Lots of flagella. Hopefully, in a fight, losing one will be a negligible loss.
This isn't DF, sadly. (Although if a game could combine Spore's breadth and flexibility with DF's depth and realism...) You can't lose flagella, only HP.
Blast! I never knew you could add assymetrical body parts. I could have created a really cool looking creature based off of that idea...
You need one of the patches, 1.004 or 1.005. I remember that on my last computer it kept asking if I wanted to install the patches until I installed GA (which did not include the asymmetry patch, sadly), but it's not doing that now.
If we want asymmetry, we have to answer one question: How?
http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/list/36030.page
Didn't actually remember asymmetric scaling was a thing, but seems it is. Also, we totally need monocles for Civilization stage.
I already got the patches, and for some reason I couldn't use the touch pad mouse thing when holding down the keys (which didn't help my attempts to flee predators while getting a screenshot any). But now I've figured it out, somehow.
Anyways, as it stands it looks like we want to make a cloud of flagellae and maybe electric. Just to point out, we could exchange a flagellum for a cilia and get faster turning, which would be quite helpful.
EDIT: We could afford a mouth, electric, a pair of cilia, and two flagella sets if we didn't have anything else.