No Man's Sky Gender Matching?

[VirtueOfSin]

First - let me apologize for this, but I am unable to play the game right now and unable to compile this information firsthand for myself. I've recently taken an interest in the game's intergalactic biodiversity of the many creatures and species found on these planets (Especially the Diplo's/Branto's), and I've been wanting to begin making theories on species in the videos I've been watching on Youtube and Twitch Streams in my spare time.

Unfortunately, I'm having trouble with the No Man's Sky's Gender system. While the game's Wiki system shows all the available Genders that a species can be, there is no "Link" between the two that would show which ones relate to each other. For an obvious example: Male and Female - The two of them randomly give half of their genetics to their offspring which is (normally*) birthed by the female (*Seahorses have been known to reverse this where the males give birth to the offspring).

Does anyone have a list of the "Gender Pairings" for this game? I believe one of them was Vectorised/Radical, which sparked my interest in this theory to begin with (The Vectorised Diplo species had long glowing horns on its face while the Radical did not).

Additionally, if possible, could you also provide a screenshot example for each of the genders of that species? This would help be better determine the species' Gender Differences in order to more accurately theorize what each of these genders mean.

Thank you to everyone who is willing to aid me with my Fantasy Science in advance!

Hopefully these endeavors will prove fruitful in my studies before I'm able to buy a new computer and actually play this game first hand!

[Dirak2012]

I think all the different genders are just the devs having fun, not something to be taken seriously.

[MisterFlagg]

To summarize the opening thread... the poster wants ingame screenshots of dingdongs and mumus... anyone got some? :-D

[TΞSTOSTΞROWNLOL]

^ lol.

[lordoftheapes79]

You're over thinking it. There's no rhyme or reason to gender species in this game. Like everything else, its randomized. They are all legit gender types tho so you should just google them.

[yongbing1]

Originally posted by Alpha Wolf:

First - let me apologize for this, but I am unable to play the game right now and unable to compile this information firsthand for myself. I've recently taken an interest in the game's intergalactic biodiversity of the many creatures and species found on these planets (Especially the Diplo's/Branto's), and I've been wanting to begin making theories on species in the videos I've been watching on Youtube and Twitch Streams in my spare time.

Unfortunately, I'm having trouble with the No Man's Sky's Gender system. While the game's Wiki system shows all the available Genders that a species can be, there is no "Link" between the two that would show which ones relate to each other. For an obvious example: Male and Female - The two of them randomly give half of their genetics to their offspring which is (normally*) birthed by the female (*Seahorses have been known to reverse this where the males give birth to the offspring).

Does anyone have a list of the "Gender Pairings" for this game? I believe one of them was Vectorised/Radical, which sparked my interest in this theory to begin with (The Vectorised Diplo species had long glowing horns on its face while the Radical did not).

Additionally, if possible, could you also provide a screenshot example for each of the genders of that species? This would help be better determine the species' Gender Differences in order to more accurately theorize what each of these genders mean.

Thank you to everyone who is willing to aid me with my Fantasy Science in advance!

Hopefully these endeavors will prove fruitful in my studies before I'm able to buy a new computer and actually play this game first hand!

Oh, what silliness even level headed gamers fall into. Don't you know machines in the future will be able to be all genders. lol Some of the things people with too much time on their hands get into.

[BaneBlackGuard]

i think the idea is that not all species reproduce using male-female pairs. the aliens from Alien Nation are a good example. there are species in the game that ARE two gender species.

[VirtueOfSin]

@Dirak2012 - While that might be true, part of the fun I'm having is making a creature biography of what I find and give it a little page in my notebook (i.e.: Theories on its lifecycle, its habits, predators or not, how it might survive [I've had some fun with "Absorbed nutrients" Diet Diplo's, describing them much like a whale by filtering the sand with their mouths for nutrients in the soil]). These theories are purely speculative, I'd like to at least make something up.

@MisterFlagg - Not all genders are "Male and Female" anatomy. For example, my theory towards the Vectorised/Rational is more akin to the Angler Fish and the Osedax, which the "male" (who looks nothing like the female) latches on and fuses into the female's body, essentially becoming "one organism". The female can then choose when to become pregnant by using the male, essentially, as a second reproductive organ. In this case, taking a photo of the difference between male and female would determine how the "males" attach themselves to the "females" body. Granted - again - this is just a THEORY, but something that makes more sense than where the word came from: Where the Vector reproduced by sticking its DNA inside the Rational, only for the Rational to die after reproducing for the Vector.

@TΞSTOSTΞROWNLOL While it was funny, I would like to take some form of scientific seriousness into these theories for a fantasy world. I do enjoy scientific "what if" scenarios. Still, it was a good chuckle the first time I read it.

@lordoftheapes79 While yes, genders are randomized, I'm fairly certain there is SOME pattern to it. For example: There will always be a Female if one species if Male and vice versa. You won't get a Male and then suddenly get a Vectorised in the same species. If you find a Male, it's guaranteed to be a Male/Female species. I've found the same to be true for Vectorized/Rationalized. All I am asking for is the gender pairs for each, if any. (For example: I'm fairly certain that Unknown and None have no Gender which it can be paired with).

@yongbing1 Hey, I'm having fun so I'm enjoying myself with my theories. Besides, its not like I have anything else to do when I'm on the weekend and its 0°F Outside.

@BaneBlackGuard Yes, I agree that not all species have a Male-Female counterpart system, but that isn't what I'm asking. I'm asking for what Genders are linked to each other, and which ones aren't. A simple request really, just something I can't do myself for the time being cuz of an underperforming laptop. (I plan on rectifying this when I get enough money).

[BaneBlackGuard]

i'll have to look back through my creatures, but i'm pretty sure you are mistaken about the male/female assertion. fairly certain i've seen male or female show up in species that have other genders

[Small Guy Ownz]

I find this topic to be really interesting and I wanna see what I can do to help. I'm looking through all of my discoveries right now and I'm in the process of trying to find all of the different species on this planet that I'm at. I've only discovered all species on 7 different planets so far but I can see what I can do to help.

Edit: Okay so I've been playing NMS on and off for a while now and I never got to know the discovery system to well and it just now came to my attention that you can't actually look at a list of each gender in your discoveries, so you have to find them in the wild and look at the names and check the gender.

At first I was really confused because there are some species that have the exact same word in their names as each other and they have varying genders and visual traits but I was confused when I found 3 with the same word in their names.. at first I thought I had made a discovery that there could be 3 genders to the same species but then I realized that's definitely not what I was seeing.

So anyways, not I have to manually check each type and try to figure out the gender matches.. thanks a lot discovery system lol

[Small Guy Ownz]

Okay so collected a little bit of info about some of the animals on my current planet (7/15 of them)

1. Vectorized/Inderterminate

2. Male/Female

3. Vectorized/Rational

4. None/Asymmetric

5. Vectorized/Radical

6. None/Female

7. Male/Vectorized


I hope this helps you out. It was actually quite difficult to gather the info with the animals running around and there being predators and storms.


Side note,
I noticed that an animal's age was listed as "fluctuating" so it might interest you to look into other aspects as well, not just genders.

Good luck with getting your pc so you can play it :P

[Bodin]

This sort of thing is just what the doctor ordered for a game about discovery.

I've always intended to look up more about these species genders.. Hoping you post your findings in depth, or make a wiki page, or a blog, or something like that.