[Activity] Agario Party

Eat cells or die trying:
You are a cell, wandering around and absorbing smaller cells to grow. Larger cells, likewise, seek to absorb you. Survive by gliding around obstacles and other cells, but be careful of the viruses!

Game Mechanics Explained In Depth

Things you are told and things that are obvious:

• Eat blobs smaller than you to grow in size
  
• Use the space bar to send 50% of your mass flying at a blob to eat it
  
• Use the W key to eject some mass
  
• Viruses are the mid sized green 'spiky' blobs which cause blobs larger than them to explode into many smaller parts if they consume them. 
  
• Small blobs can hide inside of viruses with no negative effects (use this to your advantage when starting out)
  

Things you are not told and things that are not obvious:

• You can have a skin!
  
• Every cell experiences a passive loss of mass in relation to their current size (larger cells lose mass much, much faster than smaller cells)
  
• Score is simply the largest mass you have had this current life.
  
• You must be 25% larger (mass) than another blob to absorb it (that means your diameter must be ~11% larger than another blob to absorb it)
  
• Holding down the space bar will cause you to cover much more distance when you split No longer true
  
• Feeding a virus, by using w to eject mass into it, 7 times will cause it to create another virus which will launch out of the current virus and go somewhere from 7 to 12 units in distance (Thank to "RightToBearArmsLOL" for the gif)
  
• Ejecting causes you to lose 16 some mass related to your size but the ejected mass only has 90% of what you lost
  
• The maximum number of cells you can be split into is 16
  
• Viruses do not always cause the player to split; there is a cap to how many pieces you can be, which changes quite often and is currently 16, if you are already at this threshold you can simply consume a virus as though it were any other cell (Thanks to "NSPR" for the gif)
  
• At certain sizes you reach milestones which unlock new abilities (you can choose to display the mass of your cell by selecting "Show Mass" in the options when you name your cell):
  ▲ Size 32: Eject a blob of size 16 to increase your passive movement speed or feed a virus
  ▲ Size 150: Create another virus by feeding an existing virus 7 times
  ▲ Size 150: Large enough to explode an existing virus
  ▲ Size 1900~: Due to passive loss of mass (about 20/s) it becomes nearly impossible to retain size by eating neutral blobs (which only contribute a single point of pass each)
  ▲ Size 30,000 22,500: The Maximum Size Limit
  

If you have any question, please, don't hesitate to ask!
You can also check this two part guide here and here

Now about this activity.

When: Anytime! Whenever you want and can catch another to play with you. If not with a member of the forum or Discord server, you can still enjoy the game on your own and meet new people.

Where: Currently, we favor AgarioPlay which unlike its official version is usually less laggy, easier to keep in touch with people via a little chat on the boards and to connect with your buddies and make sure you end up on the same board if you pick the same mode. We also suggest to use the Team Europe Mode on the drop down menu. This mode counts a number of team that can go from one to three. They are split in three colors: Blue, Red and Green. You might want to check the little gear button too to adjust the settings to your preferences. (Dark Theme is usually less straining for light sensitive eyes)

How: Aside from all explanations I already wrote here, I'll talk about material matter. Knowing that the direction your blob will take follows the motion of your cursor, the best and more fluent way to play is with a graphic tablet since the stylus give you the opportunity to move more smoothly and give you faster reflex if you need to back off quickly (gotta go fast XD). A regular mouse can do the trick too if you have the appropriate surface to move it around. I know some people who can play easier with a trackball too. Sadly, the touchpad of your laptop might be too restricting as they usually have a narrow surface to move on. 

The Twist: To make it fun and related to this little group, why not pick characters name. Even better, try to get one related to the color of your cell and make Sekigahara happen again!!! (Or other battles... actually, because not all people were at that one.) Sadly, you don't know in which team you will start but, normally, if you get eaten, you will reapair with the same color (unless there was a refresh of your page or the server, which happen every 2 hours as you might read on the chat) so you can pick your name at that moment. Now I know only three color can limit the number of characters to pick unless you concider that red can represent all warm colors, like Yellow) and blue the cold one (purple?) And green... well, a sort of in between? You don't have to always stick with the same character/side either and just go with the different colors the game will give you to change as well.

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You can use this topic to say you're gonna start a party and invite available people to play with you. We know how hard it can be to gather people to play at the same time due to timezone but I'm pretty sure some can matches a certain moment of the day/night at least for a few rounds. I hope you will have fun with this!