The Elite - GWR Anything Chat

[TreeSprite]

Hehe... this is the fun post! This is where we all stick our noses in the air and give a neener to everyone who's not in the GWR. Nyah-Nyah! We are in the GWR and you aren't so we get to talk here and you don't.

[TreeSprite]

Who else here is tired? If you are lift your mouse... no...not the mecha mousie... the other mouse... I think I'll just sleep back here instead of on the couch where someone can find me.

[Tarlia]

I just woke up. I'm sure tired. I need to stop going to bed at midnight when I have to get up 6:30.

[Shadowveil]

What is the point of the .cos files that come with the underwater eggs agent? I looked at them with the CAOS tool, and they seem identical to the standard file. I injected the agent without replacing the .cos files, and it worked fine. Eem exmly confused...

[TreeSprite]

The point of the .cos files was to make it so you wouldn't have to inject the thing all the time if you were always going to make a world that would have eggs hatching underwater.

[TreeSprite]

Hey... did any of the elite actually notice the Optional Files post? This is a cool place to show off your favorite agents, and give everyone else a hint as to what might be useful to have in their worlds. Come on now... share your favorites!

[TreeSprite]

Here's some updates:
The Co-Leader vote is wonderful, thank you for showing your support everyone!

The Rules vote points to the fact that everyone agrees on most everything.

Kat_05 you've been added to the group, I'm sorry you were overlooked.

The following users haven't been added to the Official Participants list (Only for the listed reasons, this doesn't mean you aren't in, or aren't going to be in, just that we need you to do some small bits so we can post you in officially. )

Shaon's world appears contaminated. Shaon, could you check please to see that all those norns that came in were exported, or left? Or if you think it's easier just create a new world. Whatever you choose.

Poopster's world has either not been created or has not been online long enough to report.

Danikat's world has either not been created or has not been online long enough to report.

Lep's world has either not been created or has not been online long enough to report.

Kat_05's world has either not been created or has not been online long enough to report.

[Leporidae]

I'll make the world today. I was just busy with homework.

[TreeSprite]

No rush Lep. I guess I should have mentioned that before... This is supposed to be a relaxed thing. You join in when you are ready. I just wanted everyone to know why they weren't on the official participants list if they weren't. Less possibility for hard feelings that way, and possibly less confusion too, don't you think?

[Leporidae]

Yea, anyway I just made the world. Just about to add the contacts

Edit: What the? I though I had been on long enough. maby I should hatch an egg and export it so my world appears.

Edit2: Here it is: http://www.gamewaredevelopment.co.uk/ds/active/world_notes.pl?world_id=104353

[CodeBlack08]

Hey Treesprite. I actually updated my world history link earlier. The one you have on the official participants list is an earlier one I made in mistake. The new one is: GWR-OverKill08

[Tarlia]

Added Leporidae to the list. Also fixed CodeBlack's world link.

[CodeBlack08]

Thanks Tarlia! So... I'm just wondering. How many of you have your worlds up and running and ready for tomorrow?

[Tarlia]

I haven't made mine ready yet, but it has been created. I won't open any portals until it is done.

[CodeBlack08]

Ugg.... I have another question. This is making me mad. Every once in a while when I pick up things in the Creatures world it just disappears... Is there any way to fix this?

[Shaon]

I've got a very deadly world, so most of the norns that come in die within seconds.

I'm letting the list empty out now.

I can't exactly make any new worlds right now, I've messed with my DS files a bit too much and so cannot create any new worlds unless they're docked, and my CD drive is very evil.

[Kat_05]

Back! (At another house for the day) I just haven't been online very long- it'll be fixed this afternoon, no worries.

[Tarlia]

[CodeBlack08]

[Narol_aka_LMC]

My world is ready, I'm so impatient to have this started !

Too bad that I won't be home today before late in the evening...

[Kat_05]

Wel, the world's been on, it should show up now

[CodeBlack08]

Ugg... I just totally destroyed my world injecting a new meta-room... I'll get back to when I get the new one up and running... Tarlia, you'll probably need to change my link again. Sorry about this guys... It'll be running before the end of the day.

Edit: Here it is... GWR-OverKill08

[Narol_aka_LMC]

Started, running and online !

But I will have to go for almost the whole day in 1/2 h and shut off the computer...

[Tarlia]

Kat, you world still isn't showing on the link you provided.


I'm starting up my world now...

[Shadowveil]

I'm ready to go, I will probably start up within an hour or so.

[TreeSprite]

Geez... just checking things, adding the friends to list, and wasn't meaning to get norns... wasn't ready for norns... oh well... I got them now.

[Narol_aka_LMC]

Treesprite, if it's a problem you can send them back to me by the chamber, but i'll be off soon !

[Narol_aka_LMC]

I have a gargoyle and a Hardman (both first gen) trapped in the worshop, they seems too stupid to push any of the teleporters in the room, grrrrr....

[TreeSprite]

[punkmogwai]

eep, it was still Sunday here.. suddenly I noticed all the GWR people on the Who's online thing.. I'll start in a little while, gotta do something on another game and I think I still have to add everyone as friends

[Shadowveil]

My world just crashed rather badly. The computer froze up completely, even Ctrl+Alt+Delete didn't work. I am using the advanced autosaver, but I think some may still have been lost. Going back online now, I hope it behaves itself this time. *kicks computer*

[Narol_aka_LMC]

Back early after a big change of plan, let's go back to GWR business !

[Danikat]

My world is actually still non-existant. Although that will change as soon as I finish reading this forum.

I'm honored by Treesprites declaration of trust and I hope I can live up to it.

[Shadowveil]

The Fimbul hordes are attacking! I started with 2, now there are 29.

[Danikat]

Interesting problem has come up: I installed the mask bengals and they seem to have replaced my original bengal sprites.
Whats the easiest way to get rid of them and restore the original bengals?

Also something else which really, really should have occured to me sooner: On the 21st of May I'll be flying home, and consequently switching back to my old computer.

Should I wait till then to start my world or will it be ok for me to join in from the start, then warp out all my norns and start a new world when I switch computers?

[Tarlia]

Wait, they replaced your regular bengals? If you got the wrong set, they should replace one of the mall breeds... but not the bengals.

Easiest way to get the Bengal sprites back would be to install to another location and copy the sprites from there.

And if you want to start a world now, please do so! Then you can warp out the norns and start a new world when you move, as you suggested.

Shadowveil: I'm starting to become suspicious of the Fimbuls. All the norns in my world that managed to breed to become over 100 while I was at work one day, had Fimbul blood in them. Perhaps the Fimbuls have a super-breeding gene? I'll try and check this out when I get home.

[Danikat]

Thanks Tarlia. I'll fix it when I get done with work this evening and hopefully have my world running tonight.

[Narol_aka_LMC]

SCRAMBLE SCRAMBLE SCRAMBLE !

