Density of alien species

[Ill_try_at_least (ł'₥ ₦Ø₮ ₵Ɽ₳ⱫɎ. ł'₥ ₦Ø₮ ₵Ɽ₳ⱫɎ. ł'₥ ₦Ø₮ ₵Ɽ₳ⱫɎ.)]

I doubt it, but I think it would be harder to find alien life due to no FTL drives, since you’d have to have a solar system with at least 2 habitable planets/moons

[hhyyrylainen]

Non-scifi mode could just disable all alien life entirely and the effect would be basically the same. The player could not explore really anything without FTL so they wouldn’t even notice if the few solar systems they could manage to reach had no chance of containing any life.

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

By the way, when in the space stage (in scifi mode), would there be signs of past spacefaring species and stuff, or would it be treated that all space civs begun at the same time?

[Animalia (Matti)]

I don’t think non-scifi mode should disable all alien life. But I do think it would greatly reduce their significance. You could have an ice moon in your solar system with simple microbial life.

@hhyyrylainen

The player could not explore really anything without FTL so they wouldn’t even notice if the few solar systems they could manage to reach had no chance of containing any life.

I agree that the player’s ability to explore things without FTL would be greatly reduced. Although I’m sure the player could figure out which systems near them could have the potential for life and which don’t considering we do the same thing.

It would just take way longer.

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

@Animalia

You could have an ice moon in your solar system with simple microbial life.

Or some barren terrestrial planet with it’s deep biosphere still living…

[hhyyrylainen]

@Animalia

I agree that the player’s ability to explore things without FTL would be greatly reduced. Although I’m sure the player could figure out which systems near them could have the potential for life and which don’t considering we do the same thing.

But as you said, that would be just about the possible conditions for life. So as the player couldn’t confirm anything, we wouldn’t need to simulate any actual life in that case.

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

Well until they reach those systems that is…

[Animalia (Matti)]

@hhyyrylainen

But as you said, that would be just about the possible conditions for life. So as the player couldn’t confirm anything, we wouldn’t need to simulate any actual life in that case.

I suppose you are right. Maybe the player could get an achievement for discovering habitable planets in non scifi mode and an allude to the fact that if they want to see alien organisms next run should have scifi turned on

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

Maybe you could only find primitive life but no complex life on such planets at times?