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01-22-2006, 10:00 PM,
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selective breeding and genetic engineering are two entirely different things
one has been around for centuries, i'll leave you to decide which 
"What happens when an unstoppable force meets an immovable object?"
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01-22-2006, 10:02 PM,
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But you can't accomplish that much with just selective breeding.
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01-23-2006, 04:54 AM,
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no, it is in fact highly possible to breed animals for size (or many other traits for that matter) and have quite noticble results, perhaps not quite to the extent of doubling in size,
but the key to the whole thing is time, lots of time, if you have enough generations and variety to work with, you could eventually breed an entirely new species! (lots and lots of time  )
"What happens when an unstoppable force meets an immovable object?"
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01-23-2006, 01:16 PM,
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There's the problem; I believed that Morrowind was recently colonized.
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01-23-2006, 04:30 PM,
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dude, ashlanders (which this thread is about) have been living there for centuries (and besides, the colonization you're refering to is of Vvardenfell, not Morrowind)
"What happens when an unstoppable force meets an immovable object?"
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01-23-2006, 09:29 PM,
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My mistake then. The Ashlanders must've learned all the secrets and arts.... including selective breeding.
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01-23-2006, 09:49 PM,
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well... see that's the thing... it was a super-realistic fantastical imagination... not too real...
but nix-hounds are actually a sort of invertabrate that evolved to live on land... like a super-lobster... an since animals of the same type such as crabs or lobsters grow until they die... since there are fewer nix, they live on land, and need to grow larger to fulfill the high predator niche, they will grow faster... so perhaps the older one is the bigger it gets... and the longer it lives, the older it gets, the bigger it is and the meaner and more experienced it gets... of course that means an Ashlander riding one is out of the question.... big ones might be the size of the Mongolian ponies, a rideable size... but by then the nix hound would be gnarly and vicious and old that it would be suicide to ride it.... so yeah I guess nix-hound never fit in too well :rofl: ...it's kinda funny.... the 5.5 ft tall Mongolians and their little Steppe ponies beat armored knights riding barded stallions and chainmailed Muslims riding swift Arabian horses.... hehe... the little man wins.... well not exactly little... but conpared to a 6 ft tall German knight.... yeah... about 5-6 inches shorter...
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01-23-2006, 09:59 PM,
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Where would you put the saddle?
Nice fact, or should I say: the circle of life?
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01-24-2006, 01:37 AM,
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I was reviewing stuff about the Native Americans... and it struck me that the plight of the Ashlanders is more like the Native Americans than I had first thought....
of course I had made the connection before... but... Ashlanders need hunting and herding land... the Great Houses are taking that.... Ashlander fight with organically made weaponry... versus the more refined weapons of metal Ashlanders don't truly understand the House-folk, and get tricked by them and defeated The Ashlander clans are mostly disunited... the Great Houses are united political, military, and economical bodies The Ashlanders refuse to give into popular settled culture and standards... they get marginalized The Ashlanders are mostly nomadic, with lessening food and land, they will have fewer places to go and their lifestyle is threatened.... their disease immunity and medicine isn't high.... and they lived closer to the Blight than most.... their tribes haven't united, therefore their people will still attack one another their people are misunderstood and despised... they have no friends in the outside world... so... will their story end up being the same? ...I hope not... let's brew up ideas... not too long term, but in terms of this mod (in quests) (remember, Ashlander names doesn't mean you are officially ashlander.... they are just the remnants of the original Dunmer/Chimer culture, the naming system, the language, the ideals, etc. So a Redoran could have a Velothi name.... but be a House-folk... obviously a more recently initiated one.... and probably an assimilated Ashlander....) |
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01-24-2006, 09:57 PM,
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I hope that it will remains the same. Of course it depends on the end of our fabled mode.
it would just be more realsitic. You can't just undo their entire tradition.
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