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Posted by: Ronah.2869

Ronah.2869

I suggest that the living story will find a way to introduce a new playable race every 4 months.
You guys said you have 4 teams working on this living story content and they cycle every 4 months. So in this time you can create a playable race and starter zone for it.

I am suggesting this now so you can start this idea from the next year.

There are a lot of races in the game that are worth to be played. Fist of all, we need to look at each race from a good/bad antagonists situation. Some races are purely enemy race – like the centaurs – while others are friendly and enemy to others as well.

Here are some of my suggestions on what races could/should be playable
- Skrit
- Jotun
- Kodan
- Tengu / Sensali
- Grawl
- Hyleck
- Quaggan
- Largos

As I said before, I don’t see as playable races: centaurs, ogres, kraits nor ettins

A great variety of races would be welcomed to GW2 because the animation are pretty much done and very few tweaks should be invented.
The skills for professions will remain the same while you can invent 2-3 special skills/ animation for them

It is not important if the new starter zones are far away from the current zones, you can add a temporary aura gate for traveling up until the zones in between will be opened

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Posted by: MeGaZlo.9516

MeGaZlo.9516


A great variety of races would be welcomed to GW2 because the animation are pretty much done and very few tweaks should be invented.
The skills for professions will remain the same while you can invent 2-3 special skills/ animation for them

It is not important if the new starter zones are far away from the current zones, you can add a temporary aura gate for traveling up until the zones in between will be opened

And did you thought about armor? They still can’t introduce cloaks because it’s buggy with charr’s tails. Now imagine 100500×2 armor skins….

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Posted by: LeeroyNimoy.1864

LeeroyNimoy.1864

-1, if there were a button for it. In theory the idea is fun, but in practice it would only cause more work than it’s probably worth. Once a race is picked, there has to be work done to create the basic creation process, the opening stories, the progression of said stories, voice acting for male and female versions of each story, voice acting for NPCs, updating and scaling current armor, creation of new armor, the scaling of the new to the old races, etc., etc. Ultimately it can’t be done every four months.

On the other hand, if they were to add a new race every 18 month, this would be more in line with the feasible. The only problem remaining is what about people like me who already have one of each profession? If I want to make one of the new races, I would need a new profession or doubhle up on one I already have – I’m not deleting what I have now, I rather like all the stuff I’ve accumulated for them.

Ability is what you can do; Motivation is how much you do; Attitude is how well you do it.
My idea compilation thread:
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/suggestions/Seven-ideas-in-one-post/first#post3038023

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Posted by: MeGaZlo.9516

MeGaZlo.9516

The only problem remaining is what about people like me who already have one of each profession? If I want to make one of the new races, I would need a new profession or doubhle up on one I already have – I’m not deleting what I have now, I rather like all the stuff I’ve accumulated for them.

I have several characters of the same profession but I stocked slots and infinite tools for possible 2-3 new races.

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Posted by: LeeroyNimoy.1864

LeeroyNimoy.1864

I play one each, so a new race without a new prof, simply won’t be played by me.

Ability is what you can do; Motivation is how much you do; Attitude is how well you do it.
My idea compilation thread:
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/suggestions/Seven-ideas-in-one-post/first#post3038023

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Posted by: Astral Projections.7320

Astral Projections.7320

Would have to have a new profession with it for me. I already have one of each profession and at least one of each race. Another race without a new profession would be useless for me.

And since most people chose human rather than another race, having a new race every 4 months would mean they would be quickly neglected except for a handful of people.

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Posted by: Elric of Grans.7684

Elric of Grans.7684

Seriously? That is a horridly aggressive schedule. Four months? Story-wise, lesser races (eg Skritt) would not work anyway, so they would run out of races very quickly. In addition, to do it properly, each new race would need a new starting area and home city. There also needs to be a whole lot of personal story quests added. That is a huge amount of work! I think we will be lucky to see a new race, let alone one every four months.

