Why are all organics the same size?

[DemiserofD]

I just noticed this recently. ALL organics are only about SRV-sized. Where are the big ones? Many of these planets really should have been undisturbed for...centuries, if not more. There should be organics hundreds of feet tall, no?

It'd be neat to have the surface of planets have 'trees' hundreds of feet tall scattered across the surface, things that you actually would have to dodge with your ship.

 

[aRJay]

Larger, even enormous organics could be around.
But they are in very limited environments with almost no competitors so I am not sure what advantage there would be.

 

[DemiserofD]

Larger, even enormous organics could be around.
But they are in very limited environments with almost no competitors so I am not sure what advantage there would be.

I dunno, if the environments really are so limited you'd think they'd intensely compete with each other for any available resources/light. You'd end up with a few huge, undisturbed colonies rather than a lot of little ones, given sufficient time.

Island gigantism, essentially.

Plus, imagine a planet surface covered with periodic hundred-meter-tall organics? That'd look really neat.