Race Representation in a Node's Architecture

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I don't see how they are getting 'short changed' if it is freely available info on your character sheet.

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I think this is the most valid crit I have seen argued. I do disagree with it. But thanks for bringing up this point as it shows why the issue is so complex.

The reason I disagree with it is 'culture evolves'. Your guild example means that the guild itself decided that was how they decided to impose their cultural identity, which is sort of what the feature was intended to do in the first place.

However, I do consider the disjointed rp, and larger possibility of undermining the 'world feel' a fair consideration. This is why I proposed the citizen vote option. The default stays heavily 'as intended' but when it changes to something the community prefers it has a real historical meaning. Culture evolves. If people are worried about players cycling around it. Just make it cost exponentially more to do each time.

But that brings us back around to:

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If part of the base incentive of node wars is racial quest driven, its extremely bad design. Giving people the opportunity as a community to change their node architecture doesn't effect all the other much much MUCH more meaningful reasons to go to node war. Further more the racial quest incentive lowers over time as the majority of the population gets theirs leaving the minorities.

I just simply don't see this specific design principle worth sticking to in favor of ignoring compromise.

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I wanna live in a Vek node.

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I wanna live in a Vek node and support that Vek node to level up into a higher level Vek node, so I want the option to support its Vek-ness instead of bringing in my Empyrean-ness.

I'm not here to argue anything on the level of the OP, actually. I see an easy solution to something so I want it.

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She won't be the only one. Vek architecture is cool, but not everyone's gonna want to play Vek. Especially with a rare type like Vek, she won't be the only one who moves in for the aesthetic.

With just enough Vek to tip the scale, you don't need many Empyrians to tip it back.