Race Differences

[Ryans]

Btw, you just ignored the part of my post that was the strongest argument against what you said:
You want race differences for more individuality.
1. Base stats have pretty much no effect on individuality, because what matters is what people add their points to later.
2. About 35% of the players are Miqo'tes, 40% are Hyur and 25% are Lalafell and Elezen.
But even if every race would only be 25% of the ingame population, it would mean every 4th player I meet has the same stats as me. Great individuality..

I didn't ignore your argument for the sake of not wanting to be proved wrong, it just had no barring on what I am proposing. The point is to make the races individual, not each player. I want you to be the same as other members of the same race, to a degree. I don't want you to be the same as every other player of the same class.

As others have mentioned, the community "forces" people into the ideal method of how the game ought to be played. Giving everyone the ability to be individual in every aspect of their character only breeds conformity. This isn't true in reality, but in a game, it is very true. However if the game is designed to have minor differences between a few selections that players get to pick from then at least something is actually individualized to smaller groups, instead of the whole being identical.

[Atoli]

As others have mentioned, the community "forces" people into the ideal method of how the game ought to be played. Giving everyone the ability to be individual in every aspect of their character only breeds conformity. This isn't true in reality, but in a game, it is very true.

But that's also where the difference lies.
While a community can surely be very forcing in HOW a class has to be played, as long as you have the option to do it differently technical-wise, you can do it.
Forcing people to be the same by game machanisms is really killing ANY individuality.
And no, being equally good or bad as just 1/4 of all players is not making me feel less conform.

Well, seeing how the majority is against your idea..I'm not really bothered by it, because I doubt it will be implemented against the will of most players

What I like though is the idea of having gameplay differences for the races.
I forgot who proposed it, but I liked it..like..certain races having to pay more in shops of certain NPCs, stuff like that.

[Shneibel]

But that's also where the difference lies.
While a community can surely be very forcing in HOW a class has to be played, as long as you have the option to do it differently technical-wise, you can do it.
Forcing people to be the same by game machanisms is really killing ANY individuality.
And no, being equally good or bad as just 1/4 of all players is not making me feel less conform.

Well, seeing how the majority is against your idea..I'm not really bothered by it, because I doubt it will be implemented against the will of most players

What I like though is the idea of having gameplay differences for the races.
I forgot who proposed it, but I liked it..like..certain races having to pay more in shops of certain NPCs, stuff like that.

it wont, this isnt thefisrt thread about this matter and always heavy against the idea