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Your Project Ideas; A place to share your ideas for projects
Topic Started: Oct 14 2015, 09:27 AM (65,409 Views)
JohnWarrenDailey
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Sheather
Sep 27 2016, 01:56 PM
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.
What makes you think that posting the same thing in more than one place is "forceful"? Common wisdom dictates that the more, the merrier. In other words, the more relevant places I place my submission, the more likely I'll get an answer. Only specialists collect all their eggs in one basket.
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What upset me is that he is taking a big sweat over an irrelevance.

You are currently overstating things from a neutral question, considering you in countless times has done the same with the "Great Lakes earth" (making topic from topic around the different subforum), there is a lot of relevance.

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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.

First this really disappoints me because I see that you can not be in a conversation without excuses or justifications, and more that you interpret things in a terrible way.

Second, when I voted "yes", is because I really I believe in that, If you make a "What if's" well, those are interesting and lead to great things and are pretty smart points for many projects. But what you're doing is completely the opposite, there's nothing wise to force people to see your content, create complicated scenarios that do not put effort into working on your own, ask and then do nothing, I consider that lazy, rude and also annoying. The foundation of the speculation is not just ask, but to imagine, think, and specially work.

I will say that you are becoming more aggressive without a reason that people do not want to do what you want, and really do not want to do that, it is not going to lead to more that problems, so pls,stop now.
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JohnWarrenDailey
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He was asking a question that has nothing to do with the project itself, just why I had to double-post it.


I still don't see how something as simple and easy as posting something in more than one group is "forceful". I'm just following common wisdom--the more the merrier. In this case, the more relevant places I place my submission, the more likely I'll get an answer.
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JohnWarrenDailey
Sep 27 2016, 02:18 PM
Common wisdom dictates that the more, the merrier.
Less is more.

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In other words, the more relevant places I place my submission, the more likely I'll get an answer.
Or it could end up with you spinning your wheels, having annoyed people and only receiving posts about what you should or shouldn't be doing, entirely without the answer you wanted.

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Spread your butter too thin and you could end up with egg in your face.
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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JohnWarrenDailey
Sep 27 2016, 01:07 PM
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Sep 27 2016, 12:59 PM
JohnWarrenDaily, please keep your project to one thread.
Please clarify.
There's nothing that needs to be clarified here.

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Would you PLEASE focus on the project itself?

I would if I wasn't so distracted by the fact that every time I look away, a new topic or post about it pops up in irrelevent places.

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

I'm afraid that you can't always expect to get an immediate answer. Also, please can you stop double-posting? It makes the thread really messy, confusing, and its a waste of space.

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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.

Not everything has to be relevent to 'the project itself', despite you 'sweating over' it, to use your own words. I was making a just point, that posting about your project all-over-the-place is not how things are done round here.

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Putting all eggs in one basket: Idiom the Free Dictionary

Seriously, not everyone here is English speaking, the metaphors are confusing, and the amount that you use them just makes it even more so. Please, so that we can discuss this better, could you stop it with the metaphors?

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

Well, to us it is of relevance, because it isn't how we do things around here. And I'm afraid it's you that makes a big sweat over these things.

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What makes you think that posting the same thing in more than one place is "forceful"? Common wisdom dictates that the more, the merrier. In other words, the more relevant places I place my submission, the more likely I'll get an answer. Only specialists collect all their eggs in one basket.

Posting your project here just clutters a thread which is for something else. I didn't make this topic for people to post their projects on, in an attempt to get more attention, and then start an argument.
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A project that's sort of an alt evo/future evo combination, set 20 million years in the future in a timeline where australopiths go extinct without giving rise to humans, so things like ground sloths and glyptodonts are still around.
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Sep 28 2016, 12:17 PM
A project that's sort of an alt evo/future evo combination, set 20 million years in the future in a timeline where australopiths go extinct without giving rise to humans, so things like ground sloths and glyptodonts are still around.
Now that . . . sounds awesome.
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Extended Pleistocene is already doing that premise though, except 50 million years hence.
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With so many different project ideas on my plate, and me wanting them to all be tied together by the F.I.N.D.R narrative, I feel the need to give a bit of a description about what I would like to see out of them. but to make sure I'm not being intrusive or taking up too much space, I'll put the thing under a spoiler.

