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Your Project Ideas; A place to share your ideas for projects
Topic Started: Oct 14 2015, 09:27 AM (65,371 Views)
Talenkauen
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kerguelen
May 21 2017, 04:35 AM
Is teleporting a group of animals into the past considered alternate universe or alternate evolution if you don't have any other magical physics laws breaking stuff in it.


I wouldn't recommend it. Modern animals in the past doesn't work very well (you need to look up Jurassic Zebras), and magic needs serious justification outside of Cafe Cosmique.
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A huntsman spider that wastes time on the internet because it has nothing better to do
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Yiqi15
May 21 2017, 07:30 AM
Insect Illuminati Get Shrekt
May 12 2017, 07:26 PM
1. A terraformed planet where the only vertebrate is the blue whale
Dragonthunders once did that for a COM.
What? When? Where?
Projects
Punga: A terraformed world with no vertebrates
Last one crawling: The last arthropod

ARTH-6810: A world without vertebrates (It's ded, but you can still read I guess)

Potential ideas-
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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Inceptis
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I have an idea for a planet slightly larger than Earth tidally locked to a red dwarf. It's so close however that anything more than a glimmer of twilight is too hot for multicellular life based on liquid water. However, not only are there multicellular phototrophs that make use of the little light available at the edge, but there are multicellular lithotrophs and even sonotrophs, organisms that turn vibrations and motion into chemical energy.
I call it Fonix. I have a fairly fleshed out idea of how the sonotrophs work, but I want to keep it as secret as possible given that I've seen nothing else in spec that's like it and I'm worried about someone else using it before I can present it. If anyone can bring to my attention the existence of autotrophs like the sonotrophs in the spec community, please do so.
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I feel like the idea was at least thrown around before, but I can't remember if it was ever really used.
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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Kerguelen
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@Talenkauen Spec

Well, maybe telporting a sapient animal could wield better results?
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Creatures From Beyond

Upcoming Projects

A merciless world where the rains never come. With rolling dunes and gigantic mountains. Welcome to the land of
Aridia

Far far away in a distant land. Emperors reign and beasts prowl. Monsters and demons fill the deadly forests. Let us take a
Journey to the East

A lab experiment gone wrong. A flash of thunder and lightning. Mankind finds itself cast into a new world.
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Inceptis
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trex841: Well, there was actually something on revin's wiki about the Kinetica, but he never put any more detail into it. Meanwhile, I actually know how to structure the organelle required to get energy out of being moved.

kerguelen: The first time machine going awry and stranding people in geologic past might bring some interesting results and it would be fairly easy to explain as well as avoiding said 'return of Jurassic Zebras'.
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Starting to realize that a project based of a fantasy RPG can really resemble a lot of other fantasy works without constant references to the source material. Not that that's wholly discouraging, but I do want to take care to have my work be distinct enough, especially when some of my other works a borrowing from the same well, as it were. I was playing around with some more Scifi elements, having a more Science Fantasy feel over all. Maybe I should look more into that.

EDIT: Sorry if my random brainstorming is a bit cluttering, I'm putting this in my previous post in order to keep that to a minimum.

Part of the video game setting I wanted to play with is the near mono-biome-ic landscapes that that get used in linear fashion...which is really more of a platformer trope than an RPG trope (though I guess it depends on the game), which is something that occurred to me early in development but I ignored it. And I do also want to develop a fictional platformer for the main project all this revolves around, so maybe I should move some of those elements over to that game and alleviate some of the 'clutter' from the fantasy/scifi/both concept.

edit edit and now I've kind of flopped back god damn it why can I never settle on something?
Edited by trex841, May 24 2017, 06:07 PM.
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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Nembrotha
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A terraformed world where the only tetrapods introduced are various types of agamid lizards. Crazy stuff happens. Eventually, a sapient species arises.
Journey to the Makrinocene, a world in the twilight hours of the Cenozoic! (Slightly Inactive, will eventually pick up)
Come to Terra Fantasia, a bizarre world where nothing is as it seems! (Ongoing)

