Board Thread:Plants vs. Zombies 2/@comment-5760976-20160205211204/@comment-26942983-20160206173853

Nikel23 wrote:

IG Gaming + Maramok= Awesome wrote:

To me, there are only 4 categories: sun producers, offense, defense, and instants. Under them, I can separate the plants more finely, but above it all, I still stick to these 4 categories. Then you need to be more flexible than that. If several plants can't fit in any existing groups due to more distinct differences, you shouldn't force fitting them into one, but instead make a new one. Kingdoms used to be divided into Animalia and Plantae, but eventually they made it to separate Fungi and Protista, for example, because they could see they were distinct and had their own characteristics.

I mean, yeah, if we follow your rule, Ghost Pepper or Potato Mine can fall under instant plants category, but if we add another category, i.e. single-use plants, they fit this category better. It's true that they share few common characteristics with instant plants, but they're single-use plants, not instants. Otherwise, instant plants must fall under offensive plants because they kill zombies, just like Peashooter. Well, no. They share all the charateristics once activated!

No! Remember my definition from the last thread? Instants are plants who can use their abilities once, and then disappear! Then you just have to wait for the recharge.