Beware everyone, when I came home tonight, I found 2 norns gen 48 et 51 in my world that were from Bludraco's world and the first GWR !

I believe they hadn't the time to have children in my world (one was a child and the other had just arrived and was still locked near the entrance portal, but I think we must all double check quickly that no other survivor from the first run has intruded !!!!

I'm sending a PM to BluDraco by the warp to inform him of his mistake (maybe he doesn't know we have restart !)

[Tarlia]

Um, that would be your mistake, Narol. Bludraco isn't supposed to be on the friends list for the new GWR.

[Narol_aka_LMC]

BluDraco wasn't on my friend list, Tarlia !

I believe they were coming from my first GWR World and were waiting to enter HIS world, but get rejected to me by the system one way or another and only today... So the same thing could have happen to any of us !

[Tarlia]

Oh, right. Yeah, that can happen. That's what I hoped to avoid by advicing everyone to leave on their (empty) worlds for a while after the first run ended.

[Narol_aka_LMC]

Yes, I did it for quite some time and Masha's warp monitor was showing 0 norn waiting in the warp to enter.

Maybe BluDraco hadn't entered his precedent world since the last days of the first GWR, so the norns got only send back this afternoon...

It's probably not his fault nor mine, and I believe there is a big probability some of you have received some from him too !

[Shadowveil]

Considering the doubts over the Fimbuls, I am shutting my world down until we decide what to do. I can quite easily clear them out of my world and replace them with other breeds. It's a pity most of the info on them is in German, or I might have picked up on this sooner.

Edit: I have looked around, and all I could find was "breeding succeeds best with cold weather" on Mummy's Creatures. Considering how quickly the population exploded, I am going to remove the Fimbuls from my world and hatch some new breeds. Better to do it now, so I can get back in the run as quickly as possible.

[Kat_05]

(Thanks TreeSprite!)
Well, there is a small chance the fimbuls aren't altered, at least. My world's been ovverrun with civet crosbreeds, and they're official! Basically, If you get a good breeder in the start of your run, thse genes will show up everywhere. I am surprised on the 100+ thing though, and you know your ship better tan I do. How long was your run going when you noticed this?

[Emzie]

I fixed my world so it shows up, here's the link:
http://www.gamewaredevelopment.co.uk/ds/active/world_notes.pl?world_id=104427

Is it too late to join? I had school today and totally forgot about GWR!

[Shadowveil]

It's not too late, not everyone has started up yet. You can still hatch new eggs, but I would advise avoiding the Fimbul norns, as they may be super-breeders. Do you have the GWR autonamer?

[Danikat]

So, I'm incompetent.

Can someone help me out by suggesting an easy way to find the bengal body data and image files and replace them with the originals?

[Shadowveil]

Sorry about the double post. I have exported 29 fimbuls from my world, and fished 35 EGGS out of the elevator, all of them at least half fimbul and most probably purebred. The Fimbuls definitely seem to have a problem, most females I looked at had 2 or 3 eggs before adulthood. I will hatch a few more 1st gens to replace them, see my world report thread for details.

Danikat: Try looking in your C3 Images folder, unless that is where the other breed got installed to as well. You could try making a backup of that folder, running the Breed Uninstaller to clear the sprite slot, and then replacing the backup, hopefully with the Bengal sprites, back into the C3 folder.

Oh, and the same with the Body Data folder

[Kat_05]

Grr. I've got a problem in the world now... you guys know the status box (selected norn's head and name, online status, etc..)? It's not working now, but only in my GWR world. I'll try to tabb through the norns, I'll try selecting a nonr-nothing. The box is empty. I can't see the info for my norns (like the monkiers). I can still select a norn though (red arrow/green arrow) but the box isn't responding. I also can't click the red button on the box to connect to the internet. Does anyone know how to fix this or will I have to export my norns and make a new world?

[Shadowveil]

Can you still see their Creature History by pressing F1 and right clicking on them?

[Shadowveil]

Double posting again, but this is rather weird.

I have got a gen 1 coloured Draconian called GWR_Abooksigun from GWR-OverKill08. Can anyone explain this? I may export him just to be safe. He is also 7 hours old, I don't know if that is normal for Draconians.

I have talked with CodeBlack08, it seems he/she hatched Amphibian draconians, which have modified pigment genes. I have told them to export them all, but anyone else who has been online recently should watch out for them.

[TreeSprite]

[punkmogwai]

Looking at my world history, 3 norns from the old GWR just tried to get into my world too, and they were all from Bludraco too, but they got bounced back out of my world. Looks like Bludraco/Panther's new world was running for a long time today with all those old norns plus some newly engineered ones ?

I have a Fimbul/Trident cross but I doubt she's going to breed anyway, she'll probably die of starvation soon, she's been pacing back and forth on the bridge for a long time, doing nothing

[Brayen]

Hi everyone, TreeSprite mentioned a GWR was in the works and I decided to join up. Lets have fun. See you in the warp. Brayen.

[TreeSprite]

Hey piggy! Glad ya joined us!

Before everyone glomps him to say hello, thereby confuzzeling those who don't know him I'd like to point out that Brayen is an admin on the board, and he's capable of doing as he likes. I've tracked behind him though, and verified that he's followed the rules. To head off any questions about why his username has two other worlds listed I'll say this; Brayen has been heavily testing the new server setup for Sparky as have I. Those worlds listed have never been online in this warp.

[Tarlia]

I'm currently at work, so if any of you could add Emzie to the list for me that would be cool, thanks. I really shouldn't be here... And welcome, admin person!

[Shadowveil]

Emzie is now on the list.

[punkmogwai]

Something weird just happened with my comms room.. it seems to be "stuck" on the contact list, I can't choose the agent injector or anything else, and it's only showing the first few names on the list, even when I try to add more, so I can't mark any new people as friends and I'm not sure if all the old ones are still friends.. is there a way to fix this or should I make a new world?

[Shadowveil]

Sometimes it goes glitchy if you try to add too many contacts at once. Try quitting and reloading the world, see if that helps.

[TreeSprite]

[TreeSprite]

Awww... doesn't anyone have any agents to share that are soo cool that you use them all the time in your worlds because you simply can't live without them? I was hoping to see the Optional Files list get stuffed with lots of fun, and interesting things!

[Tarlia]

I might add something later! I'm just very short on time. Stupid life.

[Shadowveil]

I would vote for removing the Fimbuls from the breed list. I remember the last run ended with my world packed with extremely vicious Fimbul crosses.

[Emzie]

My world is completely empty right now!

[punkmogwai]

I did quit and close DS and reopen it, it's still the same And I'm also getting an error about "You do not have sufficient disk space to safely run Docking Station" even though I'm sure I have plenty of disk space, meh, it lets me run it anyway...

yeah at the end of the old GWR when my world was crowded, they were all part-Fimbul too...

[Shaon]

Jeez, I think I made it TOO harsh!

Any of the toxics that haven't warped away have died for no apparent reason.

