Petri

Every hex holds finite nutrients clustered in veins. All agents harvest identically — the social layer decides who keeps the value. Dopaminergic agents suppress their closest lower rival's recognition, hoarding the surplus. Serotonergic agents pool recognized value with collaborators, sharing the surplus. Neither is stronger at harvesting. The difference is purely in what they do with the harvest.

click a hex to inspect · spawn You to walk the dish

Run

Speed 90 ms

Readout

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0neutral (M)

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0.00cultural coherence

0.00avg value obtained

standing concentration (top decile share)

Conditions

Founders 18

Founders apply on New dish. No strategy dial: commitment, culture, standing and recognition are all emergent. Watch value converted — it rises as a colony sorts into culturally coherent communities.

Environment

Abundance 1.0x

Scales initial resource stock and regeneration across the dish. Lower values force immediate scarcity.

Inspector

Nothing selected. Click an agent.

Legend

D — suppresses rival's recognition, hoards surplus

S — pools with collaborators, shares surplus

M — balanced, conforms to local norm

green hex rich soil (high nutrients)

brown hex depleted soil

arc D suppressing closest lower rival

Sim