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    Thread: Papercutters rewrite !
Post: RE: Papercutters rewrite !

I too think your suggestion is a good idea for the article Todd, so it can certainly be added into the initial description!
Banelord Encyclopaedia Galactica Articles 29 544 12-26-2023, 02:56 AM
    Thread: Papercutters rewrite !
Post: RE: Papercutters rewrite !

Here is an updated draft addressing your comments, Todd, along with some additional tweaking and cleaning up of grammar and syntax in the article itself. We do plan to release a full Savastos system a...
Banelord Encyclopaedia Galactica Articles 29 544 12-22-2023, 02:02 PM
    Thread: Macrystis Biology
Post: RE: Macrystis Biology

Crossroads Wrote: (02-07-2023, 01:48 PM) -- This all sounds really cool. I'm no biology expert, but I do really like speculative evolution as a genre and do somewhat geek-out about the diversity of l...
Banelord General Setting Discussion 12 207 02-07-2023, 02:08 PM
    Thread: Macrystis Biology
Post: Macrystis Biology

Hi all! Macrystis as a project has been coming along nicely, and I hope to begin drafting articles within the coming months for expanding the current stub. WorldTree has been helping expand the cultur...
Banelord General Setting Discussion 12 207 02-07-2023, 07:17 AM
    Thread: Minor Update to Transapient Population
Post: RE: Minor Update to Transapient Population

Todd I have to be honest with you, I have just been agreeing with what Crossroads had stated since their comment, and even stated as much in my first response. I’m okay with what Ryan said as well, I ...
Banelord Encyclopaedia Galactica Articles 15 197 12-18-2022, 10:04 AM
    Thread: Minor Update to Transapient Population
Post: RE: Minor Update to Transapient Population

Rynn Wrote: (12-18-2022, 04:04 AM) -- Im not opposed to changing the numbers of transapient (I am strongly against adjusting archai), but other than you being “underwhelmed” what are the arguments in...
Banelord Encyclopaedia Galactica Articles 15 197 12-18-2022, 06:22 AM
    Thread: Minor Update to Transapient Population
Post: RE: Minor Update to Transapient Population

Rynn Wrote: (12-18-2022, 04:04 AM) -- Im not opposed to changing the numbers of transapient (I am strongly against adjusting archai), but other than you being “underwhelmed” what are the arguments in...
Banelord Encyclopaedia Galactica Articles 15 197 12-18-2022, 04:59 AM
    Thread: Minor Update to Transapient Population
Post: Minor Update to Transapient Population

Hey everyone!  I’ve been looking through the population statistics again recently, and while I can generally agree with how modosophont populations are handled, the numbers of transapients leaves m...
Banelord Encyclopaedia Galactica Articles 15 197 12-18-2022, 02:10 AM
    Thread: Updates to Old Clade Terminology
Post: RE: Updates to Old Clade Terminology

Drashner1 Wrote: (12-17-2022, 04:17 AM) -- I'll allow that we could probably figure out ways to better explain or present transapients in the setting (possibly including putting the reasons above mor...
Banelord General Setting Discussion 225 2,681 12-17-2022, 05:21 AM
    Thread: Updates to Old Clade Terminology
Post: RE: Updates to Old Clade Terminology

Drashner1 Wrote: (12-17-2022, 01:36 AM) -- Banelord Wrote: (12-17-2022, 01:31 AM) -- I suppose you can’t copy and paste from notes, this will take a minute to transcribe… -- If the notes are on pa...
Banelord General Setting Discussion 225 2,681 12-17-2022, 01:38 AM
    Thread: Updates to Old Clade Terminology
Post: RE: Updates to Old Clade Terminology

Drashner1 Wrote: (12-16-2022, 02:03 PM) -- Heya! Welcome back. :) We really do need to keep pushing forward with this. I (probably we) will need to refresh on the thread to determine what is done,...
Banelord General Setting Discussion 225 2,681 12-17-2022, 01:31 AM
    Thread: Updates to Old Clade Terminology
Post: RE: Updates to Old Clade Terminology

Hey all!  It’s been a while since I’ve been back to check on this thread (or OA in general to be honest) and I was just bumping this thread so it doesn’t get lost, since it’s a pretty big rewrite. ...
Banelord General Setting Discussion 225 2,681 12-16-2022, 07:43 AM
    Thread: Updates to Old Clade Terminology
Post: RE: Updates to Old Clade Terminology

I actually like the third idea you posited Todd. While it may seem confusing at first, literally just split the sophont page into three major sections: Terragens, Xenosophonts, and Transapients. Xeno ...
Banelord General Setting Discussion 225 2,681 05-17-2022, 11:56 PM
    Thread: Updates to Old Clade Terminology
Post: RE: Updates to Old Clade Terminology

Now that I think about it “human and xeno” literally just means “baseline” if they’re in the biont category. I now officially see no reason there has to be a distinction. Human is a subclade of baseli...
Banelord General Setting Discussion 225 2,681 05-17-2022, 11:13 PM
    Thread: Updates to Old Clade Terminology
Post: RE: Updates to Old Clade Terminology

Baseline originally was meant to include humans and xenosophonts. I’m okay with making it a modifier and I suppose xeno could be a modifier as well…? My biggest reason for making baseline be a major c...
Banelord General Setting Discussion 225 2,681 05-17-2022, 10:54 PM
    Thread: Updates to Old Clade Terminology
Post: RE: Updates to Old Clade Terminology

The Astronomer Wrote: (05-15-2022, 08:26 AM) -- Banelord Wrote: (05-15-2022, 08:15 AM) -- -Human: This shouldn’t be a modifier, as Terragens should assume a baseline Terragen is a human -- When I ...
Banelord General Setting Discussion 225 2,681 05-15-2022, 09:35 AM
    Thread: Updates to Old Clade Terminology
Post: RE: Updates to Old Clade Terminology

I don’t have too much time to throw my two cents in but I agree with much of what Todd has said, and I can break down individual thoughts more clearly in a list:  -Human: This shouldn’t be a modifi...
Banelord General Setting Discussion 225 2,681 05-15-2022, 08:15 AM
    Thread: Updates to Old Clade Terminology
Post: RE: Updates to Old Clade Terminology

Drashner1 Wrote: (04-17-2022, 10:05 PM) -- So, getting back to the main subject, and going back up the threads to find the most current posts, does the following accurately summarize our current thin...
Banelord General Setting Discussion 225 2,681 04-18-2022, 10:46 AM
    Thread: Updates to Old Clade Terminology
Post: RE: Updates to Old Clade Terminology

I’m fine with all types of virtuals being rolled in as a cultural group! Considering that there are also “downloads” in the setting which don’t have a specific clade this makes sense to me. So six tot...
Banelord General Setting Discussion 225 2,681 04-10-2022, 03:36 AM
    Thread: Updates to Old Clade Terminology
Post: RE: Updates to Old Clade Terminology

So from the above information, it seems like the new primary categories could be the following:  Biont:  1) Baseline  2) Provolve  3) Neogen  Synthetic:  1) Aioid  2) Alife  3) Exotic ...
Banelord General Setting Discussion 225 2,681 04-09-2022, 09:15 AM