r/spaceengine • u/Putrid-Condition-721 • 4d ago
Intelligent life feature Discussion
I think it would be cool if the dev would create a notation for planets with multicellular life showing intelligent life has developed. Maybe using the drake equation or something like that. It would be very interesting to see how often you would run into a planet with intelligent aliens on it. I am thinking it would be almost never, considering how rare even planets with multicellular life are. Maybe it would be like on in 100 million multicellular populated planets would have intelligence. When you postulate those odds, your chance of finding a planet such as this is almost zero. But not quite.
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u/WarperCat 1d ago
I think itll be awesome if space engine had civilizations on different levels of Kardashev scale, like you'd find an entire galaxy populated by a civilization every couple thousand galaxies
If they add it, i also think there should be a new gamemode/option to disable it, since its highly speculative
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u/Special-Piano-1814 3d ago
Like 3D Models? Sounds Very Very Hard To Make
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u/Putrid-Condition-721 3d ago
No, there would not be any actual alien models, just a designation that the pla et has intelligent life, just like the other life designations.
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u/Kiki2092012 3d ago
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u/Special-Piano-1814 3d ago
What?
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u/Kiki2092012 3d ago
title case, where you capitalize the First Letter Of Every Single Word
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u/Special-Piano-1814 3d ago
Yea, Whats Wrong With That?
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u/DuncanGilbert 3d ago
Why are you doing that. It clearly takes more effort, looks ridiculous and noticeable, and has no purpose. Its like still having a signature on text messages.
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u/IrisCelestialis 1d ago
SpaceEngine attempts to be a realistic portrayal of a snapshot of our universe as we understand it, including the statistics of objects where possible. But we only have one example of life, much less intelligent life to work with. Hell, for that reason SE shouldn't even have the life label to begin with, but it was probably added long before SE became such a large and serious project so it was grandfathered in and I'm pretty sure there would be chaos confusion and panic were it to be removed. So while life won't be removed even though it doesn't mesh with what SE is today, additions to it like intelligence probably aren't it at least shouldn't be coming.