Creatures Caves

Hey Creatures community. During 2016 my interest in Creatures has been going off and on like a broken Pulsed Switch. I recently read the topic about keeping the Creatures community alive and considered starting up DS again to play around with some Norns for a bit. After all it's unlikely that we'll see a new game anytime soon and these old games have always been big part of my childhood. After playing around for a bit I figured out that there were a few things that I wasn't very happy about. For instance the offline servers, eat elevator syndrome and other things that we could discuss for hours. These are affairs that we as fanbase just can't help, sadly.

However, we still have development tools. We can put up Creatures for adoption, download each others' worlds, make new breeds and upgrade the old games as much as we like. This brings me to my next point, as some time ago a few people released a bunch of new base genomes for Creatures 3 and Docking Station. First there were CFE Creatures, then CFF ones and lastly Creatures that simulated real body temperatures. All of these have their own advantages and flaws which I will not really put into much detail here.

So, since I've been playing DS again I've been wanting to figure out what the ultimate base Creature genome would be like. I've looked into CFF, CFE and TWB genomes, took a bunch of their positive characteristics and made an attempt to merge these into a single ChiChi Norn. I started out with a CFF genome and went further where the original authors left. Details are below:

- CFF Creatures had a broken Alcohol receptor that left them unable to store nutrients properly in their bodies.
- Fixing this caused the Creatures to accumulate a lot of Adipose Tissue which led to heart disease. They overate because they got hungry faster than that they could dissimilate nutrients.
- Looking into TWB genomes, I figured out a way to adjust hunger gains to the amount of nutrients in Creature bodies.
- This, as well as some other changes, led to a bunch of ChiChi Norns that can almost live perfectly on their own.

You could consider these CFF 1.2 Norns, however, (before making egg agents and expanding these genes onto other Creature breeds) I'm looking for people that are willing to test this ChiChi Norn strain and people that are willing to give their opinion on this matter. What do you think of these ChiChi Norns and what are characteristics that would make an ultimate Norn (genome) for you?

Download them here. (Version 3) Download includes the new ChiChi Norn genome, 4 test Creature files and DS Starter Parent files for enthusiasts. Back up your old files!
"CFF 1.2" ChiChi's:
- A fixed digestion system. The amount of hunger these Norns gain depends on the amount of nutrients in their bodies. There are no other hunger inducing sources in their genomes.
- Updated pigment/pigment bleed mutation rates & these genes can no longer duplicate.
- Stimuli were updated to reflect changes to hunger and to prevent endless (approaching) loops in the Norn Home or with other Creatures.
- New: All activities that are done by Creatures are measured with Activase. (Chemical 124) Activase makes the Creatures' bodies produce Anabolic Steroid which allows them to store protein in their bodies as Muscle Tissue.

TL;DR: I made an attempt at updating the CFF 1.1 Creatures that were released some time ago. I seek people's opinions on these as well as everybody's thoughts on what the ultimate C3/DS Norn genome would be like, to hopefully increase the quality of these games someday.