What i have been thinking is something like in Space Engineers where different self controlled bases with loot in them could be implemented, which could be something fun for people who play the space stage in non strategy mode. (forgot what it was called)
Silver, if you necro a thread please at least try to add something to the discussion
Like, its cool to have atcivity on the forum obviously but sometimes that which is dead must forever lie.
(10 points if you get that reference)
Also to @QuantumCrab
We are unlikely to tackle non-earthlike life to a significant extent until earthlike life works fine. (Except for occassioal things like thermoplasts which add boatloads of opportunities. (Though you can use earthlife like things to do non-earthlike things, for example to have a planet made of creatures that eat sulfur all you need is for all your mitochondria to be sulfur mitochondrion (a means of chemosynthesis). Which is totally doable.