>Space game >Planets come in different climate types and

I feel you Op

Muh snow planet
Muh jungle planet
Muh desert planet

Someone come up with something new

>>378939446
worst of all is how they usually dont take life, radiation, magnetic fields, gravity or even fucking atmospheric pressure into account

>>378939074
How alien do you want it? Lovecraft or Kirkbride alien?

>Hurrr I'm angry that nobody enjoys my sillyhoo planet idea where everyone walks with their faces or some other retarded bullshit.

It sucks, but climates and lifeforms aren't likely to be all that crazy.

Tolkein crafted the biggest world and his shit was just medieval drama between humans, short humans, skinny humans, and ugly humans.

well that's what makes earth so special innit

>Space game
>Every planet, moon and space station you go to has the exact same gravity and atmosphere

but thats realistic

look at the planets we know about they are all the same climate except earth

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>>378939074
>Space game focus on the macro scale
>Find all the small stuff way to dumbed down
>Space game focuses on the micro scale
>Don't feel like you're in a very large universe
>Space game focuses on both
>It looks like this

>>378941203
That's a NASA hoax, they are big stars and Earth is a flat plain

>all the aliens look like recolored humans

>Space game
>Black hole is a solid sphere/ball

>>378941380
Well what shape do they have then?

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>>378939074
>lifeless planet
>has plants

>>378939074
>developers can't be arsed to put basic things in games
>this faggot expects different climates on planets, gravity, radiation, magnetic fields...

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>>378939446
>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TRAPPIST-1d#Habitability
>The planet is very likely tidally locked, with one hemisphere permanently facing towards TRAPPIST-1 and the other shrouded in darkness. However, between these two intense areas, there would be a sliver of habitability – called the terminator line, where the temperatures may be suitable (about 273 K (0 °C; 32 °F)) for liquid water to exist.
>Even, from the close in proximity of TRAPPIST-1d, about 50 times closer than Earth is from the Sun, the planet receives less than 1% the visible light Earth sees from our Sun. This would probably make the days on TRAPPIST-1d never brighter than twilight is on Earth. However, that still means that TRAPPIST-1 could easily shine at least 3000 times brighter in the sky of TRAPPIST-1d than the full moon does in Earth's night sky.

>>378941380
>Space game
>Black holes are real and not just a mathematical convenience that are as real as magical pixies who run the rain factory in clouds.

>>378941470
>>378941380
I think the problem here isn't the shape but the fact it's solid. Black holes are a singularity, which is beyond microscopic and the sphere you see is the void of blackness called the event horizon which you should be able to fall through to your doom.

>>378939446
This is one of the biggest sources of my existential angst, as strange as it sounds.

>>378941380
>spacegame
>blackholes has the shape of your mothers anus

>>378939074
Desert Planet = One that hasn't been terraformed like Mars
Water Planet = Theoretically believe to exist on one of Jupiters Moons
Ice Planet = Dunno Pluto I guess
Volcano Planet = Venus

The problem is that none of these support life in the slightest.

>>378941643
Why not just find massive Black hole n survive event horizon?

>>378939074
You think you're being clever but Earth is rapidly becoming a single biome planet thanks to rising temperatures and desertification, mass extinction and homogenisation of human culture.

>>378942058
You realise there were periods when the Earth didn't even have Ice Caps right?

>>378942058
>Earth is rapidly becoming a single biome planet
literally impossible

>>378942134
Yeah, it was a tropical planet then, but you're not gonna see that shit again because human activity affects more than just the air temperature.

>>378939074
Halo did it right

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>>378941643
the event horizon is just the line where light doesn't get absorbed into the hole anymore. those weird bright shapes around a black hole

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>tfw all planet surface is uninhabitable desert except for several impact craters where the atmospheric pressure is high enough to harbour life
Why there are no games set in cool settings like that?

>>378941253
What game is that

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>>378943205
Aurora aka dwarf fortress: space edition

>>378943051
I didn't know this was a thing. Pretty cool.

>>378939074
>>378939446
>Implying Earth in past times had the diversity of biomes as it has today

Carboniferous Earth was swamp planet and Permic probably had a mix of desert and arid zones in general.

Is it possible that humanity is the most advanced civilization in the entire universe? Aliens do exist, that's a fact, but is it possible they're still in their incredibly primitive stages? Maybe we have cavemen tentacleheads at one place and medieval lizardmen somewhere else.

I don't know what a real life alien would look like so bear with the examples.

>>378943720
Who knows?

