Talk:Evolving Absorbing Replication/@comment-4867780-20161007072949

How does the upgrading/evolution operate ? Do users mentally breakdown the components/properties of the materials they absorbed, and them predictively calculate different recombinations ? In this case, its edge would be the ability to deconstruct the templates of absorbed items and reassemble its parts differently, while standard AR can only merge full templates.

Still, the difference gets blurry when we realize there is no objective size for templates, and each of them is actually composed of smaller ones, so when you think about it standard AR could technically achieve similar results if the user is intelligent enough.

Unless I missed/confused something along the way ?