"Let's try this again, shall we?"
Hello, and welcome to Competitive Evolution! Again! Here you will compete by evolving your lineage through time, hardships and catalysms. I made this game before, and decided to revamp it into existence again. It is easy to maintain, yet very flexible.
I made things significantly harsher and much less happy-go-lucky. Sorry, not sorry. And I promise the creature descriptions will be better this time.
The Way of Action
You play as an evolutionary lineage, and you make it evolve and survive.
Players will congregate in teams of at most 4 players, with maximum team count being 5.
Each one of you will have a single vote to use each round. You can use this vote to;
●Suggest a new mutation, adding a
new feature to the teams creature.
●Improve upon a faulty, vestigial,
or insufficent feature, which gets a
+1 in dice points due to it already
having a base to develop on.
●Sacrifice your vote to support one of
your teammates vote, granting the
said vote a +1 in dice points. (This
function can only be used once per
vote to prevent over-supporting with
everyone hogging over one vote.
Come up with you own ideas.)
If a team evolves sexual, or any other type of resource-intensive way of reproduction, they gain a special roll they can add to any vote they want. It is fittingly called the Sexual Selection bonus-penalty, and operates as a 7-sided dice, with its number ranging from 3 to -3. It can either be a blessing or a curse, and must be used every turn once unlocked. Where and how it will be used will be decided by all of the team that has it. Its result will be applied onto the previously selected normal vote.
The Dices
The degree of your personal votes success is determined by a 5-sided dice I will roll. Values of the said rolls are;
5=Better than expected. The addition/
modification adds an small extra
perk along with the intended feature.
Significant increase in the species'
fitness.
4=Just as you asked. No more, no less.
An increase in the species's
fitness.
3=The vote is successful, but the
feature comes out as mediocre, and
doesn't adds, or substracts anything.
Little change in fitness.
2=The votes effects are more harmful
than beneficial, but not to a major
degree. A minor decrease in the
species's population.
1=Maladaptation. The feature/
modification proves to be defective
or harmful, causes a significant
decline in the species' population.
This dice upper caps at 5, period. No making it 6. The lower cap is 1. You won't get a -1 or something even if Sexual Selection Modifier lowers something down by 3.
But just because you got a 5, doesn't necessarily means you get the benefits. For example, evolving eyes is useless if there is no nervous system to control and use it. Or a jaw won't work without muscles, which will work very inefficently if there is no respiratory and/or circulatory systems around. It's a ladder of prgression, you first need the supporting systems to get more complex things in your range of efficency.
Populations
The state of your species' population is indicated as wildlife status symbols used worldwide, and their success will be signified by their population status.
LC: Least concern. This species
enjoys their high and healthy
population counts. Not in any direct
threat.
NT: Near Threatened. Not quite in
danger, but could be in a better
situation than it is.
VU: Vulnerable. This species is at the
limit from enough, to not enough.
Needs to get better at survival a bit.
EN: Endangered: The danger of
extinction is close to this species.
Needs to adapt to whatever is
causing its decline.
CR: Critically Endangered: It's at the
edge of going extinct. Something
must be done, and quick, or else...
EX: Extinct. This species has no living
members. If you hit this, you lose
your current lineage entirely and
have to branch out of a still-extant
clade.
Events
Things such as geological or cosmological events will also be rolled once every round. Two dices will be rolled, one for the strength, the other for the effect. Strength dice is 100-sided, and Temperament dice is 7-sided. The values are;
Strength dice:
0-30= Nothing happens.
31-70= Minor event.
71-90= Major Event
91-100= Very Major event.
Temperament dice:
7= Awsome stuff
6= Good stuff
5= Convinient stuff
4= "Meh" stuff
3= Inconvinient stuff
2= Bad stuff
1= Awful stuff
The Environment
The games setting is around on a weird, yet hospitable star, on a small rocky planet called Thetri. It is pretty similar, yet wildly different from our own. Thetri has a mass and volume of approximately 1 Earth, and their composition is also pretty similar, except Thetri has much more radioactive material in its mantle, and thus much more geologically active. Expect volcanoes.
