Ugly children

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So this week the dynasties got in.  To skip to the good part, your sovereign gets married and has children. Eventually, those children grow up and you can then arrange marriages with them with other sovereigns. Your children, in turn, will have children of their own.  And that’s where things got interesting…or more specifically: ugly.

For today’s code review, we were looking at the algorithms being used to produce off-spring.  We don’t want them to be just random but rather have the traits of their parents in interesting ways – both from a stats point and cosmetically.  To see how far we could take things, I had my daughter marry the son of an Urxen sovereign (one of the races of the Fallen).  Urxen look a lot like goblins.

Well, my beautiful daughter and the Urxen prince had a child.  And let me just say, there are things you cannot unsee.  A half-man, half-urxen is something that can’t be unseen.

So if you end up deciding to marry your children off to other factions, take a good look at their family first lest your grandchildren look like that half-human half-alien from the last Alien movie.

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Reply #1 from Sins Forums Top

[14:41] <FuzzyAnny> https://forums.elementalgame.com/374237
[14:41] <FuzzyAnny> So that's how you came to be eets

 

:fox:

Reply #2 from Elemental Forums Top

Less descriptions, more pics!!!!:rofl:

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Reply #3 from Elemental Forums Top

Pics or it didn't happen!

Reply #4 from Elemental Forums Top

Indeed! The picture would be nice!

Reply #5 from Elemental Forums Top

You'll get to see it soon enough.  You guys will probably do arranged marriages just to have horrible off-spring.

Now, next week I'm going to try to see what happens if I take a half-urxen and a trog and combine them for my great-grand children.

Reply #6 from Elemental Forums Top

Frogboy you should see what happens if you let a ton more people in the beta next week, preferably if I am one of them. :grin:

(Just let me know if my constant pestering ever yields any results)

Reply #7 from Elemental Forums Top

Will we be able to practice postive and/or negative eugenics?

Actually, that question shouldn't just be a matter of the dynasties, but on your society at large.

Reply #8 from Elemental Forums Top

Inter-species marriages should be verbotten! Das ist verbotten!  :banhammer:

Frankly, some factions should be at least infertile when crossed - unless you use evil arcane magic to create hybrids.

Reply #9 from Elemental Forums Top

rankly, some factions should be at least infertile when crossed - unless you use evil arcane magic to create hybrids.

Should be. Probably won't.

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Reply #10 from Elemental Forums Top

I don't even want to know the mating rituals of the fallen. I was like 3 seconds away from asking until I remembered that they somewhat resemble goblins.

Reply #11 from Elemental Forums Top

lol I'm picturing some semi chubbing, sad, child that's green. The only non human feature it has a huge nose... lol :(

 

Also do children's portraits age? If so, what block of time does it updte (ie 1 year, 10 years, etc)?

Reply #12 from Elemental Forums Top

You know what? I'm going to make insane half-breeds. Just sayin'.

Reply #13 from Elemental Forums Top

 

Excuse my poor PS skills. Poor kid :(

Reply #14 from Sins Forums Top

we call the fugly children or just plain fuglies for short.

Reply #15 from Elemental Forums Top

I'm curious as to how the pic came about. Was it just plucked from a folder of potential profile pics or is it generated dynamically by meshing the pics of the parents?

Reply #16 from Elemental Forums Top

Can we, in a misguided effort to keep the ruling bloodline pure, practice inbreeding?

Because that'd be awesome and disturbing at once.

Awesomely disturbing.

Reply #17 from Elemental Forums Top

Your a sick man Brad... :rofl: Only cause you dont show pictures... }:)

Reply #18 from Sins Forums Top

You guys will probably do arranged marriages just to have horrible off-spring.
You know your user-base well. :X

 

:fox:

Reply #19 from Elemental Forums Top

The children are generated dynamically. So even we don't know what you're going to get.

Reply #20 from Elemental Forums Top

This is just asking for trouble..... I like it already..... any chance of hybrid offspring having foamy green blood and only being vulnerable at the base of the neck?

Reply #21 from Sins Forums Top

I'm all for Xanth style breeding, if they can screw, they can make babies.  If they can't, they probably still can, bwahahaha!

 

I'm already having fun with the idea, this is terrible.  If it sucks, I'm going to hate you, that info is right up there with the Spore creature mechanics that failed to exist.

Reply #22 from Elemental Forums Top

While I can't say I really see the point of dynasties yet, it seems that they will be fun, which is reason enough to do it in my book.

Reply #24 from Elemental Forums Top

Youtube or it didn't happen

Reply #25 from Elemental Forums Top

One word: Awesome. Ok, I'm done, I can go to bed happy now :grin: