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Brief Description of What This PR Does

This PR contains some cherry-picked changes from #7319 that are not directly connected to the axon itself. Bugfixes, harmonisations between editor/auto-evo and gameplay, etc.

  • Membrane properties no longer affect organelle propulsion. (in gameplay, this was already the case for the editor)
  • Membrane properties are no longer applied to base speed twice.
  • For the gameplay movement system, only the leader's base movement now scales with the number of cells (organelles are handled like organelles in other cells)
  • sprinting is now applied to all cells, instead of just the leader.
  • CellBodyPlanInternalCalculations' Calculate Speed now uses shapemasses/estimates for both the base speed and organelle propulsion of all cells including the leader. (instead of only using the mass from the leader for base speeds) This makes it more comparable to how MicrobeInternalCalculations works.
  • The above when called from auto-evo now uses a massestimate instead of (the leader's) shapemass.

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  • Gameplay
    • Updated movement speed calculations for multicellular organisms and colonies to better account for body mass and movement contributions from all cells, including the leader.
    • Adjusted how flagellar thrust and membrane properties affect movement, and refined sprint force behavior.
    • Improved consistency between estimated and calculated movement speeds.
…easing all movement bonuses coming from organelles.
…ally has an axon before trying to activate it.
…g that seems less likely to go way out of bounds.
… colony's speed calculation, and made it overall more accurate.
This reverts commit f1b48da.
This reverts commit 2c49cb1.
…er compatibility rewrites."

This reverts commit 865df4c.
…ell actually has an axon before trying to activate it."

This reverts commit 3b30473.
This reverts commit 6d2684d.
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Microbe speed calculation now uses a helper to calculate physical shape mass. Multicellular speed calculation supports estimated or calculated mass, and the simulation cache requests the estimate path. Movement-force processing now applies flagellar thrust and sprint scaling at different points.

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Movement speed calculations

Layer / File(s) Summary
Microbe shape-mass calculation
src/microbe_stage/MicrobeInternalCalculations.cs
CalculateSpeed delegates physical shape-mass calculation to CalculateShapeMass. Documentation describes the speed calculation inputs and estimate option.
Multicellular speed and estimates
src/multicellular_stage/CellBodyPlanInternalCalculations.cs, src/auto-evo/simulation/SimulationCache.cs
CalculateSpeed accepts useEstimate, includes the leader’s organelles, and selects estimated or calculated mass. The simulation cache passes true for multicellular speed calculations.
Microbe movement force
src/microbe_stage/systems/MicrobeMovementSystem.cs
The colony movement calculation adds the leader’s raw flagellar thrust. Sprint scaling and strain-state assignment now occur after colony movement-force processing.

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Change: Bug fix

Suggested reviewers: hhyyrylainen

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 632fb

Opposing leader flagella are counted as cumulative thrust in editor and auto-evo speed calculations, overstating movement speed for affected colonies; correct this before merging.

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The changes remain within game simulation calculations. No expanded privileges, external access, or weakened isolation were identified. Calculation inconsistencies and limited evidence about concurrent execution and recovery leave some uncertainty.

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Security Blast Radius

  • inferred — The demonstrated influence is over local cell and colony motion, energy consumption, and calculated species speeds. The inspected changes do not add a privileged sink or broaden authority beyond the existing simulation-to-physics path.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

  • observed — Player or AI movement direction remains input to the existing force calculation. That path constrains movement to the horizontal plane, caps direction length, and applies the result through the existing physics-control call; these controls are unchanged by the inspected diff.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

  • observed — Invalid-member exceptions still schedule colony disbanding outside the active update. Energy consumption and partial force changes are not transactionally rolled back, but that recovery model predates this PR. The source supports preservation of the cleanup mechanism, not proof of recovery under every interruption or concurrent execution.
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Review comments at @src/microbe_stage/systems/MicrobeMovementSystem.cs:
- Line 329: Update the leader thrust flow in MicrobeMovementSystem so
thrustForce is added before CalculateColonyImpactOnMovementForce applies the
actomyosin multiplier, while keeping leader thrust outside the cell-count
scaling. Preserve the existing base-movement behavior.

Review comments at @src/multicellular_stage/CellBodyPlanInternalCalculations.cs:
- Around line 52-53: Update the movement calculation around
CalculateBaseMovement so flagellar thrust from every cell, including the leader,
is projected onto one shared movement direction before being added; exclude
opposing thrust, consistent with MicrobeInternalCalculations.CalculateSpeed.

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var speed = MicrobeInternalCalculations.CalculateBaseMovement(leader.MembraneType, leader.MembraneRigidity,
leader.ModifiableOrganelles.HexCount, leader.IsBacteria);

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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Preserve direction-aware leader propulsion.

The replacement calculates only the leader’s base force. The all-cell loop then adds every leader flagellum’s full force at Line 107, without checking its direction.

For a leader with two opposite flagella, this counts both forces together. MicrobeInternalCalculations.CalculateSpeed instead projects thrust onto a movement direction and excludes opposing thrust. The changed calculation therefore overstates colony speed in the editor and auto-evo.

Project flagellar thrust onto a shared movement direction before adding it, including the leader’s thrust.

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Update the movement calculation around CalculateBaseMovement so flagellar thrust
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It really makes no sense to check the direction for only the leader cell, which will be one out of many. If it is agreed that this is a concern, then the method needs to be further overhauled to check the direction for all cells.

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@Accidental-Explorer, agreed. A leader-only direction check would leave the same problem in the other cells.

My intended recommendation was to project propulsion from all cells onto one shared movement direction, including the leader. The leader example highlighted the changed behavior, but it made the scope unclear.

That requires a broader change to CellBodyPlanInternalCalculations.CalculateSpeed, not the “quick win” I described. If direction-aware propulsion is required, it should apply consistently to the whole colony.


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Learning: In src/multicellular_stage/CellBodyPlanInternalCalculations.cs, direction-aware propulsion in CellBodyPlanInternalCalculations.CalculateSpeed must consider all colony cells against a shared movement direction. Checking only the leader is insufficient because the leader is only one contributor to colony propulsion.

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