As I said, if they make a bunch of traits and you can pick one of them at character creation, regardless of race, then that would be fine. Well cancel my subscription, i don't want your issues.
Racial Traits...I personally have never chosen a ace or class because of it's skills or traits, but because I think the Forsaken in WoW look undeniably badassed. That whole underwater breathing thing isn't what makes my choice, but more like finding a 20 in the back pocket of your favorite pair of pants. "Oh, looky here! It's a present from me, to me!". Makes me feel so happy. I'm looking foreword to developing my own games when I come of age, and have actually done some thinking and research; in games I'm already designing the ideas for, I have multiple races, with demons and humans among them. And while everyone is going to be choosing races like Demons and Plant People (Chlorophytes, as I've named them) and Cat-People, NO ONE IS GOING TO CHOSE HUMANS because they are undeniably boring. Thus, I must make them Super Overpowered when it comes to traits, because let's face it...Fairies, Angels, Demons are just much more beautiful. It then comes down to your choice, a beautiful Plant Monster with mouth fangs but pathetic stats, or a Human who could Falcon Punch your Plant Man thanks to his racial traits of Bravery (+attack when in large groups of allies) Perfection (Additional Defense and Health against Non-Humans) and Linguistics (Speech increase, and able to learn all languages more easily). The point I'm trying to cross is, people I see on the youtubes almost always never choose the Humans, because they are SO BORING. Giving them a trait though would make them desirable for a decision. I don't care if you have a Human that you like, you could be legit or you could be one in about 12 others who do like humans, but that doesn’t change the fact that they need a reason to exist…because currently, they really don’t. It’s sad, but it’s the truth.
In my opinion the races in starbound dont need more diferenses, diferense between players should come from batlle styles, weapons and tech. Races should only efect how you look and how you can RP. In elder scrolls online the races are suposed to be very differen but you can still customize your character how you want. You have a skill line (sort of a mini skil tree) for your race, skill line for every weapon set (1 handed and a shield, two 1 handed weapons, 2 handed etc.), skill line for every armor type, skill line for every guild and 4 skill lines for your class.