Probability alone suggests that there might be a race more advanced than us, but that could be in the next galactic cluster over.

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>>378941643
It should look like a lens, reflecting the universe around it.

>>378943720
You mean like Spore's space stage? You can run into other species that are taking the same evolutionary path that yours did, only their in the earlier stages.

You can drop technology on their planet and increase their development speed, and when they reach the age of space they love you for it, but they're not powerful allies because they don't have much territory.

>>378939074
Don't worry buddy, Mass Effect Andromeda takes your audience into account. There are several "Golden Worlds" which meet the criteria for livable planets for each species!

>>378943720
you don't seem to get it, humans need to believe there's something out there better than us, stronger than us, smarter than us, etc. It gives us something to strive towards. If we discovered we were truly the only intelligent life in the entire universe a lot of people would simply just give up.

>>378943720
We will never meet aliens, but our robots might meet robots built by aliens.

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>>378941515
>Lifeless planet
>Has robots
Wait, no, still accurate. :^)

>>378943960
Grox... detected...

>>378939446
>tfw no "hot" rain forest in monhan
Deserts and volcanoes aren't the only hot places, Capcom

>>378941306
Why is the moon crescent shape if earth aint round retard

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>>378943918
>tfw future of the universe is the endless war between von neumann probes, until the heat death of the world.

>>378943537
I... that gave me a headache

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>>378939074
>planets only have one animal/race living on it

>>378943285
I...I shall consume.
Consume...Consume everything.

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>>378939446
What about a jungle snow planet because we deleted the snow planet in the remake

blame star wars, which ripped off the "1 planet-1 biome" thing from dune

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>>378943285
stop

If every planet had every ecosystem why would I ever bother going to a different planet

>>378943903
This isn't philosophy retard I was just talking about facts you little shit.

>>378944389
it is a fact, go to any random person and ask what they would think if earth was the only planet in the entire universe that had intelligent life

>>378944090
Why are you arguing with a retard pretending to be a retard?

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>>378944175

>>378944498
What the fuck does this have to do with my question? "Abloboloo we want stronk" is completely irrelevant.

>>378941203
Not really, even mars has polecaps.

>>378944650
Mars is colder than Earth tho.

>>378944023
I loved that game... that was the game of my childhood..

>>378941918
If Mars were bigger it could support life.
The problem with Mars is that it's too small and lost all its atmosphere, not that it's too dry.

>>378944865
I still have the CD in front of me, I kind of want to install it and make my galactic empire great again.

>>378944828
Well the point was that all known planets have the same climate planet wide, which is not true.

>>378939074
You should play No Man's Sky! It's got everything!

>>378944186
I mean to an alien, all Earth animal life would basically be variations on a theme.
>oh so you guys did the whole bilateral symmetry thing that's cool

>>378943896
Fuck me. Andromeda felt more alive than ME 1-3. How could they fuck up that much.

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>go to hell
>realize it's undeground
>mfw hell is as diverse as earth, just in the mantle

>>378942058
>actually believes homogenization of human culture is possible
>can't even spell homogenization right
kill yourself

>>378945143
All animals on earth seem to have some shared traits one way or another if you look hard enough.

I just want to know what the originals of every species originally looked like

>>378942058
>homogenisation of human culture
That's a strange way of saying "muslim conquest" filthy kafir.

>>378944587
I've completely forgotten what this game is, but I love the concept. They should add an alien spaceship complete with entirely outlandish controls.

>>378944938
Mars isn't too small, it's too light and has a barely active core to hold the atmosphere/protect it against solar winds.

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>>378945094
Yeah listen to my friend Sean Murray and buy his amazing game, No Man's Sky! And while you're spending money please consider buying Fallout 4 with the season pass for hours of fun.

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>>378943720
The universe is huge and light is a really shit-tier communication method across anything bigger than a star system. There could be a human-tier technological civilization forty light years away from us and we wouldn't know because it's not like radio waves can actually make it that far without diffusing and being drowned out by background radiation.

The only way we'll know if other civilizations exist is if we actually go there or if we see their megastructures occluding the star.

>>378945270
It can if you reduce it to the lowest common denominator (i.e. consumerism) and then ignore the ethnic/religious conflicts that flare up when people stop being good goyim.

>>378945353
Why don't we re-melt the core with a gigantic bunker buster hydrogen bomb?

>>378939446
Also they don't even consider why something is cold, etc.

Like they forget about star distance or gravitational pulls etc.

>>378945353
All hail our iron core.

