| ROR | YRO | ORO | YUR | ORR | ROI | RGY | |
| UIR | YGY | ROY | GYR | RRG | GYG | IRR | OYU |
| OIR | YIR | GYI | YUI | ROI | GYU | OYK |
| RRR | YRR | OYK | ROG | RGR |
LOOKING FOR GRO
Going to ramble a bit about 2789 and then Bard's Song. 2789 was mutated from Bard's in 7 hits, making a 9/7/11/0/1 flax. It put a GROY in RRGYGY by adding a RO (2 hits) which lost a flax and rot. A new GY (extra flax) was added in for a GYGYGY string (2 hits). An O was added for a ROGY. And 2 'I's were removed, last two hits. All of which show up in Ariella's solvent findings above. The RRR was created with one of the i removals, the YRR with the other i hit. The ROG was from adding a 0 to a RRGY for a ROGY water test, which failed to remove the water that the extra flax created. And finally, I put the GROY at the very end of the string in an RRGYGY, changing it to RRGROYK, which show up in the RGR and OYK. This was a test flax and Ariella's solvent work on it prove that the hits I made on it were accurate. Her solvents on this flax also don't show up anything new for Bard's Song, only the mutagen hits that were added to it. Finally, the addition of GROY to Bard's does NOT prevent phosperous from dropping at the usual 4% that all other Bard's manipulations have shown to do.
Now, some interesting things about Bard's Song. It's a VERY long string, my guess is 83 in length. At 83, all mutagen hits line up accurately, though with the wide range in the min max table, this could be off. But on a scale of 100, there were 9 rot/flax combo hits across the scale, suggesting 9 RRGYGY in the string. There are at least 3 unique i instances in UIR, OIR, and YIR. There are at least 2 unique u instances in YUR and YUI. Everytime an IOR (the reverse of OIR) is created, all seeds are lost (this could be IRO instead). There can be more than 1 ROY. A ROY hit, leaving no ROY at all, leaves no flax at all, too, just rotten, but if a second ROY is created, then hitting the original ROY doesn't loose the flax if hit. One test I did was to remove all i's and u's from the string. Unfortunately, I think at least one i was missed, and one u was missed, but this string only dropped the phosperous 1% instead of the usual 4%---Tedra
Clarification, ROGY, as suggested elsewhere as a water removal may work on the old original flaxes, it just didn't work on a bard mutation that had one water added. Haven't tested two water.
Further tests with explanation. I believe there are two UI and 1 solo U in the string (the one that is tacked to ROY--ROYU) for a total of 3 U, and 3 ROI, 2 solo 'i' (they just separate flax) and the 2 'i' in the 2 UI, for a total of 7 'i's.
I removed one U from a UI, and the other UI (2 U gone, 1 i gone), 2% phosperous drop instead of 4% (correction, 1 U was unreachable)
I removed the other i from the UI, so both UI gone, no change, 2% phosperous drop (correction, 1 U is unreachable with current mutagens)
I removed the two solo 'i's from this same string, very quick phosperous drop, but otherwise no change, 2%
I removed the other three i's, changing all three to ROR, so all i's gone at this point, and both UI, leaving just one U, the ROYU--no change, 2% drop. (only 2 of the three U's are reachable)
A new string, I swapped out the two i's on the two UI's, making them UR's, same as the ROYUR so all three U's are now YUR in this string, 2% drop.
Of note, the 2% drop may or may not be significant, since I like my beetles, I only kill one every other plant round to check the phosperous, so in fact, any or all of my previous planting tests that showed up 4% phosperous drops, could have in fact been 2% drops first, with a quick 2% more dropping on the next planting, though I doubt it.
New test, fresh string, the three ROI. Oddly, pronounced the same as ROY? I have turned all three into ROY's, so I have 4 ROY's in this string. I did them separately first to confirm the Y's went in by testing a hit on the original ROY--explanation, if ROY is hit, with no other ROY in the string, the result will be 0 flax, 9 rotten. So I created each new ROY separately first, hit the original ROY to make sure there would be no flax loss, proving there was a second ROY, then created the string with all three new ROY in it. Ran out of time to plant test this last night. Dropped Phosperous 3% at round 23, the longest run yet.
New string. Observation, ROY is in bard, but even with a GROY created, it drops the phosperous. Tried a ROY in the reverse. Without removing ROY, I added an OR to the string by moving ROY over a little, so it's now ROYORU. Didn't work, dropped 3% at 9 rounds.
New string, created a UROY, swapping the U to the front of the ROY, had the biggest single chunk of phosporous dropping in just 2 rounds, 5%
A new string with all 'i' removed had the quickest phosporous drop, 2% while just planting for seeds.
New string, I created a RUY. Not sure why I decided to hit ROY with this new RUY in the string, but in fact, hitting ROY didn't lose flax as expected. The only other times the original ROY kept the flax was if a 2nd ROY was in the string. Very odd. I plant tested the RUY with the ROY in the string first, dropped phosperous 4% just from seeding. Also plant tested the string with just the RUY in, no ROY. It dropped phosporous 4% at round 6.
Sighs. This flax is burning me out.
The two new letters in this genome are 'i' 'u'. I tried the UROY above. Tried an IROY as well. This one went 24 rounds, longest yet, before it dropped the phosporous 4%.