That's the stuff! You can make it. Then you'll know what the hell we're talking about.

I'll finally know what the hell a changeling is.

I'm assuming it's an entire race of Spies.

Don't tell me anything though.

That's not an entirely bad guess. Changeling doesn't lend itself to that many interpretations.

But I'll say no more.

Changelings are vengeful unspent loose change brought to life.

Ahoy again.

Dam, missed a pony genetics conversation. Hey, it's definitely canon that only E Ps can grow food right? I ask because I have an idea about the webcomic. One of the eps grows fruit and vegetables onboard the ship, using pots of soil, in all the spaces he can. Sort of like what Dom was doing at the start of Gears of War 3.

It's canon that Earth Ponies have an affinity for growing food. Nowhere does it say only Earth Ponies can grow food.

But that shouldn't affect the idea too much. Maybe ponies of different races can help him occasionally.

I thought narrator! Spike said 'Food that could only be grown by the Earth Ponies' in Hearth's Warming Eve.

That sounds like a good idea, App. Makes the ship feel lived in.

Makes sense to bring a small garden along.

I still imagine ponies living in polar climates to cultivate lichen-on-the-rocks.

He talks about how the Earth Ponies grew the food. He could be referring to Earth Ponies being the only ones with the land capable of growing since Pegasi lived exclusively in the sky and Unicorns mostly lived in castles or that Earth Ponies were the only ones who grew food since Pegasi and Unicorns might have seen that as below them. More to the point if only Earth Ponies could grow food how does any other nation survive?

edited 2nd Oct '12 4:04:42 AM by Badwolfwho

Thank you Blue.

I'll admit, I just want to see an EP performing a task that the other tribes cannot do, thus making them totally vital to a crew.

Like, here's an idea, this EP and the ships doctor (a unicorn) get stranded on an island. The doc starts panicking, perhaps saying that they'll have to eat their hats, or that its Game over pony! Game over!. Cue the EP calmly planting some seeds and giving them a drop of water, growing an instant vegetable patch. Problem solved for the time being.

Just things like that.

Well when they started hogging the food, the other two tribes were sunk.

edited 2nd Oct '12 4:09:56 AM by ApplelightLimited

Spike said 'Food that could only be grown by the Earth Ponies' in Hearth's Warming Eve.

Well, there's als the fact that the land around there didn't seem terribly fertile. I mean, even before the permafrost, it's possible the land wasn't so great. I took that as meaning the EP's could grow shit anywhere something could possibly live, under any conditions.

Well, your idea's still feasible, but maybe the process isn't that instantaneous.

edited 2nd Oct '12 4:13:40 AM by edvedd

We really need to see some planting action in the show to answer this.

Eh, know what? It's just my fanon, so I can do what I want. So I'll do it.

Yeah you can do whatever you want with your fanon, mine personally is that Earth Ponies just have an affinity for growing, they can do it in most places but while it's faster than a Unicorn or Pegasus it's definitely not instantaneous.

Anywho, off to Uni.

Cheerio!

Sorry if I've been defensive about this. E Ps are my favourite tribe, and I just want them to shine.

It's very easy to think that E Ps are the only ones who do anything plant related because despite it not being said that the Pegasi and Unicrons can't do anything with plants we never really see them do it. We've seen some non-earth ponies with plant related cutie marks but we never see them use ding anything with them. The only real exception is perhaps the Flim Flam brothers, and even then they couldn't be bothered to actually cultivate any apples of their own, opting to mooch off an Earth Pony family's crop.

It's also the same with the really big feats of physical strength.

edited 2nd Oct '12 4:50:54 AM by Mio

Mostly I suspect only Earth Poniers can cultivate in otherwise infertile land and grow crops in bulk capacity.

Hi Mio!

Did you see the new Batty pics I posted last night?

Yeah, they were pretty good.

Thank you!

I'm really glad you like them.

And I guess you're right Ace.

IIRC there are some really tiny signs of pegasi and unicorns implied to be growing their own flowers.

Now imagining a unicorn jelly of her EP neighbor's much larger and more cheerful-looking sunflowers.

Also Changed Six

Elements of Gaming updated: TF2 chapter :D

edited 2nd Oct '12 5:17:01 AM by AceOfScarabs

Yes, the nefarious Earth Pony Problem.

edited 2nd Oct '12 6:04:51 AM by ATC

Celestia and Luna fight zombies.