Biomes

[Poodelicus (Crazy, Curious, and Stubborn)]

That is a good point. So I guess “Disturbed Forest” and/or “Managed Forest” could be Social stage+ subtypes. I will fix it now.

[aah31415 (The maker of SitF, Radiostrocity, The Lifenote and TGBing; The Second Ascended...; And just maybe a security warning come alive...?)]

Would we also want there to be a forest subtype for “fire forests” (as in forests where wildfires occur frequently and take an important part in their ecology)?

[Rathalos]

@aah31415

Would it be possible to have both suspended and floating occur as descriptive terms then or would we only wish to have one make it into the game?

Depends on when and where I suppose? Using one term for one situation is usually better.

@Poodelicus

Edit: Actually, no, that looks weird. I think the answer is: just use the subtype name?

Indeed this is mainly what I was thinking.

@Poodelicus

Are you referring to the Forum formatting? Because I figured out a long time age not to post a heavily formatted document without putting it in forum format first. Posting regular bulletins always gets very messed up, and the default bold does not work, so I have to manually change it every time. That is how it looks on my computer, because that is the easiest way to post it here.

Yes, the forums use markdown. You can set google docs to translate those in the same way the forums do.

@Poodelicus

Edit: I have realized I was misunderstanding how many Aware/Awake generations it takes for a Forest to become “Old”, this clearly needs a reverse subtype for Social stage+.

@aah31415

Honestly it seems to me like the old growth / multiple layer canopy forest would be the default forest type and “one layer canopy” would only come about along with civilizations

Indeed, in pre-social stages an old-growth forest is just “any forest”, unless there’s been an enormous catastrophe just now.

@aah31415

Would we also want there to be a forest subtype for “fire forests” (as in forests where wildfires occur frequently and take an important part in their ecology)?

Many forests have fires, the end result that has on the vegetation is what would be classified. Is it sparser than other forests? Less underbrush? OR not because it just grows back strongly in between the fires?

Again, we’re talking about millennia here. The fact that it’s caused by fire does not matter unless the player experiences the fire.

[aah31415 (The maker of SitF, Radiostrocity, The Lifenote and TGBing; The Second Ascended...; And just maybe a security warning come alive...?)]

@Rathalos

Again, we’re talking about millennia here. The fact that it’s caused by fire does not matter unless the player experiences the fire.

Fair, maybe it could be a rare event generally for non-wet forests?