I still don't have most of the DLC for this game, but I semi-recently played a multiplayer session with a friend who did and now I can't play without them. It's nefarious. Still, I might try to pick things up and learn them again.

Does anyone have some interesting combinations of traits they like to start with? Non-optimal stuff, I mean. I remember my first game I tried playing as ugly pacifists. It's a little harder to be a pacifist when the first response anyone has to you is "Kill it with fire!" It's problems like these that make an alien want to glass a planet and enslave the remaining population, you know? Pacifism is easy when everyone's either dead or working in your salt mines.

Anyway, how about those traits?