NESLife attempt #3

[TerrisH]

Jubblera Senti Graspis: TerrisH
Evolved from: Jubblera Senti Ilusiaus
Role:complex, swarming, flying omnivore
Habitat: warm/temperate vegetation
Survival Status: Competing
Genes (41): Eating Dead Things x1, Crawling x1, Complex Stomach x2, Water Retention x3, Eyes x2, Flying x3, Smelling x2, Cold Resistance x1, Communal Behavior x7, Plant Eating x2, Digging x1, Brain Power x4, Parenting Instinct x1, Hive Construction x3, Insect Eating x1, Jaws x2, Flesh Eating x2, Grasping Limbs x1, Chromatophores x2.
New Genes: Grasping limbs x1, Brain power x1, Parenting instinct x1
Jubblera Senti Graspis was the next line of development of the Senti line. Physically, the only difference between themselves and the Ilusiaus line was the slight lengthening of the Graspis limbs and fingers, allowing them to lift heavy objects and pick up things more easily. Mentally, they begin to adapt to the befits of communication between themselves, and to the destructive events around them. they were small, and not very formidable creatures. as their hives maximum numbers continued to shrink in the aftermath of the recent extinction, they were pressed to make the best of their recorces, to continually think of new ways of to improve the hives situation. they were forced to become smarter. and then came the moment, the spark for which the Senti line was named for..
Sentience arced through their form.

 

[erez87]

Spoiler :

Kathulu Finner: erez87
Evolved from: Thulu Finner
Rolek:versatile, swimming omnivore
Habitat: warm/temperate shallow water
Survival Status: Struggling
Genes (31): Skeleton x2, Jaws x1, Plant Eating x5, Plankton Eating x3, Swimming x5, Eyes x3, Gills x3, Cold Resistance x1, Brain Power x4, Tentacle x1, Communal Behavior x2, Parenting Instinct x1
Description: The Thulu Finner's brain seems to have gotten much larger as well as becoming much more social. Where did it lead to? No one knows yet...


Kathulu Habilis Finner : erez87
Evolved from: Kathulu Finner
Gene added (you can add 4 with bonus): Tentacles x1, Communal Behavior x1, Parenting Instincts x1, Photoelectric cells x1
Gene removed (optional, remove up to 3 or 4 with bonus): [reminder: leave at least one gene for feeding/getting energy!]

Kathulu Habilis Finner: erez87
Evolved from: Kathulu Finner
Role: ?
Habitat: ?
Survival Status: ?
Genes (31): Skeleton x2, Jaws x1, Plant Eating x5, Plankton Eating x3, Swimming x5, Eyes x3, Gills x3, Cold Resistance x1, Brain Power x4, Tentacle x2, Communal Behavior x3, Parenting Instinct x2, Photoelectric cells x1
Description: With a highly advanced brain the Kathulu begun to change in more areas. Their tentacles improved. Now they break at their end into a few smaller stronger tentacles that can act as fingers. They are more social in several areas and a low level communication process has begun to appear. They now have a small glowing line on their backs which can change from black to white colors at a whim. They have a rudimentary level of communication (eat, sex, danger, threatening and help). They are on the highway towards what may be the first civilization.

 

[Neverwonagame3]

Though the Kathulu Habilis will have the problem of not being able to create tools.

 

[TerrisH]

Spoiler :

Kathulu Finner: erez87
Evolved from: Thulu Finner
Rolek:versatile, swimming omnivore
Habitat: warm/temperate shallow water
Survival Status: Struggling
Genes (31): Skeleton x2, Jaws x1, Plant Eating x5, Plankton Eating x3, Swimming x5, Eyes x3, Gills x3, Cold Resistance x1, Brain Power x4, Tentacle x1, Communal Behavior x2, Parenting Instinct x1
Description: The Thulu Finner's brain seems to have gotten much larger as well as becoming much more social. Where did it lead to? No one knows yet...


Kathulu Habilis Finner : erez87
Evolved from: Kathulu Finner
Gene added (you can add 4 with bonus): Brain power x2, Communal Behavior x1, Parenting Instincts x1
Gene removed (optional, remove up to 3 or 4 with bonus): [reminder: leave at least one gene for feeding/getting energy!]
Description:

Kathulu Habilis Finner: erez87
Evolved from: Kathulu Finner
Role: ?
Habitat: ?
Survival Status: ?
Genes (31): Skeleton x2, Jaws x1, Plant Eating x5, Plankton Eating x3, Swimming x5, Eyes x3, Gills x3, Cold Resistance x1, Brain Power x6, Tentacle x1, Communal Behavior x3, Parenting Instinct x2
Description: the Kathulu Habilis seems to have one of the largest brains in the world. In a few million years after the Kathulu appeared its brain begun growing at a constant rate together with other intelligent behaviors (like communal lives and parenting skills). This mindful animal probably used tools to help itself survive and most likely begun living in small tribes and inside shelters. They probably used tools for both food production and defense against possible predators.


