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Underappreciated Spec?; A celebration of projects you might not have heard of
Topic Started: Aug 4 2016, 05:29 PM (6,792 Views)
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What's important is that we do try, trex841. If all we get from it is views, that's alright. And if we don't get that, at least we got to make something, tame our desires, our imagination and give it form, bring out our greatest efforts and see it come to life, whatever kind of life it leads.
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I agree with Zerraspace, ideally the process of making the project is its own reward. We're only human, though, and it can be hard to stay motivated without responses or feedback. This site has a vast audience of guests (of which I'm sure quite a few are trawlers, but nevertheless) so any project you post will be impactful.
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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Holben
Aug 6 2016, 03:27 PM
This site has a vast audience of guests (of which I'm sure quite a few are trawlers, but nevertheless) so any project you post will be impactful.
If you're spending any time here, even if you don't have a project of your own, you could be critiquing those of others.
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Well Guests can't comment.
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At the present time, concepts within are inconsistent and ever shifting.

(And this is just the spec related stuff)
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trex841
Aug 6 2016, 04:13 PM
Well Guests can't comment.
(this may or may not have been an invitation/order to get an account and start adding to the discussion)
Speculative Evolution Projects-

Other Relevant Work-

Final SE Lifelist standings

BREAKING NEWS
We interrupt your regular programming to bring you this cutting edge report.
ATTENDANCE DROPS DRASTICALLY ON SE SERVER
This past Monday on Discord, famous server Speculative Evolution took a hit in the attendance office when it's offline member list suddenly reappeared. Mods scrambled to rectify the situation, but unfortunately there was little anyone could do. Server member Ivan was asked what he thought of the situation. "So long as Flisch, lord of machines and scion of Urborg lives, all will be well". SE, (in)famous for it's eccentric userbase, has recently been spiraling downward, and now we have hard conformation of the decline. Moderator "High Lord" Icthyander states "There is nothing to be concerned about, Discord is merely changing its UI again", but members are beginning to suspect the honesty of their staff.
Stay tuned, we'll be back with more at 11.
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I always liked Wodnoria, which is really detailed. I admittedly don't comment on it though, and I have become more intermittent in my reading. But I recommend to others to read it.
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I like Zealandia and Marsupialess Australia :)
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HangingThief's The Fire Forest is another one of my favorite future evolution projects, although it seems to have died off.

gestaltist's Scosya - the Tilted World was one of only two projects that managed to get me into exobiology, and I certainly recommend it.

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Aug 6 2016, 01:18 PM
Natural History of Horus, by Dromaeosaurus. The discovery and exploration of an alien world during the 1860's. Gives the whole thing a magnificent feel I can't get enough of.
Cool, added to my sig collection. Mentioning of it, it has all the well developed xeno projects I'm aware of. Now I know that Furaha is famous, but still I feel it doesn't get nearly as enough attention as it deserves.
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I know of quite a few projects that this site would love that sadly are only on Deviantart. I think a lot of people are chased off by the, shall I say 'professional' attitude of many people here. It's a shame, because most people here are incredibly helpful and constructive, even if at first they may just seem like they're bashing your project.

I know that's a bit of a tangent but I figured I'd say it here since it's like, half applicable.

Edit: Also, I'm not sure if it could count as underapreciated since I think it was pinned at some point, but Skatha and then the new Bex world are pretty interesting. I wish that the creator would come back to this site.
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Ddraig Goch has done a few xenobiology works that look good, but I need to look through it properly.

Zealandia is on the same boat. For some reason I've yet to read it in full.
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Zealandia is dense. I'm a bit behind myself, ashamed to say.
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I always seemed to have a hard time going through everything when I try to catch up there. I have no idea why, it seems perfectly fine. I just kept getting distracted.
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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That's basically me with every large project. I missed a bit of Settler's of The Deep and now I'm way behind on that, and have still to make any significant progress on The Library, Ilion, Zealandia, Lemuria (I did follow a decent chunk of that one), or Sheatheria.
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My vote goes to Umbriel - http://s1.zetaboards.com/Conceptual_Evolution/single/?p=1136924&t=5716621
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