Tired of waiting for the actual game to come out? Well, here you can create your own species and evolve it just like you would in Thrive! This game is different from the other roleplays in this subforum, because it's not actually a roleplay. Here are the rules:Everyone starts with a single-celled Eukaryote described at the bottom of this post. You get to choose one mutation per turn. If your mutation is close to impossible, like asking for wings when you are still a single-celled organism, I will not incorporate it. I will then roll a die to see whose mutation worked and whose failed miserably. The dice rolls are as follow:2 - The mutation will have a slightly deleterious effect on the creature3 - No effect4 - The mutation partially succeeds5 - You get exactly what you asked for6,7 - You get an even better mutation that the one you asked forEvery organism will have an endangerment ranking assigned as follows:Extinct (EX) – No remaining individuals, sucks to be youVery Critically endangered (CR-) – Should be extinct, but I had mercy on youCritically endangered (CR) – Almost dead, will probably die next turn unless you change somethingEndangered (EN) – You will probably live unless there is a bad event or someone evolves to specifically target youVulnerable (VU) – Fairly safe, but might die in futureNear threatened (NT) – Not as good as least concern, but you shouldn't worry muchLeast concern (LC) – Don't worry at all, unless there is a meteorite, or volcano, or earthquake... then you might dieReproductive systems allow for a larger diversity in a population and this leads to better adaptations, so I have decided to incorporate them in this game. There are two types you can have—horizontal gene transfer and vertical.For vertical gene transfer,You will then be able to do a second vote with NO modifiers applied to it and the following point breakdown:1 Opposite of what was intended2 Slightly worse than what was intended3 No effect4 No effect5 As intended6 Better than intendedFor horizontal gene transfer,You can choose an existing adaptation of another player and add it to yourself with the following rolls:1 No effect2 No effect3 No effect4 Success5 Success6 SuccessYou are not required to make a sex vote, but in a dire situation… Will you risk the odds?Also, you can have only one type of reproductive systems at the same time, and it takes one successful vote to switch between them.Every species will be labeled according to the trophic level it occupies. Primary producers are plants (and the hypothetical algae that you should assume is always there). They are eaten by primary consumers, which are herbivores (or zooplankton). They, in turn, are eaten by secondary consumers, which are carnivores. The one tertiary consumer eats both secondary and primary consumers and is the apex predator. Check which species you are, who your prey and predators are. An increase in the population size of your predator will lead to a decrease in your own population size. If you have toxins or some other defense mechanism that your predator has not evolved to circumvent, you have no predators and are limited only by your ability to catch food. If you want to switch trophic levels you need to vote for it. If two creatures occupy the same trophic level, they will compete until someone goes extinct.You are able to invest die rolls into toxins. So if I vote for toxin A and get a 4 on my role, I will have 4 points for that toxin. If I decide to improve toxin A and get a 5 on my role, I will have 9 points invested in Toxin A. If, afterwards, I decide to develop another toxin and get 4, I will have a 9 for toxin A and a 4 for toxin B. When another species decides to get a resistance, it has to have more than or equal to the amount of points invested into the resistance than the other organism has in developing a toxin, so to combat my toxin someone needs to vote for resistance twice and have a 9 or above, but they would still be affected by toxin B. Hope this makes sense. I think this creates a nice, realistic evolutionary arms race situation.If you need an example of a similar game in action, check one out I hosted a while ago: Here After millions of years, the planet has finally reached a state of equilibrium. The climate changes have become less severe, and although it still goes well below zero in the winter and far above 50 degrees Celsius in the summer, life is slowly but surely taking a grasp. Eruptions and earthquakes are still fairly common and cause death to thousands of species every few months. However, this has only increased the pace of evolution, as organisms less fit to survive are completely wiped from the face of the planet.The first and only species isthough this is surely only temporary.Protobactum Thrivum is a simple Eukaryotic bacteria cell, consisting of only a nucleus and a membrane. It lives at the very bottom of the sea, feeding of the compounds that were created when the planet first formed. It makes energy by metabolizing glucose in its cytoplasm, a fairly inefficient process. Without chloroplasts or any DNA coding for chemosynthesis this organism is very dependent on its constantly changing environment and is thus given the title of Endangered. It cannot move and can only hope that its food (random proteins and sugars) will be carried close enough by the currents to be engulfed.Doesn't form colonies and cannot be seen without a microscope.Bottom of seaENHere are all of the rounds so far:These are links only to the round. If you want to see it in context, add /thread to the end of the URL. Have fun Thriving!