Thread:CatSerpentine/@comment-47205-20150222133405

So I've seen the page on Willosaurs that you made. It's a good idea: for all of the Spore references that we've included in the collaborative fiction universe, Willosaurs seem to have been disproportionately neglected (so far all I can find is at the bottom of this page). I had included the Willosaurs as an ancient race that once opposed the Screebles and was destroyed, but that was in a personal fiction universe that I used to have and it seems I never carried any of that over into my collaborative work.

However, a couple of minor things do currently violate established canon, so you might want to look at the pages (although some of them may need a little updating). The Willosaurs can't be the oldest spacefaring civilisation, because that record goes to quark-based life in the early universe (or alternatively their creations); furthermore, we usually try to at least pretend to stick to real-world science (Essence and hyperspace technologies notwithstanding), and ten billion years ago the first planets had only recently formed, so there wouldn't have been enough time for intelligent lifeforms to evolve on them. Six billion years ago is the more reasonable limit that we've adopted for species such as the Grox.

Of course, since you've added the Willosaurs page as a shared fiction, you might have been perfectly happy for me to just ruthlessly edit it and change some of what you've already written, but I thought it would be nice to let you know my thoughts on it first. 