[CodeBlack08]

Yeah... I have no one left in my world either. They all died in a little area right next to each other in the C12DS world... It's really quite sad. More people need to get on so maybe someone will warp into my world.

[Tarlia]

I'll get on again now, before going to work.

And yeah, my over-crowdedness in the last run were all Fimbul crosses too. I'm definitely removing them from the breed list.

Edit: Never mind, looks like someone already did.

[Narol_aka_LMC]

So we must now remove all Fimbul and Fimbul crosses from our worlds to avoid contamination, right ?

Or only pure fimbuls ?

[Shadowveil]

I would remove all of them if you can. How many part Fimbuls do you have?

[Narol_aka_LMC]

Probably something like 5-7/28, but I must check precisely...

I already remove a pure gen 6 male fimbul who had something like 7 children in 1h, so I will try to track the living members of his line and export them all...

I'll go offline in the meantime, to avoid more contamination by the super-breeder gene...

[punkmogwai]

I made a new world: GWR2_punkmogwai2 The only norn left in the first world was that same Fimbul/Trident (i don't know how she lived so long without ever eating...) so since Fimbuls are off the breed list now anyway, I left her behind. No norns have bred in my worlds yet, they all leave or sit there starving to death, it's pretty boring which is why I don't have one of those "journal" posts yet

[Tarlia]

[TreeSprite]

The cheese stands alone! I'm all alone and lonely over here. My last norn, a male treehugger, warped away, and my world stands empty. Tarlia, Veil and Narol are online, and I've got zippo, nada, nothing. *pokes warp portal*


[edit]
This seems to happen when I'm not looking...I think I may not leave my world and go to bed anymore. *sits silently for a long time* Not that it will do any good of course, sometimes a world population just dies off.

[Narol_aka_LMC]

You're right Tarlia, I've tried hatching Moonlight in another world and they have the Fimbul sprites, so the problem is in my world...

I'm really sorry for my mistake and the little Moonlighticide... But I'm not totally sure Moonlight ain't super-breeders as the Fimbuls seems to be... Does a Super-breeding Test agents exist ?

Now I'm gonna try to re-install the Moonlight sprites, I must have done some kind of error when I did it in the past...

While I was investigating, I found someting quite strange : 12 gen 1 norns with the GWR tag have been exported of my world by the FastAger trap !!

I suppose they arrived unnamed in the containement chamber and got named by the GWR_Autonamer before being auto-exported, but 12 is ahuge number and I'm asking myself if someone out there isn't trying to add some mess in our experiment, and that idea is quite worrying...

Edit : I checked the date and all of them have been exported the 23/04/06 between 21h40 and 21h46 while I was preparing my new GWR world, so it's probably accidental...

[TreeSprite]

Yes, the GWR autonamer will name ANY unnamed norn that comes into your world. You will know that it was an outsider norn though because you won't be able to change the name yourself. The engine will list it as restricted when you try to change it.

[Tarlia]

Sorry for being upset, I had a bad morning.

I'm not totally convinced Moonlights don't have enhanced breeding genes... I'll see how my world is doing when I get home. I don't want to have to start this over again.

[TreeSprite]

If everyone would please now post to the List what breeds you have installed! topic the leaders would appreciate it. We would like you to do so sooner rather than later, too! It's necessary to help everyone know what each breed will look like and what problems may arise from sprite confusion.

[Narol_aka_LMC]

OK I found out where my problem was, I had the Moonlight agents installed but not the Sprite and body part datas so that's why they looked like Fimbuls in my world...

Things are fixed now so I will join up soon...

[Tarlia]

I'll post my list when I get home. I'm still undecided on whether to keep the C1 breeds installed or not...

[TreeSprite]

As you can see from my list, I uninstalled DS and then Reinstalled from scratch. I still have the C12DS room in my setup, but I don't have the norns installed. I wanted the Painted ChiChi's and the Nenyas, because they are so lovely!

In order to install DS and have C12DS without the norns, I temporarily renamed my DS folder to Docker, and then ran the install and upgrade for C12DS. It installed everything to a new DS folder. Then I renamed that folder to DS, and renamed my Docker folder back to Docking Station. After which I copied the following folders/files into my Docking Station folder:

The entirety of the Background, Bootstrap, Catalogue, and Sounds folders.

From the My Agents Folder I copied the following: DSc1tods.agents, & c3c1tods.agents

From the Images Folder I copied the following: The 117 files with c1<whatever> (Don't grab the c10h.c16 file though unless you want an odd norn sprite.), & ds world switcher2.c16

That will let you inject c12ds without trouble, and without all the C12DS norns.

[Tarlia]

Okay, the Moonlights have taken over... I don't know what to do about this, really. Whether they really are super-breeders or what. There are 30+ of them in my world, as well as 34 eggs... Help?

[Leporidae]

Agh! due to a sudden change in the plans, I wasn't able to get on yesterday. I should be on later today.

[Brayen]

Tarlia, that sounds like superbreeding to me.

[Tarlia]

Yeah. Ugh. We're going to have to do something about this.

I've closed my world for now. I don't want to start everything over, but I think all Moonlights and Moonlight descendants should be removed.

[TreeSprite]

Actually, could you send me a couple of those? I want to put them in a clean world and see if they superbreed. I'm inclined to agree with you, but marcus didn't say anything in any of his text about them being superbreeders. However, considering that both the fimbul and the moonlight genomes came from him I have to begin to wonder. As well... I have to ask if you were using any of the moonlight agents in your world. If you were those were meant to make your rooms have less light in them and thus make it horribly easy for the moonlights to breed. Also, if you have found them in the Bug's Temple or seaweed tavern rooms you may find that they are breeding better in there because of the low light conditions. I suggest using the Ecology kit on Albia2000's site to check the light conditions in all your rooms.

[Tarlia]

I'll send you a few of them before I delete the world.

As for darkness, I didn't add any of the Moonlight agents, and I only have C3 + DS running (no extra metarooms), but they DID hang out in the Jungle a lot, which is dark. On the other hand, I found about a dozen eggs in the Desert, which is very light, so...

[Brayen]

Hey, um getting some bounce back to the chamber... Please remember to add me... Thanks.

[TreeSprite]

Would everyone please check the participants list and make sure that you have friended everyone on the list. I'm hearing complaints from the newest participants that they are getting bounce back norns from several people. Thankyou!

[Shadowveil]

Moonlights superbreeders? *smacks head*

I have had the worst of luck with my choice of breeds. It was lucky I shut my world down last night, or it could have caused serious problems. I will clear out my world, and add a few more breeds that I am sure about. I will not add anything I am not experienced with.

[Leporidae]

Whew, Lucky I was missing out for the last few days. I havn't even used my GWR world after setting it up (Their are no GWR norns in it at all yet.)

[punkmogwai]

and lucky my internet died last night so i shut my world off, a few Moonlights had warped into my world before it did... weeell guess my world will be empty again...

