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[Taritus]

Greater changes over time? I guess the worldgen must run for thousands of years if we would like to see "greater changes". It's not impossible of course, even with the current worldgen it shouldn't be problematic.

Why?  Mutation rate is variable.  Right now, Earth has something like 10^-4 to 10^-6 mutations per base pair per generation (people have 23 pairs)


There's not reason not to up it to 1% chance of mutation per 'gene' per generation, although you'd have to define mutation...  Color would be easy (RG or B value * .75-1.25 on mutation)

People have a hell of a lot more than 23 base pairs...  There are 3 billion base pairs.

[Sean Mirrsen]

Yeah, you got base pairs and chromosomes mixed up there.

[Granite26]

Meh, aren't chromosomes in pairs too?

Anyway, it doesn't really matter, the point is, that the amount and probability of mutation per generation can be changed from Earth-norm

[Kalimar]

I would love a biological evolution simulator. 

[PTTG??]

I would love a biological evolution simulator. 

Have you heard of Spore?
...
HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA!
I kill me.

[Sean Mirrsen]

There are games like Evolution: A Game of Intelligent Life (I think that's the full title).

[Kalimar]

Spore

I am ashamed to have bought that game. What I meant in my criticism was to question the necessity of coding actual genes, instead of just, say, 50/50 parental inheritance? Simple Mendelian models. Nothing to the degree of third limbs or body beards coming from 1000+ years of history.

[Mephansteras]

The old SimLife game was actually pretty good about this.

[Zeful]

I am ashamed to have bought that game. What I meant in my criticism was to question the necessity of coding actual genes, instead of just, say, 50/50 parental inheritance? Simple Mendelian models. Nothing to the degree of third limbs or body beards coming from 1000+ years of history.

My suggestion at the first post is something like that. You'd have to code out a races possible genetic variations and relate them to body parts, but then it's just the computer randomly selecting one of four variables the child gets for each body part. It's simple and would work without eating to much of the processor (as long as you don't have eight or more births at once, which could lead to thousands of random selections on the part of the computer. Remember Bob Barker "Recommends" you Spay and neuter your pets to control the animal population).

[Kishmond]

Is it just my browser acting funny or is there a new icon next to the site URL?

[Zeful]

the 12 in a brown box? That's normal.

[Kishmond]

oh well

[ACE91]

oh well

That's DeviantArt's icon... might be a glitch in your browser.

[Chandrasekhar]

oh well

It means you've been looking at too much porn.

[Mel_Vixen]

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