Cel Cawdro's Ultimate "Community Desire for Species" Poll: REDUX

1. Nautolan
2. Togruta
3. Devaronian

1. Cerean
2. Mon Cal
3. Devaronian

1. droids (or have cyborgs be actual cyborgs and not just have a little metal on their faces)
that is all I want

1. Kaleesh
2. Droids
3. Bothan

I do believe this game should have prestige races similar to the idea behind the Death Knight from WoW. Where once you have a certain number of 55's you get a special race unlocked that starts at or near max level. That way races like the Droid or Wookiee could be implemented with an overall less amount of voice over. Have Wookiees carry droid translators with them lol.

Ugh, picking three is very difficult when there are so many choices.

1. Devaronian--The Gender dimorphism between devaronians would be really interesting to see as males have horns while women have fur. My concern however is that female devaronians might get mistaken for Cathar. I will admit that the first time I saw a female Cathar NPC (before they introduced them as a playable species) I thought they might be female devaronians.

2. Togruta--The great thing about Togruta in comparison with twileks is that while they are similar (montrals vs. lekku) the differences in skin tones and color patterns still makes them unique and separate. As for no headgear? Meh, I'm fine with it on twileks, I doubt it would bother me on a togruta.

3. Trandoshan--An icon from classic star wars, and in the EU (the clone wars TV show and books) they could speak basic (fairly well, some slight hissing and growling). Plus they're humanoid but not near human which means their would be a little more visual diversity running around in the SWTOR galaxy. I will admit though, it would be pretty weird to listen to some of the character lines and watch a trandoshan voice them.

Yeah - I saw Kiffar and just started scratching my head. Surely they could implement some facial markings for a human and you could just pretend it was Kiffar? Don't really see the point of them doing an entire new species - I certainly wouldn't pay money for that, and if Kiffar (or something similar like Echani) got made the next playable species, I would give up hope entirely.

The closest I voted was Voss, but their colorings are pretty distinct, they have a different skin texture, and dem eyes!

1. Hapan
2. Zeltron
3. Echani

Kiffar, I can understand the desire. There are aesthetically identifiable differences between a Kiffar and a regular human - that is, one difference: the tattoo. What is confusing to me is people who desire species (race would be a more-apt term) that are aesthetically identical to options that already exist. Echani and Hapan seem to be getting the most action thus far. It interests me because they are only culturally separate from baseline Humans with biological differences that fall within the normal human range of adaptation (ie. poor night vision, dense musculature, "good looks"). I'm genuinely curious as to what people would expect from SW:TOR to differentiate these guys from the existing Humans.

My view is I am not too keen on a lot of the alien looks. Yes I understand that some people like them. The closest aliens I have are Chiss and Twi'lek but the rest of them I don't care for.

My choices always tend to be near humans as that is something I happen to like. For one thing I am not overly fond of the hairstyles on the ladies and for that reason I will always chose a species that can give me some long hair.

So what if it is not what everyone wants but then again I am responding to something I like.

Yes some people like alien species and that is great and I respect your wishes to do so but I would hope that people would respect my wishes as well and not make a big deal of why people ask for near human species on a poll asking what they would like.

As stated, I'm asking out of genuine curiousity. This isn't a dig at anyone who voted for these species - there is no bias here. So the reasoning is, then, that current Human options aren't up to snuff and a new species would give BioWare a reason to provide new options for Humans en masse?

Also, update incoming once the little guy gets to sleep (can't have my attention divided). Some interesting trends I'm noticing: Togruta remains the clear favourite, species are more-representative of those already in-game as NPCs, and droids haven't received a single vote thus far (perhaps the Cartel Market helped there?).