124953-na-faction-balance-and-additional-thoughts-on-the-aurin

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I played all weekend on Dominion characters in the low level starting zones (Entity NA) up to 15 and I had a hard time finding anyone to group with. I was in group finder for nearly 200 minutes before I gave up on the Protostar training thing. I do play at off times since I'm in east Asia, but I was still able to find plenty of people to group with. I was in group finder for 15 minutes as a dps before it popped. Not bad.
 
I like my Dominion characters, but it looks like I would be having more fun on the Exile side. I guess that will make the faction imbalance worse, though.
 
I had a lot more fun playing in groups, so that would influence my decision.
 
Any suggestions?
 
[Edited the title to reflect the direction in which the thread has veered.]	
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Hey there,
 
The same problem exists on Jabbit.
Exiles are simply more popular due the bunnies they have on their side.
 
The decision is yours on what you wish to do.
But if you're looking for ways to improve your situation on Dominion, then I recommend joining a circle or guild on your faction/server.
Check the Entity forums for guilds and circles that you can join.
Should make it a lot more enjoyable	
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They need to add a toggle like pvp on/off  but for spy or deserter on/off  ( both make sense ) when you spying you can do quests to get precious intel, or when you deserted you place you alliance with the Exile. 
 
That would solve the problem, when this is on you can freely move to the Exile side and use their quests etc. 	
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Everyone knows bunnies breed quickly and have small brains (plus they eat their own poop).
 
Dominion is of course Quality over quantity.
 
/holds nose up in the air	
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Everyone knows bunnies breed quickly and have small brains (plus they eat their own poop).
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			If you're Entity, Dominion, /chjoin EntityLFM and /chjoin EntityChat  and ask for help in those too :)  Not a lot of people leveling up on Dom side, but I think there would be a few 50s that will either rally down or jump on an alt to help out :)	
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If you're Entity, Dominion, /chjoin EntityLFM and /chjoin EntityChat  and ask for help in those too :)  Not a lot of people leveling up on Dom side, but I think there would be a few 50s that will either rally down or jump on an alt to help out :)
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Dominion is of course Quality over quantity.
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Hey there,
 
The same problem exists on Jabbit.
Exiles are simply more popular due the bunnies they have on their side.
 
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To be fair, I think it's less a bunny issue and more a slight population shift due to the nerd fetish for firefly that was magnified by everyone doubling in on the faction with more people.
 
Disparity tends to get magnified with hard faction divisions because there's a reason to run one faction or the other.  If your friends rolled Exile, you roll Exile or you make new friends.  Most people opt for the former, understandably.
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Believe me, if it wasn't for exactly the reason of friends, I'd be playing Dominion partially BECAUSE Aurin are on the other side.  And I like anime.  Every time I take a quest from an Aurin, I wish the game would let me attack friendly units.
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I gotta disagree, I think the anime fans went exile so they could go "OMG BUNNIES, THEY ARE SOOO CUTE OMG LOOK AT THEM *HIGHPITCH SCREAM*"
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To be fair, I think it's less a bunny issue and more a slight population shift due to the nerd fetish for firefly that was magnified by everyone doubling in on the faction with more people.
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			Lol, the only reason I went Exile is because I like the Mordesh.  I usually stick with humans in my MMO's but considering in this games Humans look like they're are 5'0 nothing, I went with Mordesh because of their height and cool factor.	
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I never roll human in any game when I don't have to, since I'm a human 24-7 in RL.
 
Plus, I have to be civilized all day, so I like to be a Draken for the hands on blood work. I'm dabbling in Chua for the devious jobs like combat engineer. I think a Mechari would be a fine medic.
 
As far as Exile, I prefer Granok or Mordesh. I'm definitely cannot bring myself to roll an Aurin.	
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Hahahahahahaahhaahahahaha
Civilized, and Human talk about Draken.
Chua think good joke
 
*Rolls on the floor laughing*	
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			I also don't roll anything with Tails.  :P	
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This is pretty much hard fact. Why have 10 orks, when you can have one Spacemarine?
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I don't particularly care for most anime and I don't go gaga over cute bunny girls or whatever. :S My aurin is serious rp character! *huffs and burns the haters*
 
I agree that the Exile-favored faction imbalance is really annoying when trying to level a Dominion alt. Wish they'd just give us cross-faction instance content already so it would be largely irrelevant. D:	
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Speaking as someone who main-changed from Dominion to Exile (mostly because of Mordesh and Granok), the population disparity is often exaggerated. There are still plenty of people to run group content with Dominon side.
 
That said, the population difference between the two factions is undeniably due to the Aurin. Heck, Thayd's positively infested with them at prime time. That one race is probably the biggest downside of the faction switch, for me lol.	
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			I just don't understand people's obsession with Aurin's?	
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Honestly I love both factions, I don't care much for Chua or Aurin after playing them both and interacting with the NPCs. However I LOVE Mechari and Mordesh. I enjoy Draken as well as they give off a "klingon" vibe to me that I myself also like. Granok though personally feel a bit "bleh"; I know they're like the dwarves of ildstar and all, but they don't really strike me as having much depth to em,but that's a personal thing.
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I just don't understand people's obsession with Aurin's?
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The tail added an extra dimension to me. It just adds a level of interest to the character, and as a roleplayer, having something extra to work with I find personally fun. I don't go cute (if anyone's seen my Aurin, she's astonishingly human looking, not super cute face, though I don't blame people for liking it of course), I do however severely love cats so did not mind the ears.
 
Honestly, too, if Mordesh had more glorious hairstyles (long hair, didn't even matter to me if it was cybernetic, as long as it was VISIBLE WITH A HAT ON /coughhackcoughcough) I could very likely have wound up being one of those. Also need more hair options for human females, surprised they didn't just allow the humans on both factions access to all the hairstyles, as opposed to dividing it between Exile and Dommie. I mean, it is a race that occupies two factions.
 
Aurin are incredibly sassy too and I enjoy it, just sometimes it comes with the overly cute factor. I mean, being a murdering, extremely deadly and ruthless killer that skips along merrily all day is pretty amusing.
 
