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 daz   |
What terrible or hilarious mistakes have you made, maybe when you were newer to creatures? When I was a little kid, maybe 11 or so, I just discovered the wonderful world of third party additions. Went mad downloading breeds (which were easy to install, just double click) and cobs, which I collected by the dozen. Couldn't figure out which bits went in which folder though. What on earth is an .s16? Kid me was baffled. My solution? Make seven copies of every file, put one in each folder! To be fair it got most of them working, I just had to be sure not to click on any of the buggy ones in the injector. Another slip up of inexperience was years before that. I was breeding my favourite of the default norns, pixie norns. I was a few generations in when suddenly, a miracle, a baby girl born hatched out a beautiful aqua colour. I'd never before had a mutation like that. I trapped her on the pier with the love horn and bred her repeatedly from her adolescence to her old age, then exported her, not wanting to see her die. I hatched out every egg, at least 50 of them, but to my dismay every baby was normal coloured. If only I'd known I could just copy her as much as I'd liked once she was exported! |
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 Air Guitarist kezune  |
This is embarassing, now that I have a much more complete understanding of how creatures genetics work. Heh.. I used to think that I could make my creatures resistant to poisons like ATP Decoupler and Cyanide by giving them very small amounts of the chemicals. Naturally, every time I tried, it ended in the creature I injected dying immediately. Oh well. Live and learn. XD Updated Rehosting Policy[/title] |
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daz |
Lol, that's a pretty logical thing to try, trying to build up an immunity. How many norns did it take for you to get the hint? |
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Air Guitarist kezune |
I was pretty young, so I must've tried for at least a few days. XD I can just imagine how many creatures that must've taken. A few years later, I tried breeding Toxic crosses and that didn't help much either. I ended up getting toxic creatures that ate regular food or creatures that needed to eat regular food eating toxins. Tragic but kind of funny knowing now that if I wanted to make a genetic breed, all I had to do was crack open the Genetic's kit. I would still like to make some kind of selectively-bred population though. I should probably get on that. XD Updated Rehosting Policy[/title] |
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 Pixis |
When I was little and had only Creatures 3, it took me a while to understand that Norns were pregnant. I thought my Norn was fat, so I decided I'd walk her around the ship so she would lose weight. I ended up launching her out of the airlock in a "what does this button do??" moment. Also, when I had a sick Norn, I'd put them in the medical bay and constantly inject them with lactose until they got better. Needless to say, they did not get better and I ended up leaving them in there until they died. x_x   |
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daz |
That's absolutely hilarious. Poor norn! That was your first norn pregnancy? Why did you think lactose would help? I've got a new screw up of my own to add. I only just realised 'autokill' on the wolf control kills *errors* and not *creatures*. This is gonna make my life so much easier. |
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 KittyTikara |
The worst things I've done are a bit more boring. I didn't know what the "hunger for fat" chemical did when I was first playing around with genetics, and didn't add it to the first version of my Stinger Norns. I was annoyed by them not feeling full when they eat and couldn't figure out why for the longest time. I felt pretty dumb when I figured it out. Another thing was finding out about the crypt and Norn nursery in C3/DS. I didn't realize there was a whole room I was missing out on until a year or so ago. I was just amazed that the yellow door actually went somewhere. X3 The Mobula Ray - My Creatures blog |
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 Kinga |
I used to not understand how to install third party agents. I remember reading somewhere that 'if you can't find your my agents folder, you might need to make one' so I would make a 'my agents' folder on my desktop and put all of the files in there, and wonder why they never showed up in the c3 injector. :p |
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 LoverIan |
kezune wrote: Tell that to the 200 something norns XD beep |
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 fallowbelinda |
When I first played C1 (I think I was around 8 yrs old) I didn't know they could die of hunger and when I did learn I fed a few norns poisonous food by accident.Oh and I thought norns got pregnant via immaculate conception, I used to get embarrassed if I heard them kissing and separate them. Lol. Eem macaha |
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 Peppery One Papriko |
I did not know things like highlanders existed and crossed a norn with wonderful coloring into my genepool >.< Chichi sprites, but green hair with red fur. Lets play plants! Photosynthesis... Photosynthesis... Photosynthesis... |
