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now if you again see the pictures on the homepage as i said one of them is fungoid. I doubt though that they make a Other
These seem awesome, though I still want a Dalek mod, it needs to happen, or a Doctor Who mod in general, but especially Daleks. Imagine Daleks taking over the universe. Yummy.
(Time War would be pretty interesting too, getting Daleks vs. Time Lords. Heck yes, I do want <3 )
(Time War would be pretty interesting too, getting Daleks vs. Time Lords. Heck yes, I do want <3 )
Not "proof" by any extent, but if you look in the upper right hand corner of these two pictures, it looks like a leaders portrait from CK2:
http://www.stellarisgame.com/assets/screenshots/screenshot6-4f34ab77279bea5f2e09641090672759.jpg
http://www.stellarisgame.com/assets/screenshots/screenshot4-2952816f0cc580073650a402250f3862.jpg
So it looks like mechanoid races might be a possibility.
http://www.stellarisgame.com/assets/screenshots/screenshot6-4f34ab77279bea5f2e09641090672759.jpg
http://www.stellarisgame.com/assets/screenshots/screenshot4-2952816f0cc580073650a402250f3862.jpg
So it looks like mechanoid races might be a possibility.
Looks more like an advisor. But you can see the sevent race on your screen. Insect people.
Fair point. However, they also suggested that 'Mammalian' is probably going to be a category and there are two mammal-like ones there (the human and the bear-monkey-ish looking guy on the left) so I'm not sure those pictures are necessarily representative of the different categories. Rather I think it may just be a selection of portraits to show off some of the possible options available. A purely fungal group certainly isn't impossible, but it does seem like a slightly odd choice when they only have 7 available. Another possibility is that fungusman there could just be the example/default portrait for the 'Other' category (though actually is he even a fungus? Could he be a crustacean perhaps? I'm not even sure that 'he' is the right pronoun...). We'll just have to wait and see I guess.
Regarless of what group they're in, fungal species would be a cool option though.
"Race" is a social construct. It was originally synonymous with "tribe" in English but was later conflated with physical appearance as people tried to justify slavery and imperialism and Social Darwinism was invented. Genetically speaking there's barely any variation at all between human population groups especially when compared to differences in animal breeds or wild subspecies.
If I am understanding this right, the seven phenotypes means that there are 7 possible that a race can be of, However a phenotype is a broad group so Human or human like would be one, I think someone brought up an example of Romulans and Vulcans which if I understand this correctly seems a good example of two clearly different people that would be in the same phenotype
However their are further distinctions of your race other than just the phenotype, for example you could be a Bird phenotype but you are native to a desert planet so that makes you different from other bird phenotype races from a tropical planet, and you have a communist ideology with a xenophobic but strictly moralist ethical view.
So I assume their are about 5 or more other factors that go into distinguishing your particular planet other than just phenotype. I hope, that realistically, we will be looking at at least 100 starting worlds on the max sized map all with different races
However their are further distinctions of your race other than just the phenotype, for example you could be a Bird phenotype but you are native to a desert planet so that makes you different from other bird phenotype races from a tropical planet, and you have a communist ideology with a xenophobic but strictly moralist ethical view.
So I assume their are about 5 or more other factors that go into distinguishing your particular planet other than just phenotype. I hope, that realistically, we will be looking at at least 100 starting worlds on the max sized map all with different races
I'm pretty sure that the same alien species can have two different factions: one of the screenshots probably shows this.
Pure like Energy based beings. Some have evolved beyond this demensions, those that choose to remain, need vessels of sorts. You know, shiny crystal like stuff, might be nanolike silikon based, changing form..ohh symbiosis. Or like Vorlons in Bab5 growing biological ships. Umm, they might have ability to posses other biological sentient beings. Oh you developers must have lot of fun brainstorming and stuff. Lf to this game.
It's not 7 species, but how many players is it ? You said right from the get go that races were customisable (which is very standard for the genre) so their number was never a worry, but what Grand Strategy should bring is a great number of entities not necessarily vying for any kind of "victory". All of your historical games have had dozens and dozens of nations even in their blobbier moments, with CK2 taking the cake with hundreds of more-or-less autonomous landholders.
With the move back to a more traditional 4X model, the "symmetrical start" from a single planet and the single screenshot of the political map from your steam store page, I've been led to believe that this won't be the case for this game. I'd love to be wrong and learn that new nations will pop up by the dozen in the mid-game because of separatist tendencies or other civilisation discovering interstellar travel later than the starting few, but in that case : Let us play as them. Plenty of playing with backwards nations has been done in the EU and Vicky series, I'm sure the experience could be interesting in space too.
True. I just wanted to point out that they had covered the fungi part
The more categories the better than the more diverse the categories is the better too.
They're the same species but different culture. Vulcans are all about logic and suppressing emotion, aka Spock, and Romulans are all about embracing their emotions(particularly their violent ones) and are a massive reference to the Roman Empire. However, both can lash out in extreme anger, as can be seen in the first Star Trek remake.
True. I just wanted to point out that they had covered the fungi part
The more categories the better than the more diverse the categories is the better too.
Ah - okay. I definitely agree with you that the more diversity there is the better.
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otherwise known as Kingdom Phylum Class Order Family and Species. Yes i too was a fan of high school biology and was very pleased to hear the word Phenotype as opposed to Species for a change when talking scifi. That in itself maybe enough to pique my interest... not that this has anything to do with the discussion. I just wanted to say that.
Phillip
Came
Over
from
Great
Spain
otherwise known as Kingdom Phylum Class Order Family and Species. Yes i too was a fan of high school biology and was very pleased to hear the word Phenotype as opposed to Species for a change when talking scifi. That in itself maybe enough to pique my interest... not that this has anything to do with the discussion. I just wanted to say that.
Wouldn't that be insanely overpowered?
I mean, just 4 Daleks are more than enough to defeat entire planetary civilizations. An entire empire of them would be insanely OP.
Yeah buddy. Barely any variation at all. Populations are genetically distinct in terms of the shape of their skeletons, the color of their features, the diseases they contract, the foods they can eat, but WE ARE ALL THE SAME.
I'd like to see more exotic species than (animaltypehere)-men. Gasbags. Sentient plants. Hyper-intelligent shades of blue. etc.