>>5535240

Make the 75 Infernic larvae metamorph into Diver Warriors. The 150 normal ants should be split equally into 75 standard ants and 75 workers. Make them divers just because we can, and the lack of a better option.

>>5535257
Weren't we having 50 warriors?

>>5535265

shit. workers = diggers.

Diplomacy ants have been too long, flies must be hostile, hatch 50 warriors and kill them all. Enslave their children.

>>5535266
We just got 75 bonus ants, so I increase the number of warriors to keep at 1/3 total.

Sorry I should have been more clear -- you must designate all 150 larvae of the infernic inclusive group at the same time -- half of the total group will be infernic, the other half will not -> you don't get to pick specifically which are and are not infernic (IE you could say 150 warriors, and get 75 infernic warriors, but if you say 75 warriors, 75 diggers, ~1/2 of each will be infernic)
The 150 larvae of the previous do not include infernic potential.

And, diggers specialize in digging, quite obviously -- they move slower outside and are less efficient harvesters therefore. Combat wise, they are better inside the hive than workers, but outside they are inferior (basically, they have a slight bonus when inside the hive). They are inferior to warriors in combat though.

>>5535291
Oh, then same as before. 50 warriors, 100 diggers.

>>5535248

Central Planning Ant: He thinks ahead, so you don't have to.

>>5535312
Awsome fan art is awsome

Is that for both the full larvae group and the infernic inclusive group, or just one?

Well it is time for me to leave work so I won't be able to post for a good 40 min or so.

>>5535291
>>5535323

I'm >>5535068 but not >>5535228. And there's no such thing as a one-way tunnel. More exits means more entrances means spreading the guards thinner

>>5535337
And apparently numbering myself gave me a tripcode. Fun fun.

Anyway, we really need an intelligence boost. Otherwise we'll just keep putting things aside for later, like the currently-untouched fungus.

Are we smart enough to drag some underground to see if it survives?

>>5535323
Nobody seems to be answering the question, so I'll say both...

>>5535337
probably right.

Fuckit. Figuring it out is distracting and less entertaining. I'll just assume you wanted 50/100 for each larvae group.

Timestamp: 5.5 hours. .5 hours have passed.
The third batch of larvae have metamorphosed -- 113 are displaying Sloth characteristics.
50 are warriors, 100 are diggers.
37 warriors are displaying sloth characteristics.
75 diggers are displaying sloth characteristics.
75 infernic ants have metamorphosed. 49 are displaying Sloth characteristics.
Infernic ant distribution: 25 warriors, 50 diggers.
16 infernic warriors are sloth. 33 infernic diggers are sloth.
The queen consumes 25 ants worth of food (she does this regularly every hour now), and produces 150 eggs.

Food storage capacity: 1600 ants worth.
Food stores:
0 normal energy food -- fungus. x1 feeding ability.
380 medium energy food -- Grass seeds. x2 feeding ability.
400 High energy food -- Sweet ooze x5 feeding ability. -- reduces digging and exploration ability by 10% -- Reserved for Warrior consumption only.
600 total ants, 150 larvae, eggs 150.
General digging orders.
Royal Chambers fit for 1 Queen, and 2 Mates.
Royal Chambers in construction -- defensive chamber, in a root cluster.
Food Storage Chambers: 1, size large, 1700 ants worth of food storage capacity.
Tunnels: 5 exploratory tunnels.
1 Nursery size for 700 larvae/eggs.

The roots appear to be the roots of the grass which surrounds the hive. It is edible. Queen chamber being constructed within root cluster -- careful excavation will take about 1.5 hours without focused excavation. Digger ants will accelerate this to .5 hours if all digger ants are devoted to this area.

>>5535351
I thought the fungus grew underground already?

Also, tripcodes go Name#code.

Distribution of ants:
30 warriors guarding queen.
10 warriors guarding entrance.
10 warriors patrolling around hive.
30 ants exploring non-east cardinal directions. This will be non-reassignable after this timestamp until they return after having found something.
150 ants excavating
No harvesting fungus
100 ants harvesting high energy goo. This is a 1.5 hour round trip. Will return 200 ants worth of Sweet Ooze. RETURNED -- send out again?
50 ants tending larvae.
190 ants harvesting 190 total grass seed per half hour.
50 idle warriors.
100 idle diggers.
25 idle infernic warriors.
50 idle infernic diggers.

!! First of new strain born! You have 1 upgrade!

My, how did I miss this thing? Well, fruit fly plan was nice, they eat pretty much anything sweet. Anti-Fate, what's the upkeep cost of a fruit fly?

