Are we going to come across non-humanoid alien races in the 'Verse?asked by Kyran
TL;DRYes, non-humanoid alien races are expected, though the persistent universe will initially be mostly humanoid, with main races such as the Vanduul and Xi'An polished first and more added over time.
Absopositively.
Yup. Hope so. We've been designing them... so...
[laugh]
It would be boring if it was all humans!
We spend a lot of time making some of these alien races, so... if they don't show up in the game that wouldn't be very fun.
No, that would not be fun. We have some super cool alien races that we're really excited about.
With ships specifically designed to fit for alien races.
Eventually on the PU side, too... at first it's going to be very humanoid because that's what we're concentrating on – we want to make sure we do it right – and then we'll move on to the next thing. I mean, right now obviously the Vanduul has been going on for awhile... the Banu, you know.So, it will be cool to be playing around in the PU and all of a sudden starting to see some Banu appear... some of these different alien races that you get to interact with – I don't know the lore... I don't know if they like each other or not, maybe they don't. But, I would imagine it's going to be very similar to a Star Trek/Star Wars type deal where you go on the planet, you go into the bar, there's all kinds of different alien races that you get to interact with.Especially as you're travelling through space, you're going to be going into a whole new area that's going to be primarily the alien race – you'll kind of be the minority I'm sure. It will be pretty cool, actually.So, I'm actually very excited about the aliens.
I'm excited about the aliens too... and like we keep saying, the word of the day is development, right, so we have to develop... so at first when you develop a character it takes a long time. That's the great thing about being a funded game like this by the public because... maybe at first there's a couple alien races here and there, but as the world develops over time, like if this takes off and it's 10 years down the line, I mean... you could have a fully populated world.
Which would be awesome.
Which would be amazing! I mean, that's our whole end-up goal...
That's the goal, yup.
For the initial launch, there has to be a give and take of... how far we can take it and develop it... but once we have it developed, we can take it pretty far.
We'll probably concentrate on the main races and then just get those polished and nice...
Vanduul and Xi'An probably are going to be the most...
Xi'An, Banu... yeah...
Probably the most thought about at first.