The standards listed in the readme are really old. It would be nice to redefine them and break them down into a checklist so we can tell at a glance what needs to be done for each species.
Things that might be on this list include:
- Assigned its own classifier (since most of these currently reuse C3 classifiers and we certainly don't want our new scripts messing up docked ships)
- Conforms to Creatures Development Standards (this might be broken up into multiple checklist items, I dunno)
- Does not require CAs
- Does not depend on another specific species classifier to survive (IE bugs should eat plants/leaves in general, not one specific plant/leaf agent)
- Has population control limits (should we define these more strictly?)
- Has extinction control limits (these aren't supposed to be foolproof, but should be pretty tough)
- Is just a little bit more special in some way (??)
- Has been bugtested (We should probably set up a standard testing system for this too)
I also don't want to imply that things can't be created outside of these standards (and of course anyone can fork this repo and do whatever they want with it), but for the purposes of making the species as global and useful to everybody as possible, this feels like a good starting place.
Would really appreciate any thoughts/feedback/discussion on this!
The standards listed in the readme are really old. It would be nice to redefine them and break them down into a checklist so we can tell at a glance what needs to be done for each species.
Things that might be on this list include:
I also don't want to imply that things can't be created outside of these standards (and of course anyone can fork this repo and do whatever they want with it), but for the purposes of making the species as global and useful to everybody as possible, this feels like a good starting place.
Would really appreciate any thoughts/feedback/discussion on this!