>>378945224
>hell is just like earth
>earth is just like hell
>we're already in hell

makes sense desu

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>>378941470
I ain't no science expert, but when the movie Interstellar was released I heard talk about how the black hole in that film was the most realistically depicted black hole in film since the CG for it was made with a program that was running gravitational equations that calculate how light would bend around them.
Even then, I think they still changed the image a little bit to make it nicer on film, but I think this is supposed to be the gist of what a black hole looks like.

>>378945442
why can't we just pop it in the microwave for a bit? 45 seconds, tops might wanna stir it up a bit and stick it back in for another 15 if you want

>>378941253
Well you don't have to have all the labels turned on at all times.
7.2 when

>>378945551
Yea that part of the movie was good, too bad the rest was total dogshit

>>378945427
>it can if you have a drastic change with no explanation of how the change can possibly come about and completely disregard human nature

get the fuck out, faggot.

>>378945594
To be fair, there was a plan in the works to H-bomb mars' poles.

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>>378945224
>go to heaven
>heaven is as diverse as earth, just in a very high altitude

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>>378945845
>>it can if you have a drastic change with no explanation of how the change can possibly come about
But I'm literally describing the modern West.
Deracinate everyone, give them cummies and television, shame anyone who doesn't like the situation, and when one of your imported workers decides that being a deracinated consumer is a bad scene and blows himself up, no one will care because they're all still deracinated consumers who refuse to allow themselves to make the in-group/out-group distinction.

Repeat until all opposition to consumerism and interest-slavery is eliminated, then don't go to space because you ran out of resources giving everyone cummies.

>>378941642
how would you explain all of the anomalies in space relatable to black holes?

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>>378943872
>drop a monolith to exalt them into space age
>only to immediately declare war,
destroy them with my vastly superior weapons and conquer their homeworld for that sweet 9 cities spice production rate.

>>378946086
>this is somehow a realistic to an anime poster
also, no you didn't explain yourself. shaming doesn't even change behavior on a scale like that you Ayncuck. If you're gonna bullshit your little dystopia at least build it realisitically. It would require one body of extreme power with pure consumerism as a goal, and would involve a lot more eugenics than just "shaming"
Learn to actually perceive your environment than pretending we're going full george orweill just because WAAAH SJWs

>>378943610
Even in the Carboniferous era there were huge differences in the type of forest depending on latitude as well as variety in marine biomes, parts of the world were glaciated, there were the typical mountain biomes etc.
And while Pangaea had a predominantly continental climate it would still have extensive coastal temperate areas as well as again huge variations in types of continental climate depending on latitude

just because something is arid, doesn't mean it's the same biome, compare the great deserts of our era, there's a major difference in biome type between the Sahara, the Gobi and Antarctica

>>378945884
its kinda funny how badly humans crave some kind of legitimate excuse to use their nukes that won't fuck them over
like an alchoholic who swore to only drink on specal occasions that then tries to turn every slight good occurrence or trivial anniversary into an excuse to throw a party

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>>378946298
>shaming doesn't even change behavior on a scale like that you Ayncuck
Correct, no it doesn't, it reinforces social norms.
What are the mainstream social norms as regards to cultural mixing, anon?

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>>378946474
there IS a legitimate use for our nukes, it's called project Orion
unfortunately several anti-nuclear treaties make it impossible despite being literally several hundred times more efficient than conventional rockets

>>378946596
>b-but, radiation in space!!!

>>378941203
Alright I'll bite
Google Venus, please do

If you've legitimately never hear of what's going on there, that should be a fun 30 minutes

>>378946574
Most people I know appreciate foreign cultures but cherish their own. Even the leftists.

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>>378943960

>>378943720
I hope so
Survival of the fittest is a fundamental law of nature
Whoever finds the other first wins

>>378939074
While jungle planets are absolutely retarded, ice, desert, ocean and lava planets are quite possible. Hell, we have a desert planet in our Solar System, don't we?

Closest earthlike planet to earth OP?
Earthlike planets arent common thats why its always on the news when scientist discovers one out of the billions of stars out there

>>378946842
do you have the one with the one br alive in the world

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>play Terran Conflict
>imagine how glorious the next X games is going to be with technoligical advancements, added content and mechanics
>get Stillbirth
REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VIFMRvemfuU

>>378946869
Note when scientists announce another "earth like planet" they don't mean literal earth like planets with oxygen atmosphere, liquid water, green plants and shit but simply planets of the right size that are the right distance from their respective star that they could potentially support life.

