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I absolutely love the new opponent customization feature. Love it! I spent a good two hours futzing around with it in DA Beta the other night, tweaking this and that to create new custom races, thinking about how specific climates and environments might shape bonuses, outlook, and politics, considering the entomology of planet and race names (wow, I can’t believe how geeky that sounds...), and in general spinning stories about how a particular race developed into a spacefaring nasty looking to beat the frack out of me.
Nevertheless, I’m disappointed looking back at my first attempts because most strike me as derivative of things I’ve been reading recently (tip of the hat in particular to John Scalzi’s Old Man’s War). In the interest of sharing creative grist with the community, do folks have original custom race creations that they’re particularly proud of and want to post?
On a side note, there is one race customization feature I’m still hoping will be included in the DA race screen – more control of custom race home system. IMHO, the game would benefit by giving players the ability to name the planets in home systems (not just the stars), control their number and quality (of course limited by some sort of total PQ point allotment / slider – maybe linked to the allotment of racial bonus points?), and control the appearance of these stars and planets (e.g., size, texture, moons, rings). If this is a bridge too far for DA, can someone point me to a tutorial on how to make these kinds of changes to the game files?
Nevertheless, I’m disappointed looking back at my first attempts because most strike me as derivative of things I’ve been reading recently (tip of the hat in particular to John Scalzi’s Old Man’s War). In the interest of sharing creative grist with the community, do folks have original custom race creations that they’re particularly proud of and want to post?
On a side note, there is one race customization feature I’m still hoping will be included in the DA race screen – more control of custom race home system. IMHO, the game would benefit by giving players the ability to name the planets in home systems (not just the stars), control their number and quality (of course limited by some sort of total PQ point allotment / slider – maybe linked to the allotment of racial bonus points?), and control the appearance of these stars and planets (e.g., size, texture, moons, rings). If this is a bridge too far for DA, can someone point me to a tutorial on how to make these kinds of changes to the game files?
, I simply made a customized Yor race to the point of rediculousness (they were ungodly, 500% bonus to Economy for example) just for fun AND to figure out the last couple 'question/thingies' I needed to figure out.