finally new news!!!

http://www.bigben-interactive.co.uk/produit/game/id/5298

yes the long awaited post we've been waiting for and now we finally know what is going to be in the pre-order pack properly.
But what does this mean?

Main features

• A strong license
• Fully bridged (iPad® / iPhone® / PC / Mac® / Android): start a game on your computer, keep playing on your smartphone!
• A Collector Edition including a Norn with a unique genetic code, a figurine, the three original games and the equivalent of 20 euros in your virtual wallet
• A completely new universe in 3D
• An exceptional artificial intelligence
  
  BREEDING TIME PEOPLE!!!!
  
  So who is will be getting the collector edition? as soon as i hears that its out i'll be snapping up a copy. they said they are rereleasing the orginal 3 games so it makes me wonder if they are just going to give us albian years and exodus or if they are properly going to release them all nice and shiny, updated to run and todays machines properly
  
  time will tell

restarted docking station

so i finally got round to restarting creatures docking station on my computer. i couldn't bring myself to do it before because all the work i had lost. thankfully i still have two of my favourite norns that were saved in separate folders but other then that everything had to be started again.

so i got C2toDS working with C1toDS although C2 doesn't like to work properly without its music.
starting over means i've lost my previous breeding projects so i will be starting again with one male, a zebra norn named Stripes and two females, a siamese norn named Albine and a bengal des neiges named Alide and i will keep you posted on what happens to them :3

gah

so with the exception of dafne and debris because of them being in seperate folders, all my creatures 3 and docking station folders have gone. poof! am i sad? yes incredibly so. i'm going to try and fix whatever happened and see if its still hiding in the machine somewhere but for now i'm going to see if i can get creatures 2 working as i have the strong urge to replay it and breed the bat norns made by the wonderful norn girl but i'm having just as many problems with that game as i am with everything else xD why does creatures hate me so...come on C4 i need you to lift my spirits in my time of need

norn farming?

so i was looking about the blogs of the creatures community listed on Discover Albia's list of links and there are quite a few interesting one i must say but something that peaked my interest is this blog here: http://dockingstationgalaxy.blogspot.co.uk/
i love the idea of farming and letting people adopt and after the great success of CreatureLink hosted by the lovely Jessica i'm more determined to do something similar to docking station galaxy and the creature link but no one likes a copy cat so hopefully i can find a way to be different but still not have to do much xD

but the question is what breed do i choose to start with? should i occasionally mix them? i want to also breed them for their genes but unfotunately i'm completely useless at that but one thing i have decided on is i am going to 1 female norn that raises all the babies and one that has been a mother so she can raise them properly to be good proper norns and i think i have a Dodgy norn with the name Alice who would be the perfect surrogate. although i usually pick female Fallow norns because i think they are just so beautiful i always feel sad when they die :C

third generation and creatures link

 so when i last left off we had the siblings and Akuna and we actually have the result for this generation as we are already actually on the fourth xD
out of him and his brother, Berold became the alpha male and Burgel his alpha female and in total they had 5 children, one female named Cella and 4 boys named Curd, Cha'tima, Caspar and Corvinius while it was found out that Babette was infertile, Akuna had a total of 6 eggs all at the same time although only two of them were female, they were identical and i named them Chisaku and Chisaka while the boys were called: Chizuma, Chirou, Chuuichirou and Chouji before i quickly exported them. it is also important to note that Benerike also had a son although he died after hatching

 so it was on with the next generation and i had recently adopted from http://discoveralbia.blogspot.co.uk/p/creature-link.html a little norn named Nostrio who I would be putting into the alpha succession with the other boys.
the females were as follows: Ari - a spot norn who died quite early on.
Adora - a bengal des neiges norn which is a black and white bengal.

Cella the only daughter of Burgel and Chisaku and Chisaka the daughters of Akuna.

now there were also winners for this already too because i am a fast worker :3 but first let me tell you a little about Nostrio, although he was kept with the other males he only ever sat in the carrot patch on his own unless his friend Cha'tima came to see him then they would sit together and when the females were first let in they instantly rushed towards him! he must have been terrified but this what you get for having good genes i guess. he had his eye on one female which was Cella but then sadly i heard the kisspop and saw the markers indicating a pregnancy and low and behold Cha'tima is the new alpha along with Chisaka and so far they have only had one child. straight after Cha'tima decided Adora would be next on his list and she had two eggs so we have a total of 3 eggs so far but this wasn't enough for our norns. oh no of course not. Nostrio decided to sneak in after Adora had laid her eggs and decided he would become a father and he ended up having two norn daughters with will become available on the creatures link at some point so look out for Dafne and Debris in the near future. thankfully i exported adora and nostrio before they could create anything else.
as of yet I am still waiting for Cha'tima to make Chisaku and Cella preggers  but we have a lot of time

creatures 4 update

so i found this, this morning: http://creatures4-thegame.com/

its a subscription page for the creatures 4 newsletter so sign up NOW :D

second gen chaos

 and so the second generation IQ test begins. many breeders from our community should already be aware of the IQ test but for those that don't it is a basic survival test to weed out the weaker norns you have stronger generations. you start by placing the eggs or young norns in the work shop and without any help from yourself, they must realise the need to survive and enter the norn meso to find food.

 Amari laid 6 eggs in the end but two ended up hatching without me realising so i quickly exported them until i was ready to start the test. so i began placing the eggs in the workshop that i had in my inventory and i was watching them grow and hatch into the Norns known as Burgel, Babette and Berold when i got a death notification which really confused me until the final egg hatched revealing a stillborn norn. i've always wondered why this sometimes happens and the only existing answer i found online about it is the the norn's incompatibility with a gene combination though it was pretty creepy when a little female hatched dead and it looked like it was in the midst of waving.
for a bit of a wider genepool i hatched a siamese female and placed her in the workshop after naming her Akuna, i then imported the two other siblings Barwon and Berinike who have lovely colourings by the way with a full zebra body and then little apple arms. Burgel  was the first to reach the meso and so won a huge pile of food and the norn nanny by the wonderful Ghosthande to keep her company.

she was followed closely behind by her brother Berold  and sister Babette. Akuna worked out pretty quickly she needed food and made her way to the norn meso. the brother and sister Barwon and Berinike however was a different case entirely. all the did was walk into walls and into doors without actually opening them. their lifeforce dropped down to 1% and i thought "well this is it for them, i wish i could help them" i had pretty much gave up on them and returned to norn meso.

 as i returned i was greeted with a pregnancy message courtsy of Burgel and Berold but there was only 1 egg so far. suddenly Barwon and Berinike burst into the meso declaring their dislike for eachother so god knows what happened between then but they refuse to be near eachother