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>>378946751
You seem to think that I'm implying everyone is a xenophile.
The thrust of normalfags' thought regarding cultural differences is "we're all really the same deep down." Which is true on a superficial level, because you can be a consumer who happens to be "into" X culture and buys the trappings of that culture.

The future is a multicultural festival where people eat curry, wear kimonos and then get blown up.

>>378939074
>What is Venus
>What is Mars
>What is Jupiter

>>378946869
Earthlike planets are fairly difficult to discover so we can only properly, with today's technology, detect them around very nearby stars, and only the ones that are appropriately aligned for our measuring equipment. So it's not like we're scanning billions of stars, we're scanning a few thousand at best.

and even then we're discovering a fair number of them

>>378947053
>Jupiter
That planet has some crazy variations, gods sake it has water ice with a temperature of 36000 K

>>378946952
Is it still shit? Haven't touched it since release?

>>378947237
The fixed all the bugs supposedly, but it doesn't feature and of the X mechanics and has a tiny galaxy, so why bother?

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>>378945632
>7.2 when
Never ever.
We C#Aurora now, hopefully test release by the end of the year.
http://aurora2.pentarch.org/index.php?topic=8455.0

>>378943051

Reminds me of this.

>In the empty Mediterranean Basin the summertime temperatures would probably have been extremely high even during the coldest phase of any glacial era.
>Using the dry adiabatic lapse rate of around 10 °C (18 °F) per kilometer, a theoretical temperature of an area 4 km (2.5 mi) below sea level would be about 40 °C (72 °F) warmer than the temperature at sea level.
>Under this simplistic assumption, theoretical temperature maxima would have been around 80 °C (176 °F) at the lowest depths of the dry abyssal plain permitting little life other than extremophiles.
>One can also calculate that 3–5 km (2–3 mi) below sea level would have resulted in 1.45 to 1.71 atm (1,102 to 1,300 mmHg) of air pressure at the bottom.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Messinian_salinity_crisis#Relationship_to_climate

>>378939074
But dude look at mars the weater looks the same there

Fucking nerd you needs to get some pussy

Planets that are as diverse as earth are generally listed as "Temperate" or "terran" or something along those lines.

>>378943537
HOLD THE FUCK UP

KSP has an n-body mod now? Can I set up some lagrange point stations?

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>Sci-fi setting
>Has alien races
>All alien races are human-sized, bipedal, and have roughly the same anatomy/physiology as humans with only minor differences such as skin colour or number of fingers.
>All alien races speak English
>All alien races breathe oxygen
>All alien planets and ships have Earth-like gravity and atmospheric conditions
>All alien planets have only a single climate/biome
>All alien planets/races have only one nation/government
>All members of the same alien race share a single culture/language
>All members of the same alien race share a particular defining personality trait like "aggressive" or "shrewd"
>All members of the same alien race look basically identical, barely any genetic diversity

>>378951575
I recommend Endless Space 2. Most of those things don't apply

What pisses me off is when you meet an alien species and they're all the same with no different ethnicities, languages, appearances to distinguish them. No, they're all the same race with the same features and their entire society is centralized to one city on the entire planet

>>378951575
Can you really see a quadreped race developing the same level of technology as bipedal?

The one thing I don't agree with most people on is their belief that all sorts of retarded looking aliens would somehow reach a level of technology as humans have. There's a reason why things like fingers and only two legs are considered parts of a successful species

>>378950865
i think it's called energia and that mod has existed for years. makes the game incredibly hard.

I want gravitational lensing as a horror element.

>>378952397
>There's a reason why things like fingers and only two legs are considered parts of a successful species
Yeah, on Earth. All a species really needs are sensory organs to perceive their environment, limbs/appendages with enough fidelity to traverse and manipulate it, and a means to communicate. That's pretty broad and I don't think two legs and two arms are hard and fast requirements.

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>>378951960
ES2 is great, but it has a whole bunch of things he listed.

Most races, especially major factions are roughly human-sized and bipedal.
Everyone speaks English.
All aliens probably breathe oxygen since in official art they're depicted mingling alongside other races.
Every single major faction has one major government and the same culture / language in both gameplay and lore.
Traits as well, Cravers are hostile bio-engineered bugs that eat everything (they like Militaristic senate more and consume planets) while the Lumeris are shrewd fish merchants and receive very straightforward bonuses to Dust (money) generation and prefer trade-oriented decisions, or the Sophons who are scientifically inclined and curious explorers. The academy heroes who are basically all pariahs anyways are perhaps the sole notable exceptions.

