Could Lizard Nerfs please be stopped until there's a justified reason to nerf them?

[kyle2143]

While I hate for these issues to become a "race" thing the fact that this server very much about equality and inclusivity while also negatively impacting lizard players is absurdly hypocritical and unfair to those wanting to play as lizards or other even races

This comes up every so often by some players who are really attached to playing as lizards. Frankly, I find that incredibly insulting and ridiculous at the same time. Much like everything else in this game, lizardmen are a work in progress, so things are going to take some time to find a balance. Especially since nobody gets paid to work on this game and are doing it in their free time.

The goal that the administration collectively want mutantraces to move towards is "Make them feel distinct gameplay wise from humans". That means that they are going to be different. So they'll have pros and cons to them. Full stop. Trying to equate game design of different videogame races with real life racism is offensive. I'm not sure if you're doing it by accident or on purpose to try to force a change in the design. 

As for the specific "unfair" changes to lizards right now, I'm unfamiliar. But as a general design philosophy on player selectable choices at round start, we do not want to make things that give certain players a non-trivial advantage over the default character setup. So it's good to err on the side of caution when adding new things to a round start mutantrace and make it be less desirable from a competitive standpoint. Especially considering the fact that you don't have to play as a lizard.

I'm starting to think that we should remove lizards and other mutantraces from round-start character selection and make them races that you can turn into over the course of the round like how we have werewolf serum and vampire serum. That should prevent people being so attached to a certain playable race and they can stop trying to use irl racism as an argument to get their way about game design.