Monday, October 21, 2024

Proposal: Advanced Genetics

In the rule “The Laboratory”, add the following text at the end of the first paragraph:

A Genetic Engineer or an Organism who has a Position of a specific Room is said to be “in” that Room. Otherwise, they are not “in” that Room.

In the rule “Synthesis” replace the text “A Mutation consists of changing the Nucleotide at a specified position in the Genome to a different Nucleotide.” with the following text:

The valid choices for Mutation are listed in the Mutations subrule. Each such Mutation has a Cost, which is the amount of Research Points that must be spent to submit the Mutation request and may be 0, and the Requirements, which must be true for the Genetic Engineer who is submitting the Mutation request and may be None.

In the rule “Synthesis”, add a subrule named “Mutations” with the following text:

{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Mutation !! Cost !! Requirements
|-
| Change the Nucleotide at a specified position in the Genome to a different Nucleotide || 0 || None
|-
| Pick two distinct specified locations in the Genome and swap the two Nucleotides at those positions with each other || 1 || None
|-
| Choose any valid Nucleotide and a specified position in the Genome to insert the chosen Nucleotide || 2 || Must be in the Computer Lab
|}

Comments

Lukas: Head Researcher

21-10-2024 13:44:11 UTC

for I think the language of the Synthesize action doesn’t adequately account for the new Mutations, but we have time to fix that.

JonathanDark: he/him

21-10-2024 14:45:31 UTC

Is it the phrase “if two or more Mutations specify the same position, the Nucleotide at that position remains unchanged”? My intention was that the first two of the proposed Mutations could conflict with each other. I guess it would be harder to cover the third one, and in fact my intention was that the third would never have a conflict, thus the higher cost and requirement to be in a specific room to do it.

Lukas: Head Researcher

21-10-2024 15:04:21 UTC

Yes, in part; it’s a little unclear how “swap the two Nucleotides at those positions” interacts with “the Nucleotide at that position remains unchanged”.

Also with insertions, the order in which the Mutations happens makes a difference.

I’ll propose a clarification

Desertfrog:

21-10-2024 16:42:19 UTC

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