There's planet variety however, both single biome and multi-biome planets and different gravity / atmospheric conditions, affecting planet FIDSI output, available population slots, approval etc.

>>378953878
>Every single major faction has one major government and the same culture / language in both gameplay and lore.
But that's not true. You spend the entire game carefully making sure the government you want stays in power. you can have pacifist fucking Cravers for fucks sake

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>>378952397
>that one guy who claims human-like anatomy is the be all end all and necessary for intelligent life in every thread

To this day I'm still fascinated that Gears of War doesn't take place on Earth.

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>>378939074
Fucking Starbound is guilty of this bullshit.

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>>378939446
>>378939074
I don't understand this problem supposed "sci-fi fags" have
Look at our solar system and tell me how many planets have vastly variable climate biomes outside of ones that are just extreme variations of the same thing

>>378954009
>that one guy who thinks a blob with no hands or limbs would have to capacity to become intelligent without millions of years of evolution.

>>378954275
Earth, Mars, while it's not a planet Titan
And the gas giants Jupiter, Saturn and Neptune have heavy lateral variance between the various cloud bands

Basically the only objects with proper atmospheres that don't have climate variation are Uranus and Venus

>>378954572
>that one guy who thinks argumentum ad absurdum can fool anyone

>>378939074
>wasting time on sci-fi fiction
>not just learning actual science
plebs, all of you.

>>378953997
>You spend the entire game carefully making sure the government you want stays in power.
You just change ruling parties, but there is only one major government body. I think by "All alien planets/races have only one nation/government" that anon meant that the races don't have multiple different governments but their starting planet and later all their colonized systems are consolidated under one governing body, which is exactly how ES2 handles it. For example there's no "Riftborn state of XYZ" and different "Riftborn empire of ABC" as if there was space USA and Russia with same species but different independent governments.

Like I said elections also don't change lore either, the main people in charge don't get replaced. Arasch, Viceroy, Horatio, Zelevas, Isyara etc. all of them stay as the main leaders of their empires no matter which party is the most represented in the senate or which type of government you reform to. At most you could say your gameplay decisions change the empire's ruling policies and what type of sub-rulers (heroes) the lore leaders delegate their decisions and government handling processes to.

Also while you can do stuff like playing as Pacifist Cravers, you're going to be getting lots of Disapproval from your Craver pops due to "No representatives in the senate" malus. The biggest difference is perhaps humans being jack-of-all trades species which is an age old trope, as you can reform into Sheredyn or Mezari ideology and have your main pops' preferred ideology and related pop bonuses change completely (from Industrialist to Militarist or Scientist) as well.

>>378955079
>repeating a word contained in an abbreviation
>having the mental faculties to grasp actual science
Hard sci-fi is where it's at, you goddamn philistine.

>>378939074
planets too close to the sun are firey hells
planets too far from the sun are icy hells
>im autistic enough to demand a planet as diverse as the most diverse planet we know of

>>378955143
Stellaris is a game that's slightly better about this
while it does have the "one unified government" thing going on, there is the faction system so even in martial empires there are going to be a few pacifist folks that try to get you to change policy and it is entirely possible for one of those factions to grow strong enough to declare independence of a planet and install a completely different kind of government

not exactly ideal but it's a start. Also fun is that humans aren't considered to be the jack of all trades species, heck the preset UN humans are considered fanatics in their ethos (egalitarian)

Will Starfiled being good?

>>378955079
>learning actual "science" like how gender is a spectrum
t. bill nye

>>378944204
FUCK YOU FOR REMINDING ME OF THIS
RIP HOVEN
RIP OLANTIS
RIP GIANT CLANK

>>378955619
Thinking that not only everyone in your species but every single race in the galaxy has the right to get anywhere in the hierarchy through hard work is pretty radical but I could also totally see our current western society thrown in that scenario thinking like that.

Also I would still consider the Human UN to be pretty jack of all trades. Being radically egalitarian and xenophile on top of democratic, along with the human traits of nomadic and quick learners makes it so you can rapidly switch between outlooks once you've got a few factions rivaling each other.