[TreeSprite]

Awww! Poor Punkmogwai!

[Emzie]

I had a norn warp into my world dead! He's have Sahara, half something else 0.o He won't disapear either. He's just standing there, dead, infront of the portal. I think he's freaking out the only other norn in my world, LOL!

How can I get rid of his body?

[Shadowveil]

Use "kill hots"

[TreeSprite]

I bet he's half zebra...

[Emzie]

Oh yeah, I forgot I could do that!

I looked at his pictures and he looked like a magma and nenya mix. In a later picture, he was magma and C1 santa. He only lived to be 6 minutes!

[Shaon]

My world is a deathtrap. Haha. Any norn that warps in here poisons themself. There's seldom a non-dangerous object.

If you need to get rid of any Moonlights send them my way and they'll be dead before you can say 'syanora'.

[clohse]

[punkmogwai]

Probably a Dale norn, they look like blue bengals and they're in the same slot as Atavist ettins

[Tarlia]

I will clean out my world when I get home from work today (still want some Moonlights, TreeSprite?), and then start over.

[TreeSprite]

Yeah send me about four two males two females.

[Tarlia]

I'm sending you the norns from my regular username to your regular username, to avoid getting these beasts into the GWR population again.

[Shadowveil]

I got a 5th gen Bruin/Gargoyle/Bondi/Civet norn from Tarlia's world who became adult at 37 minutes. Does this seem odd? I thought the Bondis were slow ageing.

[Tarlia]

Nah, Gargoyles age pretty fast, like the Hardmans.

[TreeSprite]

!!!ATTENTION!!!

I'd like everyone to please be on the lookout for odd norns from the first run. Panther385, bless her heart, really wants to join us, and up until today she couldn't find out where she needed to post to join in. She's posted today, and apparently she's been running a world called GWR - Panther385 since the 24th, and it's obviously contaminated from the first run. I don't think that this is an attempt to purposefully contaminate the new run, so please don't badger the poor girl about it. I've posted her a message and asked that she please empty that world and wait for an hour for any bouncebacks so she can export those too. I've also requested that she make a new world so we can let her in. Until such time as she sees my posting and takes care of this problem though, everyone should be careful about checking what's in their containment unit, as well as not add BluDraco until she's on the Official Participants List here in the Official GWR Forum.

Thank you,
TreeSprite

[CodeBlack08]

I just saw something very strange in my world. It's not really the norn though so I'm not posting it in the "Strange and Wonderful" topic. It's about what happened to her. I saw her standing in my warp chamber for a while so I went to check up on her. What I found out was sad... She was dead. I checked her history though and it said that she died before she even got to my world... How is that possible? How did she die standing up?

Here's the norn's life history: GWR_Asta

[Tarlia]

Yeah, that happens. Have you noticed how your norns can push a portal, but there's sometimes a lag before they actually leave? What happens is that they push the portal, then they die, and THEN they're sent away. Their bodies won't disappear from your world because the death script was left behind in the old world. Silly little bug.

[clohse]

I had one that did that in the last GRW run. He just stood right in front of the portal until we called that run quits. I kinda thought of him as a little mascot or my little statue.

Edit: In case anyone has missed me in the Warp, I plan on being online overnight tonite. I have been having to mess around with the map editor for a different thingy and its been taking longer than I had planned.

I think I have carpal tunnel syndrome now!

[CodeBlack08]

[Shadowveil]

Does anyone have norns? My world is empty again...

[Narol_aka_LMC]

My world is getting quite crowded (52 norns!), so I'm gonna send you some by the chamber...

[Tarlia]

We have a new member, Mona... I will add her to the official list now.

I'm sorry for being kinda absent the past few days. I've been busy with other things.

[TreeSprite]

Welcome Mona! Did anyone add panther? Oh, and congrats Narol... my world is deader than a doornail. Maybe send old norns my way?

[clohse]

I could use some too. There's no one here but me and the stingers!

[MonaLS]

I've been busy reconfiguring my portals to make sure I'm sending and receiving from friends only. Somehow I keep getting norns that arrive and immediately leave but they aren't from anyone on my friend's list. I never see them, only see the results on the world history. Weird.

I have everyone on my friends list, so if any norns are feeling crowded - come on down!

[MonaLS]

Woohoo! A norn was listening! GWR_Aiichirou just arrived - and said: " me really bored." LOL - How can he be bored already, he just got here!

[Shadowveil]

Hehehe, I think he just left my world. I had hatched a female civet to keep him company, it seems he was unimpressed with my offering. So now I have hatched a male Dale to keep HER company...

[CodeBlack08]

Hey Veil... I think I just got your new Dale. That was fast.

[MonaLS]

I got two through your world, they seem to be happily wandering around, in completely different directions.

[CodeBlack08]

From my world? Eh... I wouldn't be surprised. All the norns seem to want to do in my world is lay their eggs and then leave. I was up to generation 10 one night and the next I was down to gen 2 because all the higher gen left... Currently I'm still only at gen 3.

[MonaLS]

I typed too slow - through Veil's world.

[Narol_aka_LMC]

Ok Treesprite, I'm gonna send you a few norn too, but only females for the moment, as my world is suffering a very strange male shortage by now !! (cf my report...)

Clohse, don't worry, I'll do the same for you when I'll see you online !

I have 7 open portals, but norns here don't seem to be very attracted to use them, maybe they miss some kind of warper gene...

[TreeSprite]

[Narol_aka_LMC]

From their download page :

"The Crimson Norns are Lord Zasz's debut breed. The Crimson Norns always look agressive but they are really friendly on the inside. They have a lot of new features in their genetics."

From the Readme :

"Long ago, the Shee had a little experiment to make a better breed of norn, one that would be strong, brave, and cool looking; this is the result."

"Genetics are adapted from Bruin Expressive, but have been greatly modified by me. I'll leave the specifics as a surprise..."

That's all I got, so the rest is yours to find... At least now you know that's it's normal if they look angry !

[MonaLS]

[MonaLS]

Silly Norns - I've got one in the tunnel under the Norn Garden and one IN the Norn Garden (practically on top of each other) - if just one of them would move, I might get some offspring. I've never seen 4 Norns so completely miss each other before.

[Tarlia]

I was going to leave my world on today but the DS server is down... Typical.

[punkmogwai]

*was just about to post that same thing*

[Shadowveil]

It's back up now.

[MonaLS]

Yeah, I'm going to leave mine up, maybe all night. Maybe I'll see some improvement in the morning. At least 2 of the norns are in the same room now, it's amazing how long that took.

[Tarlia]

Am I the only one who hardly ever gets any norns warping in?

This is becoming more a 'personal wolfling run' on my end, with the occasional visitor.

Running low on females at the moment... they're growing old and dying.

Lots of people seem to have empty worlds.

