New features or species you'd like to see

[Pancakelord]

I wonder, now that the Aquatics are announced, what the new most-common request will be?

For species? Gaseous/energy species, probably (maybe with some trans-dimensional flavour - like ES2's Riftborn). That ticks off the last major trope.

I'd personally like to see a clothing/hats/leader traits & mechanics focussed pack (for all species), though. New species are nice and all, but more ways to show variety within/across cultures is more interesting to me (like a human 'going native' and wearing plantoid clothes, or a Necroid wearing a human business suit, per the clothes of the primary species of that empire - and some 'cultural integration' stat).

For Xpacks; probably internal politics, followed by a story pack for spiritualists or primitives.

 

[prismaticmarcus]

I wonder, now that the Aquatics are announced, what the new most-common request will be?

internal politics

 

[Boogeyman]

Bring back laneless hyper methods.

 

[A2ch0n]

I wonder, now that the Aquatics are announced, what the new most-common request will be?

If you talk about species packs: I would really like another anniversary pack with some portraits for each species cathegory. For that, it wouldn't be neccessary to build another shipset and it could be used to bring the missing species from the expansion trailers that are teased but not implemented. In addition it could include a imperial city set. That would close another gap.

The city set is btw the something i missed in the aquatics announcement. The ship set is mentioned, but no city. I really hope that aquatics have their own undersea citys and it was just not mentioned in the annoucement.

If an anniversary pack wouldn't be a thing then i think a amphibious pack would be absolutely gorgeous!

And if you talk about requests in any direction: I think internal politics, QoL improvements and "fixes" for some features will be the most requested features actually. And for me personal...of course a upgrade for espionage operations.

 

[Reedstilt]

If you talk about species packs: I would really like another anniversary pack with some portraits for each species cathegory.

I'd love to see another Anniversary Pack-style mini-release. The Anniversary pack had a sort of "resplendent" theme to it, giving us the Peacock, the Wonderland Caterpillar, and the mini-Ether Drakes - along with including the "Dark / Void" themed aliens from pre-order pack. Leviathan also came with some "Cute" aliens (the Starfish, the Snail, the Geckos, the Butterflies, and the Hooded Fungoid).

There's a bunch of Portrait concepts that could fit into the existing categories that people have kicked around. Apemen for Humanoids, Dogs and Elephants for Mammalians, Snakes and various Dinosaurs for Reptilians (though some Dinosaur-inspired Portraits could fit in Avians instead), Arthropoids could get Scorpions, Mantids, Bees, Ants, etc.

 

[sk065]

I'd like to see some updates to the species packs already released.

Maybe add more portraits to the packs that are lacking in number like machines.

And add a cyborg variant to all portraits when cyborgs become a viable option.

 

[FuzzyLogic]

More ship sections, modules and components! Space combat has grown a bit stale since Apocalypse, it's time to spice things a bit.

 

[Reedstilt]

I'd like to see some updates to the species packs already released.

What sort of updates are you thinking? Humanoids and Plantoids already got some new material in the form of Civics, Origins, and Traits. More of that for all of them (including Lithoids and Necroids) or are you thinking more in terms of additional Portraits?