Quick Question Thread

[zenzonegaming (Steve Buscemi Fish Clown Detective Cult Leader)]

i am new but i have been following thrive for a long time.

[Magic8Ball04 (Spore devs quake before me)]

Is it likely that two intelligent civilizations would develop on the same planet in the same time frame. More importantly would it be possible in-game?

[Zahyyy (the one who spent 4 hours writing a single post)]

How will we determine the quantity of offspring the lifeform produces? Because there are species that produce thousands of them and then those who produce just one, such as ourselves. How this might be handled?

[DPHkraken (Δф - Delta Phi)]

I think the quantity of organisms produced should be a property of the reproductive organs, similar to how organelles will be upgraded.

[zenzonegaming (Steve Buscemi Fish Clown Detective Cult Leader)]

is there ice yet in thrive?

[hhyyrylainen]

Yes. Does it do a whole lot? Not yet.

[Magic8Ball04 (Spore devs quake before me)]

Will dual sex species be mandatory? Meaning male and female. On earth I don’t think we’ve found any species that has a third sex or beyond that, only species with one and two sexes have been found. We also haven’t found that two sexes is necessary to reproduce. Getting to the point, will less than two or two sexes in a species be all that we can have?

[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.

[Nikkov (Your neighborhood's friendly trans-humanist)]

Similar question to “Sapients from another galaxy”

Yet this one is more extreme.

Could sapients from other universe visit you?

[Katt47 (My specie is slavers, drug traffickers, smugglers and everything in between.)]

Then again… Does ice do much in real life? I don’t think so but I could be wrong, ice isn’t my area of expertise.

[RoboRomb (Overlord of Organisms)]

I don’t think that would be possible, unless you insert a crystal into an anti mass spectrometer.

[Nikkov (Your neighborhood's friendly trans-humanist)]

Or why to stop there.

Why not beings from other dimensions

[OmnipotentFNarr]

because a 3d model could not physically exist in a 2d paper world.

[Nikkov (Your neighborhood's friendly trans-humanist)]

I meant beings from 4th dimension

[OmnipotentFNarr]

the same thing applies. I just used 3d to 2d to help visualize with a concrete example.

[Nikkov (Your neighborhood's friendly trans-humanist)]

Beings from other layers of reality

[QuantumCrab]

I think the word you’re looking for is other
M U L T I V E R S E S

[Nikkov (Your neighborhood's friendly trans-humanist)]

B E I N G S
F R O M
O T H E R
B O X E S

[Nikkov (Your neighborhood's friendly trans-humanist)]

How do you make text like that?

[tjwhale]

@Katt47

Edit; please refer to the medieval ages (nothing of substance was produced in science).

I know this is something people often say, I also don’t think it’s true. Science and technology evolved tremendously in Europe in the middle ages, especially in the renaissance of the 12th century.

This includes inventions such as: Horseshoes, crop rotation, chimney and fireplaces leading to blast furnaces, oil paint, mechanical clocks and clockwork in general which was an important factor in the industrial revolution, compass, paper, spectacles, first theory of magnetism, universities, pipe organs, cathedrals, mirrors, spurs and stirrups, chain + scale + plate armour, gunpowder, cannons and grenades.

There was also a huge amount of research happening in the middle east with optics and chemistry being particularly fruitful areas. Al Kwarizmi alone formalised Algebra and invented the Algorithm (which is a latin version of his name) in the 9th century. Arabic numerals were also introduced to Europe in this period.