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A revamped version of an earlier project years ago devised by a younger me, now it will feature more science and plausibility. Turning the original black skinned (very) implausible humanoid sapient species into a race of 4 "eyed" (may change to something else.), fatty/bony bodied, 8 limbed creatures resembling a turtle at most for they're ability to retract into their "shell" whenever their worlds parent star (a red dwarf) emits a strong stellar eruption.
Various other changes would be done as well, such as the focus only on that world and world alone. More details are needed but I have some of the basics down.
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Inceptis
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Uh, did you just like your own post?! That's honestly a little self-centered. I've only done that once before, and it was just to see if it was possible.
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Aridia, an alternate universe where everything is a desert. There are at most 10 inches of rain a year and giant mountains taller than Everest. Rivers, wells, and small ponds are the only source of fresh water in this world. Animals like camels, yaks, and donkeys have become the new livestock. Humans that teleported into the world have either become reclusive water worshipping monks, Dune-esqe tribes, and somewhat more successful Australian Aboriginals. There are also 'cold spots' rare places where the temperature suddenly becomes 10 degrees celcius at it's warmest.
In the shadows and crevices they lurk. Hiding from human eyes they are
Creatures From Beyond

Upcoming Projects

A merciless world where the rains never come. With rolling dunes and gigantic mountains. Welcome to the land of
Aridia

Far far away in a distant land. Emperors reign and beasts prowl. Monsters and demons fill the deadly forests. Let us take a
Journey to the East

A lab experiment gone wrong. A flash of thunder and lightning. Mankind finds itself cast into a new world.
Predators of the Plioence

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Inceptis
May 21 2017, 08:09 PM
I have an idea for a planet slightly larger than Earth tidally locked to a red dwarf. It's so close however that anything more than a glimmer of twilight is too hot for multicellular life based on liquid water. However, not only are there multicellular phototrophs that make use of the little light available at the edge, but there are multicellular lithotrophs and even sonotrophs, organisms that turn vibrations and motion into chemical energy.
I call it Fonix. I have a fairly fleshed out idea of how the sonotrophs work, but I want to keep it as secret as possible given that I've seen nothing else in spec that's like it and I'm worried about someone else using it before I can present it. If anyone can bring to my attention the existence of autotrophs like the sonotrophs in the spec community, please do so.
As I understand it, the main issue with tidally locked planets is the instability of the atmosphere. With such a differential in pressure and temperature, the atmosphere is likely to collapse rather quickly. See this paper for some concrete data.

I think the only way to make it work would be a planet almost completely covered in water (or another substance with similar properties) - so that oceans act as a heat sink on the star-facing side, and distribute that energy via ocean currents to the other side. A problem here is that surface winds would blow in the direction of the star-facing side, and I'm not sure how effective thermohaline circulation would be in transporting temperature.

Also, high planetary albedo could help - maybe high methane content in the atmosphere, or something?

EDIT: now that I come to think of it, a water planet that's tidally locked would be covered in clouds on the star-facing side due to atmospheric circulation, which might help with the albedo part.
Edited by gestaltist, May 25 2017, 10:51 AM.
Scosya - my project
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Here's a project I've been ironing out for a long time now, and it's now in my signature as an upcoming work, so I figure I might as will put it here (though it IS something I plan to do eventually, so no stealing. . .)

I call it "The Big One". I got the idea from reading Stephen Jay Gould's book Wonderful Life, where he briefly wonders what life might look like today if a different group of organisms (say, Hallucigenia instead of Pikaia) had evolved into the dominant phylum of large animals on Earth after the Cambrian explosion. So I've decided to do exactly that--create a timeline where Hallucigenia gives rise to the dominant phylum on Earth. This is basically the Mt. Everest of alternative evolution. The Big One, in other words.
Needless to say, this project's going to take a lot of thinking. What direction are other phyla (arthropods, mollusks, etc?) going to take? What effect will mass extinctions have, assuming they're still the same as our world? But it's something I want to do nonetheless.
My Projects:
The Neozoic Redux
Valhalla--Take Three!
The Big One



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In the end, the best advice I could give you would be to do your project in a way that feels natural to you, rather than trying to imitate some geek with a laptop in Colorado.
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That sounds familiar. Did you play with that idea as a COM entry?
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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Scrublord
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Not that I remember. I did an entry for a COM where annelids were dominant, though.
My Projects:
The Neozoic Redux
Valhalla--Take Three!
The Big One



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In the end, the best advice I could give you would be to do your project in a way that feels natural to you, rather than trying to imitate some geek with a laptop in Colorado.
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