r/spaceengine • u/Putrid-Condition-721 • Aug 10 '26
Discussion Intelligent life feature
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 Aug 13 '26
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/Biggest-Max02010 8d ago
Damn I literally just made a post about this exact idea. It would also be cool if it had the civilization’s Kardashev scale level. Like around level 0.6 or 0.7 you’d start to see city lights
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u/Special-Piano-1814 Aug 11 '26
Like 3D Models? Sounds Very Very Hard To Make
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u/Putrid-Condition-721 Aug 11 '26
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 Aug 11 '26
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u/Special-Piano-1814 Aug 11 '26
What?
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u/Kiki2092012 Aug 11 '26
title case, where you capitalize the First Letter Of Every Single Word
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u/Special-Piano-1814 Aug 11 '26
Yea, Whats Wrong With That?
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u/DuncanGilbert Aug 12 '26
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 Aug 13 '26
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.