If they’re lucky, Norns don’t have to deal with this terrible and inconvenient disease. Unlike me.
Speaking of Norns, though..
I have 25 bouncing baby norns waiting to come out to a new world. I haven’t made their world yet as I’ve been bedridden these last few days but I hope I can be ready for them soon.
Rather than fool around too much with a new world, I decided to start with a fresh install. A lot of agents weren’t working last round and I think this might be a change for the better. I’ll hopefully wean myself off of using quite so many agents and become a better creature raiser. Honestly, the only agents I intend to use are the following:
- Norn Statistics
- Medical Monitor
- Timer
- Selective Force Field
- Grendel/Ettin Egg Switch
- Population Control Options
- Roamer (just 1)
- Bypass Import Cloning*
- Offline Option*
- Creature Nametags*
- Creature History Update*
- Required Breeds and Genomes
Quite a short list compared to last time. The ones with the asterisks won’t actually affect gameplay. Another note, I’m not using any third-party game fixes either.
Anyway. It was time to set up my ecology again.
This time, I didn’t want to play with third party plants. That means no Square Roots, Dynamic Blooming Flowers, Garden Box or Magic Beans. A few of the agents I downloaded were specifically to keep some of the ecology alive.
After some serious trouble getting the game started, I was off. I set up my timer rig to keep the Gnarlers fed, threw a balloon bug into the norn terrarium to keep the trout and kingfisher fed and cleaned up all the gadgets that weren’t in the medical bay. I also made sure to add some bramboo and tendril seeds to the desert.
Now it was time to check out the plants that came in the breed packs. I passed on popping pappus and awkwood creeper this time. The awkwood always drew creatures into the jungle where they were bound to get sick and I didn’t need all my creatures sneezing on each other thanks to the popping pappus. Ultimately, I didn’t see any plants I really liked and injected some Trapdoor Slinkers instead. Toys always seemed to be in short order after all and with 25 bouncing baby norns to look after, it’ll be hard to keep them entertained on my own.
With the new world established, I closed the game and set it aside til I was really ready to go.
