Talk:Coral/@comment-27532250-20171128011944

Why do people keep saying (in comments on individual coral pages at least) that the devs should reclassify corals as flora? Corals IRL aren't flora, they're fauna. Yes, I'm well aware that "But game logic!" argument exists, but a considerable amount of things in Subnautica are at least -based- on real-world logic, like the player's requirement for oxygen, nutrition and hydration for a start, as well as the other plants and animals which have been properly classified as 'flora' and 'fauna' respectively by the in-game PDA. Even the purpose of the giant coral tubes as a source of calcium is true to IRL inspirations, yet they're continually mistaken for plants. Why no love for corals? :'(

Support for my argument f rom the Wikipedia article on corals ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coral): Corals are marine invertebrates in the class Anthozoa of phylum Cndaria. They typically live in compact colonies of many identical individual polyps. The group includes the important reef builders that inhabit tropical oceans and secrete calcium carbonate to form a hard skeleton.