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Chirperians, who reside on Great Chirperia, enslaved all known races in 2278, controlling a large empire that spanned the known universe. Until one day a Chirper-Of-War Chirper-Blue-Prime was on a patrol in the reaches of the northern frontier. There he discovered a rift, and the great chaos burst forth. To this day the hordes of Chirpers-Of-War, through the rainbow colours of the CBP-Class Assault Cruisers, and the Chirper-Omega class carriers, fight against the hordes of chaos, protecting the realm of true entertaining enslavement.
Finally I see Groogy in Stellaris sub-forum. I thought that you will be playing with our feelings when hints were posted as MrNibbles did, but I didn't see any posts of yours. Weren't you interested in all this crazy speculations?
Can the player race be randomised as well? I like creating a custom race for myself, but it would be a nice challenge to play with a completely random faction from time to time to get away from min-maxing.
He has been teasing me all weekend, he already has 20~ hours on Stellaris, most of which accrued on Friday/Saturday.
So he wasn't posting on the forum, one can only assume he was too busy enslaving the universe with a species of death-hedgehogs.
He has been teasing me all weekend, he already has 20~ hours on Stellaris, most of which accrued on Friday/Saturday.
So he wasn't posting on the forum, one can only assume he was too busy enslaving the universe with a species of death-hedgehogs.
Hedgehog aliens confirmed!
This proves that Stellaris is in a playable state, and therefore any delay in its release from tomorrow is due to the cold-hearted and cruel Paradox toying with our emotions. There is nothing that will sway me from this conclusion.
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,...
Classes? Though that only works for mammals and avians as they are both phylum chordata, the squid people won't fit (unless they have notocords?) Phylums maybe?
If there are fungus people those are different Kingdoms altogether though.
Maybe another word with no biological or taxonomy implications, or the biologists will riot.
Maybe Domains, as they are species from different planets altogther. That is too broad however.
Life -> Domain -> Kingdom -> Phylum -> Class -> Order -> Family -> Genus -> Species
How about just "types" as in species types? Since they will be species of different planets it might have to be division by physical types like in the old days, before dna made us realize appearance wasn't a great basis for classification.
yeah, using any taxonomic term is going to cause difficulties if you want 100% accuracy. Still, I think something like "Orders" or "Classes" of life would get the point across to most people in a general sense.
Or, as said above, "types" would be simple and relatively clear.
Or, as said above, "types" would be simple and relatively clear.
Maybe if you want a tangential learning opportunity (like with CK2 and the wikipedia links for historical characters) you can have a selection that shows a taxonomic selection. That might be too complicated compared to a one line selection, and harder to explain in marketing. It would be interesting and show how different creatures actually are.
Of course, this is using Earth definitions. "Types" might be better.
Of course, this is using Earth definitions. "Types" might be better.
Mammilian or humanoid? 7 humanoid races with different ancestry (Avian, Aquatic, reptilian) is different than 7 different racial groups that may or may not resemble bipedal bilaterly symmetrical humanoids.
Distant worlds uses the term "Race Family" - Aquatic, Insectoid, Humanoid, Rodent. But they all look humanoid (except NPCs). As do the Gal Civ aliens.
If you don't want to use the "r" word, what about Species? "You can customise your own civilization, based on one of 7 different species, and multiple cultural traits. AI civilizations will also be generated from the same choices, guaranteeing a different game each time."
Species may not be strictly correct, any more than Genus would be, but it fits better the tradtitonal Sci Fi tropes of Avian vs Reptilian vs Humanoid vs Insectoid vs Amphibian vs Mammilian. It also allows images that go beyond differences in phenotype; in other words, you can have alien looling aliens, instead of "what kind of prothetics and skin paint is the human actor wearing this week?" looking aliens.
Distant worlds uses the term "Race Family" - Aquatic, Insectoid, Humanoid, Rodent. But they all look humanoid (except NPCs). As do the Gal Civ aliens.
If you don't want to use the "r" word, what about Species? "You can customise your own civilization, based on one of 7 different species, and multiple cultural traits. AI civilizations will also be generated from the same choices, guaranteeing a different game each time."
Species may not be strictly correct, any more than Genus would be, but it fits better the tradtitonal Sci Fi tropes of Avian vs Reptilian vs Humanoid vs Insectoid vs Amphibian vs Mammilian. It also allows images that go beyond differences in phenotype; in other words, you can have alien looling aliens, instead of "what kind of prothetics and skin paint is the human actor wearing this week?" looking aliens.
I would propose either "families" or "types". It's important to use something people will easily understand.
Domain or kingdom is easily understood too. Though I agree that type probably is best due to different planets.