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I feel like membranes should be a "limb" property. This was you can have flying squirrels and other gliders as transitional before their hands change. A membrane limb would apply it's setting to hands/feet/body as well. For feathers certain covers (mostly feathers) would have some sort of aerodynami...

Well animals are about 1/3 as efficient as they used to be. My best Species machine did up to 2350 or so before hitting major lag. Now it's more like 800. Plants make some difference but it's more about how many there are than overall game efficiency. Also worth noting Species appears to be heavily ...

I also like the compact aboveground facility combined with an increase in the default world size in future versions. At the current scale Species' biome patches are freaking tiny. The scale is odd regardless. I think a remote underground base makes no sense. Maybe small above ground solar panels, sc...

I would love to see this come back to Species (not that I saw it the first time). Creatures have a tendency to cluster at the most fertile points, eat them up, die back and wander. Then the spot grows back, some other species finds it, it happens again. Having some depletion and replenishment would ...

I guess I don't quite understand what's being proposed. You could code it so that limbs that are within a certain boundary in shape space, can 'click' over by a mutation towards a new wing or fin with similar shape. Analogous to mutation maps, but a mutation that flips you from one map to another. T...

As mentioned in the swimming thread swimming and flying are probably variations of one system. I'd like to see individual parts on the mutation map for this simply because the engine is already doing a lot of deforms on a unknown model for animations, scaling, etc. Squishing limbs flat just doesn't ...

Sweet! I love the 0.8.0 changes. I'm still very interested in more dynamicness in the AI and ecology but it really is a vast improvement. With a working AI with drives and the bugs gone I feel like i can observe a functioning ecology, which is half of what drew me to Species in the first place. The ...

It still amuses me I only had to appear logged in to receive a warm welcome back. So anarch, what do you think of the amazing stuff going on now? It's pretty cool. The traits and fences bring in a lot of the things I like about Zoo Tycoon but with a fully working ecology and evoluiion. I'm hoping th...

I am back. It's not a forum glitch. My life is super hectic so I am not be too active right now but I haven't forgotten the project and had to check out 0.8.0. So far I'm liking it a lot. The behaviors and fixes definitely make the resulting species seem less random. Alien, yes, but I feel there is ...

I'm glad people like the mod

I will have a new one out soon (by the end of the month) but I'm super busy right now trying to make enough money to not be broke.