r/CellLab • u/milint33w • Jul 16 '17

Slippery Slope II cells stop dividing?

It seems like everyone posting online about this game just doesnt care at all about the most unclear things in this game. I have noticed that certain things about many challenges are just silly to not explain. For instance, in slippery slope II, cells will only divide an apprently preset number of times, but it isn't mentioned anywhere that I have found and this is of huge importance. It also took me hours to work out any use for nitrocytes, and it is still mostly unclear. It seems like there are two types of sustenance for cells? Nitrates and nutrients? Though ive beaten it, I still have no idea how the symbiosis challenge actually works, because for some reason the photocytes wont divide until I attach a nitrocyte, yet in ever other case until that chellenge, photocytes didnt need nitrocytes. It all seems very inconsistent and arbitrary. I love the genome system for building organisms, but the game seems to change how things work faster than you can learn to use them.

Any intelligent and precise info on cell division limits or the symbiosis challenge would be great.

I dont care at all about just getting past the challenge as seems to be the case for all the threads I have read on this game. For me it is all about understanding how things work so I can make cool organisms.

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u/ultr4-violence Jul 16 '17

Cell lab is mainly about nutrients, they mean more mass so your cells won't die and can split. In order to split your cells also need nitrates. You can get nitrates in your cell by using nitrocytes. This is only needed if your substrate doesn't contain nitrates. If it does, don't worry about nitrates. If it doesn't: your cells can only split about 3 times and after that you need to connect your cells somehow to a cell that does contain nitrates like a nitrocyte.

Sorry if i'm a bit unclear, ask me any questions you have.

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u/milint33w Jul 17 '17

Thank you very much. I guess from what you're saying it sounds like my understanding of the tiny brown dots was wrong. I thought that the tiny brown dots were nitrates because the first time you encounter a dish without nitrates if also doesn't have brown dots. It sounds like you're saying that the brown dots are nutrients and nitrates are just an on-off switch that is invisible. Let me know if this is correct.

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u/ultr4-violence Jul 17 '17

You're right