EVE General Discussion

I've thought about this in the past as well. Maybe give rogue drone autonomy. A rise of the machines type expansion but they should rely on numbers, not 99% resist walls.

Just to give you an idea of the scope of what you're asking, a fifth race would mean…

· A fifth damage type that requires new modules and skills and that needs to be balanced in with the four existing ones.
· A fifth sensor type that requires new ECM and ECCM modules and skills, and be properly placed in the sliding scale of ECM susceptibility of the existing races.
· A sixth (and maybe seventh) weapon system, with its entire tree of skills and variety of modules (somewhere in the region of 80 each) that need to be balanced against existing ships and systems.
· Two more ewar types and their corresponding support and counter-modules, which again need to be balanced against what already exists.
· A new command bonus category and four specific stats to provide boosts to.
· At least a dozen new drones to match the new damage and ewar types.
· Preferably, at least two more pirate factions and all the assets (and space) required.
· Something along the lines of 1,200 new systems that need to be slotted into the map.
· Some 60 new ships, which again need to be properly balanced, and yet provide variety to not just be more of the same.

· Oh, and a fifth primary colour for the backgrounds and ship skin hues.

…and compared to simply making what we have work, the prospect of making that kind of effort even harder (and putting pretty much everything else on hold for a year or two) doesn't feel all that enticing to me.

Sooooo....

I guess "space dwarves", and "wormhole hobbits", with massive "industrial" bonuses for boosting Null Sec economic infrastructure are definitely "right out" ?

I don't race much these days, but it only makes sense to have five. Else there would be matches ending in ties all the time. Where's the fun in that?

Mr Epeen

I too would have to say no..
I`ve played this game for a year now only to half ****** beeing able to fly a couple of select few ships.. Injecting my engines with my left over alcahol and sparemart parts to keep em floating i`m partially able to do some select few interesting things..

I`d rather see that skill training time went down a bit so that more peeps, with less patience than me keeps on playing;)

I think we know that Jack O'Neill is the fifth race.

Yeah that works lets just make a new area of space so we as capsuleers can run missions for the very race that is trying to experiment on (normal?) humans to find a means to an end in the storyline...


heh

Well **** I want to play in Old Eden then where stuff is cooler!

I'm all for splitting a mess of factions away to add to the current 4 main races - more pirate type possibilities. Sleeper/Jove should remain mysterious and badass.

e.g. numerous caldari/minmatar or gallente/amarr sub-factions that introduce new ship models, new mods and rig possibilities that seriously modify the bonuses or visual aesthetic of current ships.

There are 4 ancient races that could be expanded on: Sleepers, Takmahl, Talocan and Yan Jung.