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Your Project Ideas; A place to share your ideas for projects
Topic Started: Oct 14 2015, 09:27 AM (65,410 Views)
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I'm particularly proud of that one. Hopefully I can make the finished product just as captivating.
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A comprehensive list of all organisms, artifacts, and alternative worlds encountered by the foundation team.

At the present time, concepts within are inconsistent and ever shifting.

(And this is just the spec related stuff)
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Let us say that, in the future, some scientists have created satellites capable of something that seems science fiction for now — punching the walls of the universe to study an alternate reality. By that scenario, some hundreds of “alternate Earths” from hundreds of alternate universes would already have been discovered and meticulously studied. As much as half of them would still be ruled by humans, unfolded by events that turned out differently. One universe, for example, had an Earth where 9/11 never happened, or where the outcome of the Revolutionary and Civil Wars ended up differently.

One of the most interesting to note was a planet that scientists call “Alternate Earth 111”, known to the public as “Great Lakes Earth”.

Why?

Because at first glance, it seemed that almost every continent is dominated by lakes, even those larger than the Great Lakes that we have in North America. What is its history? What points of divergence would we expect to see in this particular variation?

This proved to be a long, backbreaking investigation because when our alt-satellites picked up Great Lakes Earth, it has discovered traces of civilization — traces roughly 100,000 years old. However, after years of picking up the pieces and speculating on the rest, we believe that we have mapped the entire geography and the best of the history of Great Lakes Earth.
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JohnWarrenDailey
Sep 27 2016, 09:25 AM
Let us say that, in the future, some scientists have created satellites capable of something that seems science fiction for now — punching the walls of the universe to study an alternate reality. By that scenario, some hundreds of “alternate Earths” from hundreds of alternate universes would already have been discovered and meticulously studied. As much as half of them would still be ruled by humans, unfolded by events that turned out differently. One universe, for example, had an Earth where 9/11 never happened, or where the outcome of the Revolutionary and Civil Wars ended up differently.

One of the most interesting to note was a planet that scientists call “Alternate Earth 111”, known to the public as “Great Lakes Earth”.

Why?

Because at first glance, it seemed that almost every continent is dominated by lakes, even those larger than the Great Lakes that we have in North America. What is its history? What points of divergence would we expect to see in this particular variation?

This proved to be a long, backbreaking investigation because when our alt-satellites picked up Great Lakes Earth, it has discovered traces of civilization — traces roughly 100,000 years old. However, after years of picking up the pieces and speculating on the rest, we believe that we have mapped the entire geography and the best of the history of Great Lakes Earth.
So first you post your project in General Spec, then start the exact same thread in Alt Evo. When I inquire why, the Alt Evo thread disappears, and you post the project intro in the project ideas thread. What exactly are you doing? And in case there's any confusion, this thread isn't for projects that are already in the making, but for project ideas.
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When I inquire why, the Alt Evo thread disappears

That was by a high-range member, it seemed unnecessary to have the same topic with the same content in another subforum, so it was deleted.
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The Future is Far
Welcome to the next chapters of the evolution of life on earth, travel the across the earth on a journey that goes beyond the limits, a billion years of future history in the making.

The SE giants project
Wonder what is the big of the big on speculative evolution? no problem, here is the answer

Coming one day
Age of Mankind
Humanity fate and its possible finals.

The Long Cosmic Journey
The history outside our world.

The alternative paths
The multiverse, the final frontier...

Holocene park: Welcome to the biggest adventure of the last 215 million years, where the age of mammals comes to life again!
Cambrian mars: An interesting experiment on an unprecedented scale, the life of a particular and important period in the history of our planet, the cambric life, has been transported to a terraformed and habitable mars in an alternative past.
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So first you post your project in General Spec, then start the exact same thread in Alt Evo. When I inquire why, the Alt Evo thread disappears, and you post the project intro in the project ideas thread. What exactly are you doing? And in case there's any confusion, this thread isn't for projects that are already in the making, but for project ideas.
Would you PLEASE focus on the project itself?
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Dragonthunders
Sep 27 2016, 10:48 AM
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That was by a high-range member, it seemed unnecessary to have the same topic with the same content in another subforum, so it was deleted.

I wasn't getting an answer, so I thought I posted it on the wrong forum.


Besides, in such events as this, one cannot collect all his eggs in one basket.
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Would you PLEASE focus on the project itself?

