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Roll To Dodge / Re: Roll to Whatever.
« on: February 17, 2014, 04:06:50 am »
Oh, I don't have vision? Attempt to manifest some cameras directly linked to my life spirit, giving me vision.
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A) Kinda the wrong place to report. Bug reports belong on the tracker or the official forums.
B) Without a save, that's almost a pointless report, due to the lack of info.
I think nukes and stuff would be cool, but I agree with GreatWyrm. We can develop that stuff underwater somehow, and it would be cool to be blind, relying on electro-sense and smell the whole time.1. What makes you think that we want nukes?Because if we want to be able to make nukes, we'll need fire to smelt the materials. And I'd say we're more fish with tentacle faces and deathcloud-makers in their gills. And pocket guts. And fangs. And a radula.Why?We need eyes eventually though.I think we need to develop some god damned eyes!No we don't. Eyes are pretty useless in murky water, and rather hard to develop anyway.
Eyes are only "dominant" because those clades that are unusually good at adapting happened to have eyes as an ancestral characteristic. If the ancestral chordates had electricity-sensitive rather than light-sensitive cells, we would be arguing over electric sense vs. that crazy light-sense. Also, as noted, many creatures lost their eyes, so clearly they aren't all that important...especially if we have a variety of other senses that can be used in their stead.
And look at our creature. Its closest parallels are cephalopods and cnidarians, two clades which have not ever had a terrestrial member. What makes you think we're going on land any time soon?
Okay we have many features from octoPODES but we look like a pretty fishy.
And that spearface guy might make nukes before us if we don't get onto land eventually.
2. What makes you think that Bay12 can't come up with a way for aquatic animals to create a nuclear-age civilization?
3. Since this is an evolutionary suggestion game, what makes you sure we'd be able to control our civilization?
+1 to brain and body structure. Maybe cartilage because it's light and we're doing pretty nicely without bones anyway.Yes, +1 to brain and some sort of structure, preferably cartilage.
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