Different Races Speculation Thread

What he quoted.

 

I just want the races to be ORIGINAL. I love the idea of lizard and raccoon races, just ANYTHING but the whole elf, dwarf, human, orc bit. ^^;;

 

I want to be an ooze. Like, all radioactivy, slushing and squishing around, floating on liquids and melting wood. Oozemen for teh WIN!

 

I think it's safe to say there aren't any space elves slated for this. I mean, this is a sci-fi setting. Unless they're trying to rip-off Shadowrun itself, I don't see them intending to manifest such blatant anachronisms.

 

Mixing and matching parts would be pretty cool. It would just give you that extra option, "Bear arms or human? Paws or feet?"
It would also add to the already fully customizable everything.

 

I would love to have a ' demolitionist' class. I would just throw bombs around everywhere like a madman

 

Isn't that a bit unrelated to races? I guess every race would be able to throw bombs everywhere like a madman, just equip them!

 

Vulcans... Eldar (both the 40k and Star Ocean versions)... You can have space elves and still be reasonably cool.
Anyway, I think all we know for sure at this point is that the various races are all going to be bipeds (or have some kind of wheel/tread system) of some kind. Centaurs, slimes, and other beings with more or less then two legs would probably require a seperate set of animations for both moving and using tools.

As for traits... eh I'm still against it unless Tiy and the others have a system to keep things balanced or allow players to game without them. Even something relatively minor like low-light vision could bring some serious gameplay changes, not to mention things like HP buffs and damage resistance.

 

Please oh please let there be a spirit race! (Think Choza Ghosts)

 

And that's when modding comes into play! Users will do the hard job of creating amazing non-biped races for the rest to enjoy!

 

Modding would be a really good part of this game. Hopefully we'll end up getting mods as good as some of the ones for Minecraft (Because we all know modding is a huge part of that game.)

 

Yeah, a huge part in Singleplayer. Multiplayer "only" got Bukkit, but unfortunately, as mods weren't officially supported, there was no way to implement new blocks or graphics or recipes or whatever into multiplayer servers, which kinda misses the point of a modding community. I truly wish that mods will be officially supported in Starbound!

 

That's true. But singleplayer is half the fun- if Multiplayer is vanilla only, it'll still be worthwhile.

 

Elves , cuz i play a elf in (almost) every game.

 

Space Elves?

 

A elf planet maybe? hehe.

 

Post it in Planets.

 

Personally, I would greatly enjoy having playable alien races, and maybe even a way to customize your own race as well!

Don't mind if they are mostly human but with alien features, I'm thinking Star-Trek style. That would fit the Sci-Fi theme well, and be less work to adapt all the gear!

 

obviously he means that

 

Some sort of "space vampire"-style race could be cool, depending on how deep they wanna go with the race mechanics.