Races and Racial Bonus

Racial bonuses should exist for the ability for some races to make parts just a bit easier or better. Having these racial bonuses creates a diverse game. For me it’s what makes SWG the game it is.
Do some racials not make sense or are weak? Sure. But then we should work to balance them out.
I really don’t like the idea of them being cosmetic or removed entirely. I don’t play this game to have it dumbed down like WoW.

Just my thoughts and open to discuss points of view

Dump the "bonuses". Most of them are useless anyhow.
Or allow everyone to pick a perk or perk package on creation, which may be harder with established characters.

Keep them, just make them relevant to the updated R3 attributes.

Yarr said:

Racial bonuses should exist for the ability for some races to make parts just a bit easier or better. Having these racial bonuses creates a diverse game. For me it’s what makes SWG the game it is.
Do some racials not make sense or are weak? Sure. But then we should work to balance them out.
I really don’t like the idea of them being cosmetic or removed entirely. I don’t play this game to have it dumbed down like WoW.

Just my thoughts and open to discuss points of view

Click to expand...

for crafting most racials are assembly which after getting established amounts to very little so with the exception of humans artisan experiment and some of the combat bonuses they are mostly cosmetic at this point

Malthol said:

Dump them "bonuses". Most of them are useless anyhow.
Or allow everyone to pick a perk or perk package on creation.

Click to expand...

im cool with just dumping them or the pick a perk is an interesting idea either way it would make adding new races much easier without the need to theorize and balance their specific bonuses

A more elaborate version would be to create a series of bonuses to make choices from. Say 20 possibilities for the sake of discussion, then make it so that each species (we need to stop calling them race for sure) has 1 or 2 that are not available to it. Much less restrictive, but it can still allow for flavor based on the physical or cultural attributes associated with the majority of the species.

Malthol said:

Dump the "bonuses". Most of them are useless anyhow.
Or allow everyone to pick a perk or perk package on creation, which may be harder with established characters.

Click to expand...

I do like this. Could be a ton of choices to pick from. You get lets say 20 points. each bonus could be worth so much. Sort of thing. I like this a lot really.

I think bonuses are cool, no Twi'lek Dancer is going to be upset they "dance" a bit better then most other races.
But if the bonuses become too larger or almost a penalty if you don't pick the right race that's when IMO it becomes an issue.
Example would be a race with better Status resistances to the point, where you're handicapping yourself if you don't pick the "Combat Race".
Think WoW PvP Humans and Undead, having a extra racial trinket to clear CCs.

But I think a nice middle ground would be something like each race/every character having a few non-combat and combat bonuses they can choose. So then you still have diversity and a reason other than just cosmetic for picking a race and perks. But hopefully nothing that causes anyone to think "Oh I can't make a Twi'lek Bounty Hunter". Cause someone who makes a Trandoshan Hunter combat character, that gets lucky in combat that 1 extra time out of 100 times for any other race isn't game breaking and still helps you. (1/100 may be a good or horrible example for SWG)