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Posted by: TriggerSad.2597

TriggerSad.2597

The amount of voice recording, armor modifying, model creation this would require… I doubt that would ever be possible.

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Posted by: Peeka.7961

Peeka.7961

Do u want them to burn out?

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Posted by: Windu The Forbidden One.6045

Windu The Forbidden One.6045

That will completely burn them out, I want more meaningfull content but.. this seems a bit overkill.

Making a playable race would involve making:
-The race itself (models, animations, sounds, voices)
-Create a personal story for them (lvl 1-20 quests)
-Give them an appropriate starter area and capital.
-Create racial skills
-Create cultural armor/weapons
-And god knows what else..

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~Sincerely, Scissors

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Posted by: Machiavel.6042

Machiavel.6042

Here’s what they’re doing, and what they’ll be doing for the next 4 months, OP.

- Temporary Content
-More temporary content
-…did I say ? …temporary content !
- TEMPORARY ITEMSSSSSS !!!!

Yep.

-I don’t suffer from insanity; I enjoy every minute of it- Edgar Allan Poe

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Posted by: FateOmega.9601

FateOmega.9601

New races don’t add anything except more work.

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Posted by: Ronah.2869

Ronah.2869

New races don’t add anything except more work.

Well, actually, it will add a LOT. Read the following from Windu The Forbidden One.6045

Making a playable race would involve making:
-The race itself (models, animations, sounds, voices)
-Create a personal story for them (lvl 1-20 quests)
-Give them an appropriate starter area and capital.
-Create racial skills
-Create cultural armor/weapons
-And god knows what else..

And to the rest of repliers. A-Net said they are not going to add a new profession because the ones they have now fill all the roles. The only possibility is to add a new race which they said it will be one of those mentioned in these forums.
I think it will be either Tengus or Largos, but I wanted to give them something to think about.

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Posted by: TheDaiBish.9735

TheDaiBish.9735

Here’s what they’re doing, and what they’ll be doing for the next 4 months, OP.

- Temporary Content
-More temporary content
-…did I say ? …temporary content !
- TEMPORARY ITEMSSSSSS !!!!

Yep.

Not entirely true, since the past 3 updates have had permanent additions.

OP:

It’d be cool to have new races, but every 4 months would be a ridiculous pace.

Maybe unlocking them through a story. For example, Destroyers get into Dominion of Winds, and Tengu seek help in driving them out. You succeed, you earn Tengu’s trust, Tengu becomes a playable race.

Life is a journey.
Time is a river.
The door is ajar.

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Posted by: alexjolly.1463

alexjolly.1463

Here are some of my suggestions on what races could/should be playable
- Skrit
- Jotun
- Kodan
- Tengu / Sensali
- Grawl
- Hyleck
- Quaggan
- Largos

Nope
Nope
Nope
Yes
Nope
Nope
Nope
Maybe

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Racial_sympathy

Sympathy Races can’t be playable races, it’s a simple fact. As much as I’d like to see one of those races as a new race (namely Quaggan and Skritt) it can’t happen without completely revamping the personal story and changing the mechanics of it.

As for the four you listed that aren’t sympathy races:
Jotun seems like a an ok race, I don’t particular like the idea of them as a playable race as they seem redundant since we already have the Norn as our ‘niche’ tall race and they also seem to be lacking in customisation, this could be changed though to make them a viable race.

Kodan are in the same boat as Jotun except they can never be a playable race. How are you supposed to customise a Kodan, they are polar bears therefore they are always white furred, every player character would look the same.

Tengu, seemingly the only race you’ve suggested that could be implemented, there is already part of the map saved for their ‘city’ and ‘zone’, they have their own struggles and are barely involved with the main story (apart from at the end saying that after The Pact defeated Zhaitan they may help with fight against the dragons HINT HINT).
Tengu are known to have different tribes so you already have your racial story choices and are fairly good customisation potential. Anet have basically left this open as a potential race.

