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Post by Atrox on May 4, 2016 20:43:19 GMT
Okay I know the title is dumb but hear me out... I remember a while back, there being talk of creating organisms large enough to act as its own biome. Personally I think that'd be pretty sweet. I would imagine it would happen during the multicellular stage though. If you guys have ever seen the mockumentary, Alien Planet, you probably remember the Amoebic Sea. Imagine this... during the multicellular stage while all the other species are evolving and specializing, your species just doesn't. You keep adding cells to your colony and you just expand outwards, potentially covering the sea floor. Eventually you can evolve features to help in acquiring food and keeping predators at bay (tentacles anyone? Poisonous flesh?) Assuming you survive all that, perhaps you can eventually move onto land. Perhaps you can evolve airborne Spore™ to spread your kind across the planet. Perhaps future civilizations will come to fear you or send scientists to research you. Or perhaps they'll deem you a threat to society and try to wipe your kind out. It's all very interesting to think about please feel free to add on or discuss below :0 |
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Post by mitobox on May 5, 2016 1:38:20 GMT
Being an ever-expanding sheet of goo is fun and all, but what about having access to a caste system in the Organism Editor like normal animals might? There could be buds like jellyfish ephyrae that develop into different things. Some become run-of-the-mill giant mushrooms for spore production and release, while others...   Heck, I can imagine some crazy cross between Organism and Strategy Mode based around this. Could probably be its own game, even. |
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Post by Atrox on May 5, 2016 2:06:20 GMT
I didn't even think about using the caste system!! That's really awesome you're right! The massive biome organism could act as a nest and a queen at the same time and it could have castes. A worker class that brings it biological material to grow with  fleshy monsters invading civilizations and stealing livestock. A warrior class that guards the nestmother at all times. Ahh this would be sooo cool! Edit: I can't tell what the second picture is |
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Post by lowry on May 6, 2016 17:15:32 GMT
Showing my maturity here, but if anyone played modded minecraft, there's a mod I fell in love with for its 'taint' this had a purple goo cover everything slowly, dissolving trees and changing lakes into breeding cats for massive predatory taint swarms... Sorry, this thread just reminded me.
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Post by 0wolfmoon0 on May 13, 2016 18:08:16 GMT
Showing my maturity here, but if anyone played modded minecraft, there's a mod I fell in love with for its 'taint' this had a purple goo cover everything slowly, dissolving trees and changing lakes into breeding cats for massive predatory taint swarms... Sorry, this thread just reminded me. *breeding vats ;D lol this sounds pretty cool. Idk if it could be made a thing in the game, but it would be cool to have it a thing. I'd rather be a mass of slimy, undulating, squirming goats tho. |
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Post by Moopli on May 28, 2016 3:33:10 GMT
Every time I escape the city and wander the trails nearby, I'm exploring a large fleshy biome. Admittedly, the flesh is plant flesh and consists of many separate organisms, so it doesn't quite match the aesthetics you're thinking of, but I think it ought to be possible for the dominant flora in at least some biomes on some possible planets to be, say, large, soft, flesh-colored lumpy things.
And that's not even going into all the cool ideas with giant nest-organisms and norn-queens and so on.
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Post by firefish72 on Jul 17, 2016 17:43:08 GMT
I didn't even think about using the caste system!! That's really awesome you're right! The massive biome organism could act as a nest and a queen at the same time and it could have castes. A worker class that brings it biological material to grow with fleshy monsters invading civilizations and stealing livestock. A warrior class that guards the nestmother at all times. Ahh this would be sooo cool! Edit: I can't tell what the second picture is It's the flood from halo |
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urmetazoan
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Post by urmetazoan on Jul 27, 2016 16:47:15 GMT
I think the biome could be anywhere, and will be probably very hard in game. here is a suggestion to how it will look like:  AMOEBIC SEA! |
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Post by Atrox on Jul 27, 2016 17:22:23 GMT
I think the biome could be anywhere, and will be probably very hard in game. here is a suggestion to how it will look like: AMOEBIC SEA! Yeah!!! I envisioned something like that too! |
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urmetazoan
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Post by urmetazoan on Jul 27, 2016 17:44:15 GMT
Also, the documentary "Alian Planet" is a revision on the book "Expedition", It has a lot of cool concepts and themes. |
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Post by lavathor on Aug 8, 2016 15:36:08 GMT
*cough* Hive Mind *cough*
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Post by GRODOG on Aug 22, 2016 0:34:47 GMT
WE CAN MAKE HIVES WITH THIS!!
wait another suggestion... can we make our creatures produce silk or hive? maybe they could produce so much it becomes its own biome as well... imagine... HIVE BIOME!!! WEB BIOME!!! or the alien poop wasteland
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fleshy monsters invading civilizations and stealing livestock. A warrior class that guards the nestmother at all times. Ahh this would be sooo cool!
