Reason for the new race-creation setup ?

[Suicide Junkie]

That's my biggest beef.

People complaining about the race setup sliders, when it is STOCK se4 settings that caused all the problems.

SE4 mods made great improvements, and with formulae available from SE5, sliders would be the ultimate race setup option; very easily balanced using a smooth curve of diminishing returns, too.

I mean come on... removal of the sliders did nothing for race setup balance; look at mineral/org/rads extraction skill.
In SE5 there isn't even any variation in how *much* you reduce org/rads and increase minerals...