Thrive sandbox planet ideas!

Yes, I've been rather inspired to make up my own planets, though they usually have a species (or 10) thought up to inhabit them.

Personally, some planets I make will be "realtime" just so I can relax and explore my creations across the planet without any evolutions, but others will be let go to see an absolute explosion of change within organisms to the point that I look at the result 5,000,000 years later and I wouldn't be able to recognize it at all as my creation.

I'd fly over to a planet, select the best specimens, create them a gorgeous unnatural Island Ark, flood the world and then let the specimens repopulate the world! I'd pick 5 consumers and 20 producers along with a store of liquid teeming with microbial life. I'd also kill every large and above aquatic creatures to make way for new talent and development. It'd be interesting to see how it'd all unfold.
My second project would be a seeding idea, whereby I smash an asteroid filled with frozen microbial life into a barren world and see what happens, if set it to a ridiculous speed and let it grow before my eyes (with LAWK off ofc )
And finally! I'd make gas giant whales for the lols.
Edit: LAWKI*

Life as we know it (should be LAWKI)

Well... I have tried to make creatures that inhabit Nervusius several times, wether it be in Species ALRE, or Spore... Well, Species ALRE is a loose cannon with evolution, though, you do get some cool results every know-and-then. Spore is just... Too cartoony and lacks the ability to build what you want, the way you want. Overall, I really haven't found a way to really create what I view the wildlife on Nervusius to be like. Really what Nervusius is, is a strange place, really. I let my creative imagination run wild, instead of the scientific, or logical side of my imagination. I focus mostly on the continent of Platabonia, which is one of the biggest one on Nervusius. The south is mostly dense, temperate jungles with mountains galore. The north and the south are divided by a moist desert on the equator, which allows for an excuse for major Ethnic, Language, and Cultural differences between nations (which also leads to lots of wars ). The North is kinda like the south, but is freezing during the winters. The North has a volcano, which formed the Continent with 3 other volcanos. There are lots of Stag-like-species in the south east, they are huge, broad-bodied beasts which are known as a sign of masculinity, and adulthood. The Bantanians viewed it as a sign that you were ready to be a man once you killed them, then they performed a blood ritual with the corpse of the Stag, and used its bones for armor and weapons used by the man/child who killed it. After this ritual was performed, the boy (now man) would be sent to the elder, and inspected for desirable features for a warrior. Just because he is a man doesn't mean he is combat worthy. If the man was viewed undesirable, he was simply given a woman and sent to his own tent (damn son, get laid). To the north, there are lot's of wolves, and strange beasts. The people of the North (now known as Umardolothians, but once where Aidunians, Setlenonas, Maryiins, Umars, Uxels, Nillis, and D'ellerans) were very superstitious, and had lots of legends, and folk tales about demons of the night, cave people (and Mole people... If you read my post on Space Empires you would know), the face people, and wailers. But this isn't about legends, lol, so anyways... The north was home to Dire Wolves, or Wargs, I don't know what to call them tbh, huge birds, pheasants, and a bunch of alien stuff. The flora in the north and south varies a lot from what side of the continent your on. I think Platabonian Fauna and Flora is boring, and I did when I started mapping out the planet.. Sooooo, I decided to make a continent in the middle of the planet, I don't have a name for it, but it has a bunch of stuff that aliens dropped off there, along with species that evolved with the Humanoid peoples of Myzonia and Platabonia. I don't know what they look like yet, but I am waiting to leave to travel across to US back to my home state so that I can get my laptop fixed... Don't question, the only thing you need to know is Staples screwed me over... anyways, when I finally fix the power jack on my laptop and turn that s###ty a## laptop on, I am going to download a 3d modeler and finally start to make trees, the people, and animals of Nervusius!

Sir, do you have food on the brain?

Given i'm obsessed with mythology, i'd like to try and recreate some mytholigical creatures (probably with LAWKI turned off but we'll see). I'd be intrested to see how say a Minotaur and a dragon are going to interact with eachother. An other thing i'd like to do is recreate the earth in severall stages and then see how the various prheistoric creature's are going to evolve (sorta like an alternate evolution thingie)

Do you release an apex predator to make things interesting?