Freedom and fireworks, why else.

Gallente because heroes don't look back at explosions. The ships look good. We win. Real men armor tank. Freedom.

"Float like a Floatbot; sting like an automatic stinging machine." Bender

Gallante because FREEEEEEEEDOOOOOOOM

Well to be fair as we were talking about yesterday a large part of Dusts player base is American so we can see why they would sympathise with the Gallentean and Matari ideals.

I go Gallente for the philosophy alone.

Dude if you bothered to ready up on lore you would know that Blood Raiders, and other Sani Sabik Cultists are fanatics, the Amarr simply have a faith.

Those other guys are the real fanatics.

the lore is where I got everything from. in the lore of the amarr when you listen to the audio version says:

"the Amarr Empire is the largest and oldest of the 4 empires, ruled by a mighty empress the Amarr are capable of great acts and great tyranny, all in the name of their god".

I imagine that the definition of tyranny in this case is stemmed towards the amarr's history of killing everyone who thinks differently and mercilessly destroying civilizations weaker than them because their god demands it.

The Ammar were slavers and I'm just too much of a good guy at heart to ever condone it, even to digital avatars.

Minnies are okay in my books...don't take the the wrong way PIE, I just have no hate for them....however it do want to see them reclaimed by God.

Kind of sounds like an abusive relationship
"I only hit you because I love you"

Im not trying to **** on their parade you over reacting toss bag, what i am doing is pointing out that they will turn ppl off role play before it even starts if they RP at ppl in a general forum.

Amarr for the sexy.
http://i.imgur.com/sUmwLWh.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/xSxlftZ.png
Best looking proto logi suit and it comes with a sidearm.

It's not like its their fault. Typically you learn about a game's story by playing it.
No one would know about Evelopedia before downloading the game, and it doesn't really make sense to expect players to spend time reading pages about races in a game they haven't even played yet.
There's also nothing in Dust so far that would suggest it has a deep backstory, and the racial description never mentions anything about Gallentean freedom not always being what you think it would be. Or that it might sometimes have a downside.
To be quite honest, I'm surprised people even bothered to read the descriptions instead of choosing their favorite color or flipping a coin.

Agreed.... when the Amarr tanks come out Adamance won't be seeing the loving beam of that laser rifle..... he'll be madly cackling as be burn entire platoons away with a laser turret.

Gallente, because... they are streamlined.

For the ladies. (;



And am i the only one, who thinks that (with an eye on the concept art on Minmatar and Amarr vehicles) the current Gal und Cal vehicles are to similar?

Well it would be easier to say the main reason for not liking the other races.

Amarr- Religious zealot, slavers, I don't give a flying flip for people trying to be apologetic for the Amarr either.

Caldari- Even though I sympathize with them that is simply not the way I would want a society to work. I do admire their loyalty though.

Minmatar- I really don't have much of a complaint about the Minmatar besides that they base a lot of their actions based on emmotion rather than logic.

So I went with Gallente because of why everyone else went with them. I know that their citizens at least have a choice how to live their life...for the most part... They are they second largest empire but their military is voluntary, you aren't even forced to go to a military school with the Gallente. I'm aware of the ****** up **** Gallente have done (example, the Caldari incident) and the flaws in their society but I still see their society as decent and more in tune with my view.

None of these empires are the good guys but I believe it's safe to say that Amarr take the cake as general bad guys IMO.

It is also noteworthy to say that I'm not very Pro Federation but I'm more in tuned with Gallente Society and their ideals.

Congratulations, I believe I have already stated that I'm more in tuned with their ideals and not with their government or how things are ran and executed (as hinted several times within that post) I also put an IMO at the end as well.

I'm also aware of the Massacre of Cadarians (correct term?) at the hands of the Gallente (as I also hinted in the post).

I'd love to see your argument as to why you see the Amarr as your preferred empire/race/society what have you.

While it's true that one would not normally think against the only kind of life a person has known that does not mean that style is automatically justified or morale.

I'm pretty open to what people think is wrong and right and the area that a person grew up in is a main factor in how you will think.
However, the enslavement of innocent because the Amarrians saw them as lesser beings in the name of their god is pretty universally seen as "uncool" (at least by a lot of Earths Inhabitants I would think so).
Just because you have faith doesn't justify morally corrupt acts because you believe them to be good.
Last time I checked Christians weren't really cool with the idea of slavery anymore.

This.

However it must be said we have had a history of aggression, the more reformist supporters in the empire are gaining power and this looks set to change.

Also the Amarr do not spoil for combat like the Minmatar do. The general amarrian is relatively sad when they would consider the prospect of war and violence however they do understand it as a means to an end, and would only engage in it because they believe they have the divine right to unite this galaxy.

I certainly hope CCP plans to take Amarr further along the road to reform, its always seemed like CCP hates Amarr and considering the scifi crowds hatred of religion and its liberal leanings Amarr was never made to be popular.

I would love to see the amarrian faction do a backflip on slavery and become more about enlightenment and religion, atleast then it would be only half as abhorrent in the eyes of the average scifi loving gamer :D

I think she means that the Amarr themselves aren't generally liked as a people, their equipment is one thing but liking them as a faction is much harder.

Caldari...because I support the dictatorship!!!

It does do something, don't ever believe it doesn't.

[quote=Aero Yassavi]
My assessment that they aren't popular is based on my experience with the faction in Eve not dust, I don't care if the lore makes it hard for the faction to change and I certainly don't care if you quit, the problem with the Amarr faction is it provides an outlet for RL racists to waffle on about owning slaves and praise space jesus.

Minmatar because they're fighting those religious zombies (Amarr) to keep their freedom, I don't care about how their ships look like. It's actually quite surprising that anyone could make ships out of rusted parts, and duct tape.

Not true the don't do what they do simply because she tells them to, they do it because they believe her to be the embodiment of his will, and therefore what she says is the right path.

Nor does an emperor consider his or herself the sole controller of the Empire, they are as subject to God's will as any member of the Empire.

In the end we're just mercenaries, no nation, no philosophy, no ideology, we go where we're needed, fighting not for Government but for money, keeping the individual beliefs you have at bay.

Holding on to your faction and being loyal to it may hinder you from making money.