Are you for or against the addition of race-based bonuses?

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Problem is, this isn't a game where people play one job, or even one type of job. When you advertise being able to excel at all jobs you want to try, it isn't a good mechanic to not allow that. Stat bonuses just ensure that one race will excel at certain things, and no-one else can ever match them.

Some may try to claim that equipment makes up for such, but it doesn't. All that the bonus bearing race has to do is get the same boosted equipment and they yet again exceed all others. All the equipment and freebie points in the world won't change that, because stat bonuses are by their nature an imbalance.

If bonus just have to be implemented, it should be in a manner that everyone benefits in the same way, but at different times. For example, one race get's a 3% xp boost at night for x amount of time, while another would get it during the day.

Why implementing something that shouldn't make a difference? To benefit everyone in the same way means to not benefit anyone ... so they could leave things the way they are now as well.

Let's not joke about "Some may try to claim that equipment makes up for such, but it doesn't." ... the most kickass BLM I've ever seen playing FFXI was an elvan ... the "dumbest" class talking about INT ...

Base stats were nothing more than a funny difference ... you could easily overcome that, with amazing results, adding fun to the game ... to see Taru Dark Knights enjoy the slaughter doing Insurgency, Galkas as summoner, "real human males" choosing Mithras only for their look without even thinking about stats etc. was really part of the fun ...