My goal is to play a game of Creatures spanning 10+ generations. I keep track of genes, family lineage, and other things on a seven-tab Excel document and hope to share some of the cool stuff I learn and experience with you guys!
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Oh she is SO happy about this
Alrighty! I took a short break to play a dying MMO from 2003 with a friend but I am inevitably back to collecting data on my small furry creatures
#soup the cat#she perches right here when iām playing this game specifically#love this girl#honestly iām so happy too bc during my ādown timeā in creatures i do things like make giant friendship bracelets and learn japanese#canāt do those things when you gotta do the carpentry puzzle for 3 hours or do the swordfight puzzle every 10 minutes#scribbles
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Alrighty! I took a short break to play a dying MMO from 2003 with a friend but I am inevitably back to collecting data on my small furry creatures
#hmu on puzzle pirates name is jaspoodles lol#currently i go on at abt 10pm EST every day just to check out what's going on and guess what#collect some data#excel and i should be dating at this point#scribbles
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Hehehehe. I have about 16 pages left and then I get to start on the appendix
It should be clear by now that Iām a GIANT nerd
#i love you statistics i love you organized notebooks i love you biotech degree#i canāt WAIT#also as an added note literally nothing is organized around me#but i have been diligently keeping this notebook#now the only question is what graph paper notebook i should buy š¤
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He suddenly woke up?!?!??? I donāt even know what the trigger was. Iām basically at a complete loss for words
Holy cow. I've never seen a COMPLETELY brain dead norn before and I have TWO. They share parents, Creme (Mom) and Endo (Dad). My thinking was that Endo has functional children and I looked it up and Creme was the norn that had trouble giving birth and who I used the ABD on in order to extract her pregnancies. I'm very interested to see if ALL of her children are like this or if it's just the males
#um sorry but you donāt just WAKE UP from being BRAIN DEAD#heās learning vocab and stuff now like what in the WORLD happened???#he has interacted with other norns before so i donāt think it was bc of that#iām at a complete loss for words
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Holy cow. I've never seen a COMPLETELY brain dead norn before and I have TWO. They share parents, Creme (Mom) and Endo (Dad). My thinking was that Endo has functional children and I looked it up and Creme was the norn that had trouble giving birth and who I used the ABD on in order to extract her pregnancies. I'm very interested to see if ALL of her children are like this or if it's just the males
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Itās time for the long awaited
āØGeneration 5 OverviewāØ
Itās a looooong post, so if you care to read, itās under this handy dandy read more.
The generation was made up of 47 norns and lasted approximately 58 hours, including a period of time where I left the game on overnight. The average lifespan was 6:32, with the highest natural lifespan being 9:11 and the lowest being 5:35.
Phenotypes
There were 188 body-type genes total.
45.21% were Purple Mountain, 39.89% were Forest, 6.38% were Horse, 6.38% were Ron, and 2.13% were Banana (For funsies at the end of the run. There were no males to breed with.) I did not see any body-type genes disappear.
Iām now seeing Horse genes and Ron genes intersect in the gene pool timeline, but no norn had both Horse and Ron phenotypes.
The female:male ratio was 2.13:1. Lucky guys.
Genotypes
Two norns had extra pigment genes.
One norn had an extra chemical emitter gene.
One norn produced alcohol in some amount in all stages of life. The stumbling was the giveaway. Itās possible that norns are producing odd chemicals right under my nose, but I havenāt caught them because the effects arenāt obvious.
One norn seemed unable to give birth (Gonadotrophin maxes out but progesterone stays at a low level). I used the Advanced Breederās Kit to help her out a few times. Sometimes I canāt bear to see them suffer. Plus she still needed to eat like a pregnant norn and was taking a lot of time to care for.
No norns inherited the 100% life force gene, sadly.
Deaths
37/47 were exported due to old age (Only 78.7%, yikes)
5/47 died from Antigen 1 (10.6%)
3/47 died upon being imported (6.4%)
2/47 died from āFailure to thriveā, which includes Child of the Mind syndrome and the lack of interest in eating (4.3%)
Poor norns kind of had a rough time in this generation.