The faction imbalance, though, I feel like could also be chalked up to everyone coming to these forums being told to go Exile side. We need to encourage people to roll Dominion, and after maybe a month or two just switch it to "both sides are great! Here's the pros/cons of each" and don't talk about population anymore at this point.	
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This is precisely how I feel about the races. If Mordesh were Dominion, I'd be the happiest person on earth!
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			Make a third faction so Dominion and Exile can defect from their original ones.	
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Hahahahahahaahhaahahahaha
Civilized, and Human talk about Draken.
Chua think good joke
 
*Rolls on the floor laughing*
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			My first character was a cruel black-haired Cassian stalker and I miss her sometimes, but I love the hell out of my purple bunny girl. Aurin females are vibrant and fun and full of energy. (Frankly, I think most of the people who "hate" Aurin are dudes who are insecure in their own masculinity. Gotta hate cute things.)As for running the first Protostar dungeon, I don't think Exile side has a working queue for that either (or for any other leveling dungeon or adventure, really). You just have to talk to people and form your own groups.	
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My first character was a cruel black-haired Cassian stalker and I miss her sometimes, but I love the hell out of my purple bunny girl. Aurin females are vibrant and fun and full of energy. (Frankly, I think most of the people who "hate" Aurin are dudes who are insecure in their own masculinity. Gotta hate cute things.)
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I'm a female, and find the aurin way to saccharine sweet. I rerolled one of mine to a mordesh and I'm much happier now =) I did keep my pink-haired super-adorable one tho, because sometimes, you just gotta be super adorable.
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			Do not resist the Aurinswarm. Embrace the adorableness. Your cutalogical and snuggalogical distinctiveness will be added to our own. Resisting the Aurinswarm is futile.	
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Give in to the cute. It is all-powerful.
 
Anyone know how to attach images like beattlebilly did? When I try to use "My Media" it doesn't work at all...	
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Okay, this thread has kind of gone off into a different direction than I expected, but it's quite interesting.
 
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My first character was a cruel black-haired Cassian stalker and I miss her sometimes, but I love the hell out of my purple bunny girl. Aurin females are vibrant and fun and full of energy. (Frankly, I think most of the people who "hate" Aurin are dudes who are insecure in their own masculinity. Gotta hate cute things.)As for running the first Protostar dungeon, I don't think Exile side has a working queue for that either (or for any other leveling dungeon or adventure, really). You just have to talk to people and form your own groups.
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			I think it has more to do with the race/ class combos being better on the Exile side.	
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			Give male aurin beards and we will rule the galaxy >:0!!! 	
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Everyone knows bunnies breed quickly and have small brains (plus they eat their own poop).
 
Dominion is of course Quality over quantity.
 
/holds nose up in the air
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haha
 
no.
 
 
Please you can't compete with adorableness and this level of sass.
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Is that a challenge?	
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			Definitely :)	
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Part of the problem can be blamed on the quests (story). Dominion side quests are meh, as soon as things start getting interesting they veer away from it. The Agent Lex quest line is a perfect example of this. Instead of go kill "x" amount of creatures over here, we start to have an interesting plot develop and interesting NPC's. We complete the quest, and nothing. What could have been a very interesting continuing background story for the Dominion disappears and we hear nothing more on it. I think they may be afraid of the Dominion coming off as the evil side so they err to the side of caution too much.
 
The other problem is, for how many month now, whenever anyone asks on the forums (this and other non-official forums) what server/faction they should roll a character on the answer almost always given is PVE/Exiles. So the unbalance in factions (and there still is one, I roll Dominion most of the time, and at all times of day, I see the numbers) is partially a player/community produced one.
 
And hey, could we get a Zero to Fifty on the Dominion side? Or some sort of regular Dev game play twitch love, that could help.
 
Well it wouldn't hurt, maybe.	
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			The problem is that the dominion is blantetly brainwashed and evil and tyranical. It's quite unappealing compared to the notion of freedom, rebellion and fighting for a good cause that Exile is.	
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If that was the truth we'd not be having this faction balance issue.
 
Everyone wants to be a Sith, or an Imperial Agent. ;)	
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The problem is that the dominion is blantetly brainwashed to like unicorns and rainbows. It's quite unappealing compared to the notion of freedom, rebellion and fighting for a good cause that Exiles believe they fight for.
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			Glorify the Aurin all you want, all I see are terrorists. Biological weapons...yeah, you're evil, be cleansed.	
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I would play a Draken female alt if I could play her Exile.
Riot pls I mean Carbin pls	
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The problem is that the dominion is blantetly brainwashed and evil and tyranical. It's quite unappealing compared to the notion of freedom, rebellion and fighting for a good cause that Exile is.
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Matter of opinion, and perspective. If anything, I see the exiles as the evil ones. Rebelling for the sake of rebellion is not a good thing
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Having played both sides, I came to the conclusion that the all of the leaders except 1 are total *cupcakes*. The luminai are useless and crazy. Pheydra is a megalomaniac who thinks she can run the show better than anyone else. Mondo...is a psychopath. Deadeye is a selfish black heart and always will be. Commander Durek is a warmonger who will sacrifice the already small Exile population in worthless fights. Lazarin is willing to sacrifice just about anything, or anyone for a cure. And then there is sweet little Myala Everstar who has a convenient headache as her people conduct acts of terror in no way befitting the moral code of the Aurin.
 
The only person who isn't acting like a jerk is Kezrek Warbringer. The guy that challenged for rank when he got disgusted with the loss of life that his superior was advocating.
 
I know that most exiles are not particularly happy seeing a draken swing a giant sword at them, but you should at least take heart that there is no malice behind those swings. The draken are just doing what they think is right and honorable; to defend the legacy of Azrion as they are oath-sworn to do.
 
I don't believe that what transpired on Arboria, or Grismara can be justified, but I also don't feel that it gives Exiles the right to kill Dominion citizens that are in no way related to those conflicts.
 