I'm going to suggest that anyone with empty worlds hatch a fair bunch of new norns, perhaps limit their amount of portals for a little while until they've got a good population, and also people who have very dangerous worlds should consider making at least some rooms safe. Norns aren't that smart and can't be expected to survive in a world absolutely full of bacterica and danger.

Myself I have one very toxic room (Garbage Dump), and the other rooms are relatively safe. Most of my norns live in the Meso, sometimes going into NG1.

[Tarlia]

I've added panther385 to the official participants list... but I'd like her to show her face in the forum before we all really do add her. I'm not convinced she's read all the new rules or that she knows about the official list of who to add herself.

[Kat_05]

I hardly ever get warpins either. Maybe next time more portals and smaller worlds?

[MonaLS]

Well today was not a good day, started the day with about 8 norns and ended the day with 2. Yikes. I think I better hatch some eggs.

[punkmogwai]

Yeah I only get about 1 to 3 norns warping in every night, and most of the time they're still pushing the portal when they come in so they just warp right back out...

I have 2 norns now, both females and one is old, I'll probably hatch some more later...

[MonaLS]

Just as I got ready to hatch a bunch, some warped in. I went ahead and hatched some more anyway, and removed some of the portals. If they want to run away from each other, they'll have to walk.

[CodeBlack08]

Wow... My world is booming now! I've gotten up to generation 20...

[Tarlia]

We have a new member, Starswifter! As soon as (s)he lets us know they've downloaded the GWR Autonamer, please add them to your friends list. The name and info is in the official participants list.

[Starswifter]

I would be very depressed if you call me a she again

By the way, i have downloaded it (thanks Tarlia) and the informations on the participants list are wrong ... send a PM to TreeSpirit with the correct info

[Tarlia]

Hm? What is wrong? Can you give me the correct info?

[Starswifter]

[MonaLS]

LOL - I'm getting a lot of norns complaining that they are crowded. I just want to yell at them: "PUSH PORTAL!" Silly norns.

[Raspberry]

Hi, I'm new I've added everybody in the participents list and everything but I can't seem to download the autonamer when I try it says the download isn't available anymore

[Starswifter]

Send a PM to treespirit, tarlia or shadowveil and they will send it to you by mail

[Raspberry]

Okay thankyou

[Tarlia]

Hi Raspberry. I've sent you the autonamer by mail.

[Raspberry]

I've got it, thanks I'm ready to start now if somebody could add me to the participents list?

[Tarlia]

Added! Everyone please add Raspberry to your friends list!

[MonaLS]

I've added them both!

[Narol_aka_LMC]

Welcome to the new members !

We're 19 in this now, thanks to ours leaders perseverance this GWR is going strong after a difficult and erratic start...


What happened to Panther385 btw ?

He/She still did not find the portal to the forum and the GWR ????

[Tarlia]

I don't know. I've told her specifically that she needs to accounce her presence in the GWR forum before I add her, but she hasn't showed up yet...

[TreeSprite]

The GWR Autonamer download has been fixed.

[Shadowveil]

I am getting a lot of norns in my world stuck on the sad expression. Does anyone know where this first turned up? They are all above gen 40.

[Edit]: I just saw a norn say "me like me". I have never seen that before.

[MonaLS]

I know I have a few next to the in warp portal like that. And some in the NG2. I look later and see if I can tell where they came from.

[Tarlia]

[Shadowveil]

Server's offline... Oh well.

*goes to play Civilisation IV*

Fear the Albian Empire, muhaha!

[punkmogwai]

I have one of those sad-faced norns too, it's funny because she keeps saying she's happy, but she sure doesn't look happy...

server's back up now

[MonaLS]

What can you do with a genetics file?

[Shadowveil]

You can clone a creature from it, and look at it with the Genetics kit and similar things to find mutations.

[MonaLS]

Ah, that sounds like fun. I'll have to try that later.

[Shadowveil]

The server is down again. If it is not back up soon, I will have to leave my world shut down for the night.

Did something strange just happen to the Gameware forums, or is it just me?

[Edit]: Hmmm. It is working now, perhaps it was on my end.

[Shadowveil]

I just got another Banshee. It was originally from Starswifter's world, but had warped around a bit before coming to me, so I don't know if it is from a while ago or his world is spawning Banshees again.

I will be offline for a while, not sure how long. My broadband connection is having problems, I am using my mum's dialup to post this. Due to my oversized graphics card, my computer has no dialup modem. I did once, now it doesn't fit in the case.

[Starswifter]

Do you know when it was born?
Havn't been online the last couple of days, and will look through my world before bringing it online again ... to ensure i didn't miss something -_-

[Edit] Hmmm ... couldn't find anything ...
Think it only got spawned 4 grendels ... i exported 2, and shadow got the other 2, so hopefully everyone is gone now -_-
Again, i'm sorry for that mistake

[Edit2] The world have been running for some hours now, not a single grendel have spawned ... think the last one just was caught in the warp

[TreeSprite]

Oh for heaven's sake! An odd Grendel or two won't hurt. If the norns as bred can't handle a Grendel or two what's the point? Not much to say for their evolution in that case is there? But then... I argued for including Grendels and Ettins in the run... Oh well. Whatever floats everyone's boat.

[Tarlia]

[Starswifter]

[MonaLS]

I thought the point was that they would cause problems in undocked worlds, not that Norns couldn't handle them?

[Panther385]

Eep, I'm sorry I don't post often.... I juggle 4 forums a day... phew.

[MonaLS]

Welcome Panther! You are on more boards than I am!

[Shadowveil]

Panther, I have added you to the list. Can you post your world history link?

[Panther385]

I would since I'm on my Dad's comp, but it seems that gameware is down.... I can't get on the site, I keep getting a 403 error....

[Shadowveil]

My world is full so if anyone needs norns, just ask. I just sent another 4 to Clohse.

[clohse]

Yeah!! Thanks!! Feel free to send more if you get too crowded.

(After the warp-outs) That leaves me with 3 males, 5 females, many in their breeding prime... I have high hopes again

[Shadowveil]

I'll send two more males, to balance things out. I have enough eggs sitting around to keep my world going for a looooong time.

[Starswifter]

My world is dead again, so if anyone got too many norns i will gladly take some

[Shadowveil]

I will send 10.

[MonaLS]

My population took a nose dive while I was away, hopefully it will climb back up again.

[Starswifter]

Hmm, got some questions about C12DS ....

How will it effect my currently worlds? Just exstracting agents i can inject like normal metarooms?
Can it be used on a world with norns/eggs or does it have to empty?
Anything else i should know before installing?

[Shadowveil]

I have used it on existing worlds before, and it worked fine. Just remember to remove the morning glory plant, the blue and yellow spotted one next to the piano. What did you mean by "extracting agents"?

[Panther385]

My world is reeeeaaalllly slooooooooowwww..... I wish the norns would take the hint and push some of the 7 portals I put around them 0.o;

[MonaLS]

LOL - contrary Norns.

