Board Thread:Wiki Discussion/@comment-25175729-20180615181837/@comment-25175729-20180623190041

Opdagon wrote: Instantly rejected.

From the png alone, I can already tell its legs and feet are at the high extreme of inaccuracy--accurate stegosaur feet are tough in Spore, but mine are far closer (though I admit I messed up the number of front toes on mine). The hind feet each had three short toes, while each fore foot had five toes; only the inner two toes had a blunt hoof. All stegosaurians after Huayangosaurus have forelimbs much shorter than their hindlimbs. Their hindlimbs are long and straight, designed to carry the weight of the animal while stepping. (above also means that the knees should be pointing forwards, not outwards) In reality, the hand bones of stegosaurians were arranged into vertical columns, with the main fingers, orientated outwards, forming a tube-like structure. This is similar to the hands of sauropod dinosaurs, and is also supported by evidence from stegosaurian footprints and fossils found in a lifelike pose. (above means stegosaurs stand digitigrade on their fingers and toes--your creature has its heels flat to the ground)

Beyond this, it has the following issues:
 * Its eyes are on its neck (and even if you argue that's the head somehow, they're also below the mouth)
 * Its back plates are too far apart
 * It is clearly well below complexity limit but you did not use your vast amounts of available complexity to give it more back plates
 * Its tail is too short
 * The body appears greatly squished compared to actual stegosaurs when viewed from the side
 * The entire length of the head is beak with no cheeks, when actual stegosaurs have just a small beaked mouth at the end of a long head
 * You scaled the eyes up really really big for some reason? They should be accurately scaled unless otherwise noted
 * No completed page, Sporepedia ID, or detailed description are provided