I recommend a fungus farm dug as soon as main tunnels (rearing/royal/storage chambers) are done, at the lowest possible level. They'll be a renewable source.

A few symbiotes will be nice too. I recommend scouting a bit more for aphids (or large blue butterfly caterpillars if we can identify them from others), checking for bullthorn acacia or other trees to make future tree nests and possibly making alliances with the woodboring beetles (longhorns etc. ) to that end.

Oh and, I also recommend having a few "grooming" ants to check the workers for parasitic fungi and the nest itself with parasites like certain butterfly caterpillars.

>>5535363
If it's growing on a rock on the surface, can't be sure it'd grow on dirt underground. We may have to uncover some underground boulders, or it might not grow without light at all. Do we really want to dig out an underground farm worthy of Dorf Fortress only to have the crop immediately fail?

>113 are displaying Sloth characteristics.
Ouch. There's the downside.

Intelligence, I suppose...

And I second the notion in a deleted post about working on a renewable fungus farm.

>>5535359
don't we have that one mutation that causes ants to suicide? we can just send the sloth ones to go off and suicide like in cave or something.

>>5535371
Fungi need no light, only food, water and oxygen (rotting leaves is good for the former. ) so the fungus farm tunnels need to be well-aired.

There were a few large leaves gathered from the last thread, are they still around?

And I'm going to assume we're going on very little knowledge here. We had to send a team of ant zoologists (and, for most of us, check Wikipedia) to realise that the flying things were fruit flies. We shouldn't go scouting for specific bugs - and we definitely shouldn't assume what sort of biosphere we're in. If I was to use my local knowledge, we'd be living in constant fear of bull ants and funnel webs.

>>5535381
No, we got divers.

>>5535369
Wow, we have an AntFag in our midst.

You're right, I forgot about ant mind-control fungus.
http://neurophilosophy.wordpress.com/2006/11/20/brainwashed-by-a-parasite/

Select from:
-Mandible strength
-swarm speed
-Antenna sensitivity
-Chitin strength
-Lifting ability
-Improved hive bond
-Random adaption
-Improved egg clutch size
-Improve intelligence
-Breed new strain: Scouts
-Mutate new strains: 1d4 (d20)
-Produce new queen
-Improve digger strain
-Improve warrior strain
-Reduce sloth strain prevalence by 10%

Also, don't fall into the trap of purging the sloths to improve the gene pool - we've got a single laying mother and she's tainted with Sloth after we rolled the dice on traits. We should learn to live with them, and assign the Sloths on less vital duties.

Also, we've got an upgrade. I say intelligence and start work on fungi farms (thankyou for my impromptu education on small growy things).

>>5535367
i say that we exile the ones displaying sloth traits. Is there a way we can bring the source of fungus closer to us? they are growing on rocks right?

>>5535423
Infernic sloths have NO COST TO US. There is no reason to exile them.

>>5535415
Concur on all points.

What effect does sloth have?
If they just move around less, maybe we can put sloths on queen-guard and larvae tending, because those aren't high energy activities anyway?

825 total ants mind you.
75 larvae.
Total food requirements for coming half hour? 900 food.
You CAN request the queen hold off on producing more ants for the time being.

If we're going to ditch the sloths, we should cannibalise them. Nobody wants a society of disenfranchised sloth ants biting us in the butt, especially with warriors, diggers and infernals on their side.

>>5535367
Should the fruit fly diplomacy force be back by now? If so, send 50 warriors to show the fuckers we mean business. Also, we need to build a portcullis in the entrance tunnel to our hive (wiry roots lowering a rock into place?) if we are going to start getting aggressive.

...what happens if a sloth ant eats high-energy goop?

>>5535442
Aw HELL naw. We don't know what we're dealing with yet. They could be cattle, they could be wild animals, they could be equals. Let's not spark a war.

Improve intelligence. Discover how to bypass the square-cube law, conquer humanity.

>>5535440
Are you worried if we ditch them? We can take the mi mean they have the sloth trait.

>>5535415
I agree. Sloths should be either on low-maintenance (scouting - no movement needed because of pheremones or fungus farming) jobs or go on to dangerous assignments. I propose sloth warriors are to form the first line in defensive battles (like defending the queen), so they die first.

By the way, I did praise fruit fly idea, but it has a big flaw - those things are tiny (a fact I despised in my lab sessions - trying to tell apart wildtype ones from white-eyes is a nightmare). What are the size of our ants?

>>5535458
Better to have them inside pissing out than outside pissing in.

>>5535437
Good point.

