Hey! I've been playing with your modded races a bit now, and I really do love the portraits and ship recolors and such. They're so bright and add a lot of character, even if they somewhat clash with the base Stellaris look.

I think I'm most interested in the idea of this mod having its own story, and find myself very curious about the army of Hannahs, because I've been spamming Hive Minds since Utopia dropped. I can't help but wonder; is she an Biological AI? A cybernetic expirament gone wrong? A virus? So may questions...

If I was going to suggest something, it would currently be the idea to create more "factions", basically other empires using the same races, with slightly different colors/armors/ethos. And other than that, perhaps a slight tweak to the Crisis factions, to work them into the storyline, and possibly work them into the more colorful art style?

i appreciate your ideas ^^ a little teaser, two of the next empires coming to star fall are just like you descrived, they are factions of the same specie, but their stories have led them to entirely different paths ^^

As I die hard Mandalorian fan, I would ask if you'd consider adding a faction like them; warlike, semi-nomadic, accepting of other species into their Empire, clan divided, ruled by the strongest warrior, not too tech-science, but pack a heavy punch. They could be seen a evil barbarians by the rest of the galaxy, but their history may be tragic, and they really aren't as bad as other see them. They're warlike militarist idealism have stemmed from the past of slavery, invasion, abusive overlord, etc., and they may only be so quick to war because, deep down, their are afraid for being weak again.

Honestly I would love some "undead" theme portraits sorta of like spess zombies based on existing portraits in Stellaris, so I can create a zombie consuming hive-mind xD. Sorta of a homage to the zombies of the Return of the Living Dead series, how they where intelligent and could use tools and even vehicles to their advantage; they need to eat brains to keep bieng sane and to quell the pain of bieng dead. The longer they go without it, the more insatiable their hunger becomes and they their intelligence slowly erodes away. Would really love to see portraits like this.

As for other possible portraits, maybe do ones based on "supposedly" seen aliens from real life; like the Hopkinsville Goblins, Flatwoods Monster, Dover Demon, Enfield Horror, Van Meter Visitor, Giant Space Brains of Palos Verde, Pascagoula Elephant Men, Zanfretta's Aliens, etc. Sorta of a "Retro" themed sci-fi portrait pack based on these supposedly seen aliens would be very interesting along with including retro looking ship sets based on UFO sightings. :)

Hey! I don't think this is necessarily the right place for it, but I feel that it is still relevant. With respect to both future and present portraits as well as ships, it would be far more preferable for each portrait to be a different subscription or post rather than one huge pack. This would allow people to be more selective in what they want to use, and especially helpful if the player is already running a massive amount of mods.

With respect to future portaits, perhaps something lovecraftian might be interesting. A being that holds fewer bipedal qualities and might appear to be more akin to the 'Elder Thing' in lovecraftian lore (No resemblance to humans being the general theme of the suggestion).

pretty late answer sorry for that but i wanted to respond to @Jaster. in the begining we planned to put every race as their own mod, but this doubles the coding we have to do and then we have to read and maintain more than one mod page. Crus already have way more than he ever wanted to deal with and i honestly do not want to really deal with that either.

when i get my bearings straigh i to plan to work on an undead-like portrait as well; im not sure about a non humanoid lovercraftian portrait, as i am really fond of humanoid aliens in general. if i get a good idea i will do it but i cant make promises on that one