Creature Feature #23 - Bambelura
By LadyM | April 24, 2008
Is it a plant? No, it’s a worm! Meet the Bambelura created by Kingacer.
The bambelura has split from its ancestor, the stained bloomworm. The two big leaves have split into four to capture even more sunlight and its eyestalk has become longer so the bambelin can see them from an even longer distance.It has also learned a new trick: It is able to wave its eyestalk, wich seems to attract the bambelin so they can come and pollinate the bambelura. The young worms can now walk on four legs so they are faster and their eyestalk is upright so they can see everything better. It has spread to Nuke Rainforest.
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Feature #22 Clickworm
By LadyM | April 3, 2008
For some reason the forum is running faster and I haven’t done anything different so I’m going to cross my fingers that it will continue to work while I find new hosting. I know I haven’t done a feature in awhile so here is my pick for this week.
The Clickworm by Russ1
The clickworm has replaced its ancestor. The main evolutionary pressure was predation from the mantiskipper. As a result, they have evolved three new ways to escape their adversary. Firstly, they have become almost nocturnal as this is the safest time to feed. So during the day-time when they are at risk they have evolved an optional form of camouflage. The clickworm now secretes a sticky substance from its body and at dawn, they take bits of plant matter and stick it all over themselves with only their eyes showing. Then they settle down in the same sort of material as they are wearing and ‘sleep’ out the day. Although their bodies switch off for this period, their eyes are still sending impulses to the brain. If movement is detected, then an impulse is sent straight to the brain and the worm wakes up.
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Just Kidding
By LadyM | April 2, 2008
Yes, it was an April Fool’s joke. Sagan 4 is not closing though it might seem like it with our slow forum. The project will continue and I will be looking for a new host. Hopefully we can get the forum back to a good condition.
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Sagan 4 is closing
By LadyM | April 1, 2008
Due to forum problems and lack of funds to change hosts, I regret to inform you that the Sagan 4 project is closing down. The wiki will stay in place to hold all the information. Thank you for your support of this project.
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Slow forum - part 2
By LadyM | March 28, 2008
Yes I know the forum is down and has been slow or down all afternoon. The more I research this problem, the more I believe that the problem lies with my hosting company, Godaddy.com. If anyone is thinking of hosting their website with them, run the other way and find someone better. I’ve written to them twice and they deny that it is their fault and told me to check with the software company.
Dear Sir or Madame,
Thank you for contacting Online Support. You will need to contact the maintainer of you forum software for information on how to optimize your forum. We do not support scripting added to the site. I apologize for the inconvenience.
Please let us know if there is anything else we can do for you.
Sincerely,
Online Support
Technician
I posted a thread today with the SMF forum to ask for help so we’ll see what they say. If you saw a different theme briefly today it was because I was testing one of the suggestions on the SMF board with no luck. Again, I’m sorry for the problems. I’m waiting to find out what I should do to fix the problem. I’m posting this here because I’m having trouble getting on the forum myself.
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Slow Forum problems
By LadyM | March 26, 2008
I just want to apologize for the Sagan4 forums being so slow. I don’t know what the problem is and the host claims it’s not them. I’m not a computer expert, this was all done as a part of being helpful to the Sagan4 community. I don’t know anything about scripting or php code or what could be wrong. I will continue to try to find a solution to the problem but for now, I just need you to understand. If anyone has any ideas of what could be wrong, please feel free to leave a comment.
Unfortunately, we do not provide technical support with third-party scripting issues. We are very limited in the support we can offer for customer-written code or scripts. If there is evidence that our system is responsible for the error, please forward it to us, and we would be happy to look into the matter further. But at the moment this does not appear to be the case, so we regret we can not assist you further with this issue.
Please let us know if we can assist you in any other way.
Best regards,
Online Support Tech
Trust me, this is as frustrating for me as it is for all of you. I just want to let you know what’s going on and that I’m aware of it.
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Feature #21 Lyrostira
By LadyM | March 21, 2008
Created by Rhodix, here is a really cool alien plant species.
The lyrostira split from the flufflestalk, being able to reach the double stature of its ancestor. The leaves are rounded and longer, forming canoe-like structures around the stem, where water can be imprisoned into small pools. The top part evolved a type of chamber, keeping the immature coiled spore rods protected. When mature, they will be straight up and allow the spores be airborne. Each rod contains numerous star-like structures, each one holding five spores. Initially closed, these will open and detach from the rod, letting the wind carry these to distant places. Later, spores will use these stars as a first settling place, giving them some nutrients to start the germination.
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Super Hurricane Disaster
By LadyM | March 16, 2008
DISASTER (Super Hurricane)
A super hurricane sweeps north along the southwestern coastline of the Glicker and
deposits many species to the northeastern coastline of Wright. Rafts of debris
such as seeds and small fauna float across the ocean and come to rest on the shores
of the BigL Coast, BigL Beach and Nuke Rainforest. The following species were added
to these biomes.
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Feature #20 Scrub Flowerworm
By LadyM | March 3, 2008
Created by Huckbuck
The scrub flowerworm replaced the hatching shrubworm. The eggs of the hatching shrubworm wasn’t as effective at finding good places to downroot as the older worms. This lead to that quite a strange mutation was favored and the scrub flowerworm evolved. The “trunk” of the scrub flowerworm is almost completely under ground, this is mainly for protection. The eggs now grow on the side of the “trunk under the earth, and when the worm inside the egg is big enough it cracks the now much thinner shell of the egg. The worms of the scrub flowerworm are quite different from their ancestors. They never leave the underground before downrooting, this to protect themselves.
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Feature #19 The Dartir
By LadyM | February 28, 2008
created by KingAcer.
The dartir split from its ancestor, the flying dart. Some flying darts where not fast enough to catch and kill twelve-winged worms, but instead of dying out they started feeding on dead fauna. Finding dead fauna costs less energy then having to kill twelve-winged worms, so they started getting smaller and are now about 10 cm long. They also developed a stinger on the end of the tail which they use to stay attached to their food without having to clap their wings as much. Furthermore the dartir is not very different from it’s ancestor except for those changes. It has spread to Huggs Scrub, Yokto Taiga and Huggs Taiga.
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