I naturally get pinged cause I am watching it
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I don’t like @ ing people, but yeah I can do that
Also in this case I didn’t really need to I should definitely be doing this when I make new votes.
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apologies for double posting i’m tired of dealing with this editing nonsense.
So. Math. Why, would you ever, make a calculator for orbital stuff, and make it not only use the highly limited int32s, (or even 64) and limit the units to kms?? At least give me AU or light years. Anywho, got it figured out.
SO! Year legnths. Got that nonsense figured out.
How cold is cold ?
- ~750 days, pretty winter-y winters, quite livable
- ~1000 days, dipping out of the habitable zone, deadly, brutal, and long, but not unlivable
- ~1250 days, out of the habitable zone, coldest land life could be active at all, longer
- 1500+ days, land life will have to shut off periodically. Sea life faces sunlight shortages, freezing
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For your information, our stars are officially an F6V and a K5V.
Additionally, research on a retrograde moon suggests it will fall into the gas giant eventually. It, is, however, on the order of billions of years, and we only really care about the few hundred million years between the Cambrian Explosion analogue, and the invention of space travel.
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I can see many mass extinctions be triggered cause of the moon being pulled in
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Yep! Maybe getting pulled past a ring or something.
so, 1000-ish days it is.
but uh, be specific.
How long is year ?
- 975
- 977
- 979
- 981
- 983
- 985
- 987
- 989
- 991
- 993
- 995
- 997
- 999
- 1001
- 1003
- 1005
- 1007
- 1009
- 1011
- 1013
- 1015
- 1017
- 1019
- 1021
- 1023
- 1025
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and we add a fun fraction to the end to make calendaring hard
- No fraction (we’re nice)
- 1/4 (earthian)
- 2/3
- 0.9997
- square root of 2 or 3, because evil is underrated
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Additionally, we orbit a gas giant.
How long is orbit 2 (in days)?
- 13
- 14
- 15
- 16
- 17
- 18
- 19
- 20
- 21
- 22
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This is at the time of civilization, it’ll be a little longer during any evolving votes
edit: apologies for how boring this planet stuff is, after these votes we’ll start doing biological stuff
edit 2: yk the thingy in my original post with all the details summed up? I’m not updating that for a bit, my fingers aren’t presently performing at that level, I’ll do it later.
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How much of the biota will we be creating? Down to the level of phylums?
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So, 997 + 1/6th or √2 days in a year, and 18 days 13 hours per orbit around the gas giant.
- sqr of 2 (rounding up average)
- 1/6 (what happens if you add 2/3 to the average)
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Now, votes on geography!
How deep is the ocean?
- shallower than earth (with good coverage, this is more habitable than earth)
- earth-like (normal, makes sense)
- deep AF (more deep sea creatures sounds fun)
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How much not ocean?
Land percent (30% is normal)
- 1
- 5
- 9
- 13
- 17
- 21
- 25
- 29
- 33
- 37
- 41
- 45
- 49
- 53
- 57
- 61
- 65
- 69
- 73
- 77
- 81
- 85
- 89
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How is land distributed?
- Continents + plate tectonics (Earth-like, more earthquakes)
- Volcanic land (Venusian, archipelago world, lots of volcanos)
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Size of stuff is decided by how much not ocean poll.
And this is basically aesthetic, but what color are plants optimized for summer/winter?
Summer
- Bright blue (for surviving the f-type)
- Bright green/cyan (for getting extreme wavelengths)
- Purpley (for getting the overlap between the suns)
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Winter
- dark green (for getting bright blue and common red)
- purple-y (gets decent coverage)
- black/gray (gets everything)
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If both are purply purple will be the universal plant color, and otherwise there will either be two plant clades, or plants will switch colors. (By plants I mean solar autotrophs)
Phylums yes, more specific stuff if it’s relevant. Like everything on the tree to our sapiants, their crops, predators, and prey, megafauna that’ll make it’s way into their mythology or equivalent of heraldry.
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Will we vote on whether there will be more than 1 sapient species or not?
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What do you mean by sapient in here? As if able to build a civ?
I mean sapient as in holder of sapience.
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Oh yeah totally, multiple is an option. Sapiants as in hopefully going to develop space travel at the end of this game.
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I mean, doesn’t Earth already have many good candidates for sapients, like Elephants of some of the Corvids? From this we can guess that it’s not that uncommon.
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If we decide to have multiple sapient species could some of them be in conditions unable to do so? Like aquatic or lacking manipulatory limbs.
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I bet underwater civ species will become one of sideline sapients if they end up in a poll.
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Earth has many sentiant species, and earth has many tool using species, and many lifelong learners, and many highly social species, but non of them have technology that grows at an accelerating pace and is distributed among a growing society defined by learned traits not genetics. That is how I define sapiants, impossible to deal with in linear time due to technology and society.
Multiple sapiants makes underwater civs much easier. I have in various underwater civs discussions considered trading with other civs to be cheating, just like uplifting.
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and cetaceans. and other primates. and octopus. and meerkats.
honorable mention: raccoons
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How are meerkats sapient?
highly complex social behaviour and other thingies. i would put on honorary mention together with raccoons but nah
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Do they use tools tho? I feel like it’s a rather defining factor of sapients.
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I will go with the forbidden one.
u know, the Herpelenurora or something like that?
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