I also as a mechari have to say that as angry and hurt as the Exile races are about the things that happened to their homeworlds, why is is suddenly just fine to turn mine into a trenched up warzone? This isn't the moral high ground, it's spite. 	
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Having played both sides, I came to the conclusion that the all of the leaders except 1 are total *cupcakes*. The luminai are useless and crazy. Pheydra is a megalomaniac who thinks she can run the show better than anyone else. Mondo...is a psychopath. Deadeye is a selfish black heart and always will be. Commander Durek is a warmonger who will sacrifice the already small Exile population in worthless fights. Lazarin is willing to sacrifice just about anything, or anyone for a cure. And then there is sweet little Myala Everstar who has a convenient headache as her people conduct acts of terror in no way befitting the moral code of the Aurin.
 
The only person who isn't acting like a jerk is Kezrek Warbringer. The guy that challenged for rank when he got disgusted with the loss of life that his superior was advocating.
 
I know that most exiles are not particularly happy seeing a draken swing a giant sword at them, but you should at least take heart that there is no malice behind those swings. The draken are just doing what they think is right and honorable; to defend the legacy of Azrion as they are oath-sworn to do.
 
I don't believe that what transpired on Arboria, or Grismara can be justified, but I also don't feel that it gives Exiles the right to kill Dominion citizens that are in no way related to those conflicts.
 
I also as a mechari have to say that as angry and hurt as the Exile races are about the things that happened to their homeworlds, why is is suddenly just fine to turn mine into a trenched up warzone? This isn't the moral high ground, it's spite. 
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People have a common misconception that the dominion are "evil". Like IRL, only the 1% actually are, all the normal people and the lower downs are just trying to live their lives.
 
Some exiles can be compared to terrorists rather than rebels. As rebels they would seek to be as far away from the dommies however, they spend half their time causing pain and suffering to people who are just under the protection of the dominion. They seek revenge on the innocent civilians who mean no harm. 
 
You forget that the dominion itself cares for so many people and acts on the premise of sustaining them and is not inherently evil itself.
 
Destroying planets by the dominion was a bad move, but in the large scale of things... those planets were insignificant in the scale of the empire... they were just trying to get resources to sustain so many people.
 
But yeah, most of the leaders in the dominion are nutjobs... reminds me of the UK parliament...	
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My first character was a cruel black-haired Cassian stalker and I miss her sometimes, but I love the hell out of my purple bunny girl. Aurin females are vibrant and fun and full of energy. (Frankly, I think most of the people who "hate" Aurin are dudes who are insecure in their own masculinity. Gotta hate cute things.)
 
As for running the first Protostar dungeon, I don't think Exile side has a working queue for that either (or for any other leveling dungeon or adventure, really). You just have to talk to people and form your own groups.
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People have a common misconception that the dominion are "evil". Like IRL, only the 1% actually are, all the normal people and the lower downs are just trying to live their lives.
 
Some exiles can be compared to terrorists rather than rebels. As rebels they would seek to be as far away from the dommies however, they spend half their time causing pain and suffering to people who are just under the protection of the dominion. They seek revenge on the innocent civilians who mean no harm. 
 
You forget that the dominion itself cares for so many people and acts on the premise of sustaining them and is not inherently evil itself.
 
Destroying planets by the dominion was a bad move, but in the large scale of things... those planets were insignificant in the scale of the empire... they were just trying to get resources to sustain so many people.
 
But yeah, most of the leaders in the dominion are nutjobs... reminds me of the UK parliament...
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Resources are one thing, but Arboria was stripped in reprisal for the Aurin aiding the Exiles. There is an odd bit of twisting to this one as far as the "justification" because the paperwork was filed that Aurin are a non sapient species. So they were being punished for their actions, but the dominion stripped their homeworld without remorse due to the lack of sapient species. I'm sure that unleashing chua on a planet is against the space Geneva convention, or something. 
 
The Dominion has a lot of good citizens, but our leadership is primarily composed of really awful people. My stance is never going to be that the Dominion are nice, rather that the Exiles are far to comfortable with their moral shortcomings. 
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To be honest, I've re-read the loremageddon.
And the ravaging of Arboria sounds to me nothing but claiming a planet's resources that has been deemed as containing non-sapient life.
Nowhere in the story about the ravaging does it say that this was a penalty for the Aurin helping the rebels.
I've re-read it twice now, and they way it comes across is that the Dominion was simply not aware that the Exiles were even on the planet when the ravaging started.
 
Sure, ravaging a sole planet can be looked upon, but when looking in the grand perspective of the majesty that is our Dominion Empire, a sole planet can be sacrificed for the sake of further improving the overal Dominion.
I think it comes off wrong for us, because we as civilization can simply not grasp the needs that are required for running an inter-galactic empire.
You can look at it with our terms : Often houses get de-owned and residents moved when building new infrastructure that benefits the country.
Yes it's looked upon, but it's for the greater good.
Claiming Arboria was the same. And information indicates they did not consider the Aurin to be "intelligent" enough to consider them during this.
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I just purely can not understand the "need" to play a female aurin as a male player, I just see it as a purely sexual thing to them, which may be my ignorance (because personally, I dont think many men watch anime for the story, well for the ones I was shown, still have nightmares) for anime shinning, and how they remind me of them.
 
For the exile population in general, I do not see the desire to play them, but then again, if I was a Star Wars fan (I like the games, not movies), I would go Empire. The republic, or rebels or w/e you want to call me, just seems like nothing but spotty teens that are going "we gotta rebel against the system man".
 
 
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And poisoning villages, forests, planting bombs, sabotaging Terraformers, unleashing the squirg, unleashing nanites, claiming a holy Planet, involving undeveloped species in their war, stealing Dominion property, endangering Dominion space.
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I have one of all the races (and now two humans).  At least for my part, there is no "need" to create a female character.  I have 3 males, 2 females.
 
In the case of my aurin, it was influenced by these factors
 
1)  A deliberate choice to not play a human initially
2)  A desire to play esper
3)  As noted before, Aurin are the only non-human species that can be esper on the Exile side.
 
Now, male versus female?  I dislike the voice acting for the male aurin.  Instead of coming across brash and aggressive, it seems whiny to me.  Thus I made a female aurin esper, Glory.
 
