EVE General Discussion

You mean skills that would apply to all there race's ships?

In other words racial 'traits', if my memory serves me well depending on your race you get +1 in attributes to Logic or Perception for example, so could work with combat too.

Could create a new dynamic i suppose.....

I for one would be happy already if they'd start by giving ships a bonus for racial drones.
Using Minmatar drones on an Amarr ship is simply humiliating.

I remember when there were racial bonuses... people whined and became Caldari... other whined and said too many Caldari... now no bonuses... now you want them back... jeez make up your damn mind.

Say no to FOTM, this isn't WoW.

I agree with this more articulate expression.

+1

Ugh! Please, no.

Irrevocable decisions that unfairly benefit characters that, by the luck of the draw, happen to be in vogue this month is a horrible idea — especially when tied to something as fundamental as race. The game has been moving away from that kind of design for a long time now, and “away from it” is a very good direction to keep heading.

Also, that kind of selective blanket bonuses are pretty much the epitome of unbalanced: ships that happen to be slightly ahead at the moment because of the to-and-fro of game balancing and of the metagame become even more ahead because of unrelated and inherently uninformed decision made a decade ago.

This kind of thing needs to be extremely limited in scope, non-permanent, driven by informed and up-to-date decisions — i.e. nothing even remotely connected to character creation. If you want a slot-5 “loyalist” implant with a minute bonus for an obscene and obstructive amount of cash, then maybe…

I would hate to see racial bonuses in the game.

I don't know about everyone else but when I started playing I just picked what I liked the sound of, which was Gallente. Having been in the game for a good few months now I can safely say I despise the Gallente ships, they are all lumpy and horrible looking. Anything that tries to make me use ships I don't like or face a disadvantage I regard as a bad move for the game.

My intentions were not to force or restrict players into choosing racial specific ships just for a bonus. The idea behind it is geared more toward the lore of the eve universe. These bonuses would be passive and there wouldn't be certain skill books to modify its bonus (it is always active and doesn't require user interaction to use basically).

i.e. A Gallente character that has an ancestry of miners he or she would receive a passive bonus to mining --+3% yield.

I have yet to see a spaceship in WoW.. well one, but that one crashed, stupid space-goats.

And I quote, "notable impacts on gameplay about their character".


Damn, I knew i should of created a thread on ship cammo's and skins for sale in the nex store.