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[Neonivek]

Hey, I said a harmless quip and people suddenly jumped on me.

If anything it is you Sirus.

I mean if I said "I hope this game doesn't have an unfinished feature in it like Ghost master did" I shouldn't expect people to harass me about Ghost Master.

[Darkmere]

If there had already been discussion of the other game in this thread about the exact same topic, as well as the same topic discussed multiple times in another thread dedicated to the actual game in question, as well as half-jokingly suggesting we not get into the same argument again, which happened anyway, then I'm pretty sure the same thing would happen, yes.

[Brotato]

*Brotato attempts to direct people away from worthless argument*

So, uh, guys- maybe gals too, I'm not sexist- did you hear about how every monster is going to have an evolution now.  I wonder how they plan and work that in with randomly generated monsters?

[Girlinhat]

That should be fun...
"Hey I found some Fire Death Lizards over there!"
"Oh dear god, quarantine the area and- oh god, what's happening?"
"They're evolving oh god!"

[Sirus]

What? Fire Death Lizard is evolving!

...

Congratulations! Your Fire Death Lizard has evolved into a Magma Murder Dinosaur!

[Darkmere]

I'm kinda curious what "evolution" specifically refers to. Is it just a simple "badass" version of normal critters with upped stats, or can you train your combat pets or mounts into evolved forms with specific traits?

Now I see where they were coming from when they said NPC team members might fall behind pets in terms of distinctiveness.

[Mech#4]

Us being us, I guess any kind of interactive evolution would end up with an arena being created to pit creatures against each other with an end goal of creating the strongest creature around. Like "Evolva" if anyone remembers that game.


Then we can unleash our creation on unsuspecting worlds! ::Wanders off cackling manically::

[miauw62]

I hope there are specific circumstances for things to evolve.
You could go to a planet and make seemingly benign modifications...
Then bombard the planet with horrible monstrosities that evolve into even more horrible monstrosities when they land.

[Urist Imiknorris]

Ah, good old bioterrorism.

[Fniff]

I think a good way to make sure NPCs have advantages is that they can gain skills and lug around all the cool weapons, which creatures probably can't.

[penguinofhonor]

To me it just looks like the "evolved" creatures are just rarer, stronger versions. That's a little disappointing.

[Flying Dice]

It would be sort of interesting to see an Elona-esque system of genemodding pets to add new limbs, abilities, etc. from other pets you have. That might actually fit, too, as IIRC they mentioned randomly generated mobs. I could be misremembering, though.

[Twi]

Every time I hear about genetically modifying creatures to add extra limbs and the like, a little voice in the back of my head goes 'GENETICS DON'T WORK LIKE THAT! GRARARGH!'

IIRC, it kind of does. Sort of. I can't remember the source of this belief for the life of me, though. :V

[Urist Imiknorris]

Every time I hear about genetically modifying creatures to add extra limbs and the like, a little voice in the back of my head goes 'GENETICS DON'T WORK LIKE THAT! GRARARGH!'

It does if you fuck with it enough.

[Fniff]

See, this is why a big part of science is repeated experiments. When you have the gene therapy to add superpowers, you have to make sure they work right off the bat, or you're going to end up with a bunch of soldiers who try to throw a building at the enemy and end up breaking their arms because super-strength only works with proper leverage or something.