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Darn, I also have an unreleased Magnethead descendant that's been in my files for years. I'll have to release that one soon.

"being able to use magnetosensory". (Don't you mean "magnetosensory organs"?)

"cuhsion" should be "cushion".

I like the background details.

Ya, that's a nice landscape, and the species is great too. The "magnetite fauna" are such an odd group.

This species was also submitted before creatures in it's diet. The compendium is in chronological order, so prey has to come first.

Ugh, fine. Nuke them. Nuke them all. I am getting sick and tired of all of these small technicalities. I wasn't aware that there were so many extraneous rules in this project. I just want to create things, but they keep getting shot down.

Courier Phlyer? That won't work because of the diet transition rule, even though their ancestors could eat baseejie 'flowers' by virtue of the baseejie's description. Not good enough, move on.

Tasseled Phibi? No, you can't jump to crystals. Fine, I'll make it an omnivorous generalist. No, it's too big. There's a 50 cm limit in the water table. The clingerpede and the ghost crystal break that rule, but whatever, I guess.

My entire menagerie of Maineiac Water Table organisms? Nope, can't have that either. They're all out of order. Well, there's no way to re-arrange this mess and leaving holes in my experimental ecosystem won't do. Time to launch the nukes.

I am on the verge of leaving the project once more. I can't handle entire species batches going up in flames like this. I'm too afraid to even post the Foi-Eating Snapperswimmer since I'm pretty sure the diet rule will prevent it from becoming a thing in the first place. You can't just jump from eating binucleozoans and anipedes to eating foi.

This post has been edited by Bufforpington: Dec 6 2020, 04:20 PM

Can the Maneiac Water Table organisms be de-approved out of the compendium and then re-approved back in the correct order? Is it possible to re-write some of the organism's descriptions so they aren't dependent on unreleased organisms?

Does the diet transition rule need to be adapted to take into account precise chemical similarities between lineages, and therefore ease of transitioning between them?

These rules existed before the limbo. If you never ran into them beforehand, that was due to them being mistakenly unenforced.

Ironically, the "stricter" Beta actually lacks a lot of these rules.

This post has been edited by Disgustedorite: Dec 6 2020, 10:33 AM

Okay relax, I was already in the process of fixing them. My statement was to let you know it happened. It was just a matter of copy-pasting the subjects into new threads. This rule has been in place since the beginning of the project, and none of your species have been rejected, just asking for tweaks to keep consistency. I was fixing them out of courtesy of these being your first species since returning, but in the future I ask that these problems be corrected on your own, and to please re-familiarize yourself with the rules in the Project Rules thread.

Okay, got it. Sorry about the outburst there. I'm just frustrated with my failures, and I tend to bottle everything in until I explode. I was already quite unstable with the failure of the Courier Phlyer (and my baseejies by proxy). This sudden, unexpected development just set me off.

Even that wasn't a rejection. You just need to edit that phlyer to follow the rules.

No species will ever be rejected without a statement from me at minimum. I've been a bit busy with covid so I haven't been moving species, but so far no one has submitted anything that was rule breaking to the point of rejection. It would have to be completely irredeemable in some way, like a gross misunderstanding of ancestral anatomy or a submission based off of an already extinct ancestor.