Saturday, March 31, 2007

Proposal: Creature’s Gotta Eat

S-Ked.—Chronos

Adminned at 01 Apr 2007 08:27:02 UTC

IF the proposals Stayin’ Alive v.1 and Time to grow up! did not both pass, this proposal does nothing.

Edit the text of Evolutionary Variables from

A lifeform may often increase one of eir evolutionary variables from Level X to level X + 1 by spending A * 10 * (2)^X DNA Points where A is one more than the number of evolutionary variables where the lifeform is at or above level X + 1.

to:

A lifeform may often increase one of eir evolutionary variables from Level X to level X + 1 by spending A * 10 * (2)^X DNA Points where A is one more than the number of evolutionary variables where the lifeform is at or above level X + 1, as long as one of the following is true:
*The Evolutionary Variable being increased is the Body Mass
OR
*The Level of the Evolutionary Variable being increased is strictly less than the level of the Lifeorm’s Body Mass.

Create a new rule “Hunger” with the text:

There exist a field “Hunger” in the GDNT which is a number between 0 and 30.  Each Lifeform has a default hunger of 15.  At 0:00 Monday Morning every lifeform’s hunger decreases by X.  Where X is the current Body Mass Level of the Lifeform.

currently, no way of increasing hunger, but then I’m drawing something of a blank on that one, and would love for some help there.

Comments

Hix:

31-03-2007 03:54:15 UTC

against Why can’t we have hyper-intelligent, but tiny creatures?  There should be both advantages and disadvantages to increasing body mass.  That larger bodies eat more food is a good disadvantage, but think of a better advantage than “body mass is a prerequisite for other advances”.

(It’s unintuitive having smaller numbers representing larger amounts of hunger, btw.  Either have hunger increase periodically, or rename it to “nutrition” (or similar).)

Amnistar: he/him

31-03-2007 04:00:03 UTC

against S.K per hix.