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QUOTE (OviraptorFan @ Sep 24 2021, 12:48 AM)

QUOTE (Coolsteph @ Sep 23 2021, 12:58 AM) Here's the new Duramboar image, with updated toes. Adjustment to Duramboar description: Removal of "speed" in:  "This, along with its lack of defenses, speed, and inability to hide, makes it a favorite food of large carnivores like the shantak, draneck, snapperky, and snapjaw sandcrock." Last paragraph addition: Over millions of years, the pressures of its constant migration and dependence on speed to avoid predators have led to thickened, hoof-like claws the loss of its toes. The third front-facing toe has become vestigial, a mere bone remnant inside its foot. There are two major things I need to point out. 1. Their ancestors only had two toes on each hind leg, much like that of other tilebacks, so what is that bony projection doing there at the back? 2. If the third front-facing toe on the front foot is a mere bone remnant inside of its foot, then what is that projection at the back? I do find the general description edits good though.

Will these two issues be addressed soon? This will need to be addressed before the Duramceri can be discussed further since whatever happens here will affect its evolution.

Here's the modified art.

Permission to do a mild retocon for the Saturntower:
"The roots do not branch unless they encounter water" seems very odd in its lack of exceptions. Permission to clarify: "roots appear not to branch unless they encounter water, but closer inspection reveals they do, in fact, branch: growing root diameter simply depends on the most direct paths to water available, and the roots accessing needed minerals are not as visible to the unaided eye."

QUOTE (Coolsteph @ Oct 8 2021, 12:52 AM)

Here's the modified art. Permission to do a mild retocon for the Saturntower: "The roots do not branch unless they encounter water" seems very odd in its lack of exceptions. Permission to clarify: "roots appear not to branch unless they encounter water, but closer inspection reveals they do, in fact, branch: growing root diameter simply depends on the most direct paths to water available, and the roots accessing needed minerals are not as visible to the unaided eye."

Alright, the artwork looks good!

I don’t really know much about the Saturntower so I can’t really give much feedback on that, sorry.

This post has been edited by OviraptorFan: Oct 20 2021, 04:41 PM

QUOTE (Coolsteph @ Oct 8 2021, 12:52 AM)

Here's the modified art. Permission to do a mild retocon for the Saturntower: "The roots do not branch unless they encounter water" seems very odd in its lack of exceptions. Permission to clarify: "roots appear not to branch unless they encounter water, but closer inspection reveals they do, in fact, branch: growing root diameter simply depends on the most direct paths to water available, and the roots accessing needed minerals are not as visible to the unaided eye."

@MNIDJM and @Disgustedorite, do these changes look good enough to add to the wiki? They help clarify the digit number on the species and have the toe count of Duramceri make sense.

This post has been edited by OviraptorFan: Oct 20 2021, 04:41 PM

I apparently neglected to describe how the swarmerweed manages its body plan. The following addition is what I intended for it.

I would like to add this paragraph after the second one:

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Bizarrely, the entire developmental process, from individual zooid production to the shape of the zoon as well as reproduction by budding, is controlled by the nervous system. The zoon as a whole has some awareness of its own shape and an instinct telling it what it's "supposed" to be shaped like, and therefore it "knows" when something is missing as a result of injury or immaturity. This allows it to instruct its individual zooids to bud in order to grow or to close a gap; without this careful direction (and as is sometimes induced by mutation or disease), wounds would be left with sheet- or tag-like scars, as the zooids do not have individual awareness of the size and shape of the wound and would overshoot. It can even instruct gathering zooids, which are as close to a "stem cell" as is possible in this setup, to produce zooids of specific types. As swarmerweeds are brainless, this is all predetermined by instincts no more complex than simple computer code, but if they were more intelligent, they would have potential to do some very strange things.

"When the leaves of two purleblades [sic] touch, reproductive spores are passed between them."
Its descendants don't mention this is in the reproduction template or in their descriptions. Given how widespread Purpleblades descendants are, it's possible organisms have already been made which feed on their presumed nectar or pollen. Since there are so many descendants, it's possible some have indeed developed more Earth-typical reproductive methods, but there's no way of knowing.
What should be done about this?

Ah that is a significant problem.

At least one descendent solved this with wind.

QUOTE (OviraptorFan @ Oct 20 2021, 08:39 PM)

QUOTE (Coolsteph @ Oct 8 2021, 12:52 AM) Here's the modified art. Permission to do a mild retocon for the Saturntower: "The roots do not branch unless they encounter water" seems very odd in its lack of exceptions. Permission to clarify: "roots appear not to branch unless they encounter water, but closer inspection reveals they do, in fact, branch: growing root diameter simply depends on the most direct paths to water available, and the roots accessing needed minerals are not as visible to the unaided eye." @MNIDJM and @Disgustedorite, do these changes look good enough to add to the wiki? They help clarify the digit number on the species and have the toe count of Duramceri make sense.

Any updates on this?

https://sagan4alpha.miraheze.org/wiki/Chromanke

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The Chromanke does not use its hind legs for climbing, only for perching. This is because their evolutionary history and atavistic return left them significantly weaker than the forelegs.

"Atavistic return" seems...odd, and I'm not sure if it could have this effect. Omitting it or re-phrasing it would be good.

Feedback is still needed for some organisms, such as Purpleblades, the Saturntower, and the Duramboar.

So, any updates on the Purpleblades, the Saturntower, and the Duramboar situation?

QUOTE (OviraptorFan @ Jan 15 2022, 07:29 PM)

So, any updates on the Purpleblades, the Saturntower, and the Duramboar situation?

???

QUOTE (OviraptorFan @ Oct 20 2021, 08:39 PM)

QUOTE (Coolsteph @ Oct 8 2021, 12:52 AM) Here's the modified art. Permission to do a mild retocon for the Saturntower: "The roots do not branch unless they encounter water" seems very odd in its lack of exceptions. Permission to clarify: "roots appear not to branch unless they encounter water, but closer inspection reveals they do, in fact, branch: growing root diameter simply depends on the most direct paths to water available, and the roots accessing needed minerals are not as visible to the unaided eye." @MNIDJM and @Disgustedorite, do these changes look good enough to add to the wiki? They help clarify the digit number on the species and have the toe count of Duramceri make sense.

Yes

QUOTE (OviraptorFan @ Jan 15 2022, 11:29 PM)

So, any updates on the Purpleblades, the Saturntower, and the Duramboar situation?

All approved.

I've been given the okay to remove the part of Drakeshrog's description that describes indirect flow of ideas via Bannertails. Just a heads up.

Heads up, I'm changing the main image for Pirate Waxface to this because the previous image was too violent and also to clear up some confusion.