Quick Question Thread

[hhyyrylainen]

This immediately reminded of fungi with thousands of sexes
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/d-brief/2017/11/06/fungus-genders/#.XUMwkiZOQUE
(Sorry for the bit dodgy site, I didn’t quickly find a better source)

On a more serious note, sexes will be part of a more general caste system:

Variation within a species

Would it be possible that there are species that can vary in appearance, in game? They could look different based on where any part of a species live in a different environment. A real life example would be like dogs, with different breeds, sizes and colors.

Gender Differences/Mating Displays

I’m sticking these two topics together because they’re kind of similar. I personally think it would be rather cool if you had an option to make your species sexually dimorphic. Perhaps the male of your species could be brightly colored and flashy while the females could be more dull, kind of like in most bird species. Perhaps there could even be behavioral differences? That brings me to my next topic; possible mating displays. I imagine this would be a bit harder to work with, but it would be…

Eusociality and castes

I think I am not the only one, who is particulary excited for this feature and the opportunities it presents. After all, what could be greater than watching your beautiful abomination’s struggle against an unforgiving world? Watching a bunch of them struggling together to show said world who owns this place, of course! But since the dynamic between organisms of an eusocial species is so vastly different from the more “normal” types of behaviour, I think it would make sense to discuss everything …

There’s already a lot of discussion about that.