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Your Project Ideas; A place to share your ideas for projects
Topic Started: Oct 14 2015, 09:27 AM (65,377 Views)
Dapper Man
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I've been mentioning a project that I've been working on for a while now. It's a Future project, and I've got the map and introductory art done. It will focus on a weird (biota wise) version of Future Earth. However, I don't have a name for it. Should I go with naming the project after its Time Period, or should I have a catchy name for it? If the latter, any ideas would be appreciated.
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Mr.Scruth
Apr 15 2017, 01:33 AM
The higher and more complex up the tree of life you go, the larger the minimum size and less populous the creatures become.
"Higher and more complex" is completely arbitrary. Evolution is a shrub, not a ladder. I thought we all knew this by now.
wow, and here I thought I had trouble with figures of speech.

as for completely arbitrary...so, Toxoplasmosis vs Elephant is a fair fight?
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Dapper Man
Apr 15 2017, 03:28 AM
I've been mentioning a project that I've been working on for a while now. It's a Future project, and I've got the map and introductory art done. It will focus on a weird (biota wise) version of Future Earth. However, I don't have a name for it. Should I go with naming the project after its Time Period, or should I have a catchy name for it? If the latter, any ideas would be appreciated.
either solution would work. or just call it "Future Earth's Biota" (no, its not cliche if its true)
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Mr.Scruth
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Maybe you could call it the 'Secudazoic'.
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One word: Lepidop-TERRA. The pun was too good to resist.

This literally only comes from a day-dream I had of a giant moth flapping its wings underwater to swim. Don't even know enough about moth anatomy to know whether or not it's possible. I'm probably not gonna use the idea in a project, so feel free to use it.
This was getting fairly big.
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Mr.Scruth
Apr 15 2017, 01:33 AM
The higher and more complex up the tree of life you go, the larger the minimum size and less populous the creatures become.
"Higher and more complex" is completely arbitrary. Evolution is a shrub, not a ladder. I thought we all knew this by now.
Sorry I'm in a foul mood, but this was downright dickish in tone and wholly not useful to the topic in hand. He made a somewhat valid point and trying to assert yourself by shooting it down is disgusting behaviour for a forum where in which we all should be aiming to aid each other. What you said is not wrong, your phrasing is what has led me to be so disappointed with that statement.

If you didn't notice, this is me calling you out on your tone publicly.
Edited by Lowry, Apr 15 2017, 12:00 PM.
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Woah . . . just like me, Lowry is also beginning to show his dark side. But I agree with what he's said. IIGS, I would suggest that you put a little more consideration into what you write, and in turn you will begin to find that we will have more patience with you.
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Lycaon
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Also, a gorilla for example is more complex than a roundworm. It's not more 'evolved', as both species had the same amount of time to get where they're at now, but it's more complex.
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All I meant was that the higher and more complex life you follow according to the most common cultural model of the tree of life, certain patterns appear.

Life is a forest. There are many trees- dead and alive. There are shrubs and smaller offshoots. LUCA acted as the common seed. Life blossomed in myriad forms and branches from there.

I do find it interesting that all the models usually proposed to refer to the evolution and dynamics of life are actually based on the structures that are a product of life.
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Beetleboy
Apr 15 2017, 12:03 PM
Woah . . . just like me, Lowry is also beginning to show his dark side.


I try not to show my "dark side" anymore, because I'm worried it makes people think I'm a prick.... Or an angry handicapped child.
Edited by Talenkauen, Apr 15 2017, 12:50 PM.
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Lowry
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I just felt it needed saying. It's nothing personal about IIGS as a person, but his attitude needs to change. I've noticed it a lot and nothing seemed to be changing
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- Rich Man's Ark (nice little bit of community spec :P)
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Lowry
Apr 15 2017, 12:56 PM
I just felt it needed saying. It's nothing personal about IIGS as a person, but his attitude needs to change. I've noticed it a lot and nothing seemed to be changing
Yeah, I understand, I wasn't accusing you, just joking. :lol: And yeah, IIGS please try and change your attitude.
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Rodlox
Apr 15 2017, 04:05 AM
as for completely arbitrary...so, Toxoplasmosis vs Elephant is a fair fight?
Each is adapted to it's own lifestyle.


Lowry
 
I just felt it needed saying. It's nothing personal about IIGS as a person, but his attitude needs to change. I've noticed it a lot and nothing seemed to be changing


I guess I do have a little bit of an attitude problem


Olympianmaster
 
Also, a gorilla for example is more complex than a roundworm. It's not more 'evolved', as both species had the same amount of time to get where they're at now, but it's more complex.


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Nematodes have pretty complex anatomy. I'd say, that most bilaterian animals (except for secondarily simplified ones like flatworms) are roughly equal in anatomical complexity.
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Swamp world: A world covered in lakes, with the largest being caspian sized.
Nematozoic: After a mass extinction of ultimate proportions, a single species of nematode is the only surviving animal.
Tri-devonian: A devonian like ecosystem with holocene species on three different continents.

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Apr 15 2017, 04:15 PM
Olympianmaster
 
Also, a gorilla for example is more complex than a roundworm. It's not more 'evolved', as both species had the same amount of time to get where they're at now, but it's more complex.


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Nematodes have pretty complex anatomy. I'd say, that most bilaterian animals (except for secondarily simplified ones like flatworms) are roughly equal in anatomical complexity.
You call that digestive tract as complex as the one of a gorilla or a cow? You call that nervous system as complex as a human? You call that circulatory system as complex as that of a parrot? Etc. Etc. Etc.
Edited by Lycaon, Apr 15 2017, 04:25 PM.
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Apr 15 2017, 04:25 PM
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Olympianmaster
 
Also, a gorilla for example is more complex than a roundworm. It's not more 'evolved', as both species had the same amount of time to get where they're at now, but it's more complex.


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Nematodes have pretty complex anatomy. I'd say, that most bilaterian animals (except for secondarily simplified ones like flatworms) are roughly equal in anatomical complexity.
You call that digestive tract as complex as the one of a gorilla or a cow? You call that nervous system as complex as a human? You call that circulatory system as complex as that of a parrot? Etc. Etc. Etc.


Yeah, no..... That worm is really simple compared to a gorilla:


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