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Lidhuin

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Young and adults behaving differently (e.g. Sponges)
« on: May 27, 2014, 04:51:22 pm »
I was reading up on giant sponges and happened upon a thread about them where someone suggested making a fortress guarded by breeding, giant sponges. However, one notable issue was their lack of mobility.

In nature, several species have young that are mobile that become immobile upon adulthood. Since child and baby tags already exist, would it be possible to have different characteristics of that sort? E.g. giant sponges that breed mobile young that become immobile upon adulthood? This could apply to other immobile creatures as well.
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Re: Young and adults behaving differently (e.g. Sponges)
« Reply #1 on: May 27, 2014, 05:28:40 pm »
Seems like a reasonable future goal; maybe eventually creatures' adult and child forms could be defined more like castes. For now, if you'd like to do this for your own creatures, I think there's a workaround: try having two different creatures, adult and child versions of the same thing, the former of which never spawns naturally and the latter of which imparts to itself a syndrome that transforms it into its adult version after several years. That will have essentially the same effects, except maybe unintentional limb regeneration upon reaching adulthood.
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Re: Young and adults behaving differently (e.g. Sponges)
« Reply #2 on: May 27, 2014, 11:40:45 pm »
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which imparts to itself a syndrome
how?
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Re: Young and adults behaving differently (e.g. Sponges)
« Reply #3 on: May 28, 2014, 02:22:11 am »
Code: [Select]
[INTERACTION:TWO_YEAR_SPONGE_TRANSFORM]
    [I_TARGET:A:CREATURE]
        [IT_LOCATION:CONTEXT_CREATURE]
        [IT_AFFECTED_CLASS:GENERAL_POISON]
        [IT_MANUAL_INPUT:unit]
    [I_EFFECT:ADD_SYNDROME]
        [IE_TARGET:A]
        [IE_IMMEDIATE]
        [SYNDROME]
            [CE_BODY_TRANSFORMATION:START:806400]
                [CE_CREATURE:SPONGE?:ADULT]

In the child caste:
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[CAN_DO_INTERACTION:TWO_YEAR_SPONGE_TRANSFORM]
[CDI:ADV_NAME:Start your growth into a an adult.]
[CDI:TARGET:A:SELF_ONLY]
[CDI:FREE_ACTION]
[CDI:WAIT_PERIOD:4000000]
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