Now... aesthetics?  She's cute.  I think I put together a fairly decent looking character.  Pretty much end of story.  It is not sexual in any fashion other than a basic aesthetic.  Does it have anything to do with anime?  No.  The tail does make for fun jumping animations though so I jump a lot and see which directions I can get it to whipcrack.
 
And not really the cute and huggy type.  She's dressed up in Black Hoods gear for a reason.  I do envision her as part of the dirty tricks group and has zero compunctions about killing Dominion rather ruthlessly.  So... no Exiles are not all good, and playing Aurin is not all about the cute.
 
Actually my main characters are pretty ethically challenged.  Remil (Mordesh) was a scientist, but blames Dominion (rightly or wrongly) for not intervening quickly enough during the contagion.  He's an engineer and weaponsmith and offers discounts to Dominion folk who are in rebellion.  I suppose I had sort of a Breaking Bad kind of arc imagined for him.(basically initially a decent fellow, trauma, kind of goes off the deep end in compensation.)  
 
As for the rest, Sidiox (Granok) -- well he's just sort of a dumb rock with a sword.  Morgan (human medic) is more of a decent sort and I envision him as sort of a redemptive path for Glory but have never really fleshed out how they meet each other.  I do know she leaves the Aurin society for a more human existence as a result though.  Anathema... no clue.  I just wanted a spellslinger, went with human.
 
All of them I think are aesthetically pleasing to some racially appropriate degree.
 
If I were to make Dominion characters, I suspect it'd be Mechari all the way.  And maybe a chua too.  There's only so much time in the day though.
 
Oh, and on watching anime, it's all about the story (which hopefully doesn't go off the rails -- many of them do).  Just finished Psycho-Pass which is excellent in most respects.  Would recommend that.  Would also recommend Last Exile (the first one, not the second one).	
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Why Aurin?
 
Exile side we have Aurin, Granok, Humans and Mordesh.  I don't do ugly.  While it's possible to make good looking characters of all races it's especially challenging with everything other than humans and Aurin.  Dat streetwalker walk animation that Exile Human and Cassian females are cursed with just kill me.  I do attractive but not prurient.
 
Granok I just couldn't get a female look I liked and at the time I was in the rare mood to roll a male.  I was able to come up with a couple of good looks for Mordesh but the whole replacement forearm and shoulder joint Vitalus tanks really annoy me.  How do their hands still work without muscles?  How can they lift their arms?  Style trumping basic physical laws is a big peeve of mine.
 
Aurin are not without their issues.  They look way too young.  When the girls run the wind whistling through their heads is gale force.  And yes, they're too cute by half.
 
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I just purely can not understand the "need" to play a female aurin as a male player, I just see it as a purely sexual thing to them, which may be my ignorance (because personally, I dont think many men watch anime for the story, well for the ones I was shown, still have nightmares) for anime shinning, and how they remind me of them.
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			You want to see something really graphically freaky?  Make your Aurin sprint, and then swing your camera around and view their faces close up.  Yeah... not all that cute :-).	
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Resources are one thing, but Arboria was stripped in reprisal for the Aurin aiding the Exiles. There is an odd bit of twisting to this one as far as the "justification" because the paperwork was filed that Aurin are a non sapient species. So they were being punished for their actions, but the dominion stripped their homeworld without remorse due to the lack of sapient species. I'm sure that unleashing chua on a planet is against the space Geneva convention, or something. 
 
The Dominion has a lot of good citizens, but our leadership is primarily composed of really awful people. My stance is never going to be that the Dominion are nice, rather that the Exiles are far too comfortable with their moral shortcomings. 
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You want to see something really graphically freaky? Make your Aurin sprint, and then swing your camera around and view their faces close up. Yeah... not all that cute :-).
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			To be honest I would have been dominion. Can't stand Aurin as a race. Only problem is I don't like the pomp and religiousness of the dominion. 	
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To be honest I would have been dominion. Can't stand Aurin as a race. Only problem is I don't like the pomp and religiousness of the dominion. 
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In the end, it's all a matter of perspective, isn't it?  Only recently in human history has the story of the Dominion been something we've come to unquestionably call evil.  Up until maybe the last century or two in human history, the Dominion would have been the unquestioned good guys.  Even having ravaged a whole planet in retaliation, that would have been fine.  It's only since about the 1800s or 1900s depending on where you are that the narrative device has broadly changed.
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They really went at the religious angle the wrong way. No one these days likes being told who and how to worship, but threaten that right to worship....
 
If they had first introduced the church being threatened in the game (Oh noes, Exiles have planted bombs in the Cathedral, find them and disarm them without causing a panic) the player base would have been more accepting of it.	
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I just purely can not understand the "need" to play a female aurin as a male player, I just see it as a purely sexual thing to them, which may be my ignorance...
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Well some folk do it for that reason I guess, but for me, I played a female Nelf in wow, simply because I thought the male Nelf looked goofy as sin. What I'm saying is that I pick the gender based on they way they play and interact.
 
In WS i'm a Male human because I think their build and stature looks better than the female human
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I just purely can not understand the "need" to play a female aurin as a male player, I just see it as a purely sexual thing to them, which may be my ignorance 
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True as that may be, we don't have a large player base from prior to the 1800s. The Dominion just isn't portrayed in a fashion that causes the same die hard mentality that we see from some Exile players.  
 
We have players that honestly truly believe that what ever the exiles do is justified, I don't think I have ever seen that in the Dominion playerbase. 
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The male Nelf also looks like they are having a massive migraine headache whenever they cast spells... have they fixed the intense bouncy run yet?
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I'm a mechari, and I play a knight. 
Now I know I look like
 
 
But I really do play a knight(Or if you're feeling cyberpunk, a street samurai)
I have a giant sword, I wear heavy armor, I save innocent dominion citizens from death at the hands of gribbly monsters. 
If you look past the churchyness there are a set of moral ideals. Strength, Courage, Justice, Purity, Devotion, and Knowledge, that lend themselves to the idea of Dominion Knights and Paladins. 
 
