Races and favorable planets

[unkn0wnx]

I can't help but feel that the 7 races are too similar. If I were to make a game I would make it where some races like hot planets and some like it cold etc... Where most races dislike glacier and arid planets, there got to be someone who actually prefers them? When you look at all 7, most of they follows the pattern of glacier, arid, island garden. With exception of Phidi who likes water and Orthin who likes glacier. Also maybe different race have unique terraform tech like Orthin's condensation? Just a thought.

[Pherdnut]

I think it would be interesting to have a playable race that's great at the more hostile biomes like inferno and airless but think biomes, not planet types, and you may see more specialty than you are now.

Humans are kind of the meh-baseline race. They tend to pair nicely with Orthin or Phidi but don't help most of the other races out with anything.

Yoral are strong generalists, better at almsost everything than most unless it's another species' specailty. But they are particularly good at ice. Yoral + Orthin on Glacier can actually get pretty big pop-wise.

Orthin are uniquely good at vents (glacier has vents) but more restricted than most. To have the highest pop on the nicer worlds you need Orthin. I think they are better than most at some of the other water biomes as well.

Gremak are slightly better than baseline at water IIRC, but weak at hot/dry I think. They've changed a lot since early access.

Phidi are amazing at most biomes found in water other than vents, but terrible at dry.

The dinos are like humans but quite good at dry/hot.

Everybody likes garden/Gaia because it has such a wide variety of biomes.

[unkn0wnx]

I just figured that out too. Now I drop one Wrem on every barren or iceball world. I was looking for other races that like arid or ice, but most don't like them.
I was thinking maybe they should make the two dinosaurs a bit more different. Like one prefer ice the other prefer dry.
Also why there are no marshes? Gremaks likes them. Or at least let them terraform planets into marshes.

[Arioch]

It's difficult to imagine an intelligent organism that would prefer ice habitats... what would they eat? Most life needs water, which is unavailable when it's frozen, and almost all Earth life that lives in the ice is really aquatic life. I think even those creatures specifically evolved in an icy environment would still do better in a less hostile biome.

There is a similar issue with arid worlds -- water is life. However, Spice Mongers do prefer arid words, and we do have a new playable faction in the coming DLC (the Tinkers) that prefer arid worlds, since water is harmful to their machinery.

We'll add swamp planets as soon as I get around to making a graphic for them.

[unkn0wnx]

Yay DLC!
But they have Star trek technology!

[dollars202]

I think any animal life with a thick skin/fur coat might prefer ice worlds, maybe make them vain and have them style their coats.

[Pherdnut]

Also insulating layer of blubber would probably suck in the Bahamas.