Thalassopocalypse

As in the rounds airing increasingly frequently?

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I mean more so the explosion of diversity of life in the FG. But that works, too.

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That or we are hit with a catastrophic event from such a large addition of waterโ€ฆ

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So a second pulse of extinction, like with the Nama Assembleage for the End-Ediacaran Extinction (first was with the White Sea Assemblage)?

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I suppose so? Though I think most of us would still survive.

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Round 11

Report 11 - Round 11

5m years post-bathycrash

Central Pangean Uplands - False Spiders, Visitor Roaches, Hydrobryum, Pelagotoma

โ€œHimalayanโ€ Uplands - Visitor Roaches and Ferns

South African Karoo Highlands - Hydrobryum, Ferns, Radiodontomimus

Siberian Traps Uplands - False Spiders, Visitor Roaches, Ferns

Western Laurentian Belt - Hydrobryum and Ferns

Eastern Australis Highlands - Hydrobryum

Central Mangroves - Pelagotoma

West Mangroves - Pelagotoma

Northern Mangroves - Hydrobryum

Eastern Mangroves - Plankton

Central Pangean Sea - Plankton, Pokilos, Archea, Hydrobryum, Pelagotoma, Radiodontomimus

Western Laurentian Shelf - Archea, Plankton

Gondwanan Archipelago - Plankton, Pokilos, Lingula, Radiodontomimus, Hydrobryum, Pelagotoma

Tethys Seaway - Plankton, Pokilos, Lingula

Karoo Basin Sea - Plankton, Pokilos

Open Ocean - Plankton, Archaea, Pokilos, Lingula

False Spiders/Tryatleast: Jumping legs

POP: 7

FA: 7

Visitor Roaches/Dumbthriver: Digging underground homes

POP: 7

FA: 10

Radiodontomimus/UndyingHazard: Stronger fins and tail

POP: 8

FA: 10

Clarkina Pokilos/Anthropocenian: Mucous secretions like Walking Catfish and Mudskippers to keep more moisture on skin and gills and prevent desiccation when on land, increasing air breathing time.

POP: 8

FA: 9

Pelagotoma/aah31: Movement to the mangroves

POP: 6

FA: 10

Plankton: Dispersal and movement to eastern mangroves

POP: 8

Ferns/Doom: Durable rhizoid and transition between the gametophyte and sporophyte is shorter, with the sporophyte tending to be much longer than the prothallium which will do its phase inside the spore capsule.

POP: 10

Hydrobryum/Cha: Nutrient capture within air and movement to the mangroves

POP: 10

Mesogastra: Powerful tail

POP: 8

FA: 10

Some changes to the biosphere have been detected, larger swimming gastropods have appeared and are starting to become the apex predators within the Thalassopocalyptic oceans. On land the ecosystem is much more stable, although more and more species are moving to the ever increasing mangroves. Evolution on this planet is starting to pick up considerably.

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How much would it take to evolve swarming behaviours?

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M: Increased cold resistance
Movement: Move some population to the โ€œHimalayanโ€ uplands

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M1+2: Swarming behaviours

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Donโ€™t you have only one action

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Yeah they have. Also not sure thereโ€™s much need of a cold resistanceโ€ฆ

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How come Mesogastra does not appear in any the ocean biomes if they are becoming the apex predator? Also, Ordovician vibes (mollusk taking over).

Mutation 1: Evolve electric organs with electrocytes to buildup and suddenly discharge biologically generated electric current for better communication, mating, defense, and hunting.

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I suppose the spreading system is generally very limited unless the player spreads the species themself.

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You only have one action. Remember, you got too big.

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Is there enough time to evolve castes (like ant types) in this fg?

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True ant-like specialized caste systems took more than one-hundred million years to evolve. Although basic eusociality evolved within 10 million years, which likely just contained โ€˜workersโ€™ and a singular queen.

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Right so swarming is the most we can realisticly do I suppose.

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Wasnโ€™t this my mutation?

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Oversights in FGs happen from time to timeโ€ฆ

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Spread to the Tethys seaway

Mutation: Increase size

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