It's funny as hell because people expect mechari to be totalitarian secret police, and here I am handing out mercy and justice like a blue light special.
Just like you can have too many hoity-toity Arthurian knights, you can also have too many anti-hero cowboys.  
I guess I am just tired of the idea that the only heroes are "A Loose Cannon with a Badge and a Gun, out for Revenge against the Corrupt System that killed their....Blah blah bla." 
 
My blood is blue, I was raised on Noblesse oblige, the Exiles don't really let me do that. 	
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Matter of opinion, and perspective. If anything, I see the exiles as the evil ones. Rebelling for the sake of rebellion is not a good thing
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oh idunno... how about you dont DESTROY my race's home world?
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it's not destroyed, your home world is still there.
Just less green, revolutionized, upgraded so to say :D
Welcome to the Dominion, you're welcome.
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oh idunno... how about you dont DESTROY my race's home world?
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 As much as I like the dominion races.. the Religious fascist gig is a big turn off for me. The only reason Im playing aurin is because the running animations of the other races (female) just seem to goofy for my tastes... yes im critical about running animations if a race looks like a bobble head bouncing left to right when they run or there appears to be something wrong with their center of balance it just gets my teeth grinding.. count me out for rolling that race..
 
Of course the exile faction has its negatives also..	
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The fun thing about humans is that we are all so diverse.
 
Being critical of anyone liking something as opposed to being critical of the actual subject is like being critical of folks being born with blonde hair.
 
I figure this ought to be mentioned when anything involving "why does anyone like this" winds up getting brought up. It's just who you are - there is no choosing.	
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I'm extremely critical of the stuff that the Blackhoods do. 
This is a picture of a Cassian being tortured for the hell of it. 
Around them are other people who have been tortured to death. Not for security, or even for the stupid science crap that chua say. These people were killed painfully for nothing but sadistic revenge. 
 
Vunnu literally pushed the computer away and said she was going to be sick. 	
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The Mordesh are probably the closest of any of the races to being on their own side 100% of the time.  In the lead-in to OmniCore, deciding to help Drusera, the Mordesh were the only ones to disagree.  
 
Though in the picture there, I don't recall that being just for the hell of it.  Maybe it's a different window in Avra's lair, but I could have sworn they were trying to get information out of the Cassian (not that it makes it especially better, but in degrees of horribleness, pure sadism seems worse than depraved bureacracy).  There are several vignettes on display in the Hoods lair and maybe this is just one I missed.  	
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I can forgive a lot of mordesh sketchiness because they are facing extinction. This didn't have any justification of working towards a cure, like that time you burn and take a buzz saw to a moodie in Celestion. I know they get back up, but killing them over and over seems like a *cupcake* thing to do. 
 
This isn't even a mordesh doing the torturing, that's a human. 	
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  the Religious fascist gig is a big turn off for me. 
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Well, this thread has certainly turned out to be an interesting introduction to some of the RP community in WildStar -- for me. In fact, I thought this game would be a lot about pve and raiding and I am surprised to find so many RPers in this forum. Also, yesterday in Deradane, I saw 10 players actively RPing while I was there questing. It was fun and interesting to listen in. I'm glad they were RPing in /say rather than in /party or /raid.
 
While I don't really RP, I like to see people RPing, It adds to the game a lot. Thanks for sharing your thoughts on the lore, as well.
 
If I were making a player to RP with, I would definitely make a male Granok Medic Scientist who didn't fit in with the beer-drinking tough-guy culture. Or maybe a Cassian who thinks the whole emperor and religious convictions thing of the Dominion is bollocks.	
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Well, this thread has certainly turned out to be an interesting introduction to some of the RP community in WildStar -- for me. In fact, I thought this game would be a lot about pve and raiding and I am surprised to find so many RPers in this forum. Also, yesterday in Deradane, I saw 10 players actively RPing while I was there questing. It was fun and interesting to listen in. I'm glad they were RPing in /say rather than in /party or /raid.
 
While I don't really RP, I like to see people RPing, It adds to the game a lot. Thanks for sharing your thoughts on the lore, as well.
 
If I were making a player to RP with, I would definitely make a male Granok Medic Scientist who didn't fit in with the beer-drinking tough-guy culture. Or maybe a Cassian who thinks the whole emperor and religious convictions thing of the Dominion is bollocks.
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Solution: Destroy all Aurin. Arboria V2 pls.
 
And FYI, Dominion are probably MORE religiously tolerant than the Exiles, if anything.	
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Solution: Destroy all Aurin. Arboria V2 pls.
 
And FYI, Dominion are probably MORE religiously tolerant than the Exiles, if anything.
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Solution: Destroy all Aurin. Arboria V2 pls.
 
And FYI, Dominion are probably MORE religiously tolerant than the Exiles, if anything.
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They really brainwashed the hell out of you didn't they?
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No he's right.
You are not forced to Worship the Church in Dominion space, but you do are asked to respect it.
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the Religious fascist gig is a big turn off for me.
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I'm extremely critical of the stuff that the Blackhoods do. 
This is a picture of a Cassian being tortured for the hell of it. 
 
[snip]
 
Around them are other people who have been tortured to death. Not for security, or even for the stupid science crap that chua say. These people were killed painfully for nothing but sadistic revenge. 
 
Vunnu literally pushed the computer away and said she was going to be sick. 
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Exactly, respect. Not like the filthly Exiles and all their "GARRRR WE HATE EVERYTHING THAT AINT US, LETS REBEL" actually that sounds familiar to the entire logic of the internet....
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That's not actually the Exiles' motivation at all. -_- They didn't rebel just because. They rebelled because Dominion society was extremely socially stratified and they felt disenfranchised by their government.
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Wildstar is supposed to be a satire or caricature that doesn't take itself seriously.  Personally I think it takes the jokes way too far.  That particular quest chain is one of the two I have some significant issues with because the only responses I get to make make my character sound like a sociopath.
 
