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I thought of a game idea.
Instead of trying to lower the population of a pattern, like Blorpus, we make 1 pattern, decide what spaceship, and see how large we can make the pattern with a single one of that spaceship. When saying how much of an increase you got, you use the max population in both the original and the result. This would be how it went:

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x = 14, y = 17, rule = 
3b3o$bob3o$obobo$o2bo7b2o$b2o7bo2bo$5b2o4b2o$5b2o2$o10b2o$o10b2o$o2$4b
2o$4b2o$10bo$9bobo$10bo!

use LWSS.

I got +222

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x = 32, y = 17, rule = 
3b3o$bob3o$obobo$o2bo7b2o$b2o7bo2bo$5b2o4b2o15bo2bo$5b2o20bo$27bo3bo$
o10b2o14b4o$o10b2o$o2$4b2o$4b2o$10bo$9bobo$10bo!

Here's the next one (use a glider)

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x = 26, y = 20, rule = 
23bo$22bobo$3b2o18bo$2bo2bo$2bobo$3bo4b2o5b2o$9b2o3b2o8b2o$6bo2bobobo
bo2bo5b2o$6b3ob2ob2ob3o$7bobobobobobo$8b3o3b3o8bo$25bo$2o6b3o3b3o8bo$
2o5bobobobobobo$6b3ob2ob2ob3o$6bo2bobobobo2bo$9b2o3b2o$8b2o5b2o5b2o$22b
obo$23b2o!

And then the next person would see how much of an increase they could get, and then make a new one for the next person.
Try the second one from the example (the one with a pulsar) with a glider! :D
(also, please let me know if you think of a better name!!)

There's a thread called "Mess" with this premise.

viewtopic.php?f=12&t=5700

Yes, but that's when multiple people get to expand the same pattern, this is different in that you only expand a pattern once just to see how much you can expand it and give a new one to the next person. But thanks for letting me know !