Largos. there are two reasons why this can’t happen.
A) Lore – The Largos are known for their many houses and are highly trained assassins, this means they are a race with only one defined profession. Could this be changed? Yes more lore could be brought up to clarify better on this.
B) Customisation – Greyish skin and White/Silvery hair are your only options.
I’ve listed Largos as a maybe because I wouldn’t mind if it happened, lorewise it would be pretty easy to implement. It would also make sense that The Pact would use the ‘Houses’ as a base of operations against the underwater dragon in a potential expansions/update.

Bnok – [EXG] Desolation
“A leader leads by example, not by force.” – Sun Tzu

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Posted by: Machiavel.6042

Machiavel.6042

Here’s what they’re doing, and what they’ll be doing for the next 4 months, OP.

- Temporary Content
-More temporary content
-…did I say ? …temporary content !
- TEMPORARY ITEMSSSSSS !!!!

Yep.

Not entirely true, since the past 3 updates have had permanent additions.

OP:

It’d be cool to have new races, but every 4 months would be a ridiculous pace.

Maybe unlocking them through a story. For example, Destroyers get into Dominion of Winds, and Tengu seek help in driving them out. You succeed, you earn Tengu’s trust, Tengu becomes a playable race.

And what important content it was, wasn’kitten

Tequalt ? Oh, cool, new content…for zerg players. Awesome.

Ascended ? Oh, cool, new content…for farmers. Or show-offs.

Story ? What do you mean, “story” ?

Oh…new festivals, and stuff we don’t really care about…nice.

Yep, money, money, money…

-I don’t suffer from insanity; I enjoy every minute of it- Edgar Allan Poe

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Posted by: TheDaiBish.9735

TheDaiBish.9735

Here’s what they’re doing, and what they’ll be doing for the next 4 months, OP.

- Temporary Content
-More temporary content
-…did I say ? …temporary content !
- TEMPORARY ITEMSSSSSS !!!!

Yep.

Not entirely true, since the past 3 updates have had permanent additions.

OP:

It’d be cool to have new races, but every 4 months would be a ridiculous pace.

Maybe unlocking them through a story. For example, Destroyers get into Dominion of Winds, and Tengu seek help in driving them out. You succeed, you earn Tengu’s trust, Tengu becomes a playable race.

And what important content it was, wasn’kitten

Tequalt ? Oh, cool, new content…for zerg players. Awesome.

Ascended ? Oh, cool, new content…for farmers. Or show-offs.

Story ? What do you mean, “story” ?

Oh…new festivals, and stuff we don’t really care about…nice.

Yep, money, money, money…

Okay, point out where I said it was good content or whatever.

You said all they’ll be working on is temp content. I merely corrected you.

As for the rest, there really isn’t much point trying to discuss it if you’ve got no imagination as to what the LS could be and the idea that temp content is merely ‘festival’ content stuck in your head.

Life is a journey.
Time is a river.
The door is ajar.

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Posted by: Machiavel.6042

Machiavel.6042

  • Sigh *

Well, we can’t say they’re working on anything else than temporary content, can we now ? At the speed they’re doing it, it’s impressive sure, but is it necessary ?

Sure I got imagination !

-What happened in Orr ?
-What happened with Destiny Edge ?
-What happened to our heroes after the fall of Zaitan ?
-Is Zaitan really dead ? Or was he a pawn of an even greater evil ?

Tons of ideas, but they just keep doing stuff with temporary stories that add nothing to the real one behind this game.

We were all promised a fight against dragons and all, and what do we get ? One, giant, purple-ish, dragon-lord. Evil dragon-lord might I add.

What about the others ?

The destroyers, are they high on something or what ? They could be wrecking havoc !

What about all those Risen ?

Ahh….so much possibilities….

I sure want new stuff. If it could be useful, that’d be great

-I don’t suffer from insanity; I enjoy every minute of it- Edgar Allan Poe