I don`t want to sound like a perve or anything, but...Males in Character Creation...

I'm not interested promoting that type of "bulge" but the overall body type of the male character is weedy.

Perhaps that's what you get from muscle atrophy, spending too much time in micro-gravity environments.

In Real LifeTM I work out and do martial arts so I'm a quite more um, "developed" physically than Cmdr Pingmonster.

I actually thought the character building controls would go further than just facial stuff but it's not a big deal. (Don't get me wrong; I've enjoyed the new in-game character toy. Second Life in space!).

Basically Pingmonster looks nothing like me; the face is probably similar in build and the hair style and stubble are pretty spot on but it's Cmdr Pingmonster and not me....maybe his "other bulge" atrophied from spending too much time alone in space.
 
A gaming studio with the attitude of Mary Whitehouse does not create awesome games. Sort of restricts what one can do if moralising is constantly at the back of developers minds. I can see the influence both in their games and on this forum. Put another way being so uptight and stuffy isn't heathly, not for the mind nor the old bank balance.

I look around the world, war, death, disease, suffering, inequality, general misery and torment but we can't have anyone possibly offended by our computer games. No no, that would be totally unacceptable. [haha]

But the game is rated PEGI 7. I mean you do understand what that means, right? I'm frankly amazed that it's able to even touch on some of the themes that it does with that rating.

It's nothing to do with being 'uptight' or 'moralising' the game has to be pitched at a level that would be appropriate for a seven year old kid. Not your seven your old kid either, if you happen to have one, but an average or hypothetical seven year old kid. FDev aren't responsible for policing all the human misery in the universe but they are responsible for policing their game according to its rating, it's just a fact of life.

For me, they could have pretty much anything goes; anybody who ran across me in Battlestar Galactica Online could tell you that there's literally nothing that someone could call their ship, say to me in chat or indeed on the forums that I'd be weeping into a hanky about, I'd just respond in kind or more likely escalate it a few levels. :D

However I wouldn't be comfortable with someone's seven year old daughter sitting there reading some of the exchanges I've had with players both in-game and on the forums of other games and like it or not, this game is sold as suitable for that age group.

Really though, is anybody seriously suggesting that this is really the reason for diminutive schlongs in the game? I very much doubt it.
 
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Have you noticed they have no... package?

Seriously, man, I noticed it pretty much straight away. These men don`t have anything down there. It don`t look normal. i`m an artist and when I draw men you have to make a space for their `package` or they`re females- Or eunuchs.

:S

I know I`ve set myself up for lots of ribbing, but I have to point this out.

Next episode I`ll be pointing out how women`s chest area (sheesh stop with the censorship already!) is ridiculously flat.

Yep you're right. It's a blatant denial of basic anatomy. It's not even a matter of size - the whole region is completely absent. The sad thing is that this absolutely had to be a conscious decision because there's no way the original artist would have built a male figure like this.
 
I'm not interested promoting that type of "bulge" but the overall body type of the male character is weedy.

Perhaps that's what you get from muscle atrophy, spending too much time in micro-gravity environments.

In Real LifeTM I work out and do martial arts so I'm a quite more um, "developed" physically than Cmdr Pingmonster.

I actually thought the character building controls would go further than just facial stuff but it's not a big deal. (Don't get me wrong; I've enjoyed the new in-game character toy. Second Life in space!).

Basically Pingmonster looks nothing like me; the face is probably similar in build and the hair style and stubble are pretty spot on but it's Cmdr Pingmonster and not me....maybe his "other bulge" atrophied from spending too much time alone in space.

I also believe the body type is too weedy as well. And waddaya know, I also do karate. however, men looking like eunuchs just stands out as anatomically incorrect... Perhaps I notice it more because as an artist you must have an eye for such things. But even the common person knows there`s something wrong.

I suspect it`s a `pc` genderless thing that I`ve heard going around in some sjw places- it affects games devs too. A fear to show men as men and women as women cos that`s `sexist` which is a social construct! [haha]

Faces are fine though.
 
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Thats the least of their worries, if you are using a headtracker or vr and look left or right and down towards the collar you can see right down into the suit...and theres no torso inside it! Thats right kids your suit is moving on its own accord, scares the bejesus out of me it does, a suit moving on its own.
 
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We need an 'endowment' slider, Stat! Are you listening FDev!?! :D
I don't think it'd help much... the female faces are almost universally ugly :( and the lack of long hair just makes it worse. There seems no chance of making a space princess:

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Thats the least of their worries, if you are using a headtracker or vr and look left or right and down towards the collar you can see right down into the suit...and theres no torso inside it! Thats right kids your suit is moving on its own accord, scares the bejesus out of me it does, a suit moving on its own.

Logging into the shop earlier and being immediately confronted with the cold, dead eyes of the head model used to show the tattoos was bad enough.
 
Perhaps spending most of your time in zero G or low G has additional disadvantages, as well as muscle wastage. Commanders also seem a little pot bellied.

However I think they have done a good job of a 'generic' human body. For once it is nice to see characters that don't all have the size and muscle sliders to max and the waist and fat sliders to zero in a game, or armour that occupies the place the skin should be, so that if you took it off there would be just skin and bone.
 
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