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Basic racial traits in alien gen

So I was thinking with the basic and superior versions of racial traits; should the basic version of the racial traits of all the species in this game be added to the alien gen? This would allow people to make mixed species characters with species traits. Like a basic mind meld, or basic seduce in the alien gen list and then give the actual species the superior versions. This would still give the actual species a reason to be desired. Leave joined to full Trills; I don't think the Trills would join a half breed, but I could be wrong.

If they want to keep superior to Boffs, as I don't think player get superior, then they could add basic, standard, and superior with basic going to alien gen, standard going to full species player characters and superior going to Boffs.

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  • risian4risian4 Member Posts: 3,711 Arc User
    I don't think this would be a good idea. In fact, I've been proposing the opposite for a while: we need more playable species with unique traits that allow for an unique experience.

    The Caitian playable species is a good example of how it should be done instead: they have increased jumping abilities, which is something that sets this species apart from other ones. Sadly, most species just have some increased passive stat which is something you hardly really experience while running around in a mission.


    Giving one species access to all racial traits would only reduce the incentive to play certain species since you could just create an alien that would have access to all these traits. That's not what I would want to see, every species should have something that's unique to that species, and in my opinion this 'something' should be a trait that really sets them apart from other species in how you experience gameplay, compared to both alien ones and regular ones.
  • warpangelwarpangel Member Posts: 9,427 Arc User
    Aliens should get access to all the species' graphical parts. The traits I couldn't care less.
  • pappy02upappy02u Member Posts: 141 Arc User
    I did thing about that which is why a proposed the sub-par version of the trait. Like lung (or is it pounce?) that distance would only be half or whatever the current average Olympic long jumper could do While the up rated version for the specie could be 20 or 30 meters. Like Bite, I can bite you but would it do as much damage as a Gorn? No, so say half the damage for the basic version.

    While yes more species diversity would be awesome, the game play doesn't really lend to it as there are only a few species traits and most are poor in comparison to kit mod and box traits.

    And yes I do agree all body parts should be there too. But baby steps.
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