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Re: Scifi aliens described in Elite/Oolite terms
Posted: Wed Jul 09, 2025 11:54 am
by Bicorn
The way I imagine it, the ones that don't have a colour adjective are either multicoloured or their colour isn't vivid enough to catch attention.
Re: Scifi aliens described in Elite/Oolite terms
Posted: Wed Jul 09, 2025 2:58 pm
by Cholmondely
Bicorn wrote: ↑Wed Jul 09, 2025 11:54 am
The way I imagine it, the ones that don't have a colour adjective are either multicoloured or their colour isn't vivid enough to catch attention.
Or maybe the Old Galactic Catalogue Entry report on them was made by a lobstoid whose eyeballs operate at a different wavelength?
Re: Scifi aliens described in Elite/Oolite terms
Posted: Wed Jul 09, 2025 6:32 pm
by Redspear
From the link above...
This, I didn't know:
So if we print an adjective at step 3, then the only options for the species name are from A to A + 3 (because we add a 2-bit number) in step 4. So only certain combinations are possible:
Only rodents, frogs, lizards and lobsters can be slimy
Only frogs, lizards, lobsters and birds can be bug-eyed
Only lizards, lobsters, birds and humanoids can be horned
Only lobsters, birds, humanoids and felines can be bony
Only birds, humanoids, felines and insects can be fat
Only humanoids, felines, insects and rodents can be furry
So however hard you look, you will never find slimy humanoids, bony insects, fat rodents or furry frogs, which is probably for the best.
Gross productivity
So no bats (furry birds), penguins (fat birds) or bug-eyed er, bugs?
Re: Scifi aliens described in Elite/Oolite terms
Posted: Wed Jul 09, 2025 7:35 pm
by Cholmondely
Redspear wrote: ↑Wed Jul 09, 2025 6:32 pm
or bug-eyed er, bugs?
If you are really missing your bug-eyed bugs, don't forget that there may be more than just the one species on any planet. Only the dominant one is listed. So for all we know, Tionisla may well be crawling with all sorts of variety of bug-eyed bugs! All you have to do is mosey along over and poke your nose in!
Re: Scifi aliens described in Elite/Oolite terms
Posted: Wed Jul 09, 2025 8:21 pm
by cbr
bugger...
Re: Scifi aliens described in Elite/Oolite terms
Posted: Wed Jul 09, 2025 8:32 pm
by Cholmondely
cbr wrote: ↑Wed Jul 09, 2025 8:21 pm
Goodness! Where on Tionisla did you find
that?
And, I hate to have to mention it, but is that really a bug?
Re: Scifi aliens described in Elite/Oolite terms
Posted: Thu Jul 10, 2025 5:37 am
by Bicorn
Redspear wrote: ↑Wed Jul 09, 2025 6:32 pm
So no bats (furry birds), penguins (fat birds) or bug-eyed er, bugs?
Fat birds are possible! The allowed adjectives for birds are bug-eyed, horned, bony and fat.
No furry birds or bug-eyed insects though. (The latter would sound a little redundant anyway.)
Re: Scifi aliens described in Elite/Oolite terms
Posted: Fri Jul 11, 2025 7:17 am
by Redspear
Anyway, before that link was posted I was in the process of doing work for each and every iteration of body type and inhabitant group. Now I know that only half of them occur in game anyway that work has been halved.
Thanks
Re: Scifi aliens described in Elite/Oolite terms
Posted: Fri Jul 11, 2025 9:12 am
by Cholmondely
Redspear wrote: ↑Fri Jul 11, 2025 7:17 am
Anyway, before that link was posted I was in the process of doing work for each and every iteration of body type and inhabitant group. Now I know that only half of them occur in game anyway that work has been halved.
And just
what are you planning on doing to our bug-eyed birds?
Should we be reporting you to the appropriate authorities?
Re: Scifi aliens described in Elite/Oolite terms
Posted: Fri Jul 11, 2025 9:17 am
by Redspear
It's only illegal in some systems
