Has anybody become attached to the Sins races?

I was looking forward to mods but over time I actually like the original races

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when I first got the game I really did not like the game races beyond being functional and interesting enough to serve the game.

The three races in sins have grown on me to an extent that I am having trouble imagining any mod races trumping them in terms of fighting styles. Most modded races will have very little ability to help each other in battle at all for instance. It makes you realise how limited most sci-fi shows have been until recently

Apart from enterprise (which started to show a little more race variation instead if implying it) and the new BSG (which has resurrection ships and hybrids etc) most sci-fi on TVs main storyline revolves around conventional warfare with other air breathing humanoids. The tactics are limited to single ships with no interesting abilities or differentiation. 

The vasari, Advent and TEC are such characters and even the ships which sometimes look out of place on a battlefield have grown on me. I have been trying to imagine them in their full CGI hollywood glory lately and even wondering if people will start making movies about the races once the single campaign fleshes out the story.

Anyone else been converted?

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Reply #1 from Sins Forums Top
I've become attached to them as time passes, yes. As a game plays itself out and my little empire grows, I find myself sliding into thought patterns that resemble the psychology of the races. It's a tiny touch of roleplaying that adds to the game.

-- Retro
Reply #2 from Sins Forums Top
Not really no. Unless the story was fleshed out more maybe (with some actual memorable characters introduced), I really can't find myself attached to any of them.
Siege of Centauri
Reply #3 from Sins Forums Top
I think all that is needed is a race that is really really different.
Like a submerged water race or even a race that can survive in space... organic ships...

I agree about the fleshing out of the storyline but do believe this will happen with the campaign mode that will come in the addon.

I am looking forward to meeting the race that everybody seems to have been waiting for. the one that pushed the vasari to the brink of extinction....

I do like the idea of

a) vasari and their lost colony fleets mixed with their evil ways
b) The advent and their religious, psionic powers, their crusading elite troops
c) the trader coalition, rather reminds me of the trade federation in star wars mixed with the aliens troops in well aliens - colonial marines trained by the corporations