How many races should their be?

[Jintao]

Hey all

This past round we only played with 4 races in the hopes it would improve the quality of shipstats by having less races.

In some threads i've been reading some comments about it like:

• Not enough diversity with 4 races
• 6 races would give every attack fleet a teamup partner
• The more races we have, how more diversity we have

I felt this discussion deserved it's own topic.

How many races would work best in terms of creating good shipstats, have enough diversity, playability, prevent stagnation, ... and why?