The IntroductionHello, and welcome to Competitive Evolution! Here you will compete by evolving your lineage through time, hardships and catalysms.
The Voting ActionYou play as an evolutionary lineage, and you make it evolve and survive.
Players will congregate in teams of at most 3 players, with maximum team count being 5.
Each one of you will have a single vote to use each round. You can use this vote to;
●Suggest a new mutation, adding a
new feature to the teams creature.
●Improve upon a faulty, vestigial,
or insufficent feature, which gets a
+1 in dice points due to it already
having a base to develop on.
●Sacrifice your vote to support one of
your teammates vote, granting the
said vote a +2 in dice points.
There is also a special vote that comes with developing sexual, or any other resource-intensive type of reproduction called Sexual Selection vote (SS vote for short). This vote can't be supported or used to support, and what it is going to be used for will be decided by the all people on the team. It can still take the +1 bonus of improvement though, as it is indirectly related to the vote itself.
The DiceThe degree of your votes success is determined by a 5-sided dice I will roll. Values of the said rolls are;
For normal votes;
5=Better than expected. The addition/
modification adds an small extra
perk along with the intended feature.
Significant increase in the species'
population.
4=Just as you asked. No more, no less.
A minor increase in the species's
population.
3=The vote is successful, but the
feature comes out as mediocre, and
doesn't adds, or substracts anything.
No change in populations.
2=The votes effects are more harmful
than beneficial, but not to a major
degree. A minor decrease in the
species's population.
1=Maladaptation. The feature/
modification proves to be harmful,
causes a significant decline in the
species' population.
For SS vote only
7= Exaggerated feature, harmful results.
. 6= Is a bit over the top, but also can be an advantage
on other fields at times
5= Has practical use outside of mating.
4= Neutral, it just makes it attractive.
. 3= Makes things a bit harder overral.
2= Makes things significantly worse.
1= Harmful malapdation that.persists because it is
seen as attractive by mates.
Dice caps at 5. No making it 6.
But just because you got a 5, doesn't necessarily means you get the benefits. For example, evolving eyes is useless if there is no nervous system to control and use it. Or a jaw won't work without muscles, which will work very inefficently if there is no respiratory and/or circulatory systems around. It's like a tech tree, you need the supporting systems to go more complex.
Sexual Selection vote failure or success affects your population counts much less than a normal failure or success, but there are more chances to mess up with it anyways.
PopulationsThe state of your species' population is indicated as wildlife status symbols used worldwide.
LC: Least concern. This Species
enjoys their high and healthy
population counts.
NT: Near Threatened. Not quite in
danger, but can use to be better.
VU: Vulnerable. This species is at the
limit from enough, to not enough.
Needs to get better at survival a bit.
EN: Endangered: The danger of
extinction is close to this species.
Needs to adapt.
CR: Critically Endangered: It's
teethering at the edge of going
extinct. Some thing must be done,
and quick, or else...
EX: Extinct. This species has no living
members. If you hit this, you lose
and have to branch out of an
still-extant clade.
Things such as geological or cosmological events will also be rolled once every round. Two dices will be rolled, one for the strength, the other fir the effect. Strength dice is 100-sided, and Temperament dice is 4-sided. The values are;
Strength dice:
0-50= Nothing happens
50-90= Minor event
90-100= Major event
Temperament dice:
4: Awsome stuff.
3: Great stuff
2: Bad stuff.
1: Awful stuff.
The EnvironmentGame takes place in a giant saltwater crater lake on the planet Aqatuico, a world very similar to our own.
This sea is named The Crater Sea, It is warm, shallow and full of minerals and nutients.
Surrounding the sea, a barren, lifeless rocky wasteland goes on for hundreds of kilometers. A system of freshwater rivers go through these plains and feeds The Crater Sea, from who knows where. These close-proximity rivers are called The Harbringers. There is five of them, coming from the same direction.
The Crater Sea is home to unicelluar algea, and 2 kinds of multicelluar lifeforms. These lifeforms are the ones you start out from:
First is the Blob. Blob is a pea-sized, aquatic bottomfeeder proto-animal. It moves very slowly through celluar fluidity, and simply digests any organic material it comes across. It lacks any bodily systems and senses. It reproduces by splitting when it gets too big
The second is the Pancake. Pancake is a very small protoplant, as big and wide as a penny. It is completely immobile and flat, only moving to where the water streams take it to. It reproduces through splitting in two when it gets too big. It lacks any advances structures.
Both of these are now extinct due to being outcompeted. You will have to branch out of an existing clade now.
The Coastal Pancake, Tiktaalik Lagus, Undulating Amaranth and Skippy Pancake species are still extant, their niches still stand as their further decendants left for another niche, leaving them behind.
Once you select a lineage, you are stuck with it until either it goes extinct or the game ends/dies.
There is also a 'Habitat' section that will help you visualise exactly where your lineage lives.
General EtiquettePlease write down the team you are in when you vote. It makes my job much easier.
Vote realistically and openly. Just saying "circulatory system" or "limbs" is not enough. Is the circulatory system open or closed? How many and/or what kind limbs are to be added? You must specify these. Little explanations will be enough.
Please refrain from opening new teams, if there are teams with open spots for players, join them instead. This isn't an obligation though, you can if you wish, unless all five team slots are full, in that case you can't.
You can join anytime you want. Unless all spots are full, which is unlikely.
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Start evolving!
Current Teams
Team Pancake
Naturegirl1999
Demonic Spoon
TricMagic
Team Pasta Vēlōcis
A_Curious_Cat
King Zultan
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Team Lagus Blob
flazeo25
Maxinum McDreich
The Canadian kitten
Team Friendly Pancake
Kashyyk
[Empty]
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Team Eraclito
Leonardo8
GOTOTOTOE
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Team Akın(GM's team, can't be joined)
Magmacube_tr
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