Would you want an Ichthyoid Phenotype DLC ?

[Es57]

I.e fish-like aliens.

If you count the Plantoids, pretty much all of Earth biosphere is represented as alien phenotypes, by now.
Except fishes.

I think there is a lot of potential for interesting and different species, like shark, clownfish, scorpion-fish, dolphin (yes I know it's a mammal, but it doesn't have to be strictly fish), etc...

And it would fit well in Ocean planets.

What do you think ?
Do you agree ? Do you find it fishy ?

 

[ashbery76]

No more bloody earth animals.

 

[Wade Smith]

Maybe.
There is a possible theoretical issue of water species not developing adequate manipulative hands or such to make technology...or simply underwater would prevent most technologies to advance technologically. Think of fire and electricity to start.

I hope for Lithoid and then Plasmaoid.

 

[garbud]

honestly this would be really cool because there not enough portraits for work for my ocean empires.

 

[garbud]

Maybe.
There is a possible theoretical issue of water species not developing adequate manipulative hands or such to make technology...or simply underwater would prevent most technologies to advance technologically. Think of fire and electricity to start.

I hope for Lithoid and then Plasmaoid.

we already can start as a at least semi underwater species by picking the ocean planet as our home world even the first colonization pop up supports it with you landing the ship in the water.

 

[Zaltys]

Maybe.
There is a possible theoretical issue of water species not developing adequate manipulative hands or such to make technology...or simply underwater would prevent most technologies to advance technologically.

Could just say that they're remnants of some species uplifted by the precursors, or something like that.

Dolphins are the most commonly uplifted species in science fiction. Most writers have solved the no hands problem by giving them mechanical suits or cybernetics.

 

[Vahouth]

I want Cyborgs instead.

 

[DukeLeto42]

I want Cyborgs instead.

Pretty sure that's in the next DLC, with technological ascendance perks.

 

[Vahouth]

Pretty sure that's in the next DLC, with technological ascendance perks.

I wouldn't count on it.
Even though mechanical ascension is part of the perks, they always dodged the question if that would actually be shown in the phenotype.

 

[bronze Void poison]

Maybe.
There is a possible theoretical issue of water species not developing adequate manipulative hands or such to make technology...or simply underwater would prevent most technologies to advance technologically. Think of fire and electricity to start.

I hope for Lithoid and then Plasmaoid.

they could be amphibious and plasmaoid is even less likely

 

[Voidlord]

I wouldn't count on it.
Even though mechanical ascension is part of the perks, they always dodged the question if that would actually be shown in the phenotype.

Wait for DD about it then

 

[Es57]

Maybe.
There is a possible theoretical issue of water species not developing adequate manipulative hands or such to make technology...or simply underwater would prevent most technologies to advance technologically. Think of fire and electricity to start.

Maybe they could not master technology as we know it, but that's the most interesting part : they could have developped a technology entirely different from our own, with different energy sources like completely mastering the water currents, or other sources unknown to humans, that thousands of years of evolution underwater would have revealed to them (living water for example, is a recurring concept in sci-fi : why not taming it somehow ?)

It also opens the opportunity of cool concepts like water-filled spaceships (allowing them to travel in space while still being underwater).

 

[Zwollenaer]

Yes, I'd definitely throw my money at an aquatic race pack!

But rather than new races being added I'd rather just see changes to the phenotypes of the existing races when I genemod them and/or turn them into cyborgs. But that would be so much work that I doubt it will ever happen.

 

[Mitchz95]

How would this work on desert/arid/savanna planets? Why would an aquatic species prefer those to, say, an ocean or continental world?

 

[BlackUmbrellas]

I'd be down to see a fishppl pack, yeah.

 

[BlackUmbrellas]

How would this work on desert/arid/savanna planets? Why would an aquatic species prefer those to, say, an ocean or continental world?

None of the phenotypes enforce habitability.

You can play a Molluscoid with a nautilus-face and live on a desert world- how you explain that is up to you.

 

[garbud]

How would this work on desert/arid/savanna planets? Why would an aquatic species prefer those to, say, an ocean or continental world?

easy over melinnia the once water filled world started to dry out...(put rest of backstory here)

 

[Mitchz95]

easy over melinnia the once water filled world started to dry out...(put rest of backstory here)

But why would they prefer such a world to an ocean planet? If WWIII happened and Earth became a Tomb World, humans won't suddenly find irradiated wastelands more habitable than a fresh new Continental planet. Over thousands of years, sure, a fish species could evolve to live on land, but then it wouldn't be a fish anymore.

At least with Molluscoids you can say, "it's an alien mollusc who evolved in a different climate". But an aquatic species is, by definition, aquatic. Putting aside biochemistry and different atmospheres, which are ignored in Stellaris, it makes no sense that they'd turn down an ocean planet in favor of, say, a dry climate.

Mind you, I'm not opposed to aquatic species. I just hope that it's thought out and rationalized in-universe.

 

[Meneliki]

yes. fish species is a good thing.

 

[Strager]

I think they shoud hold off on these until they do an Aquatic focused DLC. Release like 3 aquatic phenotypes with it and 3 new aquatic planet types (and replace ocean worlds with something).