New loadout:
40 warriors guarding queen.
10 warriors guarding entrance.
50 warriors patrolling around hive.
30 ants exploring non-east cardinal directions. This will be non-reassignable after this timestamp until they return after having found something.
100 diggers digging
100 ants harvesting high energy goo again.
50 ants tending larvae.
Remainder of ants harvesting seed.

Digging to include fungus farm, pending confirmation of fungus viability.

Will this give us a positive food count?

there was another site we this was on. Does anyone remeber? I think the site was called webchat or something.

>>5535465
If the fungus farm idea flops, we can always repurpose the chamber as more food storage.

i like that analogy

May I suggest becoming "army ants" as a long-term goal?

Meaning that after the intelligence upgrade, we go for mandible an lifting strength, then focus on the ability to build massive armies to raid and harvest anything, no matter the size.

Pic related.

rolled 22 = 22

Result of feeding sloth ants high energy ooze is unknown and unpredictable currently -- no ant has consumed a significant quantity of the stuff anyway at this point.

>>5535476
I approve.

WE MUST LOOK FOR AN ENEMEH TO FIGHT, EXPAND THE WARRIORS TENFOLD THEN LOOK FOR PREY TO BE OUR SLAVES

>>5535477
I don't like the sound of that. We should definitely put aside some ants - some sloth, some not - to eat the goop exclusively and watch for side-effects before we need to rely on it for food. I say five regular diggers, five sloth diggers. They can work on the general excavations while we watch them, so we get an idea of how well they're working.

>>5535476
Our current goal is Fly-riding paratrooper ants.

>>5535476
In order to be an army ant, we need to produce some 100000-300000 eggs in a few days. Our current queen is not up to snuff, feasible in a few generations if we improve egg productivity though.

Did we reach the bump cap?

>>5535477
High energy ooze, high energy ooze... Fuck. That stuff isn't transparent by any chance, is it?

>>5535492

Sounds good to me.

Take some of the ants from Queen guarding duty to cover the entrances so we have a 20/20 split.

>>5535497
We could get moar queens, too.

40 warriors guarding queen.
10 warriors guarding entrance.
50 warriors patrolling around hive.
25 idle warriors~?

30 ants exploring non-east cardinal directions. This will be non-reassignable after this timestamp until they return after having found something.
100 diggers digging
50 diggers idle/harvesting seeds?
100 ants harvesting high energy goo again.
50 ants tending larvae.
400 ants harvesting seed.?

>>5535519
Lower that to 300 harvesting seed, put the new 100 to digging...

>>5535519
Idle warriors go on patrol.
Correct, 400 seed gathering ants.

>>5535534
We're consuming 900 food resources next tic, we need to get our food up to snuff.

sloth ants aren't that bad. They just burn through food faster right? We have plenty of food.

>>5535539
Ah, true. Nevermind then...

900 food consumed, 760 food in the form of seeds currently. at 400 workers getting seeds this number will increase by an additional 800 food worth in 400 space. -- a total of 1560 food -- a net loss for this specific tic of 100 food worth, but if sustainable for a time, will result in vast quantities of food.

In hindsight, we should've gone with gluttonous ants. Infernal ants that were gluttonous would have not been reduced in capacity at all.
Also, in case of low food supply, gluttonous ants don't eat, problem solved. Oh well.

>>5535567
Sounds good, time passes.

Timestamp: 5.5 hours. .5 hours have passed.
The fourth Larval group metamorphoses into ants.
49 display sloth characteristics.
25 are warriors, 50 are diggers
16 warriors are sloth, 33 diggers are sloth.
Food storage capacity: 1800 ants worth.
Food stores:
0 normal energy food -- fungus. x1 feeding ability.
335 medium energy food -- Grass seeds. x2 feeding ability.
398 High energy food -- Sweet ooze x5 feeding ability. -- reduces digging and exploration ability by 10% -- Reserved for Warrior consumption only. Currently testing High energy food effects on 5 sloth diggers and 5 normal diggers.
!! Clever action, Special chance upgrade!
900 total ants.

General digging orders.
Royal Chambers fit for 1 Queen, and 2 Mates.
Food Storage Chambers: 1, size large, 1800 ants worth of food storage capacity.
Tunnels: 5 exploratory tunnels.
1 Nursery size for 700 larvae/eggs.
Queen chamber being constructed within root cluster -- careful excavation will take about 1 hour without focused excavation. Digger ants will accelerate this to .5 hours if half the digger ants are devoted to this area.

>!! Clever action, Special chance upgrade!

Let's mutate. It's evolution, baby.

*Yawn* Time for bed.
I vote when we pause for the night, an extended time period passes, so when we get back we've got some infrastructure and some challenges.

