[QUOTE=TenraiNagi;737451]The races in this game are so similar in almost everything that the only things that differentiate us from each other are our undergarments. I love the races we got, and I think they deserve more than what we have now.

Some ideas to increase their uniqueness may include: (NO penalties, Only Boosts)

1) Yes please, this game is seriously lacking in lore for each of the races

2) Yes, some. Mostly visual differences, I guess.

3/4) The problem here is that while you're not adding a penalty for being a different race, adding a boost to one race automatically penalizes every other race in cases where this boost makes a difference. It's not possible to give one race a boost without giving other races a disadvantage in one way or another. I particularly disagree with one race being able to buy things cheaper from NPCs, as well as one race receiving more GC Seals.

Any boost that is done to a race should not be more significant or special than that it can be completely made up for in gear (a good use for race specific gear.)


5) No thanks. If these summons are going to be worth using at all, you'd have to balance them perfectly all the time if you didn't want to do exactly the sort of penalizing you say you're against.


In my opinion, the racial differences in FF11 were pretty well balanced. Most races got good benefits out of most of their strongest stats for most jobs. Although some races would always have an edge for some jobs, the majority of such situations were possible to get around with relatively easily available gear.

Example (again from ff11): Mithra vs elvaan for warrior. Mithras have way more dex than elvaans, elvaans have way more str than mithra. Elvaans would hit harder, but mithras would connect hits more often and crit more often. In cases where both races could reach the accuracy cap, mithras could sacrifice more accuracy gear in favor of attack and str gear than an elvaan could, and still connect hits just as often as the elvaan would. It takes a bit of thinking to figure out how to optimize your build for each race, but with a non-retarded gear set, the differences between each race were small enough for no one to care what race/job combination people had. In all my years of FF11, I've never heard anyone say "come X job because you're Y race", or "don't invite X player because he is Y race and Z job".