The starting location is a large, and very deep freshwater mountain lake on a volcanic mountain range. It's warm, and has geothermal vents at its depths. The shores of the lake are very shallow and lukewarm, but it sharply descends at the middle. A small, very shallow stream flows from even higher up, its source unknown.
Thetri, at this moment, is home to all kinds of unicelluar organisms, and 2 kinds of very simple multicelluar lifeforms, analogues to Terran fauna and flora, respectively. These lifeforms are the ones you start out from.
First is the Pea. Pea is a, well, pea-sized, aquatic bottomfeeder proto-animal. It is a merely a cluster of cells, that very slowly move around and feed on whatever they touch, including eachother. To reproduce, they bud a smaller Pea from a random place of their bodies. They lack any advanced structures.
The second is the Pancake. Pancakes are very small, purple protoplants, as wide as a penny and thin as foil. They are completely immobile and flat, only move to where the currents take them to. They reproduce by shedding small, regrowing pieces from their sides. They lack any advances structures. Their color stems from the weird sunlight on Thetri.
Once you select a lineage, you are stuck with it until either it goes extinct or the game ends/dies.
General Etiquette
Please write down the team you are in when you vote. It makes my job much easier.
Vote realistically and openly. Just saying "circulatory system" or "limbs" is not enough. Is the circulatory system open or closed? How many and/or what kind limbs are to be added? You must specify these. Little explanations will be enough, but you can go into some detail if you wish, just not in excess, please.
Please refrain from opening new teams, if there are teams with open spots for players, join them instead. This isn't an obligation though, you can open your own team if you wish, unless all five team slots are full, in that case you can't.
If no one takes the role of the predator in the first 5 rounds, I will open up my unjoinable GM team and assume the said role, with all the four votes with as much votes as the largest team has, and the SS modifier if available. This is to make sure the game does not stagnates due to a lack of evolutionary pressure. You have been warned, I will show no mercy.
The things above have already happened.
You can join anytime you want. Unless all spots are full, which is unlikely.
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Start Evolving!
Current Teams
Team Chaos
Knightwing64
Aeranthos
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Team Divergent
Mercur
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Team Sol
TricMagic
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Team Tetramylsis
flazeo25
Cant read the sign
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Team Pizza
Leonardo8
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Team Volcano(Non-joinable)
Magmacube_tr
List of Turns
Turn 1: Buffy Pea │ Abundant Puff │ Violet Pancake │ Pile Pancake │ Sniffly Pea
http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=179432.msg8343781#msg8343781
Turn 2: Rooting Turnip │ Furry Puff │ Brittle Pancake │ Inflatable Daisies │ Dirt Roll
http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=179432.msg8344830#msg8344830
Turn 3: Branchrooted Turnip │ Suctioned Puffer │ Paper Pancake │ Veiny Daisies │ Sandy Corndog
http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=179432.msg8346916#msg8346916
Turn 4: Flatlander Turnip | Bloodsack Puffer | Shadower Pancake | Self-Stacking Kiteflower | Egglaying Corndog
http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=179432.msg8349258#msg8349258
Turn 5: Undulating Turnip | Gametetrail Puffer | Scribers Lily | Chorus Kiteflower | Gulpy Corndog
http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=179432.msg8351756#msg8351756
Turn 6: Puppeteering Turnip | Sleeper Puffer | Hazelseed Lily | Forest Kiteflower | Wormy Plateworm | Enveloper Chickpea
http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=179432.msg8355580#msg8355580
Turn 7: Sattelite Turnip | Vegetarian Puffer | Flowering Lily | Flower Kiteflower | Toothy Plateworm | Picketing Chickea
http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=179432.msg8358801#msg8358801
Turn 8: W.I.P