It is time for a civilization! Since I assume every update is more then just 2 million years my next evolution would not go in line with human-like evolution but straight to much higher human-like levels. Next would probably be ergaster and then straight to sapiens.

OOC:
One: 6 brainpower is just eking into human level intelligence. likely outcome would be a bronze-age civilization.
Two: your creature is a fish, therefor, can't use fire.
Three: no hands. Tenticals might work, but not at x1.
Four: no means of communication between them. your only real sense is sight.
Five: Oh that's it BRING IT ON!!! I will not let an unsure take my Title! I almost made it with the Armtupler line, I WILL make it with the Senti line. I wanted to get grasping hand x3 before I moved them into Sentience, but x2 will work. and they are so much better suited for it.

 

[Lord_Iggy]

Frankly, my last and greatest hope disappeared with the Sensorix during the 3rd Mass Extinction. I imagine that if civilization does arise, my line would probably just end up domesticated.

Great update Daftpanzer! As always, wonderful and worth the wait.

BTW, erez, the best you can hope to get is dolphin-level intelligence with your new Finner. An underwater environment doesn't lend itself towards civilization.

 

[erez87]

My plan is to have very early humans. My creatures already make underwater shelters etc... Next is tools and better shelters...

I don't expect to have a civilization in like 2-3 updates

 

[squid1111]

My goal is to have at least one line survive the mass excintition that inevitably comes w/ civilization.

 

[Ekolite]

My plan is to raise a civilizaion of Zeeboo's. Hey it could happen .

 

[North King]

Two: your creature is a fish, therefor, can't use fire.

Oh no! They can't use fire! This whole fire-being-the-greatest-human-invention nonsense is quite silly. It cooks food and makes the dark go away. Honestly, that's not all that useful compared to, I don't know, a knife. Clever species would find a way around it.

 

[erez87]

We are herbivores. We feed on plants and plankton. We don't NEED to cook anything. The sea is already darker then land, so that's why we have some of the best eyes (and brains) around. One can just learn to build his shelters where the sunshine. Or better yet, kill whoever is a threat Or just use other glowing fish (I always wanted to make glowing cells).

Anywho it would be cool Fish civilization vs. Bee civilization. Two at once, each in their own place. Air vs. Water until one side gets the upper hand and get into the other side

 

[tuxedohamm]

Spoiler :

Sprouty Fern: NPC
Evolved from: Winter Fern
Rolek:small hardy land plant
Habitat: warm/temperate land
Survival Status: Competing
Genes (25): Photosynthesis x6, Cold Resistance x2, Hibernation x1, Carpeting x2, Water Retention x4, Airborne Spores x3, Mass Reproduction x1, Leaves x2, Roots x2, Regeneration x1, Fast Growth x1.
Description: Has lost some of the cold resistance of its successful ancestor. It can't hibernate for long, either. And its leaves have shrunk in size. Instead of all that, the Sprouty Fern puts its efforts into growing faster, and regenerating whenever it gets nibbled on.

--->

Woody Fern : tuxedohamm
Evolved from: Sprouty Fern
Gene added (you can add 3, or 4 with bonus): Stem x1, Leaves x1, Bark x1
Gene removed (optional, remove up to 3 or 4 with bonus): Cold Resistance x1, Carpeting x1
Description: This descendant of the Sprouty Fern has begun sending up stems covered lightly in bark to gain a height advantage over its warmer climate rivals. It has lost some of its carpeting tendancies to avoid competition with other Woody Ferns.

Woody Fern: tuxedohamm
Evolved from: Sprouty Fern
Role:
Habitat:
Survival Status:
Genes (26): Photosynthesis x6, Cold Resistance x1, Hibernation x1, Carpeting x1, Water Retention x4, Airborne Spores x3, Mass Reproduction x1, Leaves x3, Roots x2, Regeneration x1, Fast Growth x1, Stem x1, Bark x1.
Description: This descendant of the Sprouty Fern has begun sending up stems covered lightly in bark to gain a height advantage over its warmer climate rivals. It has lost some of its carpeting tendancies to avoid competition with other Woody Ferns.


May the jungles slowly return!

