There are three serious race proposals currently:
* [g]nomes
* octopodes
* lava orcs
[G]nomes seem to be mostly dead. Lava orcs have a laundry list of nasty
design problems. Octopodes, though, look promising.
There are some problems like being very weak at the start -- but there are
multiple ways to fix that: poisonous beak attack (possible issues with TSO),
insane stealth RL octopi have (cameleons can't hold a candle to an octopus'
ability to recolour its skin!), starting with a ring where other races start
with armour, etc. All of that would require testing with regular players --
existing test on CAO suffers from being limited mostly to advanced ones.
I'd propose:
* let's merge octopodes into trunk now
* tentatively, not targetted at 0.9 (ie, Shoals treatment)
About possibly wasting work: blue_anna's affair shown that removing failed
features is cheap, and parts which receive developer attention seem to be
those that survive.
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