Aquatic Species Portraits Would Be Awesome

[RoofKorea=BestKorea]

There should be a DLC that adds aquatic themed portraits, structures, and ships. It is an entire branch of life that is not represented in the Stellaris species options currently, and it would be an easy and profitable way to improve the game. Aquatic organisms are amazingly diverse and often very aesthetic and pleasing. I have brainstormed a few options for including species in the portrait pack:

1.) Great White Shark
2.) Mandarin Fish
3.) Beta Fish
4.) Common Dolphin
5.) Humpback Whale
6.) Morray Eel
7.) Catfish
8.) Stingray
9.) Rainbow trout
10.) Angelfish

I think adding an aquatic pack would be fun.

[Danny]

Aquatic species with any non ocean or continent world preference would be awkward. XD

[Mansen]

Opprinnelig skrevet av Danny:

Aquatic species with any non ocean or continent world preference would be awkward. XD

I mean... coldblooded lizards on arctic planets don't make a ton of sense either. There are a lot of questionable combinations possible.

[RoofKorea=BestKorea]

Opprinnelig skrevet av Danny:

Aquatic species with any non ocean or continent world preference would be awkward. XD

a planet does not need to be an ocean planet for it to have water. and there are plenty of RP opportunities to justify it otherwise.

[_ALuX_]

Opprinnelig skrevet av Mansen:

Opprinnelig skrevet av Danny:

Aquatic species with any non ocean or continent world preference would be awkward. XD

I mean... coldblooded lizards on arctic planets don't make a ton of sense either. There are a lot of questionable combinations possible.

Are they really coldblooded then?

[Mansen]

I mean it all depends on how far you're willing to stretch genetics. Having aquatic species on a desert world is also... interesting.

[ThunderOrigin]

+1 on general precept...

Though where are the Octopodes/Octopi/Octopuses?
Take your pick on plural depending how far back in history on its etymology.

Anyhow these creatures are amazingly intelligent, on dolphin levels, while the distributed neural system they have makes our spinal feedback loops positively primitive.

[coolman552]

Opprinnelig skrevet av ThunderOrigin:

+1 on general precept...

Though where are the Octopodes/Octopi/Octopuses?
Take your pick on plural depending how far back in history on its etymology.

Anyhow these creatures are amazingly intelligent, on dolphin levels, while the distributed neural system they have makes our spinal feedback loops positively primitive.

there is already a octopus portrait i guess?

[martin77]

great idea!
I loved the trilarians in master of orion 2 :)

[RoofKorea=BestKorea]

Opprinnelig skrevet av martin77:

great idea!
I loved the trilarians in master of orion 2 :)

yah!

[corisai]

They would look cool indeed but I'm against this idea - underwater industry is impossible without some kind of psionic abilities. So they should be a latent psionics or would look really stupid.

Opprinnelig skrevet av Mansen:

I mean... coldblooded lizards on arctic planets don't make a ton of sense either.

Nothing states they're cold-blooded.

[ThunderOrigin]

Why do you have to have underwater industry? (not picking holes, just looking at alternatives)

1) Amphibious creatures
2) Water masters, amphibious serviles
3) Multitudes of Industry sectors are geared towards vacuum for many reason (very little contamination, less power for motion as no drag, to name a couple).

Stretching into Si-Fi, I could imagine some Octopodes developing a biological suit that keeps them in a self contained water environment enabling them to traverse land and indeed low pressure space craft/stations.

[corisai]

Opprinnelig skrevet av ThunderOrigin:

1) Amphibious creatures

Molluscoids, huh?

Opprinnelig skrevet av ThunderOrigin:

2) Water masters, amphibious serviles

To conquer someone and turn them into serviles you would need
1) weapons. Again industry.
2) control. How you would control serviles without camera system (no industry) and being unable to enter land?
No way to do it without psionic affinity.

Opprinnelig skrevet av ThunderOrigin:

3) Multitudes of Industry sectors are geared towards vacuum for many reason (very little contamination, less power for motion as no drag, to name a couple).

You need somehow reach orbit FIRST... And actually vacuum industry is much, much harder then surface based - all vacuum advantages are shadowed by cooling problem (long-term materials degradation is another story).

Opprinnelig skrevet av ThunderOrigin:

Stretching into Si-Fi, I could imagine some Octopodes developing a biological suit

How you would manipulate DNA to make it? With tooths, huh?

Again - with a psionic it's more or less reasonable. But they should have it mandatory, so being limited in other traits (or be amphibious creatures that look like a fish only because it's cool).

I know Stellaris isn't too realistic... But fish-looking race from a arid/desert planet is a too much for me.

[RoofKorea=BestKorea]

Opprinnelig skrevet av corisai:

They would look cool indeed but I'm against this idea - underwater industry is impossible without some kind of psionic abilities. So they should be a latent psionics or would look really stupid.

they can make industry ont he surface of the water.

[Maya-Neko]

A fully aquatic species would propably go too far, but an amphibious speciel should definitely be possible. Housing in water, but working on land or something like this.

And there are tons of water even in a desert. It's just not on top of the sand, but actually below it. That's why you can still build wells there and why you might find an oasis here and there. And just because the planets land surface is too hot to support most life forms doesn't mean, that it's impossible to have oceans somewhere or even some areas with jungles or something like that at the poles (hollywood might love dipictions of desert planets with 100% sand, but it's not very realistic, if the planet does have breathable air or even some kind of life forms)

[RoofKorea=BestKorea]

Opprinnelig skrevet av Maya:

A fully aquatic species would propably go too far, but an amphibious speciel should definitely be possible. Housing in water, but working on land or something like this.

And there are tons of water even in a desert. It's just not on top of the sand, but actually below it. That's why you can still build wells there and why you might find an oasis here and there. And just because the planets land surface is too hot to support most life forms doesn't mean, that it's impossible to have oceans somewhere or even some areas with jungles or something like that at the poles (hollywood might love dipictions of desert planets with 100% sand, but it's not very realistic, if the planet does have breathable air or even some kind of life forms)

bro, its a portrait. you can RP them and fluff them however you want.