This game was between me (red), @Emperor Comatose (blue) and my brother (green)
On round two, the Hydrothermal Vents appeared. Green immediately went there to try and get a bacterium, but he added too many blue catalysts and Blue was able to steal ownership. I stayed out of the conflict and just went to somewhere random to get more catalysts.
A few rounds (aka about a hundred million years) later, Blue flipped the Vents into an Acetyl CoA Reduction bacterium with Green as a foreign gen
So I don't remember much of this game, as I forgot to type it up when I first played it.
It was 4 player Bios: Genesis, with me (red), @The WorldHopper Taynix (yellow), @Hoid the ShardBoy (green) and my non-Sharder non-Sanderfan brother (red).
It took ages for anyone to get a bacterium. We went all the way to the start of the Proterozoic without a single one.
Eventually, the Hydrothermal Vents from turn 2 became @The WorldHopper Taynix's bacterium, and I got one two from a refugi