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 Norn_master |
I let my creatures hang out at the island in C1 too much. The grendals hung out there, often would eat some of the weeds, and transfer colds to the norns. That was before I knew it was the grendals themselves. I would quite often leave the computer to take out the trash, or do a chore, and a creature would die. One died in front of the mushroom, I knew it was toxic, but I wasn't there to stop them. My Norns would often eat the weeds and other stuff they shouldn't. Not eat stuff they should. Being addicted to honey was one. Answer me this: why does a death cap mushroom kill Norns quick, but not Grendals? He would often have to eat at least 2, my Norns only needed one. It’s a me! Dvader0086 from the’a Discord! |
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 Tea Queen Laura |
Injecting my Norn with cyanide to "see what would happen"... >< |
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 Wee Scrivener Trell |
Trying to teach C2 Norns how to swim. :I Trell "Holy crap in a casket!" |
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Peppery One Papriko |
Injecting cyanide to see what will happen? I deliberately hatched norns to try every single chemical on them XD When they died, I just hatched the next one. Lets play plants! Photosynthesis... Photosynthesis... Photosynthesis... |
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 Manic Scribbler razander |
The first user-made breed I downloaded was the draconian norn. This was back when my friend first introduced me to Docking Station, and the only insects I had readily available were the stingers. I thought they would build up resistance to heavy metals... It was a long time before a successfully raised I draconian norn.  |
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 Dreamnorn |
Back when I was little (and I mean little, at maybe four years old), I thought that the only way to get a message across to a norn was to spank it repeatedly, back before I knew how to type messages. My mother was appalled. Also, for those of you talking about cyanide, if a C2 norn gets poisoned by it, give it three full injections of glucose and then one of defibrillant and bam. Norn fixed.  I tested it on multiple creatures and it worked every time. Just for future reference! |
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 Prodigal Sock Ghosthande |
Laura wrote: That's not so bad! I did this with virtually every chemical in C3, until I got to cyanide. It didn't occur to me that they would put poisons in the C3 equivalent of the "health kit"... so I assumed if it was on the list, it must be beneficial somehow! And you know how far down the list cyanide is? ![[ntongue]](/images/smilies/emot_tongue.gif "[ntongue]") I went through 60+ chemicals before I got to it. Having a Norn instantly drop dead in the "health" chamber kind of ruined my experimenting mood.That and afterward I found a page that described what each chemical did, which was a lot more helpful than just injecting some poor Norn and trying to figure it out by watching.  |
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 chirurg |
My first creatures game was this weird one for the playstation 1 where instead of a hand you were a fairy called "scrubby" and I taught grendels to eat toys but then they ate all the toys and my norns got so bored they started killing eachother. |
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 the1whoscreams |
I didn't know grendels could eat toys.I also have a copy of that game,but it is very scratched up and doesn't work 99% of the time unless it gets cleaned every time it comes out of my playstation.My worst mistake in the computer series was when I was little and had C2.I was just shoving everything in the incubator for no reason until I found out that Norns existed. |
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 Code Monkey evolnemesis |
Papriko wrote: In C2, there is a chemical that makes them hallucinate 'tryptophan', i think? I can't remember which... but it literally makes them see and feel random stuff... Their brains were specifically designed so that they can trip out from it... they will run away from imaginary grendels, bump into imaginary walls, and so on... I think it's almost similar to what happens in their brains when dreaming, but they are awake and kind of freaking out about it. I'm not sure if it naturally occurs in any normal stuff in the game though, you'd think some kind of mushroom might have it, but I think you have to manually give them it. "For small creatures such as we, the vastness is bearable only through love." "We are a way for the cosmos to know itself." - Carl Sagan |
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the1whoscreams |
Ooh,gonna have to try that out!That should be fun to watch. EDIT:Which version of the genome trips out?Nothing happened to my norns. |
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 Puddini |
Someone should make a mushroom food COB that has tryptophan. Just imagine what would happen! |
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LoverIan |
I think Tryptophan needs to be converted to C3/DS just so Norns can hallucinate XD beep |
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