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Development Forum Colortrue Gaius Genetic Traits    Jessica        9/28/2013 It's no surprise that I've been working on some color varieties of the Gaius for the technological world that I'm putting together! I had hoped to keep it unannounced, but I plan on releasing a pack of Colortrue Gaius during the CCSF for all to enjoy. It's a rather easy process to convert a genome over to a Colortrue variety. When I did something similar for Spykkie's Pearl Mermaid Norns, I also made a few additional updates that made the breed better able to swim and interact in underwater environments. Are there any changes that the Gaius could benefit from? I know about the glitch when multiple Gaius are in one metaroom and the room gets reclassified as air. If I could fix this with a gene, I would! Unfortunately, that's something not controlled by genes. I'm curious about whether there are any improvements the Gaius could use. From my experience, they seem to function really well, so maybe there's nothing else needed! I will be making some subtle changes, including locking the appearance genes in so that these are unable to mutate. Feel free to suggest away! Thanks for any input! The original Colortrue idea was conceived by Ylukyun, whom I can never thank enough! Gaius was created by Ghosthande, and I take no credit for anything other than recoloring them and making some genetic updates. Discover Albia   Peppery One Papriko   9/29/2013 I believe I already saw a bibble of you about it. I'd like to post my idea from last time once more. You could make a golden Gaius, sorta like a luxury edition. I bet they'd look fancy. The downsides would be that massive gold is pretty heavy and not the most sturdy thing in the world, so they'd bumps easier (i.e. they are more fragile regarding physical damage from e.g. punches and falling) and they would move somewhat slower than usual due to the big weight they have to handle. Lets play plants! Photosynthesis... Photosynthesis... Photosynthesis...   Tarilithina     9/29/2013 Well, on your bibble I suggested a light blue/silver Gaius that would be around the color of a portal, but now I have a few ideas for traits for it. They would move around a lot more and faster. They would really like to push portals, doors, teleporters, and elevators. They would not get homesick, or at least not as easily. They would have a stronger immune system, to help them survive in lots of different areas. I'm not really sure beyond that, though. Hi!   Jessica     9/29/2013 I do recall both of your ideas: Thanks! I'm not sure if I want to make each color variety have different traits, though. I'm not ruling out the idea, particularly since I think these ideas are really interesting! How would one make a Creature move slower/faster? I have an idea of how to make the other genetic changes, but I've never ventured into this area before. Can't promise the genetic changes, but I'm hoping that the color selection will be pretty fun to work with! Discover Albia   Peppery One Papriko   9/30/2013 I guess slowing down might work by changing the gait genes to call poses twice. Otherwise... Not sure. Lets play plants! Photosynthesis... Photosynthesis... Photosynthesis...   Jessica     9/30/2013 I hit a slight snag... For some reason, all of the Gaius slowly become infertile. Males seem to never produce testosterone, while females start off with their normal estrogen cycles, yet these slowly reach lower and lower peaks until they're gone. No toxins are detected in their systems, although I did notice heavy metal at one point. I'm using the regular Gaius genome, just with the Colortrue genes. I'm guessing there is a gene that allows heavy metals to cause damage, but I can't find it. Besides that, any other thoughts on what might be causing this? At least I'm happy with the color selection! Hopefully it's just a single gene that needs fixing, and then it's off to the races! As in, time to start my world and get ready to release these for the CCSF. Discover Albia   KittyTikara     9/30/2013 I think the only heavy metal genes are 201, 209, and 361, and they are all receptors. Maybe compare them to a regular Norn and see what's up? Maybe there's a weird reaction, or a gene un-silenced itself? The Mobula Ray - My Creatures blog   Prodigal Sock Ghosthande     9/30/2013 That's peculiar; heavy metals are a beneficial part of his diet... if there's a gene that's still allowing them to cause damage, and you are able to find it, let me know which one it is; I'd like to fix that in the original genome.   Jessica     9/30/2013 Thanks for the suggestions! I'll have a look at the genome later this week, and I'll be sure to let you know if I find anything to help, Ghosthande! I saw all of the heavy metal genes that help them out, so I was surprised at what happened. It could be something else, though, so I'll try to figure it all out soon enough! Discover Albia   Jessica     10/1/2013 This is getting rather frustrating. I ended up silencing the two heavy metal receptors in the gonads and uterus. This seems to have slowed the damage, but I'm watching one male's testosterone level slowly diminish over time. And with eight adults, no one is even breeding. I've gone through the genome a few times, trying to find anything related to heavy metals. I doubt removing the two genes I silenced would do anything: Doesn't silencing achieve the same results? Oh, genetics. My next step is to figure out if the standard Gaius can live in this world I created. Then maybe I'll figure out if it's me who messed something up, or if there's something existing I should be looking for. Discover Albia   Jessica     10/13/2013 So maybe I'm just really dense! Do adult males normally produce less and less testosterone? If monitoring with the HoverDoc, the line for testosterone decreases by a pixel about each time the screen is filled up. If this is normal... Then I'm just really silly! It just seemed to happen so quickly, but I've done a test with two clones in a heavy metals environment vs. one without any heavy metals. Same result each time... Leading me to believe this project could have been completed weeks ago if I knew what I was doing! My biggest concern was that my test population produced no offspring by the time they were no longer fertile. Maybe it was just bad luck? Just want to make sure that these guys can be the focus of my new world and a new Colortrue breed. Thanks again for any help! Discover Albia   Prodigal Sock Ghosthande     10/14/2013 Very strange. I do not recall making any changes to their reproductive genes that would make them differ from their CFE ChiChi ancestors in that respect... and we all know how prolific Norns are. Have you tried using Gene Compare or some such?   Jessica     10/14/2013 Further testing with some non-Gaius Norns confirmed that this is normal behavior... Way to do your research ahead of time, Jessica! Ha ha! I'm going to attempt another test to see if they'll actually breed. Maybe they were too spread out? I didn't notice any reproductive gene changes, Ghosthande, and I'm 99.9% sure it's just me being blind! Discover Albia

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