How To Play Agar Io With Friends

Playing Agar.io with a Friend

Agar.io is a great game for understanding many real life dynamics. It actually represents a lot abou t real life. Game dynamics are simple.In the game, you are a microbe which eats anything smaller than yourself except echinus-shaped-objects. These objects breaks your integrity and you become divided into smaller microbes that goes all together always. After a while, these smaller microbes become united but you have to take care of yourself because game is simply based on the principle that "big fish eats small fish". If you become divided some pieces of yourself can be eaten by some other microbes which are bigger than the sizes of your fragments. The goal of the game is to be the biggest microbe on the map. To do so there are two ways:

You must eat microbe food
You must eat other microbes smaller than yourself

However, if you get bigger you also become slower and there is also another feature for the game. You are able to divide yourself and throw half of yourself quite far away. That allows you to catch some microbes that are smaller than half of yourself. It is very important feature since it allows you get bigger faster. If you want to be biggest you definitely must utilize that feature. There is another feature which is also most interesting feature of the game. You can share same of your volume by producing "microbe food" from yourself and throw that food any direction you wish. That property is the key part for the cooperation in the context of the game.

From my experience, these players who cooperate with their friends tent to be much more bigger since it allows players to develop some of strategies. For instance, I was using my friend as a bate for other quite big microbe. When that microbe comes closer to my friend, I split myself into my friend. That makes my friend bigger than the attacking microbe. After my friend gets bigger, he was able to eat that enemy microbe. Depending on the situation, sometime we share the "treasure" between us by feeding each other. Sometimes we completely sacrifice ourself if there is a very big microbe we can beat collectively since being eaten is not the end of the game. You can start over but with your initial size. But this is not a problem. If your friend was able to eat that gigantic microbe, s/he can share the volume my feeding you.

All in all, Agar.io is a great game for observing cooperative behavior in competitive environments. You definitely try this game out with your friends to see that how important cooperation is.