Race specific starting zones

Now I know this is probably something at first glance a lot of people who don't care for RP elements won't want.

But I feel like all races starting in the same zones could be a little problematic in some ways like...

-There will be a favorite starting zone more than likely created by streamers, this huge influx of what will probably be half the server starting in one area will increase performance issues. Dispersing everyone to race specific regions will help to spread this out some.

-Nodes take on the appearance of the races that dwell within them. As we know most people on mmorpgs like to play human unless some other race gives a major edge in pvp/pve racially but even still human will be a very popular pick if not the most popular still. I imagine human will for the most part make up most of the races in almost every zone without race specific starting zones. Lowering the potential we will see as much architecture and things of the like from other races (unless they make some areas within the racial zones that only that race is allowed to govern sort of a home field bias)

And a good thing it can bring for RP elements

-Uniqueness, your race feels more unique and special. Imagine in WoW if all the races just started in the same zone. It wouldn't have had the same feel to it, even if I was a night elf who spawned in Teldrasil, well... seeing dwarves and gnomes all over building a mini tinker town in the tree would kind of kill any potential immersion.

-Diversified Architecture. We won't be forced to see human settlements all over the map.

The only bad side to this I see is

-If you wanna play with your friends start to finish and play as different races this would not be an option.

Of course this is fixable by traveling to that zone/area, and it obviously won't be an easy task but we aren't playing ashes of creation to play an easy street game to begin with.

Thoughts/opinions?

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zbitango

I don’t mind forced spawn points, but I just don’t want to be forced to pick a race based on what’s “best” for a specific class.

That said, I’d prefer being able to spawn at any starting point. We all came through the gates, right? So why would certain races be locked to specific gates (spawn points) while others aren’t? It just feels arbitrary.

Dryadez

daveywavey wrote: »

Dryadez wrote: »

OOoofff that one doesn't sit right with me ill have to pretend that isn't happening

Their scouts saw the gateways emerging, and some of them went to investigate.

There you go You're welcome.

No not sitting right lol because you're coming through the portal following quest lines talking about your exodus

daveywavey

Dryadez wrote: »

daveywavey wrote: »

Dryadez wrote: »

OOoofff that one doesn't sit right with me ill have to pretend that isn't happening

Their scouts saw the gateways emerging, and some of them went to investigate.

There you go You're welcome.

No not sitting right lol because you're coming through the portal following quest lines talking about your exodus

Their exodus is from the underworld! They had an exodus, too!

I mean, they may even tailor dialogue to Tulnar so that it reads differently to the glorious blessed races.

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