Important Discoveries
The game tries to ācorrectā your gender ratio when hatching eggs, leading to long stretches of males or females. This is why the next generation is going to be mostly males, sometimes in stretches of 12-13. I am fixing this in the next generation by occasionally exporting all but one female (To ācancel outā my grendel) to hatch eggs when I have nowhere to put them in order to get a ratio closer to 1:1 for Gen 7.
I now have a Disease tab in my Excel doc keeping track of what diseases do what and here is what Iāve found:
Antigen 1 is killer. High frequency of sneezes/coughs, leading to difficulty feeding norns to keep their life force up, and slow antibody response time. Absolutely deadly if your norn is not a reliable eater.
Antigen 3 is easy to get over. I had one note about it in my journal (From before I had my Diseases tab) saying that antibody production is so fast that it almost kills the antigen before it hits ācritical massā in the Biochemistry tab of the Science Kit.
Antigen 5 isnāt horrible. The antibody response time is very good, although life force declines rapidly. I had two norns on opposite sides of the world contract it very close together, so I canāt really say anything about infectiousness, but Iād guess it was a coincidence.
New Tools
The community patch, which does a lot of things. (May provide link to list eventually)
The Grendel Friendly COB, since now I can keep an eye on my little dude.
The Advanced Breederās Kit, which should help any norns experiencing pregnancy issues, although I am not yet sure if thatās a good idea. You will definitely hear about it in the next report if it was a bad idea
I also found the Genetics Kit and got it working, which should solve any issues if I accidentally leave the game on. That seems to happen at least once a generation, but now I close the game if Iām going to step away from my computer. That should stop the problem before it even starts.
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Whew! That was a longer summary than I meant to put together, but itās good for me to get it all down and in one place, even if nobody but me finds it interesting.
On to Generation 6! š
#summary#overview#genetic data#genetic drift#statistics#this taught me how to make ratios to 1 btw#i must have learned that in high school at some point but that was 11-15 years ago#god this was so much longer than i originally intended#and it took an hour to put together#also you can tell that iām Super Serious bc i put a period at the end of the ending sentence in a paragraph#just a small quirk of mine
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Whew! 47 norns and 60 hours later, Iām almost done with Gen 5. Iām so excited to put together the overview and statistics and stuff~
#scribbles#i am a statistics nerd#i inherited it from my dad lol#this run is 126 hours long and iām only beginning the sixth out of ten generations#this next generation is 72 norns#but most are male??? so gen 7 will be considerably smaller thank goodness#considering throwing some random females in just for funsies#perhaps a banana or a pixie š¤
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So I mentioned a little while back that my lovely boyfriend installed the community patch while he was trying to figure the Genetics Kit out and one of the features that I love is that now I can keep track of my grendel. I also installed the Grendel Friendly COB so now I just let him roam. I named him Little Guy because heās small in comparison to an adult norn. He's almost 20 hours old!
#scribbles#grendel#little guy#they're cute when they're not beating up my norns#i don't think he'll die of old age but only time will tell
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I GOT THE GENETICS KIT TO WORK. LETāS GOOOOOOOOOO
#scribbles#it was actually so easyā¦#just had to change two settings in the advanced settings thingy
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Boyfriend installed the community patch for C1 not knowing that it would change things on the front end but it has changed SO MUCH and I donāt know if I like itā¦
#i dislike change#to an absurd degree#but idk how to uninstall it :c#so i guess iāll get used to it?#i mean some things are really uhhh convenient i guess?#i can keep tabs on the grendelās health and stuff#thereās a thingy in the corner that tells me what the world timer is at#uhhhhhhhh i could get used to infinite scrolling#thereās a log thingy that maybe i can use#itās zoomed out tho and iām blind when it comes to looking at small things?#i have to get less than 6 inches away from the screen if i need to see smth#i just gotta finish this damn 10 gen run and then iāll like. idk uninstall and reinstall or smth
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Boyfriend took a look at the Genetics Kit again and is now poking around in the registry thing trying to figure out where the Genetics Kit is trying to look for the Creatures game, if I understand correctly (And Iām not sure I do. My degrees have nothing to do with computer programming). So whenever I see him, heāll do a little more poking and hopefully heāll eventually be able to redirect the Genetics Kit to the right place?