 

[Sliver Slave]

Spoiler :

Deep Aurora: Sliver Slave
Evolved from: Diving Aurora
Rolek:flying, swimming omnivore
Habitat: warm/temperate lakes/rivers/coastlines
Survival Status: Competing
Genes (35): Complex Stomach x1, Flesh Eating x2, Lungs x3, Vibration Sense x1, Eyes x3, Swimming x4, Walking x1, Feathers x3, Talons x2, Jaws x1, Cartilage x1, Skeleton x2, Water Retention x1, Cold Resistance x2, Oil Glands x1, Brain Power x1, Parenting Instinct x1, Plant Eating x2, Live Birth x3.
Description: The Deep Aurora was even more adapted for swimming than its ancestor, the diving Aurora. It can go deeper, longer, and faster than the Diving Aurora. eating and mating take place in the water, and the only time they go on land, is when they lug themselves up onto the ground to give birth. the males hunt to find food for the newborns. Its young are born alive, but must be kept on land for several hours, at which point they can be nudged into the water, where they will develop further. the Deep Aurora, while still able to eat plants, is attempting to become a dedicated carnivore, though it is not the best.

Evolves to...

Aquarora: Sliver Slave
Evolved from: Deep Aurora
Genes (36): Complex Stomach x1, Flesh Eating x3, Lungs x3, Vibration Sense x1, Eyes x3, Swimming x5, Feathers x3, Talons x2, Jaws x1, Cartilage x1, Skeleton x2, Cold Resistance x2, Oil Glands x1, Brain Power x1, Parenting Instinct x1, Plant Eating x1, Live Birth x4
Genes removed: Walking x1, Water retention x1, Plant eating x1
Description: The aquarora is completely aquatic, but can stay underwater only as long as the deep aurora, but it is much more streamlined, and faster. They are slowly giving up eating plants, and going for a more meat oriented diet. However, it is not terribly aggressive and voracious, and usually eats younger organisms. They are beginning to show some sort of rudimentary social organisation.

 

[TerrisH]

Oh no! They can't use fire! This whole fire-being-the-greatest-human-invention nonsense is quite silly. It cooks food and makes the dark go away. Honestly, that's not all that useful compared to, I don't know, a knife. Clever species would find a way around it.

I do agree, it is Not the the-greatest-human-invention, that would be agriculture, which let cities come into existence, but it is a Key invention, possibly in the top 5.
any civilization without it would be stuck in the stone age for a long time. they would have to find some other way for forge metal, or take a radically different means of technological advancement.

EDIT: also note, I changed my evolution above to also include x2 brainpower. let us see which makes it to civilization.

 

[North King]

any civilization without it would be stuck in the stone age for a long time. they would have to find some other way for forge metal, or take a radically different means of technological advancement.

You don't think there are other means of technological advancement? Even on Earth there are civilizations who managed to progress to a very high level without going through the traditional metal ages. See: Inca, who might well be called a fiber-based culture.

 

[Adrogans]

Decloak: Course look where it got em when they did meet a metal based culture

Okay back to the bar!

 

[North King]

Decloak: Course look where it got em when they did meet a metal based culture

Yeah, I bet all that Spanish iron was the transmitter of smallpox. Inca technology was capable of defeating the Spanish more than occasionally, but I'd like to see how well any society fights when 95% of the populace is dying from an invisible invader.

 

[Adrogans]

Decloak: I knew you were going to bring it up, yes it certainly made it a whole lot faster, but I still believe the end result would have been the same simply taken a decade or two longer (kinda like dropping the bomb on Japan vs. invading Japan America still would have won, just not nearly as fast.)

Okay will stop the threadjacking now. Moreeeeee Coffeeeee!

 

[North King]

Decloak: I knew you were going to bring it up, yes it certainly made it a whole lot faster, but I still believe the end result would have been the same simply taken a decade or two longer (kinda like dropping the bomb on Japan vs. invading Japan America still would have won, just not nearly as fast.)

Sorry, but that's incredibly silly. The result would have been the same with 20x the people in the Andes? The result would have been the same without the convenient death of multiple emperors from smallpox? The result would have been the same... eh, you get the point. The idea that the American civilizations were so far behind Europe so as to be helpless against a few hundred simply because of technology is quite frankly nonsense.

 

[TerrisH]

You don't think there are other means of technological advancement? Even on Earth there are civilizations who managed to progress to a very high level without going through the traditional metal ages. See: Inca, who might well be called a fiber-based culture.

Any civilization without it would be stuck in the stone age for a long time. they would have to find some other way for forge metal, or take a radically different means of technological advancement.

read the entire statement next time. I stated that exact fact.

 

[Sliver Slave]

Do we really want an intelligent society in this game? Might that derial it a bit?

EDIT: Iggy, could I see the finner tree? Also, how did you make that tree?