We need to get our nest drawfagged.

>>5535623
I love that video.
We'll get bombs for our arial mounts soon enough.

40 warriors guarding queen.
10 warriors guarding entrance.
75 warriors patrolling around hive.

30 ants exploring non-east cardinal directions. This will be non-reassignable after this timestamp until they return after having found something.
150 diggers digging
100 ants harvesting high energy goo again. 1 hour until return.
50 ants tending larvae.
400 ants harvesting seed.

Special upgrade option:
Select from:
-Mandible strength
-swarm speed
-Antenna sensitivity
-Chitin strength
-Lifting ability
-Improved hive bond
-Improved Random adaption Roll (1d30 ~ very small chance of bad things happening -- 1/30 chance of supernatural adaption)
-Improved egg clutch size
-Improve intelligence
-Breed new strain: Scouts
-Mutate new strains: 1d4 (d20)
-Produce new queen
-Improve digger strain
-Improve warrior strain
-Reduce sloth strain prevalence by 10%

And Intelligence was the choice from last time yes?

>>5535452
Far enough. It would be wise to scout out what happened atleast so we know what we are dealing with.

also, PORTCULLIS GET

Intelligence last time, yes.

What now...

>>5535595
I recommend a small fungal farm test area for diggers. Better test if the fungus is compatible with underground environment before investing significant effort to it.

I have two questions as well: Is the high energy goop a transparent whitish stuff? We'd be in a big mess if the goop is nothing but snail secretions (which ants love to eat) full of lancet flukes.

How large are our average worker ants? Can the queen produce smaller ants on command?

If we produce a new queen, we'll have a constant source of regular, non-slothful workers, and the other one can concentrate on diggers and warriors.

And we can put one in the root cluster and one in the current chambers.

The high energy ooze is produced from a large number of plants to the west -- not from an animal. Additionally, it smells incredibly sweet, and overpowers the ants pheromone production ability temporarily with consumption. It is a clear-blueish color -- not the most natural looking of substances.
Average workers are about the size of a Pharaoh ant.

Should we get a new thread? >.>

I'd want to improve something like chitin strength, but... I suppose I'm too indecisive.

>>5535638
Reduce sloth strain prevalence by 10%
We are cutting it close

If we're going to go carnivorous we should enlarge the food stockpile. Gathering means a steady supply, but hunting means a fuckload all at once and then nothing for a while.

Also, I support the trial fungus farm.

>Average workers are about the size of a Pharaoh ant.

So about two millimeters.

>>5535721
The sloth isn't damaging enough to burn an upgrade on it. It's at about 60% at the moment, so we'd need to burn SIX to get rid of it. That's the same as six new queens, or three new queens with a roll-the-dice upgrade apiece.

I said extra queen, but I'd go mandible strength too.

>>5535727
No dietary restrictions.
Omnivores only.
Final Destination.

>>5535713
Thanks. I thought it was just on the plants, but I suppose it's relatively safe if harvested directed from plants, unless there's some cercariae that encysts on plants... But nah, they need either water or snails, not really possible either.

Damn, I sure am being paranoid about the safety of a bunch of fictional ants.

>>5535749
Then we need extra space all the more, to support both the constant influx and the occasional huge bounties. Better to have huge caverns holding a few seeds than trying to stuff a housecat into a chamber the size of your fist.

I will mention, that the improved random adaptation is not likely to be an option again for awhile.
And as for exact numbers:
1-3 bad adaption
4-11 odd adaption
12-18 good adaption
19-26 great adaption
27-29 unique adaption (Not possible on regular random adaption roll -- thus only possible with a roll of 30 and then 27-29 on most upgrades -- 3/900 chance)
30 Supernatural adaption (Not possible on regular random adaption roll -- thus only possible on a roll of 30 and then 30 on most upgrades -- 1/900 chance)

>>5535743
I guess the new queen is the best investment. We have plenty of food, too.

And haven't we improved intelligence already?

A new thread would be good, unless Anti-Fate plans on stopping soon. I hope not, shit is getting interesting.

>>5535762
I say we do this if it's a one-off chance. If we fuck it up we can always burn a later upgrade on a new queen, then eat the old one and start anew, buying the good upgrades the hard way.

Many upgrades are not limited to a single instance of being able to get them.
Notables are:
The basic stats (mandibles through hivebond), egg clutch size, and intelligence (as non-random/non specific 1time bonus)

>>5535771
I agree.

Hmm. Yeah, if the option isn't likely to crop up again, we should take the chance. I retract my suggestion for mutating new strains in favor of improved random adaptation.

