Aquatic trait for aquatics?

[HelmuthM]

If a Species has the Aquatic portrait, it should start with the Aquatic trait and Ocean home world.

At least the AI generated empires. Why don’t they?

 

[Scyobi_Empire]

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Arthropods are often """"hiveminds"""" (ants, wasps, shrimp, ect) so why aren't they all spawned in as Hives?

It's a neat little feature called random generation, if every aquatic empire was forced to have that trait it would be boring. Same if every bug was a hivemind.

 

[InvisibleBison]

Just because something looks like a fish doesn't mean it is a fish.

 

[Unseelie]

Does the game generate any machine's that aren't gestalts? Lithic-portraits without the lithoid traits? I feel as though this is a similar problem.

As a compromise, why not give the aquatic portrait an 80% weight to also draw the aquatic trait?

Then you do have these occasional Fish who have recently crawled up on land, fine, but you do mostly maintain the theme that a duck is a duck.

 

[Ryika]

Does the game generate any machine's that aren't gestalts? Lithic-portraits without the lithoid traits? I feel as though this is a similar problem.

These portraits are locked to their archetypes, aquatics are not.

As a compromise, why not give the aquatic portrait an 80% weight to also draw the aquatic trait?

Seems like Paradox agrees, because such a compromise already exists.

The Aquatic Trait is heavily weighted towards Aquatic Species:

    random_weight = {
        AQUATIC = 100
        MOL = 10
        HUM = 2
        MAM = 2
        LITHOID = 0.5
     }