The other one is the Falkrin area in Galeras.  Actually the whole mission chain itself is fine even the setup but how the hell did Durek keep his job when he should have been executed or thrown in solitary on an asteroid for the rest of his life like he deserved?
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So it's more "WE DONT LIKE CHANGE" type of thing?
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Because Durek's methods are acceptable to the Exiles.
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Equivar Manure.  Deadlocked or incapable of enforcement maybe but acceptable?  Nope.
 
Go redo that mission chain and pay attention to what the rank-and-file and his command staff are saying.  Even if he had the notion to attempt a coup he would have very little support from his direct reports.  I doubt many of the other company commanders would put up with those sort of shenanigans either. 
 
Remember that FCON is not a unified military.  It's an amalgam of mercenary units that just so happen to work against the Dominion for their own reasons (Gnox, Arboria, Exile etc.)  Durek probably trades heavily on his reputation defending Gnox.  What he did in Galeras was a colossal military blunder that ignored the recommendations of his expert advisers. 
 
That's the kind of things that should have splintered FCON and/or have his drinking buddies take him aside and tell him to retire.
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Solution: Destroy all Aurin. Arboria V2 pls.
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the Exile government is so weak that they don't really have any say over his affairs.
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-snip-
 
I honestly can't take any argument seriously that tries to paint the Dominion attack on Arboria as anything but utterly reprehensible, though. :P
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I agree, and I'm pretty sure if you described the situation without saying Aurin, or Exiles the average Dominion citizen would think it was absolutely horrible. 
It's not like it was put up to a popular vote and everyone all said *cupcake* those tree slank Aurin! So I don't quite understand why it's ok to infect some farmers in Auroria with plague worms the size of small dogs? 
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Actually, during the OMNI-Core 1 intro quest it's shown that Avra Darkos is the Mordesh leader. She even tells Victor to shove it (in fancy Mordesh words) when he tries to talk. Victor's just a prominent guy.
 
Also, mostly avoided the conversation of good vs. evil, but... I am happy to let Dominion have the point that on an individual basis their entire faction isn't evil, I've heard the stories, especially about Toric Antevian, but let's be honest - their entire history and the reason Exiles exist at all is because they told a bunch of people "assimilate to our culture or be eradicated". It worked out with the Chua because they have an incessant need to advance in technology - at whatever cost that may be (even their own planet), and were originally approached with a test then a promise to have whatever they like. It worked out with the Draken because their cultural structure was not torn down but instead used to motivate the Draken to serve. Brightland's rebellion started because nobody wanted to be redefined as a second class citizen and have their entire cultural structure burned down. That their life mattered less than someone else's. That their needs were irrelevant while some posh noble's needs were all that mattered. Of the Lowborn that remained, which I hope either has been touched upon or will be touched upon, I assume they were scared out of their *cupcake* minds to fight back, because their overlords and vastly technologically superior Mechari were on the side of the proclamation and would have put them down, especially because they were just deemed as "lesser beings".
 
The Mordesh are pretty much where a lot of our "evil side" shows. The ironic bit - they were originally slated to be Dominion. The only reason they weren't! Is because they kind of screwed themselves over with the Contagion. Think about that. Anything they do and have been doing either was a.) acceptable by Dominion standards as long as it was used by THEIR side or b.) they were pushed to such desperation that they had no other choice, by the Dominion.
 
When you realize that the Exiles are a ragtag crew of starving, poor, refugees traveling through space on a rickety-ass spaceship that is centuries old and falling apart, and that they literally get to choose to be eradicated or stand their ground because the Dominion has pushed them to the brink of extinction and chased them across an entire galaxy, a lot of moral standing goes out the window. The Exiles either die, each and every one, on Nexus, or fight the Dominion back. The Dominion's about to make 2 species extinct, kill their own kind for having a different opinion, and wipe out people pretty reasonably miffed for invading their home planet and starting a war because they wouldn't give up their freedom.	
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Oh I'm pretty sure the Chua involved were not interested in talking about how sapient Aurin actually are. The lore still seems in conflict if it was as punishment, or just a particularly ugly mistake. 
 
I agree, let's not put the chua in charge of dealing with new races ever again....or fried chicken.  
 
The exile's backs are to the wall here and I understand that. Kill all the legions that attack or threaten those you hold dear, but tell me how it justifies the killing and torture of non combatants? What does that have to do with the Freedom that others have said the exiles stand for? These are not the sins of the past that the Dominion are painted black for, these are things that happen in game right now that the player is a viewer of. 
 
As a sociologist I am rather curious as to what it is about the Exile story that causes no tarnish when the player is faced with things that are by our modern standards unacceptable? 	
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If you read the Aurin Loremageddon ( not the story of the ravaging ) , it's stated that the Dominion found the planet by tracking the movements of the Fleet and "eventually decided to invade" That implies that they studied the natives species and inhabitants, and deemed them no threat to their plans. It also states that they "quickly suppressed any aurin attempts to stop them, driving the remaining aurin into hiding" I think it's safe to say The Dominion and the chua knew exactly what they were doing.
 
Even if you disregard the presence of any sentient life whatsoever, they up and decided to strip mine an entire planet for resources.No colonization, no trade relations.. just complete deforestation and destruction. And it probably wasn't their first either.
 
 
edit: Funny how this all started from the initial post of faction imbalance...	
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What does this even mean? People are free to have whatever religion they want in the Dominion without repercussions. I even believe that when someone from the Dominion dies on Nexus the Dominion will make sure that person gets a proper burial according to the religion of that individual. They're also not forcing anyone to take on their religion or anything.
 
 
Anyway it's clear the Exile faction is more popular because of the Aurin race, because of the marketing where Exiles have been portrayed as the totally 100% good guys and the Firefly faction, and also just because now that they're already the more populated faction people will go to that faction because of population problems.
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If you read the Aurin Loremageddon ( not the story of the ravaging ) , it's stated that the Dominion found the planet by tracking the movements of the Fleet and "eventually decided to invade" That implies that they studied the natives species and inhabitants, and deemed them no threat to their plans. It also states that they "quickly suppressed any aurin attempts to stop them, driving the remaining aurin into hiding" I think it's safe to say The Dominion and the chua knew exactly what they were doing.
 