[Starswifter]

[Shadowveil]

Once you install it, you can inject it into existing worlds. Don't panic when your game freezes up, it just takes a while to inject.

[TreeSprite]

[MonaLS]

I see, thanks. I sure am learning alot about the program.

[clohse]

I've talked to a couple of you about a project I have been considering. I've been keeping it sort of low profile until I got permission from everyone necessary. I am just getting really bummed about the prospect of not being able to release something, if I can't reach the people whose work I would be using. What do you guys think? Should I

1. keep going, and make something that I may not be able to release, just for my own satisfaction

2. make it and release it anyway - going against the entire spirit of the creatures community, which is based on trust and respect for those that came before us. (Not really an option for me)

3. Quit whining - start DS and let the GWR roll on (Giving up on the project all together)

[Tarlia]

If you're having fun with it, I say 1.

[MonaLS]

I'd say 1 as well. Maybe you could substitute something else for whatever you are borrowing? Or have someone make something similar?

[CodeBlack08]

I would definitely go with number 1. Go for it.

[Shadowveil]

I would say 1, although I have no idea what it is.

[clohse]

Thanks guys I'll keep at it. It was a conversion I had wanted for a long time.

Back to the GWR... I'm going to start DS and let it run overnight again. My population seems fairly stable at about 10 norns. I have several unhatched eggs littering up the place. Hopefully I won't wake up and find a ship full of corpses.

Note about the 'immortals' ... I'm not sure they are truly immortal, mine seems to die between 15 and 20 hours old.

[Shadowveil]

They are immortal, in that they will never die of old age. They can still die of other causes. I think my oldest one is over 50 hours now, but that is because she never moves out of Terra.

I'm going to leave my game off for a bit while I investigate the genetics. I have a large group who never use portals or teleporters, and they are really clogging up my world.

[Edit]: I have looked at the instinct genes in those norns, and discovered something disturbing. All three of the usual "push teleporter" genes are either missing or have been mutated beyond recognition. This leaves me with a population of largely immortal norns who do not know how to use teleporters. These guys are useless in the run, they won't do anything but sit in one room and breed. Help! What do I do now?

[MonaLS]

I would think that would be a good reason to start over.

[Shadowveil]

I might have to start a new world, yes. Some of those norns got sent to Clohse and Starswifter as well. Sorry people, I should have checked the genetics sooner. Unsuku the Hunchback in the Strange and Wonderful thread is a prime example, if anyone else wants to take a look.

I will not be online as much from now on, my brother is playing Guild Wars and does not want me slowing the connection down. I will still be on for a few hours at least each day, once I decide what to do with my world.

[clohse]

Should I just export any of my "Oldies" ? I know they may have already bred, but I don't have THAT many eggs laying around (maybe 10 or so). I can either kill hots all the current eggs, or hatch them and try to sort them out.

[Starswifter]

So you want us to wipe our old worlds and start a new?
Got 50-60 eggs lying around, might be easier just to delete my old world and start a new one ...

[MonaLS]

I picked up a trojan on my computer Sunday, and it is being difficult to remove. Until I get it removed, I won't be going on-line with that computer. Hopefully I'll be able to get it off this evening and will hopefully be back on-line on Wednesday. Wish me luck!

[Shadowveil]

Starswifter: I am going to start a new empty world, you might want to do the same. It sounds like your world is as bad as mine. You don't need to delete your old one, there might be stuff in there you want later.

Clohse: How is your world looking? Do you have a bunch of norns who have been in the same room for about 15 generations? I don't know if they took off in your world or not.

[Starswifter]

Looked at my world the other day ... they are still standing in the same spot, near the pond, in the terrarium, and breeding like rabbits

Going to make a new world tomorrow.

[clohse]

[Shadowveil]

Ouch... Yes, you might have to. I hope we have some left after this fiasco.

[punkmogwai]

i thought only some breeds had "push teleporter" instincts to begin with.. like, chichis have them but bruins don't.. I could be wrong

[Shadowveil]

Hmm, you're right. I have never seen bruins behave like that before, though.

[Starswifter]

Is there any way to prevent mutated norns to warp into your world while your away?
Already had a couple of gen 70 warping in, and i'll be away all night ... would like not to have to make a new world again ...

[Shadowveil]

I don't know of any way to exclude immortals, but it should not be too much of a problem. Most of them were in your world or mine, and they are gone now. Remember, not all the high gen norns were immortals. I think most of the mutations occured, and stayed, in my old world.

Does anyone know where to find the Reaper agent? I have searched and found nothing.

[clohse]

I think this has The Reaper.

If you have any trouble downloading it, let me know and I'll just send it to you.

[Shadowveil]

Ah, thanks. I have it now.

[punkmogwai]

I just noticed I have this norn who is over 4 hours old and still a youth, could she be an immortal too? She's also had about 15 kids and seems to have one more every 5 to 10 minutes

[Shadowveil]

Yep, that's an immortal. There may be some mutations in her breeding genes as well, but I doubt I can find that in the genome.

[punkmogwai]

d'oh. I think all her children stayed in my world or Mona's old world.. one of them in my world is only a little over an hour old and has already had 8 children, and is also still a youth... I suppose I should start a new world too...

[TreeSprite]

If you have the reaper you shouldn't have to start over. The reaper finds anything over so many hours old and gets rid of it. It's very nice... except that it lays over one of your my favorite places buttons... very annoying. I have an edited reaper that installs the reaper, but got rid of the graphic. I just took the c16 file and replaced it with an empty one.

Btw... I'm sorry I've not been on in a while. I've been busy, busy, busy with my family. I will try and be online more often.

[Shadowveil]

A note about the Reaper: I found it does not kill norns that had already exeeded their normal lifespan before I injected the agent. Either that, or it is not working for me.

[Starswifter]

[clohse]

I am trying to make a new DS world, and am having a lot of trouble. Is there some kind of problem with the server today?

Here's what happens...
I already have the world created so it shows up on the world switcher screen when DS opens. If I select it, the login screen shows up (since it hasn't been run before). However, you can see by the movement of the camera in the capilatta hub behind the login splash that the game has tried to load, and freezes. I can type in my login info and click the green check, but nothing ever happens after that. I have to use task manager to close it.

I'm also having trouble with the DS password retreival page. (I wanted to make sure I was using the correct pwd). It never sends the email, and the page never loads once I click the send password button.

Anyone know what the heck is going on?

[Shadowveil]

I could not get online this morning either. The online status thingy said the server was working, but I could not connect. Looks like it was not on my end after all.

[MonaLS]

Yeah, I finally have everything fixed and ready to run and can't get on-line either.

[Shadowveil]

I have made some new sprites for the Reaper agent, if anyone wants them. One is a blank file, the other is a small scythe icon that will not overlap the favourite places icons.

Inject the agent first, then put the new .c16 file in the Images folder. You may want to make a backup of the original, as it will be overwritten by the new one.

