What races are we going to be? Alliance, Orcs/Wolfmen, or Alfar. Alliance and Orcs/Wolfies can be any alignment?
I guess we will have to be good alignment to have the NPC's for city protection etc. Although it would be fun to have a evil alignment alt clan to wreak havoc !!
If we are allied with PRX (for example) we would have to match our race choice to theirs. Alfar might be a good race, as we would have more PvP opponents without incurring an alignment penalty.
I would like to see us go the alfar way. We would not have to worry about what race we could or could not kill. For a nubby like me that can hardly tell a elf from a dwarf this would be a good thing.
To be honest, race is still under consideration. It is probably prudent to wait and see how it is actually implemented at beta/launch. I personally have distaste for the alignment/rep system, however once a guild is fully established in its own/allied cities, from what I can tell alignment loses its relavence, as you no longer need access to home NPC towns.
Hardware testing is going on, and beta begins soon, unless they're already running it without an announcement.
::shrugs:: for Alignment/Rep to be interesting, I feel there need to be way more factions. With just 3 factions per "side" your inclinations to PvP are going to be pretty clear cut. Back in NC though, it was like 11 factions, and each one had different allies/neutrals/enemies, so it added a nice touch to guild diplomacy. There were some alliances you'd consider undertaking in which you knew you were going to take alignment hits for PKing Neutrals or maybe even in some case friendlies, just because your allied guild happened to belong to another faction.
Alfar will be a very united nation : every other race being ennemy, it helps creating a sense of community. Problem : it may be the home of a lot of RPK which will ba a problem diplomaticly-wise.
Human / Dwarf / Mirdain will be the exact opposite : lot of new players, the real zerg playing how they can and throwing the responsability of all their failures to whoever they can.
Ork / Mahirim may be a good compromise. They may lure a lot of newbie (orks, werewolves are the shit) but they won't have the carebears in. A lot of RPK surely, less community sense than the Alfars but less diplomacy problems.
Hmm.... the real diplomacy problems will come from guilds that are unable to exact any discipline from their members.
Not to worried about labels like PK/RPK/etc. If the Alfar arent killing other Alfar and are killing so called "racial enemies" then they arent RPKing.
The bigger problems is dealing with guilds that gather 200 people under their banner, with a few head swolled leaders that pretend to be bigshots, and can call a zerg-target but who exact no accountability or disciplne from their membership.