A Final Plea to Frontier for Longer Hairstyles

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DNA-Decay

DNA-Decay
The present of space flight:
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Judith Resnik.
Sadly no longer with us - died on the Challenger.
Her hair is typical of astronauts.
Here's a picture of EVERY astronaut ever.* http://inara.cz/cmdr-logbook/3414/17739
(*except the blokes)
 
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syngyne

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DNA-Decay said:
The present of space flight:
http://a.abcnews.com/images/Technology/gty_judith_resnik_jef_ss_120723_ssh.jpg

Judith Resnik.
Sadly no longer with us - died on the Challenger.
Her hair is typical of astronauts.
Here's a picture of EVERY astronaut ever.* http://inara.cz/cmdr-logbook/3414/17739
(*except the blokes)
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Yes. Except there is a pretty big size difference between the Remlok helmet and our current spacesuits, Remlok deploys pretty much instantly whereas current spacesuits take anywhere from 30 minutes to two hours to put on, leaving plenty of time to get hair tucked out of the way, and (the only real point) real life's physics engine has already been optimized. :)

Edit: I take back the last point. If you've seen any Pantene commercials, even reality slows to a crawl as soon as a model tosses her hair.
 
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DNA-Decay

DNA-Decay
syngyne said:
Yes. Except there is a pretty big size difference between the Remlok helmet and our current spacesuits, Remlok deploys pretty much instantly whereas current spacesuits take anywhere from 30 minutes to two hours to put on, leaving plenty of time to get hair tucked out of the way, and (the only real point) real life's physics engine has already been optimized. :)
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Not the point.
Failing to implement realistic hair lengths does a disservice to real astronauts.
check my link and scroll down. Every astronaut has long hair (except Peggy Whitson who is commanding the ISS right now, and about three others)

We are largely a bunch of men discussing the appearance of women.

In the real world they can just ignore us and wear their hair however. And they do.
In Elite they have to go begging to the developers and be ridiculed and shouted down the whole way.
 
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Sasquatch_Punter

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DNA-Decay said:
Not the point.
Failing to implement realistic hair lengths does a disservice to real astronauts.
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We are largely a bunch of men discussing the appearance of women.
In the real world they can just ignore us and wear their hair however. And they do.
In Elite they have to go begging to the developers and be ridiculed and shouted down the whole way.
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How awful. It's like the men who will have to go without Fabio hair and shoulder-length dreadlocks in the game.

Utterly inhumane and spiteful omissions, imho.
 
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Aardwolfz

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When a canopy breach occurs we have a vacuum, am I right? that means that long hair will flow out toward the breach, possibly obstructing sight. The Remlock helmet closes over said hair which has been pulled forward toward the canopy, most likely making vision worse by putting more hair in your face from above. How do you remove that hair from your face after your helmet has closed (is the helmet holographic that you can put your hand through it?)?
You are most likely in a combat situation when your canopy goes pop, so it is not ideal to have hair obscuring your vision. What everyone that is posting images of modern astronauts do not take into account is the fact that these astronauts do not have technology like Remlock helmets, nor do they regularly find themselves in combat situations and have to put on a helmet in 15 seconds.

I vote yes for long hair, but it has to be tied back, free flowing long hair is impractical for a CMDR in the Elite universe.
 
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Starstrydur

Starstrydur
Morbad said:
We do hear the "eject, eject, eject". I can imagine the rest without overt issues...though the speed of those escape pods is something to marvel at.

Maybe it should have the same transfer time as a ship/module, and play a mandatory insurance video "You done goofed, how to not screw up in the future", brought you by Pilot's Federation Insurance Consortium and the Bank of Zaonce.
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Many seem to be satisfied with using their imagination to fill the gaps in the game. Many others prefer actual content. I find content more interesting but can imagine my pilot seat scooting me to the escape pod and poof. No anti hair whatever.
 

Commander Biscuit

Commander Biscuit
Please Frontier let me waifu my avatar. Please, please Frontier I'm begging, literally begging and writing an essay. If I cannot waifu my avatar I will be actually filing a lawsuit for breaking my waifu immersion.
 
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stereoBear

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DNA-Decay said:
Not the point.
Failing to implement realistic hair lengths does a disservice to real astronauts.
check my link and scroll down. Every astronaut has long hair (except Peggy Whitson who is commanding the ISS right now, and about three others)

We are largely a bunch of men discussing the appearance of women.

In the real world they can just ignore us and wear their hair however. And they do.
In Elite they have to go begging to the developers and be ridiculed and shouted down the whole way.
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And now you're using them in the most disingenuous way possible to get what you want. *slow clap*
 

Stealthie

Stealthie
DNA-Decay said:
Not the point.
Failing to implement realistic hair lengths does a disservice to real astronauts.
check my link and scroll down. Every astronaut has long hair (except Peggy Whitson who is commanding the ISS right now, and about three others)

We are largely a bunch of men discussing the appearance of women.

In the real world they can just ignore us and wear their hair however. And they do.
In Elite they have to go begging to the developers and be ridiculed and shouted down the whole way.
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I agree, it's not the point.

The point is that FDev have said that there's not going to be long hair because they can't model long hair and, frankly, there are a thousand other things they could be doing to improve the game dramatically before long hair becomes a priority.

We're currently flying around in a universe that has turned beige and had heaps of interesting geographical features removed.
I'd suggest that anybody who's more interested in looking at a character with long hair than looking at an interesting universe goes and plays Skyrim (ideally after visiting nexus mods) instead.
 
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Acruxos ParamaX

Acruxos ParamaX
Stealthie said:
I agree, it's not the point.

The point is that FDev have said that there's not going to be long hair because they can't model long hair and, frankly, there are a thousand other things they could be doing to improve the game dramatically before long hair becomes a priority.

We're currently flying around in a universe that has turned beige and had heaps of interesting geographical features removed.
I'd suggest that anybody who's more interested in looking at a character with long hair than looking at an interesting universe goes and plays Skyrim (ideally after visiting nexus mods) instead.
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There is a coding in virtual worlds called flex, which is perfectly suited for use as hair or other "mobile" applications, its open source available freely as source code, i have no idea if it can be adapted to this environment.
 

Alec Turner

Alec Turner
Been keeping a watchful eye on this thread all day and I have to run for a train now dammit!

Oh well, in five posts time could someone re-post this for me without the spoiler tags please!

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Ezren

Ezren
DNA-Decay said:
Not the point.
Failing to implement realistic hair lengths does a disservice to real astronauts.
check my link and scroll down. Every astronaut has long hair (except Peggy Whitson who is commanding the ISS right now, and about three others)
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Fun fact, we're not playing Astronauts.

You may as well ask why we don't have oil lamps and butter churns on our ships.
 

ArchEmperor

ArchEmperor
I was thinking if the helmets really could harbor lots of beautiful red hair.

It has been done before.... as seen in this epic intro of Barbarella:
[video=youtube;Tw6WMdrzbJw]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tw6WMdrzbJw[/video]
 

Chris Simon

Chris Simon
Welcome to The Sims E: D edition, where longer hairstyles and freckles are The Thing.

Who cares about better networking and good flight model in a space shooter MMO, anyway...
 
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