Even if you disregard the presence of any sentient life whatsoever, they up and decided to strip mine an entire planet for resources.No colonization, no trade relations.. just complete deforestation and destruction. And it probably wasn't their first either.
 
 
edit: Funny how this all started from the initial post of faction imbalance...
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			There's no indication that the Chua are solely responsible for what happened on Arboria. I have a very hard time imagining they'd have the freedom to launch an operation as big as the ravaging without any go-ahead from the upper eschelon (likely Mechari). I also don't buy that they didn't realize Arboria was inhabited or that the species that did inhabit it wasn't sentient. They knew the Exiles had been there and received aid. The Dominion had to have interacted with the Aurin in some fashion after arriving, and either they're that dense or they just decide to pretend the Aurin are non-sentient because clearly only lesser lifeforms would engage with the Exiles. Mondo's narrative alternately refers to Arwick as "a native" (suggesting some acknowledgment of a society - I doubt he meant simply 'native species' in a more general sense) and "it". There's clearly a level of dehumanizing going on towards any species outside of Dominion control.	
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There's no indication that the Chua are solely responsible for what happened on Arboria. I have a very hard time imagining they'd have the freedom to launch an operation as big as the ravaging without any go-ahead from the upper eschelon (likely Mechari). I also don't buy that they didn't realize Arboria was inhabited or that the species that did inhabit it wasn't sentient. They knew the Exiles had been there and received aid. The Dominion had to have interacted with the Aurin in some fashion after arriving, and either they're that dense or they just decide to pretend the Aurin are non-sentient because clearly only lesser lifeforms would engage with the Exiles. Mondo's narrative alternately refers to Arwick as "a native" (suggesting some acknowledgment of a society - I doubt he meant simply 'native species' in a more general sense) and "it". There's clearly a level of dehumanizing going on towards any species outside of Dominion control.
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Strain infected Mondo Zax as a mission arc boss.... that'd be a twisted sight..
 
edit: also, my response was in regards to a post somewhere round bout page 2-3 about not being able to find any information that the planet was 'given' to the chua or it being a punishment for aiding the fleet.
 
doubled edit: don't trust the Lopp. Marshal Yatish could wipe us out single handedly if he were so inclined.	
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Strain infected Mondo Zax as a mission arc boss.... that'd be a twisted sight..
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You guys must be dedicated to the story aspect, I could never get into the story in WS, just made general observations about the quests I was doing and left it at that.  Guess I have just been to spoiled with voiced quests that reading text any more is bland in my book. 
 
Kinda like what I did with Skyrim, had no idea what was going on in the story so as soon as I got werewolf form....I just went from town to town killing everyone in sight :)....until they got silver than I ran away.  Point is if the story doesn't draw me in then I just generally don't care for what happens, I just read other people's opinions and keep it at that >.>  (I have been with text mmo's for to long and it's just not worth it to read it any more in my book lol).
 
But, you guys do you.  I'm just amazed other people can take the time to learn the history from time to time is all.	
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You guys must be dedicated to the story aspect, I could never get into the story in WS, just made general observations about the quests I was doing and left it at that.  Guess I have just been to spoiled with voiced quests that reading text any more is bland in my book. 
 
Kinda like what I did with Skyrim, had no idea what was going on in the story so as soon as I got werewolf form....I just went from town to town killing everyone in sight :)....until they got silver than I ran away.  Point is if the story doesn't draw me in then I just generally don't care for what happens, I just read other people's opinions and keep it at that >.>  (I have been with text mmo's for to long and it's just not worth it to read it any more in my book lol).
 
But, you guys do you.  I'm just amazed other people can take the time to learn the history from time to time is all.
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Oh I'm pretty sure the Chua involved were not interested in talking about how sapient Aurin actually are. The lore still seems in conflict if it was as punishment, or just a particularly ugly mistake. 
 
I agree, let's not put the chua in charge of dealing with new races ever again....or fried chicken.  
 
The exile's backs are to the wall here and I understand that. Kill all the legions that attack or threaten those you hold dear, but tell me how it justifies the killing and torture of non combatants? What does that have to do with the Freedom that others have said the exiles stand for? These are not the sins of the past that the Dominion are painted black for, these are things that happen in game right now that the player is a viewer of. 
 
As a sociologist I am rather curious as to what it is about the Exile story that causes no tarnish when the player is faced with things that are by our modern standards unacceptable? 
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This is pretty much hard fact. Why have 10 orks, when you can have one Spacemarine?
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What wrong with Chua in charge for fried chicken?
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Many are going to hate this but if you really want to see a bigger population shift towards the Dominion, they need a race that's similar to the aurin aesthetically, but can mesh with the Dominion's theme and purpose.  Consider essentially doing to the Dominion what was done to the Horde by adding blood elves.  It was done for that very reason.  Chua were supposed to be the counterpart to the aurin, and while there's a lot of people playing them, they're still failing to help compensate for the Exiles' player population advantage.  That and the Dominion is simply not placed in an equal light to the Exiles, which was and is going to be a hard thing to do in the first place when your starting premise is intergalactic empire vs downtrodden rebels.  Beyond that it is exacerbated when each encounter with the Dominion by outside races was met with the same ultimatum each time: join or die, or just die.
 
Although this can't be done immediately, I have suggestions.  If new races are ever had, the Dominion's new recruit ought to have been devastated by the Exiles, perhaps to the point where the Dominion took them in.  Make it a mutual strike as well, where the Exiles got ahold of some super weapon, eldan tech perhaps?  Maybe it could be a failsafe the eldan tried to manufacture to defeat the strain but failed and the Exiles recovered it and got it to work for themselves and instead of using it to eradicate the strain, their hatred of the Dominion blinded their vision and used it to attack a few Dominion planets, including the one where these new Dominion recruits would join in.  Maybe the attack leads to the emperor's demise, sending the Dominion political system into a tailspin and utter chaos ensues where they try to instill order and protect themselves while simultaneously fending off the Exiles after achieving a huge military victory and the strain who obviously benefits from a major blow to the largest military force in the universe.  This new race could offer something, perhaps being a highly sophisticated race developed by the eldan on an off world planet apart from Nexus the eldan visited in order to create a people with a resistance or potential counter to the strain, perhaps something with unusual healing powers or technology, maybe a race based off of plantlife that had knowledge of the eldan that the Dominion thought too important to allow it to be embroiled in conflict and thus had to earn the favor of these people before they would join.
 
