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Project ideas/help
Topic Started: Sep 3 2011, 04:21 AM (306 Views)
TAXESbutNano
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Hi, Nano here!
I'm fairly new to spec-evo still. Jurassic Split is still going strong, but I probably couldn't have gotten this far and plausable without some help. (Thanks, Bananaboy and Forbidden!) I was thinking abou having another project, though. So, here's some scenarios I thought of:

1. Alien world, begins with bacteria, evolves.

2. Alien world, seeded with earth life. Creatures would be along the lines of:
Producer: Stromatolites(?), the sort of algae that grows flat on rocks and stuff
Herbivore: Sea snail, little algae-eating fish
Predator: Mantis shrimp, frogfish
Plankton: Copepods, free-floating algae
Planktonivore(?): Common jellyfish, scallop
Various decomposer bacteria
Everything then evolves.

3. Prehistoric life seeded on alien world

I think I could handle two projects, as long as both have a bit of help. Which one would be best?
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naruacool723
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What sort of prehistoric life for 3?
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I was thinking mostly marine stuff, so Anomalocarids, Metriorhynchids, Mososaurs, Ammonites, Placoderms, sharks...
Anything that's interesting and swims, really.
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Rick Raptor
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Then I´d say the Metriorhynchids have a very bad future; they´d quickly get outcompeted by smaller Mosasaurs. And the predatory Placoderms would probably be outcompeted by sharks as their heavy armor makes them rather slow hunters.
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If the Metryorhyncid was something big and dangerous, such as Liopleurodon's probable main rival, Dakosaurus, then they might stand a chance. Or maybe we could just leave out mososaurs. Maybe leave out sharks, too, so the placoderms get their go.
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to be honest ( I speak from my personal experience ) its better and easier to have just one project
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naruacool723
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No, I think he just wants for someone to tell him which idea is better.
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