[Openme-developers] Racial Traits/Abilities

[Justin S. <jus...@ho...>]

aos, actually I agree with you in general, it would be better maybe to have 
no penalites and just equalize pluses among the races.  I don't mind either 
way.  The only thing I want is for the pluses and minuses to equal out.  
Bruticus' original #s didn't do this.  Mine do the job much better.  I guess 
having +s and -s cancel allows us to have a Middle race that has no changes. 
  For instance if we did add a 6th race, I would suggest making Paragon (as 
it already sort of is) the middle race in all aspects.

Bruticus you want Team Penalties and Team Bonuses, but for some races these 
aren't really that at all.  For instance you call the Mawlor increase in 
building cost a Negative Team, but really it is a Negative only for the 
Mawlor player.  That is why the Mawlor having Military Payment bonus for a 
Positive Team item is fine.

A Xollian with high alignment gets cheap ships but he also buys them for all 
his alliance mates and allied alliances.  Many of your benefit/penalties are 
either both Team or Individual.  Even at 50% cost it is hardly worth the 
Xollian player to fly around to everyones base and build their guns for 
them.  Producing Guns doesn't give EXP.  So a Xollian player doesn't really 
want to build guns for people (especially at his own base since it uses 
goods).  Yes it may help the alliance overall but it starts to hurt the 
Xollian player himself, if he is going to fully make use of his bonus like 
other races by using his benefit as much as he can.

I think with the Numbers I have given they are reasonably balanced.  
Xollians probably have the worst Race Abilities then Mawlor (an unlucky 
Mawlor player will really suffer while a lucky one can really climb the 
rankings fast).  The 3 other races are more well off but people percieve 
Mawlor and Xollian to be better so I guess that is fine if the Racial Traits 
help KEA, Paragon and Zyck a bit more (although Brut your #s were really 
off, although you did say they were just preliminary).

Carnaugh

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