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F.I.N.D.R Field Incident Logs
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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Sep 28 2016, 01:37 PM
Extended Pleistocene is already doing that premise though, except 50 million years hence.
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A project that's sort of an alt evo/future evo combination, set 20 million years in the future in a timeline where australopiths go extinct without giving rise to humans, so things like ground sloths and glyptodonts are still around.


I did something similar with my very first project on this forum, except the premise was that North and South America never collided and that ALONG with australopiths never evolving into humans was the reason megafauna was still around. Didn't get very far with it though.
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JohnWarrenDailey
Sep 27 2016, 02:52 PM
I still don't see how something as simple and easy as posting something in more than one group is "forceful". I'm just following common wisdom--the more the merrier. In this case, the more relevant places I place my submission, the more likely I'll get an answer.
so, then you're either verging on trolling, spamming, or confusing advertising with viagra mailbots.
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Oct 1 2016, 10:02 PM
[*]Kralkfeln 3- I picture two worlds here, with two separate evolutionary lineages. Both had competed with each other when emerging onto land, and in two different realities, one prevailed where the other slipped away. But then, millions of years after each form of life establishes itself, the two outcomes...meet again. Universes merge, worlds quake, lineages clash, and the survivors struggle to survive once the dust settles.
[*]замороженные- I had come to realize that snow is something that, while not absent, doesn't seem that common place in Xenobiology. So when I needed to whip up another alien race, I figured why not have them intimately equated with this cold? Also an excuse for alien fur, another thing we can always use more of.
Sloth Park (las islas de perezosos) would be awesome. though so would snow aliens. (i think the only world that has snow, is Ilion; though Nereus has one polar critter)
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Some ideas again:

An Ontong Java project (I know I've brought this up a bit too much): what would be a good name for a landmass like that? Especially if myths are a basis.

A project where an actual physical pole shift happened at some point, with formerly tropical places polar and vice versa.

A world with multiple POD's like Great Lakes Earth or one of Canis Lupis's old projects.

A terra formed world populated entirely by descendents of stoats and rats (plus the other essential flora and fauna of course :p ).

(A particularly crazy one) An alien world caught directly between two Suns (inspired by a scenario in Universe Sandbox 2) at the centre of gravity. Basically, nighttime lasts less than an hour a cycle and the rest is day.

Any of these seem interesting?
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Oct 2 2016, 05:41 AM
An Ontong Java project (I know I've brought this up a bit too much): what would be a good name for a landmass like that? Especially if myths are a basis.

(A particularly crazy one) An alien world caught directly between two Suns (inspired by a scenario in Universe Sandbox 2) at the centre of gravity. Basically, nighttime lasts less than an hour a cycle and the rest is day.

I like these.
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[*]Kralkfeln 3- I picture two worlds here, with two separate evolutionary lineages. Both had competed with each other when emerging onto land, and in two different realities, one prevailed where the other slipped away. But then, millions of years after each form of life establishes itself, the two outcomes...meet again. Universes merge, worlds quake, lineages clash, and the survivors struggle to survive once the dust settles.
[*]замороженные- I had come to realize that snow is something that, while not absent, doesn't seem that common place in Xenobiology. So when I needed to whip up another alien race, I figured why not have them intimately equated with this cold? Also an excuse for alien fur, another thing we can always use more of.
Sloth Park (las islas de perezosos) would be awesome. though so would snow aliens. (i think the only world that has snow, is Ilion; though Nereus has one polar critter)
Yes, as one might expect, The isle of sloths is named after their most iconic animal, tree sloths that have all but given up life in the trees. Cute little buggers, they are.

And I must admit, замороженные and Nereus will have a small bit in common, since I'm also going to be working with tripodal body-plans.
F.I.N.D.R Field Incident Logs
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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