The games only hours old, its only just left beta and we've only just started playing around with the faction creation system. There's bound to be some hiccups and definitely some imbalances. Give it time, post your feed back and the dev team will eventually get it right. They have done so far, at least by general consensus. You can't please everyone.

dlcooper wrote:
The devs aren't going to be able to balance the game for all possible combinations in the custom factions. I'm sure it's possible to create overpowered factions. As for the custom pictures and ship design, I'm sure something like that will probably be coming.

As long as custom factions exist, there will always be the possibility of a small handful of overall best factions rising to the top of the heap. The trick is to constantly try to break the system so that subsequent rebalancing work can reduce the disparity between the best builds and the rest (which also tends to cause turnover in the best builds).



Take this combination, for example:



-10 Eternal War (no peace)

+ 6 Blockade Breakers (trade routes do not require peace)

+12 Merchants 2 (+2 trade routes on all systems)



Unless I missed something vital, that looks like a net +8 points I'll put into every single race I build until the devs tinker with the race customization.

Haven't played around with the custom faction much but I'm sure if there's things in there too cheap/powerful put it in the tech support forum and I'm sure they'll be fixing this in future patches. They were pretty quick going from beta to release so I'm sure they'll be doing more balancing in future patches.

Yes, of course. But I just took this as an example. There are a couple of traits, which are much too cheap/powerful and there are several which are just too damn expensive to be seriously considered for what they are doing if you arent "roleplaying".

The devs aren't going to be able to balance the game for all possible combinations in the custom factions. I'm sure it's possible to create overpowered factions. As for the custom pictures and ship design, I'm sure something like that will probably be coming.