... "smell logic," but rather to give a feeling of organization to their community at large, which many of us feel sure even a simple pheromone system would provide quite well.

... this would fit with the concept of pollution and could easily use existing mechanisms, weaker computers could have problems passing all those pheromones around. I really like the idea of death pheromone. Could be used to make biters seem intelligent: place of death would be dangerous and thus ...

... with, at the very least, allowing the pollution "layer" (or any chunk based overlay) to be visible (and extensible) to modders. That way pheromones, multiple types of pollution, or even things like altitude or underground resource availablility/richness can be implemented with better ...

+1 for simple pheromone based pathfinding! Have them drop a danger pheromone every time they die. Any areas with danger pheromones costs more in the pathfinding calculation. The pheromone's slowly dissipate over time. What it means ...

... Just set some massive wall of lasers in their path. And because that's no fun I wanted to suggest that dead biters "smell". But pheromone and layers of pheromones - that's somehow cool and it could really work very fine.

Pheromone based pathfinding was one of the things we considered... it would have been fun

... the player base. Change the pollution system so that it updates slower and supports more channels/layers of stuff. Use these for biter chemicals, pheromones, hormones, whatever. Killing biters should create a slowly dissipating cloud of danger stuff, biter food should create a cloud of some attractive ...