Ships & Modules

If all the 4 races ships were homogeneous they would look like this.
Assymetric rusty golden potatoes.

I chose Amarr because they have the nicest ships, and I love their lore. My character will never fly Minmatar, because they are filthy slaves. Why would I lower myself to flying their primitive ships? Likewise I wouldn't fly Gallente, they are almost as bad as the Minmatar. I could possibly fly a Caldari ship, as they are atleast allies with the Amarr, but it's unlikely.

I do agree there should be some sort of bonus for people who actually stick with their race, rather than flying whatever the fad is at the time. Nothing much, just something like the 1/2% slight bonuses someone mentioned. It's not entirely needed, but would be a nice incentive to stop everyone flying drakes just because the internet says they are good.

If the game was brand new, about to be released, I would rather have seen crosstraining unavailable, or atleast something that requires a very large skill/time investment. It's far too late for anything like though, so I'll just make do flying my subpar Amarr ships and feeling good about myself, because at least I'm not some FOTM bandwagoner.

Achuras Online is why the races are mostly the same.

I mainly think its shocking how many people agree with you and therefor agree with you. Its really sad to be honest.

Races allow for different concepts, allows for factional warfare and different NPC opponents to just name a few quickly.

I mean is Armor tanking equal to Shield tanking?

Is firing missles the same as blasters?

Are autocannons and lazors really the same?

Are neut bonussed ships the same as web bonussed ships?

Etc, etc, etc, etc, etc, etc, etc, etc, etc, etc, etc, etc, etc, etc, etc, etc, etc, etc, etc. If you really believe all races and ships are equal I cant help you. No one can, all I can say is find another game and can I haz your stuffz please?

Thanks in advance.

You're an immortal Capsuleer, the elite of the elite, and god-like in ability. You are free of most societal constraints and limitations, unless you choose to let them limit you.

This game thrives on diversity, so being able to fly all ships with so little added costs besides the skillpoints is in my opinion not a good thing. The more diversity, the more differences there are to take advantage of.

Ofcourse it can be annoying sometimes so have the short straw sometimes when it comes to your racial ships in a certain role, but without substantial racial boundaries between ships, we're now in a situation where the entire community swings from a handful of ships to the next, 'outdating' everything else.

Separating the mob over the four races more, would mean more ships stay popular out of necessity. And people would deal with their racial sniper or logi not being the 'best', by mixing up their strategy and tweaking its role.

Sadly, this will never happen. Too many players are anxious to be able to do everything, afraid they're not min-maxed, and CCP doesn't have the backbone to enforce a measure of diversity in this game that divides homogenous groups of players. FW is their only real attempt so far, but CCP left it to wither.

If races limited the ship type you could fly that would completely mess things up for 2 reasons:

1) How would you know what ships you want to fly when you just started? You would be choosing to limit yourself to 1 race when you have no idea how good that race is or if you would eventually want to fly ships of another race.

2) CCP relies on cross training to give older players more things to train. If they only train 1 race, they reach end-game and get bored faster.

So that is why no racial penalty what ship you can fly.

To be fair, pre-Bloodlines and the introduction of the asian bloodlines to appeal to the Chinese over on Serenity, picking a race did actually mean something, as did picking the background school. The stats and starting skillsets were pretty different.

CCP did make a balls up when they did Bloodlines though, the new bloodlines totally obsoleted the existing ones unless you specifically wanted a black dude with dreads and Aviators as your avatar.

Fellow patriot.

I salute you in your honorable endeavor to protect our national heritage. I for one am appalled by the lack tradition asymmetric pizza served within our nation.

Glory to the Caldari State.