I kind of want to play C2 again, but first I wanted to run a fairly vanilla C2 world with stock genomes (that is, the ones that come by default with GOG Albian Years) to just get a feel for how creatures act by default before I start adding script fixes, better genomes, etc.
I don't understand the inner workings of C2 even a percent as well as I understand DS, and maybe that's part of what is drawing me to it. I haven't even played it seriously in so long that I don't think I even remember the surface workings of it. At the very least, maybe that will make things interesting.
Unlike most of my worlds though, where I try to view each creature as an individual and give them all equal time in the spotlight, this time I've decided I'm not even going to bother naming the creatures unless I feel like it. I'm also not really planning on interacting or intervening with the creatures unless I feel like it. Basically, it's kind of up to the creatures to charm me enough into wanting to care for them; I'm going into this rather indifferently.
I don't really have a lot of hope for this run going anywhere interesting, but I feel like I should document what happens anyway, for science or something.
The only cobs I injected were the Game State Controller to gain access to all the kits, and the
Puffer Fish, because I'm not terribly keen on losing creatures to the seas. I then grabbed some random eggs and got started.
After hatching I realized I had two females of the same breed, so I exported one. That left me with six creatures total: one pair of
Golden Desert Norns, one pair of
Pixie Norns, a female
Emerald Norn, and a male
Hebe Norn.
I flipped on the learning computer and let them just chatter away. There wasn't a lot of point to trying to teach nouns in this crowd; the creatures would all be looking at different things and get different ideas of what I was trying to say. I pushed the doozer a few times but mostly just sat back and watched them mill around.
These two ran off into the corner to have a slap fight before rejoining the others. They still seemed pretty angry though.
Not too long after, the pixie norn collapsed, probably due to never caring enough to eat, but getting slapped around couldn't have helped either. I guess I wasn't really willing to lose one just yet, so I injected him with the liquid food/defibrilliant combo just to keep him going again. After all, I'm not going for survival of the fittest here, just kind of getting to know the default genome.
This really just seems to be the place for slapfight showdowns.
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Oh, look who's down again. I suppose it's possible the first collapse did enough organ damage to make him even more vulnerable.
She seems way too happy about this.
I kinda feel bad for the guy. I'll probably save him again, but if this happens a lot I'm not sure I want to spend half the game just injecting liquid food into everyone. It's really hard to teach anyone to eat in this crowded space, but no one has bothered to leave the incubator level either and I don't know that I care enough to move them manually. These creatures are going to have to do something more charming than hit each other and starve themselves to break me out of this apathy.
