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2190 AD. On a routine exploration mission, research vessel FMM UV discovered a planet with a suitable climate for humankind. During the initial scouting expedition this young planet was declared inhospitable for colony life due the its unsuitable terrain and immense population of prehistoric reptiles. News of this amazing planet spread and reports of the "Dinosaur Planet" led an earth corporation to purchase the rights to the planet, and create DinoHunt Corp. DinoHunt created the unique opportunity for paying customers to become dinosaur hunters for the first time in 50 million years. DinoHunt Corp scientists found Ice Age animals living in the Arctic regions of planet FMM UV-32 and they set up a separate hunting program for big game living there.
- Excerpt from Carnivores Ice Age

So basically a mini project based around the Carnivores series (specifically iOS versions). This, along with Walking With Dinosaurs, Prehistoric Park, Jurassic Park Operation Genesis and Zoo Tycoon 2, was my childhood and it would be interesting to try and explore it from a scientific point of view. It would probably be written as a journal by a group of scientists who want the planet to be set off as a conservation reserve rather than a playground for big game hunters. They explore the inhabitants of the planet, it's ecosystems, and try and figure out how a planet containing prehistoric fauna could exist. I'm pretty sure it would be Alternate Universe but if you guys know any category that would be better please let me know.

Canon stuff that would be included:
Ecosystems

Creatures

For those who don't know about the series:
Carnivores Dinosaur Hunter
Carnivores Ice Age
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Interesting. Perhaps the recent app game Dino Hunter: Deadly Shores could be a source of inspiration as well.
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Nov 27 2017, 02:49 AM
Interesting. Perhaps the recent app game Dino Hunter: Deadly Shores could be a source of inspiration as well.
Nah, I'd rather keep it to these two games as they are both set on the same planet in the same timeline. Also, unlike Dino Hunter, these are open world games, so you can physically stalk the landscape and follow the animals around. You don't need energy to hunt like in the newer game, and there's an observer mode where you can just observe the creatures. Generally to me they were much better games. But maybe that's my bias towards them after playing them for so long.

On the project, in case anyone is confused where the spec part comes in, most of the animals aren't what they are said to be. The scientists on the planet then try and work out the evolutionary history of each creature, and hope by doing this they may get an idea of how the creatures got here. Basically making science out of innaccurate prehistoric creatures from another planet. I've already got ideas as to the history of some of the creatures.
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I have a idea where all the creatures found in After Man The New Dinosaurs and Man After Man are suddenly transported to the pleistocene (sometime before humans and neanderthals evolve) and all compete for niches and see what creatures come out of it.
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I have a idea where all the creatures found in After Man The New Dinosaurs and Man After Man are suddenly transported to the pleistocene (sometime before humans and neanderthals evolve) and all compete for niches and see what creatures come out of it.
That sounds like a bad idea because they all exist on alternative versions of Earth in completely different universes.
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The New Ostracoderms (i might continue with this project again someday)
The Americas (where in 58 million years from now in the future North and South America has both become isolated island continents)



All Expansions (my attempt at expanding the universe of All Tomorrows by Nemo Ramjet aka C.M. Kosemen, started June 6, 2018)
Anthropozoic (my attempt at expanding the universe of Man After Man and also a re-imagining of it, coming 2019 or 2020)
New Cenozoica (my attempt at expanding the universe of The New Dinosaurs and also a re-imagining of it, also coming 2019 or 2020)
All Alternatives or All Changes (a re-telling of All Tomorrows but with some minor and major "changes", coming June 10, 2018)
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Remember that idea I once had where a super hyper massive extinction event that kills nearly all life and this is the only surviving metazoan?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halicephalobus_mephisto




Does it actually hold any water? What else could survive? Could such an extinction event even happen, if so how?
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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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Remember that idea I once had where a super hyper massive extinction event that kills nearly all life and this is the only surviving metazoan?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halicephalobus_mephisto




Does it actually hold any water? What else could survive? Could such an extinction event even happen, if so how?
Wasn't Dromeasaurus's "Settlers from the Deep" kind of like what your going for?

In any case, a large enough meteor impact or cosmic radiation storm should do the trick.
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Terraraptor411
Dec 1 2017, 08:23 PM
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Dec 1 2017, 07:44 PM
Remember that idea I once had where a super hyper massive extinction event that kills nearly all life and this is the only surviving metazoan?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halicephalobus_mephisto




Does it actually hold any water? What else could survive? Could such an extinction event even happen, if so how?
Wasn't Dromeasaurus's "Settlers from the Deep" kind of like what your going for?

In any case, a large enough meteor impact or cosmic radiation storm should do the trick.
Kinda, but this idea is much more extreme. No more mammals. No more insects. No more crustaceans. No more fish.