[punkmogwai]

Server still down... Well if I do keep this world, does anyone need some (possibly super-breeding, possibly immortal) norns, 'cause I'm past the breeding limit and it's getting quite slow and soon I will be buried in eggs

[MonaLS]

That's why I started a new world, all those superbreeders and immortals flooded my world with eggs.

The server is back up now, and new worlds can be registered again. Thank goodness!

[Narol_aka_LMC]

With all the worlds/server problems, no member of the GWR was connected yesterday when I checked, so I took a day off the GWR to work on my little personal project : The Darkstag norn half-breed !

I'm now quite satisfied of what I reached with them, so I'm gonna make a public announcement about them soon on gameware forum and offer them for use to the CC ...

[MonaLS]

"The Darkstag norn half-breed!" Sounds interesting, can't wait to see them!

[clohse]

Shadowveil, nice work on the reaper scythe icon. Did you make that yourself? (Asks the person who needs a favorite place icon made and has no artistic talent at all...)

[Shadowveil]

Yes, it's mine. A combination of MS Paint and Photoshop Elements 2.0. I can probably do an icon for you, what should it look like?

[punkmogwai]

I made a new world after all: GWR2_punkmogwai3

[Narol_aka_LMC]

Mona, if you're interested in trying them, I'll be glad to send you some of my darkstag norns by the warp on your non-GWR ID, just tell me at what identity you want to receive them !

That's what they look like at adult stage if you want a preview :

[Narol_aka_LMC]

I have a problem with gameware forums, I can't insert attached pictures like I do here, I only got thumbnails !

Does anyone have an an idea of what i'm doing wrong ?

The only way I found to avoid the problem is to insert an image there linked to the pictures I uploaded here, but it's not "clean"...

[TreeSprite]

The linking to this particular forum isn't good either... this is a private forum, and so it won't be viewable by others. The only way to get the pictures to display over on gameware that I know of is to upload them to your webspace somewhere else and then link from there.

By the way, I think the Darkstags look very interesting!

[Narol_aka_LMC]

Thanks Treesprite !

Following your advice, I've uploaded my files on the free "my pictures" album in my yahoo space, but I failed to have them working right on Gameware forum this way, when I tried to insert the image I only had the link appearing in the thread, not the picture as I wanted... Yahoo's fault I suppose !

Btw, would you like to receive a starter pack of Darkstag norns on your non-GWR account to give them a try ? (I'd be glad to have your opinion on their behavior/genome, as they have been produced by "natural ways")

[MonaLS]

I'd like a starter set, they look interesting. You can send them to my non-GWR ID: MonaLS World: Schwarzwald Thanks!

[Shadowveil]

You won't see me for a few days, I am off to a medieval/Viking encampment for the weekend. Will be back Monday morning UK time. Bye everyone!

Axe-time, sword-time
Bend your back to the oar
Wind-time, wolf-time
Here's to the hammer of Thor!

[TreeSprite]

Awww... is it too late to say good bye, and wish you well? Have fun!

[Shadowveil]

Thanks! Looks like I have time to log on this morning anyway, my brother is still in bed.

[Kat_05]

Sorry I haven't ben on earlier to tell you guys this, but I don't think I can do the GWR any longer (for now). Details will be in my world report. Do you guys want me to ship out all the norns that are in my world?

[Shadowveil]

You might as well. My world is pretty full, but I could stand to take about 10 more.

And happy birthday to Tarlia!

[Starswifter]

Mine is empty ^_^

Havn't been online much lately because of my exams ... the first one is tomorrow >_<

[Shadowveil]

I just have to say this...

It's Snowing!

Ah, my favourite part of winter. The weather forecasters will have some explaining to do, they predicted rain. And yet I wake up to several cm of snow.

[Starswifter]

[MonaLS]

Snowing? Wow. Here it is hot and dry.

I could take some Norns, I need some variety in my world. All my Norns look pretty much the same.

[clohse]

Snow? Wow! Its close to 100 everyday here.

I must aplogoise to everyone for my lack of attention ot the GWR. My world is empty, so I hardly feel like my absence has slowed down norn evolution. I have been working on something else. I am finally beginning to feel a sence of accomlishment with it. (Finally! Stupid emitters!)

Anyway, I'll try to leave the GWR world running overnight, and if you guys see me online, go ahead and assume my world is low on norns and push some my way!

[Shadowveil]

A new member has joined, so everyone add GWR-teefal to your friends list. He can't post in this forum himself yet, I can't figure out how to add him to the GWR group. Nevertheless, he has all the required agents and I have sent him a group of norns from my world to get him started.

Welcome to the run, teefal.

[MonaLS]

Welcome Teefal! I sent you a few too. If I sent to many, you can always refuse them, and they will bounce back to me.

LOL - I was so excited to see an incoming Norn - but then I saw who it was - one of mine coming back. My world has NO genetic diversity.

[Narol_aka_LMC]

Welcome Teefal !

However it seems like I can't yet add "GWR_teefal" to my contact list as this username doesn't exist by now as a registered user on DS, but I'll do it as soon it will be possible...

[Narol_aka_LMC]

I found the error, thanks to the link to your world :

The user name is "GWR-teefal", not "GWR_teefal" !

[clohse]

Welcome to GWR-teefal! I got you added.

I see that Swifter and Teefal are the only others online right now. Feel like sending a norn or two my way? I'm down to one, and she is fairly sick.

[Shadowveil]

Oops, my fault. *edits posts*

I'll send a few your way Clohse, I still have about 30 eggs sitting around.

[MonaLS]

Hi Clohse - I warped you a few too. LOL - one of them got pregnant in the chamber.

[Narol_aka_LMC]

Hi Chlose, I've sent you some too, my world is over-full...

19 eggs waiting and near 100 norns...

[Starswifter]

I'm down to a very few myself, only about 3 ... one child/young, one adult and one old/ancient.

Sorry Clohse, can't send you any

[clohse]

Narol,
just keep them coming... but know that most who enter my world die with the bacteria/fear toxin/antigen cocktail. I'm down to one gen 49 chichi mix, Laura, that came from you. She's over 5 hours old now, though. She's not even a little sick. She's all smiles at the moment.

CL

[Shadowveil]

I just sent another 6. I think one of the females was pregnant, so it might have been 7.

[MonaLS]

Mine should feel at home there hopefully, they all came from the Grendel Jungle.

[MonaLS]

LOL - I have a Norn names Christ.

[Shadowveil]

I had one named Moron. Not actually his name, the last few letters got cut off because of the GWR_.

[Starswifter]

Sigh, think i have to pull out for now ...
Got some problems with my computer (actually, i can't get it to boot ...). Would like to join again later, if possible, or else i have to wait for the next GWR

[EDIT] Think i got it to work! O_O Might not have to pull out then ... weee ... actually i don't think i have to do it at all!

[Shadowveil]

What's going on with the Reaper? I have several norns over 9 hours old, and it does not seem to be doing anything! Can anyone else confirm it is working for them?

