Hey guys,



Considering this is my first post I don't want to seem rude by cutting right to suggestions, but I figure considering this is the suggestion forum I will attempt to keep things brief and leave out any (the many) praise(ses) I have for the game.



My suggestion is this: I'd love to see additional options in the custom faction designer. I already love, love, love the trait selection mechanic. It reminds me a little of Tropico when designing a character. Being forced to have a few negative traits, or less positive traits, isn't just interesting gameplay wise by also just makes things feel more... real.



It would be great to be able to pick an affinity, and then pick a ship design type, and your "avatar" of sorts. I'm not sure if this is going against what the developers intended, but for example, I want to play a machine esque race, but with the Sophons ships. It feels necessary to me to have that Sower affinity, to meet the design of what I'd like to create.



My apologies if this has been suggested before, and thank you for reading.

I agree. So much so that I had suggested this as well /#/endless-space/forum/28-game-design/thread/12340-separate-custom-faction-portraits-affinities-ship-designs



It just makes sense, in my opinion, to allow us those separate choices of affinity, ship design, and avatar. Doing so also would allow the devs, later on, to include more custom faction portraits for people to use, so that people aren't stuck with the eight we have now. They're all nice, yes, but what if none of them fit the faction I'm trying to make? A few extra avatars to look at wouldn't be too bad.

FinalStrigon wrote:
... Doing so also would allow the devs, later on, to include more custom faction portraits for people to use, so that people aren't stuck with the eight we have now. They're all nice, yes, but what if none of them fit the faction I'm trying to make? A few extra avatars to look at wouldn't be too bad.

My suggestion regarding more portraits is to increase the existing eight portraits with the HERO portraits. Don't know if it would be difficult to implement but it would beef up the avatar customization a bit.

tegenAQR wrote:
My suggestion regarding more portraits is to increase the existing eight portraits with the HERO portraits. Don't know if it would be difficult to implement but it would beef up the avatar customization a bit.

Yes. I would also like to see more race/emperor portaits added to the game. As you said they could add hero portaits for custom races. So they don't need to create much more new portait pictures.

Also it would be nice if you could choose between two or three different portraits for the 8 main races as well (for example that you can choose between a male & female portrait version of the emperor of each race [ifthespecificracehasfemales])

I agree. Adding a portrait selection with the Hero portraits would be great.