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Post by ATP Kraken on Sept 18, 2016 21:13:07 GMT
There could be a non-LAWK hivemind option, as well as psychic abilities.
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Post by ThreeCubed on Sept 18, 2016 23:03:18 GMT
Well considering that fish and others swim in packs, I think that its entirely possible for there to be colonies of Hive-Mind proportions... But thats just my thoughts.
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Post by The_Wayward_Admiral on Sept 19, 2016 2:26:39 GMT
There could be a non-LAWK hivemind option, as well as psychic abilities. I like this idea a lot, because while I am at heart a skeptic and I have yet to be convinced of psychic phenomena IRL, i really want to make flying telepathic dolphins at one point (I realize in retrospect that I may sound a bit weird after that but I don't really care, that should already be a given about me). I don't know that LAWK would need to be disabled for Hive Mind though, I would imagine that proper pheromone employment could work *cough* Dark Nest Trilogy *cough*.
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Post by Atrox on Sept 19, 2016 16:02:01 GMT
Sorry to burst your bubble folks, but I'm 99% certain psychic abilities will not be added.
Shame because I'd have enjoyed it too.
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Post by Aquos on Sept 19, 2016 16:12:16 GMT
There could be a non-LAWK hivemind option, as well as psychic abilities. I like this idea a lot, because while I am at heart a skeptic and I have yet to be convinced of psychic phenomena IRL, i really want to make flying telepathic dolphins at one point (I realize in retrospect that I may sound a bit weird after that but I don't really care, that should already be a given about me). I don't know that LAWK would need to be disabled for Hive Mind though, I would imagine that proper pheromone employment could work *cough* Dark Nest Trilogy *cough*. Flying telephtatic dolphins (well I guess they aren't telephatic, but still)
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Post by 0wolfmoon0 on Oct 5, 2016 19:08:32 GMT
And when talking about a hive mind I dindn't meen a "telepathic" or somhow mystical conection, but exactly what you were saying alexwite. In the end it's less how ants do it, but they do behave like a single organism contrived by many individual cells. Actually, ants do show a level of individuality. For example: An ant colony has made a nest in a place that is no longer as hospitable as it used to be. One ant starts the task of moving the entire nest to a new location. Somewhere else in the nest, another ant has also decided to move the nest. Neither ant affects each other's decision to move the nest, they both choose it of their own accord. If all the other ants in the nest disagree and would rather stay, they move things back to their original place. If enough ants decide to move the nest, the queen will also move, which forces the other ants to move since they aren't "voting to stay", but merely not taking action because they don't feel the need to. If the queen moves, the other ants now have a reason to leave and they do so My point is that ants often make decisions via "majority vote" because they are individuals. They don't think as a collective, but each ant is governed by the same or similar instincts, so it often seems like they do think collectively. EDIT: I didn't see that the subject of the thread has moved on from this, sorry Sorry to burst your bubble folks, but I'm 99% certain psychic abilities will not be added. Shame because I'd have enjoyed it too. well darn. Still hoping for casts though, I wanna see all the hundreds upon hundreds of xenomorphs people will make.
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Post by ATP Kraken on Oct 5, 2016 23:13:57 GMT
Castes are going to be implemented, even if many species may be mammalian/reptilian binaries and just using castes for sexual dimorphism.
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Post by GRODOG on Oct 7, 2016 19:44:50 GMT
Of course Ctases will be in the game...
How else will i make a moving fungus that eats thingys and poops our gas and also expelles spores with some plankton which the plankton become a species of their own creating more plankton so those plankton come from plankton and fungus but cant make fungus but the fungus can make fungus and plankton?
So yes... this means eusocial (not just insects) plants... eusocial plants... YEEEES!!!
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Post by ATP Kraken on Oct 21, 2016 21:13:19 GMT
I think hive minds would be strategy mode material, in Awakening but no toolmaking.
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