I find unnecessary that question/sentence, he is advising you that this is not a topic dedicated to projects in progress but for ideas of projects.

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I wasn't getting an answer, so I thought I posted it on the wrong forum.

That always happens when a topic is created, depending on the interest of the people you will receive or not receive answers.

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Besides, in such events as this, one cannot collect all his eggs in one basket.

Can you explain what it means in normal words pls? without put more metaphors?
Because is very clear that you said is a metaphor but it is not understandable, that makes conversations confusing.
Projects

"Active" projects

The Future is Far
Welcome to the next chapters of the evolution of life on earth, travel the across the earth on a journey that goes beyond the limits, a billion years of future history in the making.

The SE giants project
Wonder what is the big of the big on speculative evolution? no problem, here is the answer

Coming one day
Age of Mankind
Humanity fate and its possible finals.

The Long Cosmic Journey
The history outside our world.

The alternative paths
The multiverse, the final frontier...

Holocene park: Welcome to the biggest adventure of the last 215 million years, where the age of mammals comes to life again!
Cambrian mars: An interesting experiment on an unprecedented scale, the life of a particular and important period in the history of our planet, the cambric life, has been transported to a terraformed and habitable mars in an alternative past.
Two different paths, two different worlds, but same life and same weirdness.




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JohnWarrenDaily, please keep your project to one thread.
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Sep 27 2016, 12:59 PM
JohnWarrenDaily, please keep your project to one thread.
Please clarify.
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I find unnecessary that question/sentence, he is advising you that this is not a topic dedicated to projects in progress but for ideas of projects.


He wasn't focusing on the project, just the fact that I posted it on more than one forum, which is a) sweating over a little thing and b) not relevant to the project itself.





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That always happens when a topic is created, depending on the interest of the people you will receive or not receive answers.


Any ideas on how to better advertise?




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Can you explain what it means in normal words pls? without put more metaphors?
Because is very clear that you said is a metaphor but it is not understandable, that makes conversations confusing.




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JohnWarrenDailey
Sep 27 2016, 01:07 PM
Please clarify.
Not much more to say; the only projects which have multiple threads are community collaborations.
Time flows like a river. Which is to say, downhill. We can tell this because everything is going downhill rapidly. It would seem prudent to be somewhere else when we reach the sea.

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He wasn't focusing on the project, just the fact that I posted it on more than one forum, which is a) sweating over a little thing and b) not relevant to the project itself.

I would agree with that if he was bothering you several times on your own topic, however, no.
You published twice the same thing elsewhere, he only asked once, this topic is not of your project so you can not force people to focus on, and especially the tone that you are taking is a little hostile and aggressive without a real reason.

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Any ideas on how to better advertise?

Try to make content, and before you think, just asking questions is not content.
Projects

"Active" projects

The Future is Far
Welcome to the next chapters of the evolution of life on earth, travel the across the earth on a journey that goes beyond the limits, a billion years of future history in the making.

The SE giants project
Wonder what is the big of the big on speculative evolution? no problem, here is the answer

Coming one day
Age of Mankind
Humanity fate and its possible finals.

The Long Cosmic Journey
The history outside our world.

The alternative paths
The multiverse, the final frontier...

Holocene park: Welcome to the biggest adventure of the last 215 million years, where the age of mammals comes to life again!
Cambrian mars: An interesting experiment on an unprecedented scale, the life of a particular and important period in the history of our planet, the cambric life, has been transported to a terraformed and habitable mars in an alternative past.
Two different paths, two different worlds, but same life and same weirdness.




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And where projects with multiple threads are concerned, the content in each thread is different. You've posted the same write-up, fishing for responses, three times. If you are not getting the feedback you want your project may need some work to get it interesting enough to attract an audience. Forcing it in everyone's face all over the forum and demanding comments is not the way to make people interested in it.
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You published twice the same thing elsewhere, he only asked once, this topic is not of your project so you can not force people to focus on, and especially the tone that you are taking is a little hostile and aggressive without a real reason.





What upset me is that he is taking a big sweat over an irrelevance.





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Try to make content, and before you think, just asking questions is not content.






That is ironic, considering that you, of all people, voted "yes" on my poll that questions, ESPECIALLY "what-if" questions, are the beginning of wisdom and therefore the VERY FOUNDATION of speculation.

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You're coming across as rude and unlikable, friend.
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