Another thread about Alien life

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@TwilightWings21

Potentially, there could also be an opt-in where auto-evo continues on ‘your planet’ after you discover it

I thought evolution wouldn’t continue after aware stage because you no longer live through millions of years.

But it would be possible to have auto evo to create an alternate future of the planet and discovering that version.

@TwilightWings21

‘favoriting’ planets so they have a higher likelihood to appear

This would be a good thing to add. If you liked mountains, you could favorite mountainous planets and the game could give you that kind of planets to explore. If you had a fear of spiders, you could dislike planets that had spider-oids and you would stop seeing them.

@TwilightWings21

the default of premade planets, but if you want you could have auto evo make planets, allowing uniqueness at the cost of loading speed

This is planned, i think. But it wouldn’t happen at the same time as when you are playing the game. You could let the auto evo running during the night and when it is completed you could add the planets that are created to your game.

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@hhyyrylainen

entire planets in the space stage are pre-generated. So we can use a lot of computing time to finish simulating a planet for a wanted amount of time (or until an advanced enough species appears), then the planet can be saved and we can include that with the game files

@Swampuss

it would be an interesting idea to add a separate item in the gameplay settings, which is called “allow procedural generation of planets”, when turned on, gradually generated planets begin to appear

@hhyyrylainen

Why would that be better than releasing a tool that players can let run separately to generate a ton of planets which we can then distribute with the game?

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You know what would be the perfect thing to add to the game? Quantum space whales.

Every once in a while, a species in a planet quantum tunnels to another planet, continuing its evolution there. This way, you could interact with your previous creations before the space stage.