Alright, I've made Baron and it's time for me to have my fit. It seems no one else cares much so I take it upon myself to vent my frustration into the void and hope someone who cares happens by to see it.
Sex: So, there's an option for "PILOT GENDER" in the game's options. I of course chose "FEMALE" because I prefer to be the LOUDEST kind of princess I can be (or I'm just trying to be funny saying so). I believe the only effect of this to be giving the character model only visible to myself and possibly a slimmer figure. As I expect and handful of you may know, developed are a characteristic of the female /sex/. So, this is wrong.
Gender: Gender, on the other hand, is... /almost/ nowhere. Even players don't refer to my gender unless there's more to them saying "Hey, guys" and the like than just the awkward but understood general usage of "guys." This is /almost/ fine, as I'm fine with the possibility of everyone growing out of fussing over binary gender or gender as a concept within the next thousand or so years.
Imperial Titles: So, you may have noticed that not only is my status as princess not recognised by the Empire (so I'm not a princess /of/ the Empire, surely they're beyond such petty details! (FD please make me a Princess of the Empire. PRCS Riikka (or such) would be fantastic as well ;P)) but my gender is also ignored. This is wrong.
Apparently this isn't an issue for anyone else, but I'm still sick of getting the "probably a man" "i bet ur rly a guy lol" crap everywhere else I go on the Internet. Anywhere else it's just thoughtless or outright hateful people calling me a fraud and a liar (potentially among other things) just for being there, but here the game itself has decided that I'm male. "Lord?" "Baron?" I deliberately told the game that my pilot's /gender/ is female (never mind all of the talk that "the character is /you/;" it's still a setting for the "pilot") yet gender is the thing that it gets /wrong/ the only time it ever uses any relevant (in this case, gendered) language and the option itself actually just affects sex. Wrong, wrong, wrong.
Just in case someone thinks this is all a clever "oh, these terms don't have gender association anymore a thousand years into the future" kind of thing I'd like to point out that there's no indication to those of us who're playing in 2015 that this is the case. We just get a rank mission and then suddenly we have a new title once it's done... probably a male gendered one, if we're working on Empire rank. I feel it's plenty fair to ask that Frontier provide at least male and female terms if they must use terms of this type (is a non-binary/agender/third gender/etc. person a Lord, and Lady, or something else?) or use gender neutral/agnostic terms instead particularly for things that are directly labeling players. I can no longer /not/ have a male rank unless I just erase my progress completely. I find this unpleasant.
A bit long-winded, but I feel better now. I hope some people learned some things and I further hope that I've not legitimately offended or irritated anyone myself. I suppose it's probably going too far to hope this doesn't attract hateful types but I'll do that anyway as well. The best for us all, and the best for Frontier exploring new frontiers of respect, decency, and large-scale space adventure! ö/
Sex: So, there's an option for "PILOT GENDER" in the game's options. I of course chose "FEMALE" because I prefer to be the LOUDEST kind of princess I can be (or I'm just trying to be funny saying so). I believe the only effect of this to be giving the character model only visible to myself and possibly a slimmer figure. As I expect and handful of you may know, developed are a characteristic of the female /sex/. So, this is wrong.
Gender: Gender, on the other hand, is... /almost/ nowhere. Even players don't refer to my gender unless there's more to them saying "Hey, guys" and the like than just the awkward but understood general usage of "guys." This is /almost/ fine, as I'm fine with the possibility of everyone growing out of fussing over binary gender or gender as a concept within the next thousand or so years.
Imperial Titles: So, you may have noticed that not only is my status as princess not recognised by the Empire (so I'm not a princess /of/ the Empire, surely they're beyond such petty details! (FD please make me a Princess of the Empire. PRCS Riikka (or such) would be fantastic as well ;P)) but my gender is also ignored. This is wrong.
Apparently this isn't an issue for anyone else, but I'm still sick of getting the "probably a man" "i bet ur rly a guy lol" crap everywhere else I go on the Internet. Anywhere else it's just thoughtless or outright hateful people calling me a fraud and a liar (potentially among other things) just for being there, but here the game itself has decided that I'm male. "Lord?" "Baron?" I deliberately told the game that my pilot's /gender/ is female (never mind all of the talk that "the character is /you/;" it's still a setting for the "pilot") yet gender is the thing that it gets /wrong/ the only time it ever uses any relevant (in this case, gendered) language and the option itself actually just affects sex. Wrong, wrong, wrong.
Just in case someone thinks this is all a clever "oh, these terms don't have gender association anymore a thousand years into the future" kind of thing I'd like to point out that there's no indication to those of us who're playing in 2015 that this is the case. We just get a rank mission and then suddenly we have a new title once it's done... probably a male gendered one, if we're working on Empire rank. I feel it's plenty fair to ask that Frontier provide at least male and female terms if they must use terms of this type (is a non-binary/agender/third gender/etc. person a Lord, and Lady, or something else?) or use gender neutral/agnostic terms instead particularly for things that are directly labeling players. I can no longer /not/ have a male rank unless I just erase my progress completely. I find this unpleasant.
A bit long-winded, but I feel better now. I hope some people learned some things and I further hope that I've not legitimately offended or irritated anyone myself. I suppose it's probably going too far to hope this doesn't attract hateful types but I'll do that anyway as well. The best for us all, and the best for Frontier exploring new frontiers of respect, decency, and large-scale space adventure! ö/