Proposal for Entity Class system

Proposal for Entity Class system

Kai4C 03 Oct 2021 10:10

Dear Wiki Staff (and everybody else anyway),

I understand that the IETS system is in development.

This is my theoretical proposal for an entity classification system. I did this one day while I was bored. Feel free to comment, critique, borrow ideas, use wholesale, or entirely disregard.

Concept: The Level Class system (which I'm actually personally not that fond of, per se) uses a rather quantitative numeric system. This entity classification system uses a more qualitative system.

Core Entity Classes:
Itemic – Predominantly non-biological object(s) exhibiting life-like qualities and/or behavior

Spectral – Predominantly non-matter manifestation exhibiting life-like qualities and/or behavior, despite lacking clearly defined physical form

Bactal – Endemic lifeforms of single-cellular nature

Floral – Endemic lifeform possessing predominantly plant-like or fungal qualities

Brutoid – endemic lifeform possessing predominantly animalistic qualities

• Anthro-brutoid – with animal intelligence, but predominantly human appearance
• Bruto-anthropoid – with human intelligence, but predominantly animal appearance

Anthropoid – endemic lifeform possessing predominantly humanoid qualities

Enigmatic – apex lifeforms with immeasurable cataclysmic/invigorative power, often with true form transcending human understanding. May fall into above categories; classification as Enigmatic requires case-by-case analysis.

Additional suffix qualifiers:
Hive: Exhibiting hive-mind behavior
Vir-A: Infectious, use biological humans as hosts
Vir-B: Infectious, cannot spread to biological humans
Mech: Partially or fully mechanical in form
Cyb: Existing only within electronic systems
Serf: Exhibits independent thinking, but remains subservient to a higher-order entity/other being
Rlr: Exists as a higher-order entity, having charge of hive/serf entities or other minions of some form
Neur: Presents a psychological or neurological hazard
Ubiq: Well-known, found across a large number of Backrooms levels
Civ: Forming self-governed structured, complex societies or civilizations (Rlr-Serf and Hive do not count)
Rad: Presents major radiological hazard
Ncr: Being dead; or having death as a prerequisite for existence
Rlt: Possessing significant reality-altering powers which are poorly understood, or which clearly violate the known laws of Physics
?: Tag added at the end of any above suffix to indicate evidence, but lack of certainty

Examples:
Entity 2 (Windows): Itemic-Class/Hiv?-Ncr?-Ubiq
Entity 3 (Smilers): Spectral-Class/Ubiq
Entity 18 (The Beast of Level 5): Anthropoid-Class/Neur-Rlr-Rlt
Entity 74 (Argos): Anthropoid-Class/Rlr
Entity 128(OMEGA): Spectral-Class/Cyb?
Entity 140 (Blanche): Anthropoid-Class/Rlt
Entity 189 (Macchina): Anthropoid-Class/Civ-Mech
Nostalgi Gaius: Enigmatic-Class/Neur-Rlt

(Consider that Enigmatic may fit better as an additional qualifier rather than a Core Class)

Re: Proposal for Entity Class system

Sariastuff 03 Oct 2021 12:01

Hey Kai!

First off, I'm going to preface this by saying that this system sounds awesome, and that if you continue developing this, I would definitely use it on all of my entities going forward.

Now, onto your proposal. The truth is that there is really nothing stopping you from using this on any of your articles, except for people not possibly getting what these words mean (I'll get to that later). I'm not sure how many people are aware of it, but we as a staff (and subsequently, as a community) heavily encourage the creation of new formats such as this, hence why IETS was brought into existence in the first place, because in reality, not everyone wants to include IETS in their articles—it's just a thing that's there for people to use if they want to include a classification method in their article. There's also the object format I've created which I use for all of my object articles, which you can see here. It's also not enforced in any way, but it's there should people want to use it.

If you want make this a legitimate system, there's a bunch of ways to go about doing it. The first is the simplest of the bunch, and it's just adding it under/over the 'habitat' section and writing the words. Of course, people are not psychics, and they're bound to be confused if they're given no explanation as to what exactly they mean, which means you'll have to attach an essay explaining this system alongside all mentions of it in articles. This means that people also have a method to read up on your proposed system, and will have a whole page that's dedicated to exploring what each of these words mean in the same vein as SCP has both the standard object classes and the more obscure esoteric classes. If you take this path, your results should look somewhat like SCP's ACS, and you could also attach a memo to it if you want to worldbuild further.

The other way you could do this requires [Pukes in mouth] css. The SD class component, as you're aware, displays all the information which it represents on the component itself in the form of — get this — actual sentences! Granted, it's spoon-feeding to a certain extent, but it means you don't have to explain what all this stuff means on an essay. Knowing you and the extents you go to to make your work realistic and shipshape however, I doubt that this will be the option you choose.

Now, if you wish to go with any of these, you've probably thought about giving it some styling to make it more than just a single line of text in an entity, although that's up to you in the end if you want to do so. I'm sure that there are many people who would be willing to assist you with it, and judging from your previous contributions, I think you yourself are pretty swell at css styling as well. Either way, there's work to be done with this if you want to make a component that looks stylish.

To conclude, I would say you could start working on this whenever you please. Whilst this will not be made official in any way considering we can't (and won't) enforce formats on everyone, you're free to write this up as an essay and begin using it in your articles whenever you deem fit. I look forward to how this develops, and would like to be kept up-to-date with the progress made on this via discord or wikidot pms, mainly to see the progress happening and to extend my help through conceptualization/polishing and the such.

Best of luck with this, and cheers!
Argon.

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Re: Proposal for Entity Class system

Kai4C 03 Oct 2021 12:27

Ooo epic!

Might put a whole essay page out at some point!