Friday, March 30, 2007

Proposal: Time to grow up!

8-2 = Quorum. >12 hours.—Chronos

Adminned at 31 Mar 2007 06:18:36 UTC

Add a new rule called “Evolution”

There exists a wiki page entitled “The Creature Page” which contains information about lifeforms. Each lifeform is given one entry on “The Creature Page” which contains the lifeform’s creature name and any evolutionary variables currently being tracked.

A lifeform’s creature name is, by default, the name of the lifeform. A lifeform may often change eir creature name provided no other lifeform current has that creature name.

Add a subrule called “Evolutionary Variables”

The following variables are considered “Evolutionary Variables” and are considered the important values in any lifeform’s evolution. Evolutionary Variables are tracked in “Levels” Each lifeform, by default, is “Level 0” in every evolutionary variable. The only except to this rule is “Brain Size”. Each lifeform, by default, is “Level 1” in brain size.

*Brain Size
*Body Mass
*Arms
*Legs
*Facial Features

If the proposal “Earning DNA” passes, add the following clause to the end of this subrule.

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.

Comments

Amnistar: he/him

30-03-2007 17:32:21 UTC

imperial

Cosmologicon:

30-03-2007 17:59:33 UTC

for

Hix:

30-03-2007 18:57:03 UTC

(Technically, Cosmologicon’s above comment contains a voting icon, but not a vote)

for

ChronosPhaenon:

30-03-2007 19:02:20 UTC

for  for

Cosmologicon:

30-03-2007 19:29:46 UTC

for Technically not a re-vote. :-)

spikebrennan:

30-03-2007 20:24:31 UTC

for

Zebra:

30-03-2007 20:52:04 UTC

for

Angry Grasshopper:

30-03-2007 22:09:53 UTC

Legs? Arms? And we’re all single-celled!

Zebra:

30-03-2007 22:23:41 UTC

Good point, Angry Grasshopper, though I believe the idea is to get beyond that. However… after some reconsidering of my own there are a few things I don’t like about this, although the idea as a whole is pretty good. Anyway, I am changing my vote, and will make proposals of my own depending on how this goes.

against

Hix:

30-03-2007 22:42:19 UTC

Not single-celled for long, apparently.  Anyway, Spore eventually “zooms out” to tribal evolution, then city evolution, then worldwide civilization advancement, and eventually galactic exploration and colonization.  If that’s any indication of what’s to come, I’d say we need not be aprehensive about how quicly we’re leaving the single-celled stage.

Axeling:

31-03-2007 00:42:56 UTC

I’m in agreement with Zebra.  It seems like the direction to go, but there are a few aspects that I’m not so sure about.

against

Seebo:

31-03-2007 02:53:35 UTC

against Yeah… A better way to do that would probably be “Appendages”, since a Lifeform must not necessarily have both arms and legs (or they might be the same thing).

Seebo:

31-03-2007 03:04:09 UTC

for CoV due to my new proposal fixing my annoyances about this proposal :P