Nothing but a single species of nematode.
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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Phylogeny of the arthropods and some related groups


In honor of the greatest clade of all time


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All African countries can fit into Brazil
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I've been planning out my Carnivores based project (called A Journey To FMM UV-32) and I have made a decision. This is to include the original game (Carnivores 1) and the reboot Carnivores: Dinosaur Hunter Reborn as well as the mobile ports. I don't need to include Carnivores 2 or Carnivores Ice Age as these were literally copied and pasted into the mobile ports which are now much more updated, and I don't need to include Carnivores: Dinosaur Hunter HD because that's just Carnivores: Dinosaur Hunter Reborn without the mutants. I have Reborn, but I don't have Carnivores 1 installed on my computer, but I used to have it and the CD should be around here somewhere.

The dinosaurs from the reboot are going to be on a different continent than the originals. Mainly because the originals don't live on the same turf. One thing that is certain is that the dinosaurs from the reboots are different species and probably different genera and even lineages in some cases. See the example below:
Parasaurolophus through the ages

It is important to include the first game (Carnivores 1), as that one contains all the lore and legend about FMM UV-32's previous sentient race, which I would like to explore in this project. And I am just going to include the reboot for the fun of it.

I have also decided that it would be to hard to keep it interesting if I set it out as a journal. It would just be the same thing over and over; look at animal, note features of animal, ponder about how animal gained those features and what this points to, get chased by animal, escape, repeat. Probably something similar to Expedition in how it is written would be better. That way I can still put interesting stories in it (many based on past experiences playing the games) and show how the scientific team worked out its ancestry and make it non-repetitive.

As for when this fun little project will be released, I will start the topic in the summer holidays when I will have time for two projects (so it will be released probably in the next 1-3 weeks). Then again, there is the possibility I will drop it because I lose interest or don't find it worthwhile enough. I have several other ideas in my head anyway.
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I have a idea where all the creatures found in After Man The New Dinosaurs and Man After Man are suddenly transported to the pleistocene (sometime before humans and neanderthals evolve) and all compete for niches and see what creatures come out of it.
That sounds like a bad idea because they all exist on alternative versions of Earth in completely different universes.
That's.... the fucking point.
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2190 AD. On a routine exploration mission, research vessel FMM UV discovered a planet with a suitable climate for humankind. During the initial scouting expedition this young planet was declared inhospitable for colony life due the its unsuitable terrain and immense population of prehistoric reptiles. News of this amazing planet spread and reports of the "Dinosaur Planet" led an earth corporation to purchase the rights to the planet, and create DinoHunt Corp. DinoHunt created the unique opportunity for paying customers to become dinosaur hunters for the first time in 50 million years. DinoHunt Corp scientists found Ice Age animals living in the Arctic regions of planet FMM UV-32 and they set up a separate hunting program for big game living there.
- Excerpt from Carnivores Ice Age

So basically a mini project based around the Carnivores series (specifically iOS versions). This, along with Walking With Dinosaurs, Prehistoric Park, Jurassic Park Operation Genesis and Zoo Tycoon 2, was my childhood and it would be interesting to try and explore it from a scientific point of view. It would probably be written as a journal by a group of scientists who want the planet to be set off as a conservation reserve rather than a playground for big game hunters. They explore the inhabitants of the planet, it's ecosystems, and try and figure out how a planet containing prehistoric fauna could exist. I'm pretty sure it would be Alternate Universe but if you guys know any category that would be better please let me know.

Canon stuff that would be included:
Ecosystems

Creatures

For those who don't know about the series:
Carnivores Dinosaur Hunter
Carnivores Ice Age
I've played these games! i had then on my IOS
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This has probably been done to death by now, but a prehistoric island or archipelago that has been lost to time. I'm currently thinking of a Galapagos or Hawaii-like archipelago in the Early-Mid Cretaceous, but I've also thought about a Future Archipelago in the Atlantic Ocean, about 50/60/70 Million years from now. (If I do that scenario, it will probably be in the future, no pun intended) I've always found Island Spec interesting, because stuff like that actually happens in the real world. Here's some ideas, though...

If it is going to be in the Early-Mid Cretaceous, most likely the Albian, the Archipelago would most likely be in the Panthalassa Ocean. (would it be called the Pacific by this time? When does the Panthalassa stop being the Panthalassa, anyways?) Pterosaurs would be everywhere, although there probably would be few, if any, pterosaurs with teeth and tails remaining. So they'd be here, obviously. However, around this time, the dinosaurs were also starting to gain their wings, and the first precursors of birds were flying through the air. It's possible that they could also end up on this archipelago as well. It would be interesting to see two groups of flying vertebrates compete on the islands - I'm curious to see how the niche partitioning would play out in this scenario. The first truly flightless birds alongside flightless pterosaurs? I can see small azhdarchids and small dinosaurs coexisting, but I don't think larger dinosaurs would exist alongside the larger pterosaurs, which most likely got there first. One idea I've wanted to try here would be an Owl-like pterosaur, a nocturnal pterodactylid with large eyes that hunts in the dark.
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I have a idea where all the creatures found in After Man The New Dinosaurs and Man After Man are suddenly transported to the pleistocene (sometime before humans and neanderthals evolve) and all compete for niches and see what creatures come out of it.
That sounds like a bad idea because they all exist on alternative versions of Earth in completely different universes.
Isn't that the whole point?

