NESLife attempt #3
- Thread starter Daftpanzer
- Start date
Terrance888
Discord Reigns
Do you see how relatively miniscule those changes are, however? Little more than a variety of small specializations.
I mean, animals as (relatively) similar as Australopithicines and Homo Sapiens are only about 4 million years separate. Look at some of the jumps we get here, like an arboreal arthropod evolving to a moderately-capable flier in one turn. That's at a bare minimum 10 million years.
I mean, animals as (relatively) similar as Australopithicines and Homo Sapiens are only about 4 million years separate. Look at some of the jumps we get here, like an arboreal arthropod evolving to a moderately-capable flier in one turn. That's at a bare minimum 10 million years.
Grombar
Fire in the Hole
Spoiler :
Diggadid
Genes Added (Max 3): Vibration Sense x1, Digging x1, Parenting Instinct x1
Genes Removed (Max 3): Spikes x1
Description: In this line of the did's the herbivore took a different path. Up until now the Lithodid and all those before it only met up with others of its species to mate and then went on their ways. This variant has started to form small family groups. To help protect the young from the more numerous predators they also developed better digging abilities to hollow out tree trunks, dig nests in the group where they can shelter and escape from the various predators of the land. Also to help it survive better its sense of hearing was refined so it could hear and start to decipher noise better. It lost its spikes as they where crude and weighty, plus with its advanced hearing it could escape areas with predators more efficiently.
cvlowe
King
Hey everybody! I'm back. I moved and had some personal issues to take care of.
Haven't read up on the whole thread, just did a quick search. I see my Grey Hunters are extinct
but they live on in the Shy Hunter line. I will try and catch up a little then resume my quest to become the dominant predator in the ocean once again 
Haven't read up on the whole thread, just did a quick search. I see my Grey Hunters are extinct
but they live on in the Shy Hunter line. I will try and catch up a little then resume my quest to become the dominant predator in the ocean once again 
North King
blech
- Joined
- Jan 2, 2004
- Messages
- 18,165
Mass Extinctions seem rather mild in this world, to be honest.
Daftpanzer
canonically ambiguous
welcome back, cvlowe! Im afraid the hunters have taken a hit from the X-valions. Im still accepting new stuff if you want to have something appear next turn.
Well maybe. But I dont want people to quit in a huff because all their hard work was removed by random events
I still feel guilty about killing off your large amphibians... Things could have been very different if they survived.
North King said:
Well maybe. But I dont want people to quit in a huff because all their hard work was removed by random events
I still feel guilty about killing off your large amphibians... Things could have been very different if they survived.
North King
blech
- Joined
- Jan 2, 2004
- Messages
- 18,165
Well maybe. But I dont want people to quit in a huff because all their hard work was removed by random events
I still feel guilty about killing off your large amphibians... Things could have been very different if they survived.
I wouldn't worry about it. It's more interesting if new things have the ability to come into prominence than if old things just retain their crown eternally.
Personally, I don't hold a grudge for the amphibian extinction. Just unlucky timing; they were non-diversified at the time, and so easily exterminated. If I had branched off, and given them a little depth, they might have survived. Not your fault.
Yuckius BumpusHuntus: BananaLee
Evolved from: Yuckius Hornius
Genes Added: +1 Swimming, +1 Flesh Eating, +1 Eyes
Description:
The passive hunting style was out. Female Yuckii didn't like men who sat there all day doing nothing. It's time to find prey, and catch them! Yarr!
Evolved from: Yuckius Hornius
Genes Added: +1 Swimming, +1 Flesh Eating, +1 Eyes
Description:
The passive hunting style was out. Female Yuckii didn't like men who sat there all day doing nothing. It's time to find prey, and catch them! Yarr!
Symphony D.
Deity
Decloak: Pft. Chimpanzee to Human in a piddly four million years. Dinosaurs, the most successful lifeforms to ever rule Earth, gone in a few months. Evolution is a harsh mistress, and the mass extinctions here are weak. But then again, we only have Earth to judge by, so being too critical is to ultimately derive a universal conclusion from a single experiment.
And yes, I lurk and post wantonly, as if a Western outlaw; I will not submit an evolution.
Symphony D.
Deity
Decloak: Oh, yeah, sure. I only get riled with the ones that wrap themselves up in a cloak of reality while pissing on it at the same time. I'm just saying, which is why I qualified my statements like I did.Well, it has never pretended to be anything realistic. It's a cool pseudo-low-budget NES.
Daftpanzer
canonically ambiguous
BananaLee said:
Not low budget anymore... Like all my stuffs it seems to expand out of control. Altogether the last update must have taken 10 hours or more. Admittedly most of that on drawing stuff.
Symphony D. said:
Then I will make a new bottom-feeding animal and name it after you
North King
blech
- Joined
- Jan 2, 2004
- Messages
- 18,165
Uh... what's not really true? Mass extinctions being mild? C'mon, they are. The last one killed off, what, a couple of species? The general outline of everything was exactly the same. Finners, Wavys, Valions, Hunters, Shellsters, and the massive arthropods all still existed.
Thlayli
Le Pétit Prince
Um, all this talk of mass extinctions is getting me slightly nervous...
>_>
>_>
erez87
Lord of Random
- Joined
- May 16, 2002
- Messages
- 13,500
And was earth after extinction any different? Mammals, birds, insects, fish etc... And we have far less species of each...
Similar threads
- Poll
- Locked