[MonaLS]

I keep checking them myself, don't have any that old - mine are running around 5+ hours unless they starve. So it hasn't had an opportunity to work. After that last round of immortals, I'm being ultra careful.

LOL - just checked, mine apparently auto-killed.

[Shadowveil]

Mine has not autokilled, but it is definitely not working. I went around with the chemical grapher, and found quite a few norns with no Life chemical left. I used "targ norn dead" on all those I found. I know it goes against the no interference rule, but I see no alternative.

[Starswifter]

Hmmm shadow, where can we download that chemical grapher? In case our reaper doesn't work either

[Shadowveil]

It comes with Creatures 3. You have to link it to the numeric output tool, set to 125. Like so:

[clohse]

My reaper seems to be working. I'll keep an eye on it for a few minutes. I can't get the C3 tools to inject, so I just got a readout from DevThing on all my current norns. I have two whose Chem 125 is very low (0.05-ish). They are both around 4 hours and 15 minutes and "Old". I'll see what happens as the continue to age.

I seem to be having some "online" issues this morning. My dot is green but my portals aren't swirly.

Edit: My reaper seems to be working fine. One of my norns with the low life chemical is no more. I have one with low 125, and she is pregnant. I hope she lays the egg before she is 'reaped'.

Edit Again: Nope, she dies with the egg still inside. The last time I checked her 125 she was at 0.047. She died maybe two minutes later.

[Shadowveil]

Hmm, perhaps it is clashing with some other agent I am using. Can't think of anything else.

Do you have the Agent Room? It is handy in an undocked world, if you want the C3 agents.

As for the portals, they won't be swirly if you are the only GWRer online.

[clohse]

Yeah, I tried it with the agent room. It still didn't work. I debated editing the cos file and injecting it with the caos tool, but that seemed a lot of work when I could poke a button in DevThing!

Thanks for the comment on the swirly. I didn't know it would do that! Hmm, I guess you learn something new everyday, huh?

[Shadowveil]

I'm forwarding this from Teefal, he still can't post here. TreeSprite, where are you?

[MonaLS]

For the blue swirly in the warp portals, I find mine just sometimes go away but they still work. If I close them and then reopen them the blue swirly comes back. Odd little quirk.

Do the gwr-autonamer files go in a different spots for Macs?

[TreeSprite]

Mona - I wouldn't know... I should think not.

Everyone else - Teefal may now post here.

[Tarlia]

Hey... I'm not dead. I've just been very busy lately, and haven't been much in a Creatures mood. I'm sorry for disappearing like that. But you seem to have gotten along without me!

I'm not sure if I'll put up my GWR world again, right now it's really hot here and I don't like leaving my computer on for long periods of time when it's so warm (I'm a bit paranoid about it).

But yeah, just letting you know, I'm still around.

[Shadowveil]

That's ok, I figured you were busy. I may not be on much myself in the next week, I have a lot of studying to do. My genetics exam is going to be an absolute nightmare.

[Tarlia]

Genetics exam... How appropriate. Can you bring up norns with random Bruin mutations?

[Shadowveil]

*groan* I wish! It's all gene activation, repair mechanisms, transcription etc. The hard stuff.

What I dread is that it will all be in essay format. That means I have to write 5 essays in 3 hours. Eep.

[Narol_aka_LMC]

Did anybody still need more norns ?

I'm still around 100 in population, with 16 eggs waiting...

[Starswifter]

People help

Got a norn that might be immortal, over 10 hours old and still adult. She have had a few babies, don't know if they have moved on to other worlds or stayd at mine

[clohse]

Narol,
I have 4 males and 4 females. You can send me some if you like.

[Shadowveil]

Starswifter: Check if your Reaper has autokilled. If it hasn't, it may just not be working. Any norns you can confirm have no Life chemical left, you can use the "targ norn dead" command on. Select the norn, press ctrl shift C, type "targ norn dead" and press enter.

[MonaLS]

I've had 4 immortals, the last 2 were GWR_Kiyomori & GWR_Hirotsugu. Both were active but not excessive breeders before they got caught. I've reinstalled the Reaper, hopefully it won't autokill this time.

[teefal]

Hi everyone,

Glad to see I can post here. My world's C3+DS, with interportals between the main areas, leading into the cave in the water room.

I'm running Mac Exodus, and still haven't figured out the autonamer snafu. Cannot find a gwnames file anywhere. Looked in both the C3 and the DS locations.

Had a half-dozen hatchlings, so manually named them according to popular US baby names:

http://www.ssa.gov/OACT/babynames/

If anyone has a Mac and has the autonamer working, let me know.

[teefal]

Hi,

I'll try to manually name until the autonamer thing is resolved, but if you get a ? norn from my world, don't worry, it's not contaminated.

Feel free to name it yourself.

If this is uncool, I'll shut my world down until it's fixed.

[MonaLS]

That's okay Teefal, just hope you get the GWR working before you get a population explosion!

[teefal]

Noticed I cannot download genome files from the "Required Files" topic. Says file not found on all of them. Also cannot get the "Temple" norn. The breed list links to a JPG file.

[MonaLS]

I couldn't get any of them either, I had to go to the various websites for the breeds and get the alternate genomes.

[Starswifter]

Attention:

A breeder called tha_o16 have send 3 norns to me, all with the GWR tag, yet i can't find him on our participant list and the norns got over 44000 in generation ... i highly doubt they are a part of our GWR
Exported them all

[Tarlia]

Maybe they didn't have any names. If so, your GWR Autonamer would have named them the second they entered your world.

[Starswifter]

Hmmm ... might be ... didn't think of that ...
Anyway, they can't do any harm where they are now ^_^

[Shadowveil]

So how long are people interested in keeping this going? Things seem to have slowed down a lot.

I can end anytime, as I have some experiments lined up for the resulting population. I'll try to present some results too. There should be some nice pretty graphs.

[MonaLS]

Don't know, I'm still up and running. It was kind of iffy for awhile, couldn't get on-line for a couple of days but seems to be fine now.

[Narol_aka_LMC]

I still try to get online a few times each week, but I haven't seen many others often recently...

Anyway for my own I am quite interested in I keeping this going on !

[Starswifter]

I'll let my world run as long as the GWR is still alive
Although, just got home from LAN (almost no ports open, so couldn't let it run there) and will go on vacation in a week.

[Starswifter]

Two weeks have passed and everything still looks kinda dead ... has it ended for now or what?

[Shadowveil]

Everyone has said they want to continue, but I don't see anyone online very often. I leave it on for a few hours when I can, but it's back into university time and I am out most of the day. Since I share a broadband connection, I can't really leave it on all day.

I haven't been on in the past few days because I, um, kind of broke my game. Not to worry, everything is working now. This should teach me to be more careful with CAOS!

[MonaLS]

I'm going to have to bow out, I'd probably be able to up more next week, but I've got too much I need to work on on the computer to let it run right now.