A Final Plea to Frontier for Longer Hairstyles

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Aewarin Jameson

Aewarin Jameson
Martian Successor said:
Gotta disagree here. What they've done with the character creator is far from either lazy or the bare minimum, which is hugely refreshing for a change
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Agree with you on this point. It's a good first attempt - plenty of interesting faces you can make and you're correct - compared to the rest of the game it's fairly well developed. In the 2.3 sticky thread I made a comment that what Frontier had done was a great start - it's not the best commander creator tool I have seen (EVE takes that spot, still) but given that Frontier can add to it over time I am sure long hair & more options will make an appearance at some point.
 

Roasted1982

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Think about it. The helmet pops up automatically from your collar and covers your head when your canopy pops in a split second. How would this be animated with long hair? Add to this the fact that ED are clearly going for a realistic graphic style for the haracters and how difficult it is to realistically animate long hair. It doesn't take a genius to figure out why the long hair option was omitted. To say that frontier were lazy to make this design decision is just plain ignorant. What is your proposed solution to the helmet issue? And don't talk about women in space in real life or motorcycle helmets cause astronouts in real life don't get their helmet automatically put on in a split second and your hair can hang out of a motorcycle helmet which clearly cannot be the case in a space suit which needs to be air tight.
 

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Momoka Azuka said:
Aggressiveness? I just made a post saying to reconsider
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Youre not going to listen to reason are you? NOW is not the time. FD has the support of almost ALL of those that made mega poll threads titled "Do you not like 2.3 or do you hate 2.3" after the live stream yesterday. Let them enjoy some praise. Unreal...
 

Aewarin Jameson

Aewarin Jameson
Manticore said:
Long, short or bald... I want my hairstyle to be both "dangerous" and "elite".
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Googled "dangerous haircut" and this came up :D :O

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vrseven

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Liqua said:
You had a point, several pages back, when you said you agreed with the OP (in that long hair should be an option) but you just didn't like the tone of her post.

Noted, but you're simply going on and on and on about it ..
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It seems i am not alone in that dept.
 

Darkphoenix

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Roasted1982 said:
Think about it. The helmet pops up automatically from your collar and covers your head when your canopy pops in a split second. How would this be animated with long hair? Add to this the fact that ED are clearly going for a realistic graphic style for the haracters and how difficult it is to realistically animate long hair. It doesn't take a genius to figure out why the long hair option was omitted. To say that frontier were lazy to make this design decision is just plain ignorant. What is your proposed solution to the helmet issue? And don't talk about women in space in real life or motorcycle helmets cause astronouts in real life don't get their helmet automatically put on in a split second and your hair can hang out of a motorcycle helmet which clearly cannot be the case in a space suit which needs to be air tight.
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I am pretty sure the helmet just goes over your head regardless of positioning of hair in an emergency situation. I don't think FD need to worry about animating such a thing if your canopy gets blown out or you are faffing about flailing in space wreckage...I mean come on....really?? It would be nice for the future when we get space legs and are at a spaceport or for non-emergency situations on ship. It really is a minor thing but it is something that greatly pleases some people and would be liked by others to a lesser extent. Even at the very least people that don't agree with the OP should be at worst indifferent to it as in that case it won't affect them at all......
 
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Liqua said:
How about then you stop picking on the OP ? You made your point - bad opening post with agression ... but the content (longer hair options) you, and I for that matter, agree with.
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How about you dont reply to my comments. I mean since we are full of suggestions...
 
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Momoka Azuka

Momoka Azuka
Martian Successor said:
Gotta disagree here. What they've done with the character creator is far from either lazy or the bare minimum, which is hugely refreshing for a change.

They decided to omit longer hair for some reason and that's just FD's trademark eccentricity popping up to say hello again. But they have done a fantastic job on the character creator and hopefully they can surprise us by adding a few longer hair options to make as many people happy as possible. They've already done the time consuming ultra hard part of creating this system from scratch so hopefully they see your thread and decide to add some longer hair.
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I'm not saying that they are being lazy. All I that I am saying is I understand where she is coming from because it does feel that way. Because FDev made the choices they have if leaves a feeling of it's lacking. The reasoning they want to explain why that is also feels like an excuse. For the very reason that they say that's the reasoning for it is the reason I don't have much hope for longer hair to just show up without voicing that the options that they've shown so far aren't appealing. That's all I'm saying. And all I'm hoping for is that they reconsider anding more choices in the future
 

Roasted1982

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Ok how about this. If you choose the long hair option your helmet pops up but your hair is in the way so it can't form a tight seal, you die. Fair enough. I'm ok with this compromise. FD, put it in.
 
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