>>5535771
Fine. Let's gamble.

Pray to the dice gods...

Sounds like a quorum. Heaven or hell, let's rock, assuming we can recover if it's hell.

Ants In Your Pants Dance for luck.

Alrighty then. Heres how this is going to work.
First post after this one, with a d30 dice roll is the number.
Remember, FATE WATCHES YOU.

And for the record -- you have even chances of getting odd and getting a UNIQUE upgrade.
I HOPE YOU ROLL A 1.
:D

rolled 30 = 30

C'MON DICE GODS

>>5535833
FUCK YEAR.

>>5535833

Also, we need a new thread. This seems a good place to make the jump.

You are bloody fucking welcome~!
Anti-Fate's a true name innit.
I think this deserves three things:
Suspense.
Writefaggotry.
Awesomeness.

I'll ask a few questions before figuring out exactly what supernatural ability the hive will gain. . .

I'm thinking I'll make another piece of written stuff for the start of next thread -- which will be Monday August 24th, 8 PM PST.

>>5535833

Central Planning Ant gets extra rations this cycle.

>>5535880
Central Planning Ant will be there.

>>5535880
D:

Question 1: Evil or Good?
Question 2: Growth or Strength?
Question 3: Suffering or Hatred?
Question 4: Robe and Wizard Hat or Tactical Genius?
Question 5: Haff hyuu cap-tord eet fo Kha-Oyss or what do you need cerebrate?
Question 6: Crush the infidels or all their base are belong to us?
Question 7: Set them up the bomb or zergling rush?

And these actually all do factor in, in non absurd ways to how I design this ability.

My votes:

1: Evil
2: Growth
3: Hatred
4: Tactical Genius
5: What do you need cerebrate?
6: All their base are belong to us
7: Set them up the bomb

rolled 1, 1, 1, 1, 2, 1, 2 = 9

Dice blessed us once why not twice?

Question 1: Evil
Question 2: Strength
Question 3: Suffering
Question 4: Tactical Genius
Question 5: What do you need cerebrate?
Question 6: Crush the infidels
Question 7: Zergling rush

>>5535943
1. Evil
2. Growth
3.Suffering
4. Robe and Wizard Hat
5. What do you need cerebrate?
6. Crush the infidels
7. zergling rush.

>>5535833

Evil, Growth, Suffering, Robe and Wizard Hat, Haff hyuu cap-tord eet fo Kha-Oyss, all their base are belong to us, and... Set them up the bomb, I guess...

Evil Growth Cerebrate seems to have taken the day. The rest are more shaky.

Evil
Growth
Suffering
Tactical genius/Robe and wizard hat -- tie
what do you need cerebrate?
all their base are belong to us/crush the infidels -- tie
set them up the bomb/zerglingrush -- tie

Should still be enough to design a good ability. . .

Evil/Growth/Suffering/Cerebrate... this is going to be fun.

So far I'm considering offering:
Instinctive teleportation
Warped burrowing
Deathly vigor
Thunderstriders
Dominate lesser mind
Mind devourer

>>5535961 Here...

I don't mind changing my set them up the bomb choice, or my robe and wizard hat choice.

>>5536027
Awsome, awsome to the max

>>5536027
>>5536027
PSYCIC ANTS! USE OUR NEW POWERS TO RAPE PICNICS!

But now, its time for bed.
Even one who strives to be everything which fate isn't, can still succumb to the most basic of living fates -- sleep.

Don't forget to update the archive if you want everyone to remember the 30.

>>5536062
Three cheers for Anti-Fate! He's take us on a journey we hadn't imagined since we played SimAnt as kids!

>>5536101
sim ants had PSYCIC ANTS?

>>5536115
It did when I dreamed...

Also in my dreams, it didn't randomise the freakin' tunnels every time you switched area. WHAT the FUCK, SimAnt. Would it be too much to ask for you to save the tunnel layout?

>>5536027
>Dominate lesser mind
Well, there are actual ants that use "propaganda pheromones" to confuse enemy ants and termites. Exposed to these pheromones, insects will begin to attack their own kind.

This is the most realistic of the possible "supernatural powers."

anyway we need teleportation. Think of how fast we can gather food and flank enemies.

Teleporting zerg rush? Fuck yes.

>>5536198
completely unrelated but what happened to the tgchannel?

>>5536206
>>5536198
for livestream

in this thread dead?

are you guys continuing tomorrow?

>>5535880

>I'm thinking I'll make another piece of written stuff for the start of next thread -- which will be Monday August 24th, 8 PM PST.