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Jin
VOTE FOR STARMOURN
if there's no kittens in space
I'm going on a rampage
TectonToday at 2:17 PM
They're called w'hoorn, Groot
sets out a saucer of milk
"They are elect to whom beautiful things mean only Beauty."
— Oscar Wilde
"I'll take care of it, Luke said. And because he said it instead of her, I knew he meant kill. That is what you have to do before you kill, I thought. You have to create an it, where none was before."
— Margaret Atwood
Jin
VOTE FOR STARMOURN
if there's no kittens in space
I'm going on a rampage
TectonToday at 2:17 PM
They're called w'hoorn, Groot
sets out a saucer of milk
My father, IRL, is an engineer. Allow me to confirm with perfect accuracy that the words 'Trust me, I'm an engineer' constitute the most ominous predictor of an imminent catastrophe.
"They are elect to whom beautiful things mean only Beauty."
— Oscar Wilde
"I'll take care of it, Luke said. And because he said it instead of her, I knew he meant kill. That is what you have to do before you kill, I thought. You have to create an it, where none was before."
— Margaret Atwood
I fully expect those of the Engineer class to provide us with the most epic of disasters. If nothing else, it'll make great story/rp
I may have to change my answer. I so wanted to play a space gerbil, but playing the guy that barely knows what he's doing and relies on luck constantly sounds super fun.
Since there's been no word of it, I wonder if the contest officially closes at 23:59:59 GMT.
With that said, pew pew.
Meanwhile, here I am wishing some of the more unusual NPC species were playable. I suppose I'll have to "settle" for one of Nuzrisa, Ry'nari, or W'hoorn, if "settle" is the right word for three different kinds of awesome.
Jin
VOTE FOR STARMOURN
if there's no kittens in space
I'm going on a rampage
TectonToday at 2:17 PM
They're called w'hoorn, Groot
sets out a saucer of milk
As an aside: If Starmourn were more "hard sci-fi" than "adventurous space opera", I'd probably be worried about the genetic health of a species whose founding population has been stated to be 375. Instead, I just expect to hear a passing comment in some Scatterhome dive about how vigorously humans are fighting that whole "endangered species" label.
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I won't speak to popularity any more than that, since it doesn't really interest me. What does interest me is that just about every playable species is essentially humanoid (bipedal, head, two arms, two legs, and the occasional tail) whereas nonplayable species have body plans that include centauroid, serpentine, two non-bipedal insectoids, cnidarian, molluscoid, and whatever these are, plus all the others that didn't stand out in my mind strongly enough to remember their names and wiki pages. I realize that it has more to do with general trends in sci-fi than Starmourn itself, per se, but I feel like a MUD is exactly the kind of place where they should be playable. You don't have to worry about animations, skeleton rigging, low poly count, or bad texturing dragging the gameplay down — they leap off the proverbial page pretty well on their own, I think.
Most (all?) of IRE's MUDs have decoupled races from stats and retained only a small handful of minor mechanical benefits for racial flavor, though I suppose that's no indication of whether that will happen here as well, what with everything Starmourn is trying to do differently.