Big Gumpers =/= Big Grumpers

fixed

Is the name of the Medusa M followed by a number, or some weird combination of the mother and fathers’ names plus M followed by a number?  There seem to be two contradictory rules here.

The reason I did it this way is to make sure it matches up with how egg clusters are tracked in the Habitat. The Egg Clusters rule specifies some information to be tracked for each egg cluster, including its number. But since there are no egg clusters yet, it’s sort of unclear exactly what that tracking will look like. For example, it’s number might be placed on the map, but the other information, like state, could be tracked on the map or above it, like the moods. This rule adds a “Name” field, but also preserves the number (adding “M” to it) just in case the way these actually get implemented in the map is ambiguous.

Right, but then you say they’re just tracked with M plus number.

Besides, if all the egg clusters have unique numbers than so will all Medusas.  You don’t need to mash anyone’s name together.

That is correct. They have names because I think that’s cool, not because they need a unique identifier.