User talk:Fodigg/Sandbox: Races

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Ok, you asked me to refer to the sandbox, so here I am, referring to it, and here are my thoughts!
 * 1) Again, the admins have discussed it and we prefer to avoid huge spoilers at the tops of pages, and we do have to be mindful that there are still people who have not played/completed the first game (which I know all too well, as one of my roommates is one of them, poor dumb bastard). As such, we've avoided using "Council Races" as a category because it gets into accuracy issues (which is another sticking point). If we list humans as a Council Race, it is A) A huge spoiler, and B) Is inaccurate, as for the majority of the first game, they were not.
 * 2) Common Races? Common by what definition? Surely not population, else the drell wouldn't be in that category and the geth certainly would. Common by appearance? Well then why are the geth and Collectors not on there? All the races that were commonly encountered in the first game are much less so now, and many of the uncommon races from the first game are more common in ME2 than the so-called "Common Races". And if Outcast Races is a category (more on that in a second) then what are the krogan doing in this category?
 * 3) Outcast Races? Again, Outcast by what definition? The only race that was actually cast out of anything were the quarians. The batarians withdrew from the Citadel of their own accord. The raloi are actually being welcomed into the galactic community by the Citadel races (and at least one non-Citadel race), hardly what I'd call "outcast". The Collectors, Reapers, geth, and vorcha never were Citadel races, so they couldn't be outcasts.
 * 4) Again, I object to creatures clearly listed by a canon source (aka the canon source) as Non-Sapient being lumped in with creatures whose sapience is unknown and open to debate. I also find it odd that it was acceptable to keep the Codex classification for "Historical Races" but it isn't to go by what the Codex says elsewhere, but maybe that's just me.
 * And that's about all I've got for now. SpartHawg948 00:09, February 16, 2010 (UTC)