Its not 7 species!

[Johan]

Its 7 phenotypes that all species are sorted in.

 

[Goosecreature]

So they are actually kind of groups of species?

Yes, like mammalian, etc...

 

[Zoft]

I didn't say he was wrong but I am saying that I am questioning why Johan says one thing and the page says another, and if the page is wrong, then I would like to get more than a one line statement from Johan before interpreting what he means. What I am seeing though is a lot of eisegesis of what a phenotype is to Johan (as opposed to what is actually is in biology), and what the page means by species, and people are trying to interpret it to what they want to believe it is, and calling others wrong for their interpretations. Lets look at what is officially out there, and if Johan wants to expand on that, great. But I don't think it is dumb to compare an official page against what Johan says.

The website is wrong, I hope for it to be corrected on Monday.

 

[Johan]

Its 6 phenotypes, human and mammalian is the same.

Now to convince the team that Chirper would be a great avian race.

 

[Groogy]

Now to convince the team that Chirper would be a great avian race.

This needs to be a thing so badly!

 

[Zoft]

You're still using that word wrong. Phenotypes are the observable traits of an individual.

And so it's mammal + 6 other types of aliens?

Yes, that is what we mean. Yeah we really need to stop using that word...
Do you have any suggestion for a better word? We mean basically mammalian, avian,...

 

[Zoft]

I somehow doubt plant people will be able to do much.

Don't know... they might grow on you

Hahaha

 

[Zoft]

I wonder what the visual difference extremes will be within phenotypes. I know they mentioned there's around 100 different kinds of models split between the seven (so roughly 14 looks for each phenotype), would love to see how "different" those all look.

And I hope Paradox continues to add more and more phenotypes and models/animations.

My personal opinion is that they look quite different (but you see that they are of the same type) and really awesome