I know it's all a bit long-winded and a bit off topic but I'm a creative guy.  :P  It would do the Dominion good to be humbled and to add to its ranks a race that isn't predicated on having a superiority complex or an insatiable lust for violence.  The heaviness of the Dominion religiosity doesn't do them much good either.  It's one thing to worship a powerful immortal being that can craft the very laws of existence or heavily manipulate them, but it's another to worship a race of now extinct people simply because they were an advanced species that founded your society, and with such zeal no less.	
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Take away the underpants on Chua and make a more feminine looking one and I'd play it.
 
Not to say "Give them boobies"
 
But saying "The pink one is a girl" is ... ... I just can't do it any more.	
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Take away the underpants on Chua and make a more feminine looking one and I'd play it.
 
Not to say "Give them boobies"
 
But saying "The pink one is a girl" is ... ... I just can't do it any more.
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Well... though I am female, I don't speak for the whole 'female player base'. There's plenty of players, girls and guys alike who like Chua how they are and probably would bristle at any change.
 
In general character customization is really thin. But having more feminine hairstyles for chua would be a huge step forward for me.	
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Well... though I am female, I don't speak for the whole 'female player base'. There's plenty of players, girls and guys alike who like Chua how they are and probably would bristle at any change.
 
In general character customization is really thin. But having more feminine hairstyles for chua would be a huge step forward for me.
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There would be complaints if the players were not given a choice, so it would be body types in addition to what we have. I'm asking would you want a shift in torso length to legs, or smaller shoulders? Something simple like eyelashes? 
 
Can you find a picture or describe a hairstyle that you would like? I'm sure I can shake some ideas for female chua out of Typrop, but as you pointed it out I want as much of your opinion as possible. 
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There would be complaints if the players were not given a choice, so it would be body types in addition to what we have. I'm asking would you want a shift in torso length to legs, or smaller shoulders? Something simple like eyelashes? 
 
Can you find a picture or describe a hairstyle that you would like? I'm sure I can shake some ideas for female chua out of Typrop, but as you pointed it out I want as much of your opinion as possible. 
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			It's true it might just look odd to have a chua with eyelashes. You would need a face just for that, and one female face might be a start, but a wider range would be needed. 	
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			Honestly I know players who play chua particularly BECAUSE they have zero sexual dimorphism. While I agree more options would be nice, it would definitely do them a disservice in my opinion to start adding blatantly "feminime" or "masculine" options in there. Plus, how do we know that female chua aren't the ones with the beards... *looks at Mondo*	
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lol See? Already.
 
*sigh* No Chua for me.	
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lol See? Already.
 
*sigh* No Chua for me.
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I'm new to the game and I like this thread for teasing out some different perspectives on the factions.
 
I'll admit, I made Aurin characters in part because of their appearance. More importantly, they have an immensely tragic past that has just happened. Of all the races Exileside, their gripe against the Dominion feels the most immediate and immense. Their culture has been pretty much destroyed within the last decade. They are the victims of what can only be described as genocide. And I find that interesting from a character perspective. I want to know how (if?) they will go forward and recover. Aurin also have reason to dislike the Exiles--it's possible that if the Exiles had bypassed their planet, none of this would have happened. Nevertheless, they've taken the allies available and moved forward.
 
Resilience is an appealing theme, and that's what draws me to Aurin.
 
(I only wish they had more class options.)	
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There's really only one face that looks somewhat female, adding one with eyelashes would help, maybe. It might also just look weird.
 
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I think just some more androgynous faces would help. But more than that really has to be the hair. Customization options that go beyond beards and mustaches (which, regardless of those female dwarf analogues out there, are decidedly masculine characteristics) would also help present the proper message that there's more than just male chua.
 
A more androgynous voice would also help. -_-
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There would be complaints if the players were not given a choice, so it would be body types in addition to what we have. I'm asking would you want a shift in torso length to legs, or smaller shoulders? Something simple like eyelashes? 
 
Can you find a picture or describe a hairstyle that you would like? I'm sure I can shake some ideas for female chua out of Typrop, but as you pointed it out I want as much of your opinion as possible. 
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You mean this stuff tha I did way back in he day?
 
 
I actually have a lot more that I did...I'll perhaps make a new thread alter this weekend with all the suggestions in them...
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I always get a good laugh out of that aurin mustache picture. I seem to remember they can grow that hair pretty fast, probably with an accompanying KER-STACHE! sound effect. 
 
Those drawings will always be good. 
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hehe thanks...I would so play an aurin if they had facial hair options! or like long beards with flowers in them
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			What I have noticed is that no one seems to care about the Granok or the Draken in the lore discussion.	
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What I have noticed is that no one seems to care about the Granok or the Draken in the lore discussion.
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Lore debate aside, the reason the Exiles are overpopulated is because the internet loves anime and catgirls.
 
If you dislike Aurin, just be as mean as possible to them in protest. Tell them to getback2Tumblr or Deviantart or wherever the anime catgirl crowd hangs out nowadays. :D
 
(In all seriousness though, don't be a dick just because Aurin. Politely ask them to not be Aurin anymore kthx. :>)	
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Lore debate aside, the reason the Exiles are overpopulated is because the internet loves anime and catgirls.
 
If you dislike Aurin, just be as mean as possible to them in protest. Tell them to getback2Tumblr or Deviantart or wherever the anime catgirl crowd hangs out nowadays. :D
 
(In all seriousness though, don't be a dick just because Aurin. Politely ask them to not be Aurin anymore kthx. :>)
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(In all seriousness though, don't be a dick just because Aurin. Politely ask them to not be Aurin anymore kthx. :>)
 
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I'm an Aurin because bunnygirls
 
Which is american in origin thanks to a fantastic old guy named Hugh Hefner. Bunnies <3
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