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"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.
...

Start Evolving!

Current Teams

List of Turns

Ah, the Bay12 Skyscraper. An eldritch spire of imagination and wonder. A masterfully engineered, long chain of pocket dimensions of all kinds, connected by a vast teleportation system that allows people to go to any floor from anywhere else in it in only moments. It was created and built by various beings of equal diversity to its floors, united under the same ancient realm and its protector and creator deity. It is still being added on and built ''up''- whatever that may mean in interdimensional terms- as I am writing this, and it may continue to be built for ages to come. But this adventure is not about it. In fact, Bay12 Skyscraper is only very distantly, if not at all, relevant to the happenings of this venture.

Instead, what will you see here is an another skyscraper entirely, its name lost to time. While it is structurally mostly same, it is younger and shorter. The realm it resides has been long since abandoned by its inhabitants, and so had its growth come to an halt equally long ago. It's reality connectors are unstable, with the only means of transport between floors being an elevator.

The reason you are here? You are here to contain. A race of demented apparitions roam this towers many floors. A few people who returned tell the stories of horrifying cubical beings and their wailings, screams, laughter, and their maddening, unceasing clickings. You shall detain and resolve this anomaly as your quest. Then you will make sure to destroy whatever the entrance dimension of this tower is, thus sealing it forever away.

Go on brave adventurers, and do not fret at the insanities you will find inside!

In this game, you will be traversing a skyscraper. Your goal is to traverse this abandoned tower and deal with the dangers inside. The dice determines your success, your characters can't be OP, you know the deal.

Dice is 20 sided. The values are below.

The elevator, which is what carries you onto the next floor and beyond, only activates when everyone in your party is inside it. You will have to cooperate, and ascending floors alone is usually not an option.

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Players

Recurring NPC's

The Bestiary

This is perhaps the simpliest game I have ever came up with. There is no way I can mess this things management. There is just none. The unbearable chaos will be instead on you all. This game is pure RNG and luck, and no strategy whatsoever.

Its simple, you branch out of a single species and try to stay extant as long as you can as the tree continues upward. Species count caps at the number I like at the moment, and player cap is infinite. Game ends in round 100.

The tree will be presented in all but text that make lines. With the joining number you have being placed at its divergence point.

Something like...

Each round, for every extant species, a coin will be tossed. If it is Tails, it goes extinct. If it is Heads, it splits into two. You are protected until you have 3 species on your branch for the first time, after that may Toady and Armok have mercy on ya, because the Dice Gods and Kek surely won't.

Begin putting your names on the tree so you will have your names on it when I roll a thousand coins at once and crash the RNG site.

Players and their highest scores

Turns

Hello, and welcome to my new game. This ones a bit unorthodox. It contains an entirely explorable, procedurally generated galaxy, with unique stars and planets included. Each of them are special, and I have myself generated each of them using my very own generator. It is a bit simplistic and cartoonish, but whatever.

This is a scifi-fantasy strategy/RTD game, where each one of you play as hyperadvanced A.I of prefereed origin and features that seek to establish themselves as the most prominent one. You may fight, ally, or isolate, its all your choosing.

You will have 6 action points each round that you can use to make whatever you wish, will it be ordering your robots to open new mines, constructing a planetary shipyard with those resources, or mass-scale terraform an entire planet.  It is all up to you.

While mundane things, such as moving units, scouting, or communicating are free,  things like constuctions, attacks, and resource gatherings are not. Each of them will cost you one point. Your success will be determined by a 10 sided success dice, which can be gradually boosted +1 by researching, using 2 points, with the bonus coming in the next same round. The success of research can also be boosted by researching exactly on itself. Research has limits though, as each specific thing can be researched 5 times before it can’t be improved anymore.

It can also be influenced by the environment, planets conditions for example.

Some actions may be impossible. Such as trying to move from one star system or cluster to another without the necessary technology.

There is a strict 10 player cap, as there are only 10 starter planets, each altered from their original states by me to allow the players an acceptable start, as some planets have been generated to be totally garbage in comparison to others. But they are not cardboard copies, so some of you may have it a bit harder than others. Nothing serious though, I made sure of that.

The game will start when there are 10 players. When you join, post a random number from 1-1000. This way I can randomly choose which players gets a particular starter world.

The planets and moons are the main focus, so there are no asteroid belts, and stars are just things that give various amounts of light, and their type has no correlation with a planets climate. Planets are also like the ones in Spore or Astroneer. They are quite small, and do not have that much diversity in them. But they do have actual surfaces which I will map in text. They are no simple icons. 

You all start in resource rich, habitable planets of varying, but not extreme attributes, with a single unit of general purpose drones, along with some mining and industrial resources and the single-use colony ship you came with and its inbuilt powercore.

Please do not meta-game, as it will ruin the immersion. But you are free to use espionage to spy on others by ingame means.

You may begin with your own names. Oh, and you can name any planets, moons and systems other players haven't named anything you want, as long as it is within reason and decency.

Join in now, while you can, for there is no such thing as late joining in this game.

Begin!

The List of Turns

I am just curious, and sorry if this has been discussed before. I looked around the web and there seems to be no such discourse.

What I want to know is the type of creature, of any kind, that can be found in vanilla DF, that has the lowest chance of encountering.

The Intro

Welcome, to The Spiral, a story driven RP-RTD game about a party of adventuring heroes saving the reality from collapsing, and facing many wonders and enemies along the way.

You can be whatever you wish. Something derived from your forum name and profile, a person from a species from a piece of media, something you came up on the fly, anything. Just don't make them OP.

The story will be pieced out by both a set sequence of events, and your luck and actions.

Your luck is determined by, yes you guessed it, a dice roll. Battles, voyages and other such active, moves are bound to this, while scouting, conversing, and other passive actions are not, and their return will be fit to the environment and the situation you are in.

There will be a way to respawn if one of you perishes in any way, won't say what as it will be a spoiler.

The dice is 20-sided. The values are...

The 5 result types also vary inside themselves. For example, a 12 is a better neutral than 9.

Know that once at least 5 players are in, the game will be full, and no longer allow more players in. Unless one quits, and we will need a replacement.

This is an RP game, so please play along in your actions, but simple commands are also fine.

Write up your characters, and join in the adventure!

Why is my avatar always comes out broken? All of yours clearly do not. I insert the correct form of the link to the correct place, but it never properly shows. How did you do it?