>>378956304
THEY DID WHAT

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>>378951575
>All alien races are human-sized, bipedal, and have roughly the same anatomy/physiology as humans with only minor differences such as skin colour or number of fingers.
>It is later revealed that all alien races come from a precursor race that seeded worlds eons ago

>>378957970
They fucking completely rewrote the plot of the game to be generic sci-fi "join the good guy organization save the universe" bullshit, deleted Hoven entirely and made Battalia the snow planet, made Olantis a namedrop and nothing more, made the Deplanitizer it's own fucking level, TWICE, removed Giant Clank from Orxon, actually they changed Orxon entirely so there's not even the stealth part, that just got moved to Deplanitizer part 2.
OH YEAH, they also scrapped Drek's fleet, or rather, converted it into the Deplanitizer level.

>>378957221
>humans
>nomadic
This will never stop grinding my gears. The most successful human societies have been sedentary, and by current point all nomadic societies have lost their political power. Nomadic lifestyle wasn't even a global human phenomenon, as large scale powerful nomadic societies didn't exist in the Americas due to lack of mounts before Columbian exchange. Invention of agriculture which happened independently in many different parts of the world, is by definition sedentary and also one of the most notable turning points of human history.

It doesn't even make sense from "mankind has spread all over our planet" perspective either. Are they telling me the alien races didn't explore their entire home world before becoming space-faring?

>planets come in differnet sizes
>gravity is still the same everywhere

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>>378958361
Fuck.

>>378958516
Gravity is also dependent on composition of the core.

>>378941174
Endless Space was great for this

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>be an actual biologist
>mfw some sperges start crying because all the aliens are carbon-based humanoids instead of some abstract autism fuel with three heads and five butts

I bet you retards have never heard of convergent evolution and analogy while having zero knowledge of biochemistry or chemistry in general

>>378939074
IRL exoplanets can have crazy shit like sideways rain of broken glass.
Just having an environment comparable to anything on Earth is above average.

>>378959141
Well what did you expect?
This is /v/ after all.

>>378939446
just like real life then

>>378959141
Convergent evolution is species evolving similar features to solve the same problem. So yeah, it might make sense for species to gravitate towards humanoid anatomy. On Earth.

If a species evolved in some volcanic, underwater hellhole with 3x earth's gravity, no light, and predators with fucking sword arms or some shit, it's maybe not SUPER unreasonable to think they might look like something besides green humans with 3 fingers.

>>378941642
Were you home schooled, lass? You sound dangerously american.

>>378958453
Those traits aren't based on societal standards they're based on the species' primitive origins and drives. And humans did have a highly nomadic origin and have a history highly influenced by nomadic activity. Much of the cultural groups of modern Europe was carved out by nomadic activity. China went through many instances of repelling and being conquered by successful nomadic groups, not just the mongols. America as it exists does so because of the human drive to spread and explore.

If humans were by our nature sedentary, then yes, like you said it would be unlikely that the Americas would be explored and developed to the degree it is or had even had an pre-existing native American culture there to begin with.

>>378959141
How about a species that floats thanks to evolving a gas filled bladdered, and has many tentacles for manipulating tools and communication among other things.

I just really like Halo's Engineers. They're one of my favorite aliens.

>Been a hardcore medfag ever since I was a kid
>Have always loved everything about the body, always loved cartoons, comics, shows, etc where they go inside people/monsters
>mfw shit in games or shows where it's like "lol five hundred beating hearts in the background, pools of acid everywhere, bones as platforms even though it makes no sense, haha"

Xenoblade was especially infuriating considering how much it seemed to take itself seriously until "yeah here's a meat path leading to a heart and then you go to space".

I was genuinely shocked how serious Rayman of all things was in Origins.

I'm not a vorefag god dammit those kinds of plots are just my favorite, at least vore fetishists upload the obscure shit to their channels

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>sci fi setting
>military is only space forces and land forces
>sea navies don't exist

>>378962303
>wasting time with ships that can sail when you got ships that can fly

>>378944265
That manga was an enjoyable rollercoaster.

>>378959141
>actual biologist
>bringing up convergent evolution
Sure, buddy.

>>378963331
>implying convergent evolution isn't a thing
Not even that guy.
Literally one of the first things they teach you in any ecology/evolution class.
Just because two different animals have the same morphological trait doesn't mean that they share a common ancestor. They both have that same trait because they have a practical use for that particular function.

>>378943537
>Can't do anything other than get my ass out of Kerbin orbit

God I would love to build a massive space station though.

And no I won't use mechjeb like a shitter

>>378962303
Orbital bombing provides more reliable support and control of a planet than sea navies.

Also they would be wastes unless you can move them planet from planet.

Also sea navies wouldn't be useful on worlds with no seas.

Space fleets outclass Navies in every way.