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DizzyCrash

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Consequences... How severe?
« on: April 18, 2017, 03:09:12 pm »

Heres my question... what are the consequences of creating a race with a gigantic caste system with a veriety of creatures and roles...
Like making some members of the castes available as pets and mounts while others have human-like intelligence and can join socioties, while other castes operate as simple beasts and or common domestic...

So... for example, if you made dogs a available cast for humans... Other than two humans giving birth to a dog, what are the consequences i can expect from this sin against nature and logic?




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Heres my situation.

I have designed robots, a veriety of such, from simple drone pets to complex cyborgs and mechs available as mounts.

Now i have two options here.

A ) Allow robots to breed and maintain a population and do not ask why they are givng birth and such.

B ) Desighn a complex mega caste with every available robot in it and allow only the semi organic cyborgs to build/breed and create every other member of the species.

Now my issue is... this has a extremely high chance of doing something wonky and insane... really messing up my mod if it doesnt go off without a hitch... and i am not just talking about your cyborg neighbour kidnapping and banging your robo-dog.
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Re: Consequences... How severe?
« Reply #1 on: April 19, 2017, 12:22:02 pm »

You could explain A in-game by explaining that they are allowed to build additional copies of themselves.
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Re: Consequences... How severe?
« Reply #2 on: April 19, 2017, 12:28:30 pm »

My Star Wars mod has many robots and races with lots of castes. Feel free to take anything you want from it or use pieces for testing your ideas. I don't know what'll happen if you put Pet and Mount tags in one caste but not others.
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Re: Consequences... How severe?
« Reply #3 on: April 19, 2017, 03:03:28 pm »

I am considering just adding a low poprate caste with assembly drones for every robot, so they create more robots, all others are no gender.
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Re: Consequences... How severe?
« Reply #4 on: April 19, 2017, 06:04:00 pm »


Genderless races continue to exist now, you just can't breed them.
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Re: Consequences... How severe?
« Reply #5 on: April 21, 2017, 11:39:53 am »


Genderless races continue to exist now, you just can't breed them.

Wait... genderless races now have populations not dependent on breeding pairs?
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« Reply #6 on: April 21, 2017, 11:43:31 am »

I was surprised too.
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Re: Consequences... How severe?
« Reply #7 on: April 22, 2017, 10:51:04 am »

that would make my day.
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Re: Consequences... How severe?
« Reply #8 on: April 22, 2017, 11:07:40 am »

I hope your mod works out. I've kept an eye on it, I'm just burned out on modding right now.
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