{"id":1679,"date":"2013-12-05T23:48:06","date_gmt":"2013-12-06T07:48:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kezune.com\/sim\/?p=1679"},"modified":"2014-06-28T00:12:41","modified_gmt":"2014-06-28T07:12:41","slug":"about-the-ultimate-life-genome","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/kezune.com\/sim\/2013\/12\/05\/about-the-ultimate-life-genome\/","title":{"rendered":"About the Ultimate Life Genome"},"content":{"rendered":"

From Edash’s Creatures:<\/p>\n

This breed of Norn is very hardy and can survive anything you can inject into it (even cyanide!). They basically can look after them selves and grow up very quickly. Because of this I made them infertile so they cant breed. You wouldn’t want hundreds of adult Norns running around would you.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

It’s a cute idea except that because they feel no drives and inevitably stand around and do nothing or slap other creatures to death, they’re basically uninteresting and not very useful. Which is funny because the Wiki<\/a> suggested that if you can teach them manners, they can make good tutors for other creatures. All I’ve found is that they go into slapping, eating and staring fits.<\/p>\n

Because the creator of this breed also stated that they didn’t want the Ultimate Life Norn Genome posted elsewhere I decided to just use Gene Compare and make the new breed from scratch, maybe with the CFE\/Gizmo edits.<\/p>\n

Gene Compare Results<\/strong><\/p>\n

Off the bat, the Ultimate Life breed has none of the CFE edits so I won’t list them here.<\/p>\n

File 1: norn.expressive.bengal.47.gen I chose this genome because it does not have the CFE edits applied and the original C3 breeds seem to be the base for this breed.<\/em>
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\nFile 2: ultlifenorn.gen This is the genome we’re investigating.<\/em><\/p>\n

I should just glance over the receptors section here since the only differences applied are to the receptors that control a creature’s aging process. Basically, these are edited to produce fast-aging creatures. To save time, I’ll explore just one of the edited genes.<\/p>\n

***** RECEPTORS ****<\/strong>
\n188 Different in file 1 60 0 Emb B MutDupCut 128 0 Organ# = 10, Creature, Somatic, Become a child, chem=Life, thresh=229, nom=119, gain=255, features=Inverted Digital (0)
\n 188 Different in file 2 60 0 Emb B MutDupCut 128 0 Organ# = 10, Creature, Somatic, Become a child, chem=Life, thresh=255, nom=255<\/strong>, gain=255, features=Inverted Digital (0) <\/p>\n

The way aging works in creatures is simple. Each creature is born with an allotted amount of Life chemical. In this case, 255. When that amount decreases, the creature ages to reflect that. In the original genome, the nominal (nom) is 119 which means that when the Life chemical decays to a value of 119, the creature grows to the next life stage. In the Ultimate genome, the Life chemical starts at 255 and the nominal for the first stage is 255, forcing the creature to age to a child immediately.<\/p>\n

What I propose to do:<\/em> I’d like the creature to age more slowly than the other creatures but I don’t want it to die of old age or reach the senile life stage. I might change my mind about the senile stage later but for now this is the plan.<\/p>\n

***** REACTIONS ****<\/strong>
\n 145 Different in file 1 47 0 Emb B MutDupCut 128 0 Organ# = 6, 1*Water + 1*Air => 3*Oxygen + 1*NONE; half-life = 47
\n 145 Different in file 2 47 0 Emb B MutDupCut 128 0 Organ# = 6, 1*Water + 1*Air => 9*Oxygen + 9*Air<\/strong>; half-life = 0 <\/p>\n

Rather than edit the emitter that monitors Air Quality, the ultimate life genome simply produces air and oxygen when water and air enter the system. This makes it so that the creature can’t breathe underwater by producing excess oxygen and water.<\/p>\n

What I propose to do:<\/em> Simple. I’m going to leave the original genome and apply an edit to the emitter.<\/p>\n

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This following collection of gene edits makes is so that bad chemicals like Carbon Monoxide, Cyanide and Fever Toxin are instantly metabolized without causing any harm to the creature. Unfortunately, the Receptors are all still turned on so that the organs can still suffer damage.<\/p>\n

This section is pretty substantial but many of the edits are the same in principle. It’s easiest just to say that many of the reactions<\/p>\n

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  1. Instantly metabolize toxins, antigens and other harmful chemicals instantly without altering drives or causing damage.<\/li>\n
  2. Instantly metabolize toxins, antigents or other harmful chemicals instantly without the presence of a curing agent. Example, Antigen 0 doesn’t need Antibody 0 to react with to be eliminated anymore.<\/li>\n
  3. Drives are instantly drained so that the creature has no drives<\/strong>.<\/u><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    It would take a LOT of time to explain each genome and I’d repeat myself quite a bit. I actually sat down for an hour before I realized that these genes were essential repeats. The above explanations are hopefully concise enough. This post was never intended to be educational.<\/p>\n

    What I propose to do:<\/em> Ohhhh dear. I’ll likely be keeping the default values for most of these. The idea is that these guys need to be able to feel drives like fear and hunger in order to advise on what to do about these these drives. I want them to be immune to most if not all poisons and bacteria so it would be helpful for me to use a lot of the ultimate norn genes as an example. Many of the toxins will produce drives related to them. I plan on Fever Toxin to produce hotness as in the original genome, for example. It would also be pointless of me to instantly drain the drives if I’m going so far as to keep them in some of these reactions.<\/p>\n\n

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