Another thread about Alien life

[hhyyrylainen]

@The_confused_protist

What I meant by this is that the other planets would evolve during the player’s entire playthrough up until about civilization stage like how I assume would work for the player’s planet. What I mean by the farthest away planet not evolving at all is that the closest planets would be barly evolving in the first place and, having a much higher chance for auto-evo to mess around with, the chances would become neglible at best for the farthest away planets.

But then that would result in a galaxy where the planets are less interesting the farther you go from the player start. Surely that’s not good?

And what difference would that make from having let’s say 1000 planets pre-generated and bundled with the game files?

Generation of other planets

Inspired by the discussion on discord let’s talk about how other planets could be populated with life. So in the space stage we’ll want the player to be able to explore a lot of different planets. In order to have cool, different, life on the planets there needs to be some way for the planets to be populated without resorting to some random generation or placing random community made species on the planets. And as we aren’t planning on making Thrive only run on super computers we cannot simulat…