In the meantime, I can either:
1) Keep playing more old video games
2) Start hatching the disaster that is Gen 6 of my current C1 run
3) Start messing around in C2
Iām thinking experimenting in C2 is a good idea because itās the next game Iām going to be conducting research on. Itāll give me a feel for what COBs Iāll need when I start fr fr
#Iām thinking iāll need something to teach my norns language#would certainly make hatching them easier#from what i remember you also have to have your norns pick up tokens to earn you the science kit and iām not about that life#c2 norns are idiots from what i remember#eem eat elevator and all that#would also give me a chance to determine what breeds i may want#you KNOW i gotta do a run where i try to cross regular norns and mernorns#oh wait yeah and i have to get a feel for lifespan#and i BELIEVE c2 norns can die of old age so i have to figure out exactly when that happens#hmmmmmmmm#yeah c2 it is#after i finish this scenario in rollercoaster tycoon lol
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ALRIGHTY so Boyfriend took a look at the Genetics Kit and hoo boy, shitās fucked. So I explained how I have all the necessary files, I just donāt have a way to smush them back together to make the norn Not Dead and that I didnāt really care about the genetics aspect of the Genetics Kit. So he (A high-level software programmer for the govt) says it would probably be easier for him to just write a piece of software that does that than for him to make the Genetics Kit work. I see him again tomorrow so Iāll just point to the files that I think I need and he can probably whip something together for me
FOR NOW, I have other, equally as old (Though less mentally stimulating) games to play lmao. Although if he takes more than about a week, my plan is to start the absolute disaster that is Gen 6 until he finds a way to fix the problem
#man i am just obsessed with this game#the other bright side of Creatures is that sometimes i get like three hours of uninterrupted time where i just have to watch them#like where i only have to care when someone is sick or pregnant and not do any teaching or anything#i use that time to do stuff like read or crochet or whatever
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Okay so the program is throwing an error at me (āerror reading registry key ā ensure Creatures is installed on this systemā). My amazing boyfriend says not to touch it and heāll try to fix it when I see him on Sunday but uhhh this is me rn:

I am IMPATIENT
I accidentally left the game open and unpaused last night so I lost eight norns without knowing their ages or causes of death. Really not pleased with that (Or myself) but despite the error, my research goes on.
There was exactly one child left alive when I finally realized my mistake and although she is elderly (9:55), I will be exporting her now and importing her again as if she was a normal part of the lineup and letting her live for 6-9 hours (I will randomly generate how long) so she has a chance to pass on her genes
Now ANOTHER way to do this would be to get the monikers of the eight norns that I lost (Easily obtained. Theyāre all in my Excel doc) and to import identical norns into the world. This would give them ALL a chance to keep breeding and passing along their genetics. This is good because one possessed an interesting mutation and two had Ron traits, which are becoming rare and I donāt want them to be lost. The issue with THAT course of action is that I believe that the little piece of software that I use tries to āfixā issues that are actually just mutations, and I donāt appreciate that. I would say that the other issue is that they would then be around the same age, but I actually keep track of when each was born, so I could hatch them when they need to be hatched to maintain the correct age gap between them.
Actually⦠I might just go with that⦠Itās imperfect and a little labor intensive, but it keeps the family tree a little more intact
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I accidentally left the game open and unpaused last night so I lost eight norns without knowing their ages or causes of death. Really not pleased with that (Or myself) but despite the error, my research goes on.
There was exactly one child left alive when I finally realized my mistake and although she is elderly (9:55), I will be exporting her now and importing her again as if she was a normal part of the lineup and letting her live for 6-9 hours (I will randomly generate how long) so she has a chance to pass on her genes
Now ANOTHER way to do this would be to get the monikers of the eight norns that I lost (Easily obtained. Theyāre all in my Excel doc) and to import identical norns into the world. This would give them ALL a chance to keep breeding and passing along their genetics. This is good because one possessed an interesting mutation and two had Ron traits, which are becoming rare and I donāt want them to be lost. The issue with THAT course of action is that I believe that the little piece of software that I use tries to āfixā issues that are actually just mutations, and I donāt appreciate that. I would say that the other issue is that they would then be around the same age, but I actually keep track of when each was born, so I could hatch them when they need to be hatched to maintain the correct age gap between them.
Actually⦠I might just go with that⦠Itās imperfect and a little labor intensive, but it keeps the family tree a little more intact
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I'm all for statistical anomalies but this is ridiculous! (And not even all of the males I hatched in a row...)
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