I'm not sure which one you are referring to, none of them look like snake to me.
That's becouse it's a species pack, it by definition does not add gameplay.
Becouse you can not be literally just an inteligent tree and build a spacefaring civilization with your brethren.
Do you really want more space-(earth species) or space-(species from mithology)?
Repitilian Normal #9 can be referred to as "snakeoid". They don't look like snake people to me either.
That definition isn't inherent though, it was decided upon.
Adding such traits as inherent to the phenotype would be in conflict. Including such traits in the DLC would not be. I think in your final sentence you've made some error in translating from your native language, since in English the only way for something to not be a fact is if it's not correct, and both possibilities I mentioned are characteristics.
There isn't any actual reason for that. If you look at things from a perspective of hard sci-fi, things are way more human-like than makes sense. Trees with advanced societies make sense as soon as you take as given that there are trees which can communicate (already true on earth) and trees with high intelligence (not true on earth but common in fiction) and some kind of ability to mechanically manipulate their surroundings (also common in fiction). And once you've got advanced societies, the Stellaris conceit is that space flight is inevitable if nothing kills them all first. And, indeed, there's no particular reason that being largely sedentary would prevent a species from attaining advanced technology, even if "manned" flights might come later on.
I do. Too much of what we've already got boils down to "gribbly alien git". It's not evocative. One of Stellaris' problems is that empires don't feel as distinct from each other as they might. Part of that is because, unlike Paradox's other games, geography isn't very clear-cut or complicated. Another is that nations aren't based on historical states that we know the history of. But one advantage Stellaris has over the other games is species, and making species portraits evocative and memorable is a step to improve the situation that won't rely on mechanical changes, or the vast amount of busywork that (for example) making different ethos combinations show up more in dialogue would.
Whats memorable about space versions of animals we have already seen before? Sure they can look cool and i dont mind them, persay. But I dont remember them as much as the Fungoid 17 (my profile picture), the long necked reptiles where if you look closely you can see their spine, the fungoids with the giant heads, those kind of aliens. They stand out to be much more memorable than just, space crab, or space cat, or space boar. The art team can work with and make cooler stuff out of things that arent tied down to earth, for example the reptillian with the visible spine. They can give them more memorable features like that. Granted, animal based portraits can be interesting. The mushroom people and the arthropoid that looks sorta like an olm are memorable because they are just so different from the rest, but come on.
That one's a bit odd because it's wrenched into the stature needed for the clothing. But still, "piggy" is easier for most people to remember, not in the sense of "wow this is a memorable race" but in the sense of "who's that empire again?". Things that are weird are cool too, but right now there's a lot of aliens that are "weird" in very similar ways, so they all kinda blend together. The "cuties" suite of portraits does do a good job of avoiding that, but a lot of portraits (especially the ones with clothes, now that I think of it) really don't have interesting designs. Of the ones that stand out, it's not a coincidence that many are based more on real things.Whats memorable about space versions of animals we have already seen before? Sure they can look cool and i dont mind them, persay. But I dont remember them as much as the Fungoid 17 (my profile picture), the long necked reptiles where if you look closely you can see their spine, the fungoids with the giant heads, those kind of aliens. They stand out to be much more memorable than just, space crab, or space cat, or space boar. The art team can work with and make cooler stuff out of things that arent tied down to earth, for example the reptillian with the visible spine. They can give them more memorable features like that. Granted, animal based portraits can be interesting. The mushroom people and the arthropoid that looks sorta like an olm are memorable because they are just so different from the rest, but come on.
This just looks like a guy in a fursuit.
Yeah, variety is good. I would probably love that parrot if it had better colors. Instead of green, green, blue, black, red, and white, why not green-winged macaw, blue and gold macaw, eclectus, sun conure, nanday conure, rainbow lorikeet, and, let's say, rose-breasted cockatoo? Is that harder? Barely! Just paint a couple colors on the layer you've got set to color it instead of doing it solid-color.
The picture didn't load for me at first,YES TO VOID TITS!
YES TO TINY HATS!
Not that I'm oppossed either way...
