"Kneel before Cod" was sitting right there.Evil Spiritualist Fish Empire. Finally!
"You will bless The Cod!"
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Announcing the Aquatics Species Pack!
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Yeah, I agree here.
Personnaly, I think if all species in stellaris have similar tech level, it doesn't mean they all do thing in the same way. A simple but obvious exemple is the phototrophic trait : species starting with it does not have any additional tech for sustain it's pops, but obviously they have specials infrastructures within their empire for giving their pops the artificial UV they need. Since this game look things in a VERY global way, for me each tech just represent a set of knowledges with a main application, but the exact way each species do things is unique, you just don't see it, because this game show thing in a global perspective.
Aquatic would obviously use other tech for first going in space, but beyond a certain point, the absence of combustion would no longer be a disadvantage.
Yes you are right, submarine combustion is possible under water but far harder than on dry lands, since you usualy don't have an
oxidizer under water and since the thermal capacity of water is far beyond air, so your fire will be more likely to put out.
But we might over thinking this
, this is stellaris and in the end devolloper's logic is the only one to prevail.
Here's what I'm thinking. A fully aquatic species (that is to say not humanoids with fish features à la Star Trek) would become masters of mechas. From civilian-grade exoskeletons for basic transportation and recreation to military-grade armored mechas where a goldfish is basically threatening you with missiles from his Gundam. They'd use these on their own sparse land features and later for exoplanet exploration. An aquatic diplomat in an Ecumenopolis meeting non-aquatics would be using a fancy one of these.
Basically think Minion from Megamind.
They wouldn't need to fill their early rockets with water, just their spacesuits, so the weight issue isn't that much different for them than it would be for us. Once they get into space, they can start melting down comets to fill their larger space infrastructure with water.
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I have a slight suggestion, could you please consider the option of essential aquatic always having 100% habitability on the aquatic planets? After all, water is water, be it on Earth or any other planet with this chemical compound. On others, you could give 0% habit, or 50% less. Then playing them would force terraforming under the type of ocean planet.
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Or for the rooms added in the species pack. That would be the best way, so you can enable it or not as you want.
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My god, I am impressed by the little we've soon so far. Love the ship look, and I just aquatics get some really unique gameplay. One of the screenshots on steam seems to imply that you have to modify worlds to make them habitable, or at least that you are firmly locked into Ocean planets. Really cool if that Watergun colossus is the only way of terraforming for them.
But not beyond the scope of a free update. Any changes to habitability would need to be made to the base game anyway and usually a free patch comes out at the same time as any dlc.
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Only I have the chills when is music and text "Rise from the depths and claim the stars."?
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But don't you think that a species with some crafting capacity wouldn't be able to access, explore and experiment out of the water the same way that we do stuff underwater even before being able to breath for some time there? It wouldn't be impossible to manipulate fire even without any dry land, as the planet will still have an atmosphere where you can bring inflamable stuff to dry out and then lit with chemicals, electricity, optics or friction
Shipset and art looks good, just hoping this comes with some nifty unique mechanic - last species packs were solid (I haven't gotten Necroids yet) so looking forward to this one.
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That phrase reminds me too much of: Rise, Rise Mustakrakish, lake troll!
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As soon as I started watching the trailer, Ocean Man started playing in my mind..
"Ocean man, take me by the hand, lead me to the land that you understand
Ocean man, the voyage to the corner of the globe is a real trip
Ocean man, the crust of a tan man imbibed by the sand
Soaking up the thirst of the land"
"Ocean man, take me by the hand, lead me to the land that you understand
Ocean man, the voyage to the corner of the globe is a real trip
Ocean man, the crust of a tan man imbibed by the sand
Soaking up the thirst of the land"
Oh, that's likely placeholder, and it looks from the features list they're just gonna be "want ocean world", no change to how habitability works. How utterly boring, and this will probably make wet actively bad because you're a bigger target.
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