Its not 7 species!

[blackchoas]

well it was mentioned in one of the articles that in some play-thoughts you discover that all life was seeded by an ancient race...

I recall the line "what is the origin of life in the universe this time?" at the press conference which suggests that sometimes there might be a single ancient race that seeded life or other possible origins than that as well.

Personally this sort of thing is what really excites me, its like the meta physics of the universe might be slightly different every time you play,

 

[Holy.Death]

So we alerady know 6 out of 7 phenotypes?

Actually, we know 6 out of 6 phenotypes. Humans are simply sharing the same category as mammals, hence the reduction in one of the latter comments.

 

[BarskiPatzow]

Who cares? In the end, bear people will rule the universe.... From a tiny island to glory!

 

[grandad1982]

My "It's 7 Am and I haven't had coffee yet" suggestion:

Archetype.

Yes . This.

 

[VI Imre]

Okay, two things.
First, Rick&Morty's gear people, they must be the 7th archetype.

Second, does anyone else recall the Xindi from Star Trek: Enterprise?
Basically the planet Xindus had 6 different intelligent species -- humanoid, mammalian, reptilian, insectoid, aquatic, avian -- at the same time, of which one -- the avians -- has died out due to their constant internal strife.

 

[TheDarkMaster]

Ok I decided to add the fungi.

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I understand, but using family sounds wrong to me and is far off. If they are going to be incorrect they might as well stick with phenotypes. Or if they want the "most" correct they can stick with "class" as that fits what they asked for.



"Class" fits that the best and has the larger congregation, even if it is still wrong.

Though technically it is all wrong.

Hahaha. The first thing that I think will happen when we discover new life on other worlds is that we'll be adding a new level to the hierarchy called 'biosphere' which represents which world it originated on.

Some possible sources of other name options:
http://www.thesaurus.com/browse/category
http://www.thesaurus.com/browse/class?s=t (second category)

I actually think 'nature' might be a good word.

Is there going to be something for artificial life too? What about synthetics (robots, AIs)? I'm hoping for the chance to build cybernetic societies where natural and artificial work together to pool their skills and powers (with various issues that come with that of course) without having an artificial revolution the only option. Obviously artificial stuff has highly specialized abilities and skills that go far beyond what natural can usually do, but several billion years of evolution make natural more robust than anything artificial can hope to achieve for millennia.

 

[ThatJamesguy01]

Okay, two things.
First, Rick&Morty's gear people, they must be the 7th archetype.

Second, does anyone else recall the Xindi from Star Trek: Enterprise?
Basically the planet Xindus had 6 different intelligent species -- humanoid, mammalian, reptilian, insectoid, aquatic, avian -- at the same time, of which one -- the avians -- has died out due to their constant internal strife.

The xindi were.
Human
Arboreal (sloth related)
Aquatic (plesiousaur
Reptilian
Avian
Insectoid

And yeah I mentioned xindi to my friends the moment the six archetypes/orders/clades were announced.

 

[Wyrm]

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

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

 

[Zoft]

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

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

Hahaha

 

[Actsub]

Actually, we know 6 out of 6 phenotypes. Humans are simply sharing the same category as mammals, hence the reduction in one of the latter comments.

Do we, though? The website shows molluscoids, mammalians (which includes humans), fungoid, avian and reptilian, so I only count 5.

 

[Thure]

Do we, though? The website shows molluscoids, mammalians (which includes humans), fungoid, avian and reptilian, so I only count 5.

Insect people:

http://i.imgur.com/sMAFv49.jpg

 

[Opera]

Archetype sounds like a good word. Any taxonomy word is a bad idea to use IMO.

 

[Daltesh]

well it was mentioned in one of the articles that in some play-thoughts you discover that all life was seeded by an ancient race...

Yup! That's exactly why I mentioned it; in that circumstance the terminology we've been using would work fine.
Better yet, if all of the templates we've been talking about were part of some base species and then modified by a precursor race then we really could call them different races of the same species, but in every other circumstance words like clade phylum and class would be both unwieldy and inaccurate.
I like the term 'archetype' because it implies there is a base concept that will be readily diverged from for the species.

As an aside, I want a monotreme race that gets along better with avians than with mammals.

 

[Labrynian Rebel]

Its 6 phenotypes, human and mammalian is the same.

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

You can still have 7! Just add... intelligent polymorphic space rocks?

 

[blackchoas]

You can still have 7! Just add... intelligent polymorphic space rocks?

That would be a terrible idea, we would probably colonize a planet with some primitive mammalian life forms on it and then this one pink space rock would lead a rebellion against us and we would lose control of the planet and then space rocks that still live on the planet would start cross breeding with the intelligent mammalian life forms

It really just wouldn't end well, although if we can figure out the science behind making your eyes turn into stars it might be worth it

 

[Jerree17]

The section of the webpage that used to say "choose from 7 species" has been changed.

 

[Thure]

Yes. This is the new text:

Dynamic Worlds with a vast number of Unique Random Species

Customize your own species with everything from appearance to genetic traits and ethics. Encounter a vast variety of alien races as you explore the galaxy; you will never meet the same aliens again

 

[Comradebot]

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.

 

[Thure]

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.

We know that the Human and the Ape aliens are in the same group (mammals)

 

[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