Critter Interactions
Ideas on what to do with lifeforms
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Copied my discussion verbatim from Discord:
I'd prefer a secondary weapon that is more akin to a tranquilizer, tracker, or scanner
Basically a bag & tag system
You tag the animal, research it, gain credits.
You can't bag & tag the same animal
Or you can choose to kill it and loot its corpse
The FarCry method of dealing with animals
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To reiterate, you wouldn't take the animal with you, you'd tag it and research it over time.
More scientific
Or you could kill it for a more immediate but less prosperous gain.
So you'd land on the planet, see a lifeform, shoot your secondary which tags it, take off, and research it in a separate menu with stats about the animal. You can do entire planets worth of animals or research a specific one, but the same animal over and over will generate decreasing returns so you'll have more incentive to tag new animals.
On the flip-side you can drop down and massacre an entire planet for a more immediate, but an overall less beneficial gain than long-term research.
I don't rightly know what kind of returns you can get from lifeforms, maybe a scientific credit system that lets you research more technology a la Kerbal Space Program.
or Bag&Tag for 
