Board Thread:Suggestions/@comment-5456782-20170618050115

When you take a look at the aliens on the wiki, a good chunk of them fall into the category of "elemental aliens".

These categories are flooded with pages, and for good reason. It's really easy to say "this is ripjaws he's a fish he's a water alien" or "this is heatblast he's a fire alien". So naturally, tons of these aliens get made. But the problem is, most people don't really define these categories too well. What exactly makes Ripjaws a water alien, for instance?

These categories were created with the intention cleanup and navigation.

Here's the big long list of what my suggestion entails:


 * Merge and  under Air Aliens.
 * Merge and  under Explosion Aliens. In addition, redefine what Explosion Alien means. Just put "Aliens that are intended to cause explosions" instead of "Aliens that explode themselves." That page is so short and so contradictive, smh.
 * Define better. Put it this way: If it can actively manipulate fire, i.e. shoot it and control it (see: Heatblast), it belongs in Fire Aliens. If it can manipulate temperature to make things hot (or catch fire) but not necesarrily control fire (see: NRG), it should go in . If it controls magma or lava, it should go in.
 * Define better. If it manipulates and controls water (i.e. Overflow), it belongs in Water Aliens. If it goes underwater but doesn't necesarrily manipulate it (i.e. Ripjaws), it goes in . If it manipulates rain but not other forms of water, it goes in . If it's composed of water, it goes in (i.e. AmpFibian), it goes in  and.
 * Merge, , and under Underwater Breathing Aliens (since it is bigger).
 * Merge and  under Ice Aliens.
 * Define better. If it manipulates the ground/earth/rocks, it's in earth aliens. If it's made of rocks, it goes in . If it burrows underground but doesn't necesarrily manipulate earth, it goes under.
 * Merge and  under Earth Aliens.
 * Remove, it's pretty much pointless. We have Flight Aliens, Water Aliens, and Space Survivability Aliens. If it doesn't fit in there, it's safe to say it's a Land Alien.
 * Remove and replace it with Breath Power Aliens. This would include aliens with "breath powers", like the ones currently in the category, and aliens who can breathe out acids like Acidbreath or breath fire like a dragon. This isn't for aliens capable of breathing underwater or in space.
 * Merge and . This is probably one of the more controversial suggestions, I guess, and if it weighs this down too much I'll move it to another thread.
 * Better define . If it can heal other lifeforms, it's a . If it can only heal itself, it's in Regeneration. If both, then both.
 * Better define . Hell, make this it's own suggestion, actually.
 * Finally, take everything out of . Or at least define it better. Listen, if your alien is one color, I think you failed and should take a class in graphic design.

You might say, that's too much work.

Well, hell, I'd have no problems with doing it. If these are added, I promise I'll do a ton of the work.

I also have some other ideas for alien categories (i.e. Removing for good reason and implementing Bipedal Aliens, Weapon Aliens, Tool Aliens (i.e. Drill Aliens but a broader category) Feathered Aliens, Form-Changing Aliens, and other categories), but I'll make another thread for that because I feel this thread has too much already.

Finally, if any of those pose too much of a problem, I have no problem with modifying my suggestion just to get rid of one or two things. 