Race customization

[Fņŏŕď]

Are there any plans to add things like more leader sets? I like this game but I'd like to have more customization options in the race creator screen. Male, female humans different ship sets and so on.

[Binkus]

+ 10 i too think this is exactly what it needs to be a fully polished beauty of a game

[Adam Solo]

Offering more customization options, to allow you to choose different ship sets, race leader appearance, different Titan ship, is a common requested feature and part of the big list of suggestions to consider. So, I'd say there's a good change we'll offer this at some point.

[Fņŏŕď]

Ok thanks for the response.

[Binkus]

just to revive this thread a bit, After binging on this game it makes the player really lose interest very quickly with so few to choose from, or no really hostile nasty threat coming in, i mean something and sorry about this but as an example the borg, no excuses no diplomacy just a real gank or be ganked race, i play as humans mainly but the limiting factor of no surprise what race you will find is a real longevity buster for me

it should be a high priority is what i am saying, wonderful game and i feel like it was money well spent but long term play for me will really depend on what comes next

[ianescott]

following up this comment, I also find it pretty sad that (I play a custom human) the leaders show up in the same order, always have the same request (Cyrus was born with a woodie for a battleship, for example)....seems like every game events happen in the same order. Now, always finding ships in the ruins early game is fine, but a little more variety would be good. Like randomizing the leaders' traits... that would be truly awesome. I know I can screw with this with randomized culture picks, but that's hard to justify...maybe I will try that though.

[aReclusiveMind]

Originally posted by Binkus:

just to revive this thread a bit, After binging on this game it makes the player really lose interest very quickly with so few to choose from, or no really hostile nasty threat coming in, i mean something and sorry about this but as an example the borg, no excuses no diplomacy just a real gank or be ganked race, i play as humans mainly but the limiting factor of no surprise what race you will find is a real longevity buster for me

it should be a high priority is what i am saying, wonderful game and i feel like it was money well spent but long term play for me will really depend on what comes next

You may be happy to know that adding completely new races and more customization options for custom races are both high priority items on our list for future content releases then. :-)

These may come as part of future free content and/or paid DLC and expansion content. We are committed to improving the game across a multitude of areas, including those you mentioned.

[aReclusiveMind]

Originally posted by ianescott:

following up this comment, I also find it pretty sad that (I play a custom human) the leaders show up in the same order, always have the same request (Cyrus was born with a woodie for a battleship, for example)....seems like every game events happen in the same order. Now, always finding ships in the ruins early game is fine, but a little more variety would be good. Like randomizing the leaders' traits... that would be truly awesome. I know I can screw with this with randomized culture picks, but that's hard to justify...maybe I will try that though.

The leaders should not always show up in the same order, but there are only so many that meet certain criteria currently. For low level leaders, we have quite a few, but some won't work for certain races, and others may have already been hired by others.

For the higher level ones, it depends. Prestige pulls the highest level ones, if you use it on your custom empire, so you will see leaders like Cyrus more often. He is also a smuggler, so he can get pulled from the perk as well.

The leader traits and starting skills are thematically tied to the leaders and their biographies. Every leader has a unique biography and is designed a certain way at the start to match that. Traits and skills can be randomly acquired as time goes on, but are somewhat based on the leader's personality settings.

Desires for ship leaders do tend to draw on their command skill. With Cyrus starting with a high command, he will ask to be placed on a Battleship more often, as that is what he expects based on his prior experience.

We will be adding more leaders, traits, skills, and desires in future free content and/or paid DLC and expansion content to further increase the diversity. These are also some of the high priority items on our big list, alongside some other very exciting additional content we want to add in the future.

[ianescott]

awesome, obviously I'm still playing this game (over 400 hours now) so the comments above are not show stoppers. By the way, I started a game last night with random culture perks, that was very different for sure, and in a good way.

[stephane.f.david]

At least allow selecting the appaerance of leaders and ships separately.
Like I'd like to have Human leader or tech girls, but with Nova ships

[aReclusiveMind]

Originally posted by stephane.f.david:

At least allow selecting the appaerance of leaders and ships separately.
Like I'd like to have Human leader or tech girls, but with Nova ships

Yes, this is a high priority item on our list for a future content release.

[Saracen26]

Originally posted by Binkus:

... or no really hostile nasty threat coming in, i mean something and sorry about this but as an example the borg, no excuses no diplomacy just a real gank or be ganked race

Late game threats sound like a decent option with the ability to toggle them.

In terms of races which are do or die, it reminds me of the Kra'Hen from Imperium Galactica 2. Not open or have an ability to take part in diplomacy or spying. Just a war like race that serves a God Emperor, remaining hidden in the galaxy for as long as possible. The strongest ships, able to hoard and relentless in their approach. They subjegate everything.

The problem with this though is that this type of race wouldn't suit the game. Since war is the only option with such a race, it'd take the game away from the entire galactic Council mechanic and divert the game towards the cliche "Capture all the planets" type game.

I suppose such a race could exist within certain game constraints. But not under typical victory conditions.

[aReclusiveMind]

Just wanted to chime in here to say as of 1.1.3 you can now select your favorite combination of appearance, ship set, titan ability, and affinity (starting infrastructure, tech, an AI personality).

This is not the end of our journey to offer more options, but the beginning. We hope you all enjoy it!

[Tanaka]

Thanks for the continued improvements! Yes custom race and leader appearance would be my number one request right now as well so we don't have to keep playing the same opponents.

[Neo Scully]

Originally posted by Adam Solo:

Offering more customization options, to allow you to choose different ship sets, race leader appearance, different Titan ship, is a common requested feature and part of the big list of suggestions to consider. So, I'd say there's a good change we'll offer this at some point.

Still no female char.

[Adam Solo]

Originally posted by Neo Scully:

Originally posted by Adam Solo:

Offering more customization options, to allow you to choose different ship sets, race leader appearance, different Titan ship, is a common requested feature and part of the big list of suggestions to consider. So, I'd say there's a good change we'll offer this at some point.

Still no female char.

The Natural Law expansion adds new race leader appearances. The Human race adds two additional ones, one of which a female. Some of the alternative race leader appearances for the alien races are also female characters. By the way, the base-game's Nova race leader is also a female character.