Man After Man could go either way given that they're much less specialised than RL Pleistocene stuff, and yet evolve ridiculously quickly too. The aquatics could do very well competing with cetaceans though.
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Dec 1 2017, 07:40 PM
GreatAuk
Dec 1 2017, 07:10 PM
I have a idea where all the creatures found in After Man The New Dinosaurs and Man After Man are suddenly transported to the pleistocene (sometime before humans and neanderthals evolve) and all compete for niches and see what creatures come out of it.
That sounds like a bad idea because they all exist on alternative versions of Earth in completely different universes.
Isn't that the whole point?

Man After Man could go either way given that they're much less specialised than RL Pleistocene stuff, and yet evolve ridiculously quickly too. The aquatics could do very well competing with cetaceans though.
Well, the Aquatics have gills, so that could be an advantage. Their intelligence is similar or superior to the Cetaceans.
I'd expect most of MAM humans to go extinct, they'd have loads of new predators and competition, something they didn't have before.
Edited by GreatAuk, Dec 2 2017, 12:56 PM.
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Lately, I've been feeling a bit more confident in my writing ability, so I'd like to communicate some of my projects that I may start up soon, most of these already have an intro post written up, but not much else, though there are a lot of concepts swimming around in my brain-pan. Depending on if any of these get some notable interest, I may actually post them, and expand upon them. You will notice that most of these have a theme, and they would, in theory, all take place in the same, shared universe.



The Lake: for us in the modern day, we have little to no hope of ever discovering every creature, every quirk, behavior, and affect even the most common of animals may have, the will always be a stone left alone, a log unrolled, a tree nook undiscovered. The futility to discover so much is what has led to the meek, humble attitude towards discovery, and when exploring new frontiers, it seems best to limit ourselves, narrowing down in a way that benefits us most. And here, in what was once South East Maine, we have stumbled upon an unassuming lake, but to us, this place is a veritable hotspot for diversity and discovery, and we are bent on exploring the whole of this area, leaving nothing unexplored, every animal discovered and documented, and every plant collected and tested. Here, at Lake Scottley, we are coming up with the most complete information on any one area on Earth, ten million years hence.

Anthropology Anthology: mankind is resilient, mankind is adaptable, mankind is numerous, and mankind is ancient, all qualities exercised in all of us today, and features which will stay prevalent in the far future, even when we've strayed as far as we can from what was once known as 'man'. In this anthology, we shall look over the stories, histories, and lives of many different species, and civilizations of mankind throughout the ages, from the long, near endless story of the Pelagon, to the exciting lives of The Martians, and finally, the highly successful, galactic existence of the Pertentias. Though we are severely separated by both distance and time, we all share many features which make us people.

Aftermath: Earth has faced cataclysmic extinction events before, so devastating as to have completely rocked the Earth away from the course what was once intended, from the disasters wrought upon life by life itself, to the major events which came from Earth itself, and even to genocidal events coming from the infinite void of space itself, though some of the most interesting changes not just to Earth, but the galaxy as a whole, stem from the force of nature that is humankind. They changed the Earth to suit their needs, changing the animals and plants to make them better and useful, spreading everything they need or want across the globe, or even bringing life which has had no connection to Earth at all to a new home in the galaxy. The grand majority of creatures accustomed to the planet before hand perished, usually unceremoniously, as nobody mourned the death of countless arthropods and other microfauna, while lauding anything which was big or impressive enough to gain attention. Earth, and the galaxy too, would never be the same again, not after what mankind did, however, life has adapted, and even flourished, in the Aftermath of our actions.

Golden Age: while it is interesting to see how mankind can progress and evolve in the future, achieving interplanetary rule and dominion, creating weapons strong enough to annihilate life several times over, with technology capable of shifting and morphing plants, animals, and even planets themselves into something entirely new, it is just as interesting to see how the life we were once familiar with for so many millennia. Here, we will see how plants and animals have adapted, or even been changed, because of the modern world, from the rapidly evolving and changing introduced life of Mars and other planets now inhabited by man and beast, to the creeping and crawling animals which find their home in the original forests, fields, mountains, and seas of Earth.
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