I think the character creation system is needlessly limited by gender. It should be a fairly simple update to allow all hairstyles on all genders, and why do men only get lip tone but women get lipstick, with patterns?
I don’t see why it’s necessary to disable the ability for a guy to have hot pink Eyeshadow and thick black eyeliner with a central DRIP (We get one eyeliner option, but it’s labelled as Lash Thickness???). Why can’t guys get access to the only two GOOD mowhawk based hairstyles? Guys get all three of the hairstyles I would use for my butch business lesbian, surely the code isn’t THAT spaghetti that you can’t just add an inherited class, or remove one somewhere to make them all available right?
Why not slap all options as available and give everyone one full character cosmetic rework to allow them to take on the new look they want?
You have a huge queer player base, and from what I’ve seen in voice comms they hide unless someone else is witnessed as being both identified and accepted, I don’t know if they make themselves very heavily known here, and I have seen this particular point being raised in the past, and the ISDs have supposedly ‘removed non constructive posts’, yet somehow left in some completely non constructive posts that are actually very thinly veiled bullying (I’m looking at you ISD Drew), and at a glance it appears it was enough to deter the OP from that thread from posting in it again, but I’m going to go and raise this; Add a non binary option for the non binary people so they feel represented! Assuming you would unclog the hair and makeup limitations first, surely this would just mean that you could simply overlap the autogenerated feature pool of both male and female for the new characters, leaving most of the work as deciding what look to go with for the model in the bloodline selection? Also assuming some of the same arguments are going to come through here, let me slap in a few pre-emptive responses in the hope that posts remain constructive and on topic.
“Keep the woke out of gaming/I don’t want to deal with gender politics here” - You can manage your distance to multiple targets, make on the fly calculations based on their angular velocity, signature radius, and the stats of your ship that you know, while watching for fleet broadcasts and paying attention to voice comms, you can manage there being 3 icons to click on the rare occasion you create a new toon. You aren’t the one who has to code it, you don’t HAVE to pay attention to it, but it means a LOT to the people who want it. Just say you’re a snowflake and are hurt by other people getting things they want and be done with it.
“Use your imagination” - Imagination doesn’t change the gender icon whenever you go to take a new photo in some clothes, or adjust your characters hairstyle. See above about how it makes players feel. I’m not trans, but I have enough trans friends that a non binary option, or a slider between masc and femme in character creation genuinely influences my opinion of the game, developers, and willingness to make purchases (You heard me CCP, cash money! I can afford a lot more than 5 accounts!).
Lets try and keep it civil and constructive. No one loses from this change, and if you’re going to argue that you do, it better be a good argument.
Only CCP knows why. We have years old POS towers that by all merits should have been removed and delisted from the market. So yes, the code of EVE online is pretty messed up from what I (the player) see.
