Zombies or nah?

[Armorat]

...space flu...

Space dementia!

[Gideon]

Who cares? I also don't think it's scientifically plausible that agave and raspberries, terrestrial plants, are growing wild on far-away unexplored planets, but I don't hear anyone complaining.

I suspect that, given the semi-hard scifi nature of this game, those planets have been seeded with Earth derived life forms long ago. The year is about 5500, if I remember rightly.

This all being said, I have no issue at all with people making mods including them. I just don't think they have a place in the base game.

[Justin C]

The theme for this game is supposed to be semi-hard sci-fi. According to the design docs, there isn't even a means of superluminal travel speeds; something we think may actually be possible.

Zombies exist well beyond the boundaries of plausible science, as far as we know.

It would only take minor changes to the lore in order to make a "zombie" virus/parasite that is actually possible. As long as the person is still alive and his organs are all functioning properly, there are plenty of ways of affecting his brain to give him zombie-like behavior. Drugs can do this to people, rabies is known to cause this behavior in other mammals, and there is even a parasite that can take over the minds of snails and force them to move out into the open to make them more likely to be eaten by predators:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EWB_COSUXMw

Zombie outbreaks don't fit with the theme of the game. It wouldn't make sense for zombie outbreaks to be a built-in, but they would make a nice mod.

[ITypedThis]

Potato, because while I feel it could be fun, challenging, and interesting, it could also be boring and unoriginal, with too simple/easy or too difficult gameplay. Without more to go on, I don't think I can make a definite decision.

[StormProxy]

one gets sick then he infects the other's one by one they turn Zombie