Where are the humanoids?

[Narr666]

Hi folks,


I have never seen a humanoid species, with the exception of the Humans themselves, being radomly generated, meaning when not made by me and coming into the game through the "eventually spawn" rule.

Even in my playthroughs where I forbid my creations to spawn, I´ve never seen them, and in fact I only build one humanoid species: The people with the great blue head.


So, I´ve never seen the Cardassians and Space Elves. Is it just a random oddity? Has someone seen them in his playthrough as a randomly generated race? Or was it maybe forgaotten, since they were added later, that the AI consider their portrait?


Keep on gaming,


Dennis

 

[loserwave]

I've seen them couple of times. They're somewhat rare mostly because there's so much more portraits in other groups compared to humanoids.

 

[Narr666]

okay, so debunked. Guess I´ll have to roll the dice a few times. That´s good news.

 

[Wade Smith]

More Humanoids would be cool...and separate ship style from Mammalian...(and more Phenotypes) heh.

1. Humanoid
2. Mammalian (and Marsupial)
3. Avian
4. Reptilian (and Amphibian)
5. Molluscoid
6. Arthropoid (Insect and Crustacean)
7. Fungoid
8. Plantoid
9. Ichthyoid
10. Lithoid
11. Anneloid
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12. Plasmaoid (or Energoid?)
13. Synthetic (or Android?)

But I still make more play time...waiting for expansion I suppose.

 

[Mauer]

The only species I have never seen is the blue birds, it's probably coded not to as there's only one variation of them.

Yeah, rock and plasma people would be nice.

 

[extrapancake]

I get the blue headed humanoids in nearly every game for some reason, but thats about it.

 

[The Founder]

So, I´ve never seen the Cardassians and Space Elves. Is it just a random oddity? Has someone seen them in his playthrough as a randomly generated race? Or was it maybe forgaotten, since they were added later, that the AI consider their portrait?

The Humanoid Group has 5 Portraits, humans included.
I jsut checked and actually found Humanoid 4 in my most recent game. On top of it also having the UNS (among other Strock Empires).
In the one before I played as 4 and had 5 (Space Elves) around.
The game before that I was a Tzynn and had Nr 3 and 4 in my game.

So they most definitely spawn. Maybe you just play on way to small maps?

 

[Aed]

I get them regularly so you just need to start new games more often.

My current game has a space elf empire as my main rival and the Cardassian lookalikes as a fellow federation member.

 

[bronze Void poison]

More Humanoids would be cool...and separate ship style from Mammalian...(and more Phenotypes) heh.

1. Humanoid
2. Mammalian (and Marsupial)
3. Avian
4. Reptilian (and Amphibian)
5. Molluscoid
6. Arthropoid (Insect and Crustacean)
7. Fungoid
8. Plantoid
9. Ichthyoid
10. Lithoid
11. Anneloid
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12. Plasmaoid (or Energoid?)
13. Synthetic (or Android?)

But I still make more play time...waiting for expansion I suppose.

what is Anneloid?
but otherwise I agree

 

[Wade Smith]

https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/anneloid

https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/annelid

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annelid



Edit
anneloid (plural anneloids)

1. (zoology) Any animal resembling an annelid.

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annelid (plural annelids)

1. any of various wormlike animals, of the phylumAnnelida, having a segmented body; they include the earthworm and the leech

 

[Wade Smith]

 

[bronze Void poison]

https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/anneloid

https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/annelid

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annelid


annelid (plural annelids)

1. any of various wormlike animals, of the phylumAnnelida, having a segmented body; they include the earthworm and the leech

thank you and wade ssmith for the pitchers

 

[CocoCincinnati]

I've seen all of the humanoids except the elves. Have 2 out of the 15 starting AI Empires in my latest game (and I'm not sure I've encountered all the other empires yet so there may be more).

 

[The_Meme_Man]

I see humanoid races all the bloody time, to the point where it gets annoying for me.

 

[Narr666]

Yes, I think we have enough proof. Thank you all.

 

[The_Human_Oddity]

Not having a bunch of humanoid species was a nice change in the genre though...

 

[Sheriff Godwin Law]

When I feel like messing with humanoids, usually on one of my xenophobe/a-hole playthroughs, I just design some and lock them in as participants.

That's fun because then I can optimize them towards a certain kind of behavior. I generally make them Federation builders and hope they get placed near each other.