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Your Project Ideas; A place to share your ideas for projects
Topic Started: Oct 14 2015, 09:27 AM (65,432 Views)
Nyarlathotep
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Well, what scale is the extinction event if I ask? And is it caused by our current events rather than some extra thing? If so, one could look at what is dying out now and extrapolate it into the future for that, though some changes will occur over time to the extinction as well. It all depends on how far you're willing to go. :)
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Forbidden3, may I use the Ontong Java for a project? Just don't expect it for a long time, because I'm focusing on Strange New World at the moment.
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Yeah sure, no problem. Funnily enough, the plateau has even less above sea level land than Kerguelen, meaning there is potentially more to work with, though it is far less isolated, not far from either the Solomon Islands or New Guinea currently, though it was doubtlessly further south in prehistory if that's what you're going for. A few resources are here: wiki reference , size+location comparison mesozoic location and 3-d location for geological and perhaps climatological information. :)
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Thanks! I'll do more research once Strange New World is done, though I've no idea how long that might take, maybe even more than a year.
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Don't expect it to be done. Like, ever. Essentially all projects are intended to go on indefinitely, and if people want more, they get more. Either that or they're abandoned unfinished, something which happened to most of my projects that I've created.
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Yeah, I suppose, I just meant wait until I've done quite a bit of Strange New World before starting another project.
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Nyarlathotep
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Yet another source here for you , though it works best in compliment with the others.
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Thanks, Forbidden3!
I have another project idea, though I'm already working on it, and it isn't actually spec evo. I'm sorry to say that it is another prehistoric zoo, but I'm quite pleased with it. And I do know that these sort of things kind of have a bad reputation round here now, since it has been done so many times. The zoo won't feature riduculously large animals, will be done realistically, and there will be lots of speculations about the behaviour of the prehistoric animals. The fact is, making a zoo full of prehistoric animals is not only great fun, but it is also a very good way of representing your speculations on dinosaur behaviour and appearances in an interesting form.
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Sorry for double post, but I just had another project idea. I was just working on my lesser K-Pg extinction event project just now, and then I realised something. Everybody always does lesser or no K-Pg extinction events - but what about a project about a more severe K-Pg event? Now that would be interesting.
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I have a couple:

-A group of dinosaurs are rescued from the K-T Extinction and introduced on a foreign planet as part of a terraforming process, but another group of animals is introduced as well: animals that look almost exactly like outdated reconstructions of dinosaurs. 30 million years later, the resulting descendants are then examined.
-The respective ecosystems of Tyrannosaurus rex, Megalodon, Tylosaurus, Liopleurodon, Deinonychus, Spinosaurus, Velociraptor, Giganotosaurus, and Allosaurus are placed on a terraformed world to evolve together.
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Nov 28 2015, 10:35 AM
Thanks, Forbidden3!
I have another project idea, though I'm already working on it, and it isn't actually spec evo. I'm sorry to say that it is another prehistoric zoo, but I'm quite pleased with it. And I do know that these sort of things kind of have a bad reputation round here now, since it has been done so many times. The zoo won't feature riduculously large animals, will be done realistically, and there will be lots of speculations about the behaviour of the prehistoric animals. The fact is, making a zoo full of prehistoric animals is not only great fun, but it is also a very good way of representing your speculations on dinosaur behaviour and appearances in an interesting form.
Perhaps it would be better to at least start planning the upcoming Ontong project rather than leaving it for some date after the others are finished- it is possible to work on multiple projects and still do well after all. You can PM me if you want any advice :)
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GlarnBoudin
Dec 1 2015, 05:09 PM
I have a couple:

-A group of dinosaurs are rescued from the K-T Extinction and introduced on a foreign planet as part of a terraforming process, but another group of animals is introduced as well: animals that look almost exactly like outdated reconstructions of dinosaurs. 30 million years later, the resulting descendants are then examined.
-The respective ecosystems of Tyrannosaurus rex, Megalodon, Tylosaurus, Liopleurodon, Deinonychus, Spinosaurus, Velociraptor, Giganotosaurus, and Allosaurus are placed on a terraformed world to evolve together.

I had a similar idea, but it was about mammals and dinosaurs:

1- Terraform a foreign planet with clear landmasses.

2- Introduce dinosaurs to one and mammals to other.

3- See them diversify on the course of several million years.

4- Unite both landmasses

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Perhaps it would be better to at least start planning the upcoming Ontong project rather than leaving it for some date after the others are finished- it is possible to work on multiple projects and still do well after all. You can PM me if you want any advice :)

I will start working on it privately, yes, but I won't be putting it up on the forum for a long while yet.
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Don't overwhelm yourself with too many projects, it can make it very difficult to invest in them.
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Oh, I know, don't worry.
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