Entertainment and religion/spirituality

[Tisifoni12]

This far I have not built any temples and few theatres. I kind of object to the terminology.

I mean these could be a centre where people go to experience something or and/or place that generates something experienced elsewhere. How big it is also is like asking how big is a pop.

If a centre of culture or entertainment is it your species' equivalent of Disneyland, Bollywood or Paris ?

If a religious or philosophical centre is it a mega-temple, a place of pilgrimage, a place of retreat and learning ?

Maybe it's just the terminology, but it seems like narrow terminology when it could mean a range of things to different species.

 

[Zundy]

go with the definition "A temple is a structure reserved for religious or spiritual rituals and activities such as prayer and sacrifice" for a temple which covers all the bases imo. Theatres could mean all.sorts too I guess. I think they're pretty broad?

 

[RoverStorm]

The traditional response to this type of thing is: it's not literally a temple or a theater, they just tell you (the glorious leader) what sounds most impressive or is easiest to understand.

An example of this is with Dysonspheres. There is not a single scientific reason why a brown dwarf star (which are glorified gas planets) gives as much energy as a supergiant, or why a dysonsphere around both costs the same. It's not "really" a dysonsphere, it's probably just an elaborate solar array. But the glorious leader wanted a dysonsphere, so call it a dysonsphere.

I personally don't like this because, well, it ruins the immersion. If they're lying about the true nature of those things, why should I believe any other part of the game? But it's a more or less legitimate reason why it seems like every species uses "temples" or "theaters". Or hell why do only hive minds have spawning pools? Are they seriously implying every single non-hive mind species has a nucleus family concept? Not a great argument, but it's one of the few ones that makes sense.

 

[the glory of plain]

didn't like halo theatre too
a megamall or something will be better

 

[Matoro_TBS]

It's also pretty questionable to ever think a building as a literal building. "Temple" isn't one building, that wouldn't make any sense. I think it's large network of churches, temples and other, umm, infrastructure reserved for religious organizations. Buildings represent particular infrastructural focuses the planet and its society has, like there's a lot of heavy industry or that there's many dedicated military fortresses and garrisons. It's fair to say every planet does have stuff like churches and garrisons and factories but buildings represent sectors of society that are emphasized and much more sizable than the others.

 

[stumason]

It's also pretty questionable to ever think a building as a literal building. "Temple" isn't one building, that wouldn't make any sense. I think it's large network of churches, temples and other, umm, infrastructure reserved for religious organizations. Buildings represent particular infrastructural focuses the planet and its society has, like there's a lot of heavy industry or that there's many dedicated military fortresses and garrisons. It's fair to say every planet does have stuff like churches and garrisons and factories but buildings represent sectors of society that are emphasized and much more sizable than the others.

This..

In fact, it was in one of the DD for Le Guin where these weren't described as single, monolithic buildings but a representation of buildings of that type on the world.

The terminology used is for us to understand it's use from our own, human POV. It is whatever you want it to be for your species, so for Humans it might be actual temples, but the Monkeynut Civilisation from the Testiculon system might all like to worship in big pits of chocolate goo. Whatever tickles your fancy for your civilisation.. The same goes for Hyper Entertainment Forums - for Humans, it might well be a Theme park, but for the Monkeynuts, it could be a giant sandpit filled with Tickleworms that love to slither up your anus.

 

[stumason]

I personally don't like this because, well, it ruins the immersion. If they're lying about the true nature of those things, why should I believe any other part of the game? But it's a more or less legitimate reason why it seems like every species uses "temples" or "theaters". Or hell why do only hive minds have spawning pools? Are they seriously implying every single non-hive mind species has a nucleus family concept? Not a great argument, but it's one of the few ones that makes sense.

The simple reason for this is it is simply a huge time sink to develop so many different buildings etc for each possible race. It's all in your head - maybe the Monkeynuts from Testiculon 9 don't have a nucleus family concept - perhaps they have the "rapid breeder" trait, in which case, maybe they all get together in the Tickleworm Sandpits once a year, get all excited and have a mass spawning orgy?

 

[Kravoka]

Vaguely vague wording for non faction-specific structures is a mainstay of 4X games.

 

[morangias]

I think Holo-Theaters and Holo-Temples are a deliberate wink towards the space opera cliche of creating futuristic tools, institutions and pastimes by slapping a technologically-sounding prefix on a known human tool, institution or pastime, e.g. Hydro-spanner. It's not like the game isn't otherwise deliberately stuffed with old-timey space opera cliches

 

[Powder hound]

Old Trafford, Bernaboa, San Siro.....?