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Not all clothing in the future has to be skin-tight, this ain't ******* star-dreck.

Cosmetics are already NEX items. The main problem is that CCP needs to drastically reduce the prices or get rid of the store completely. I was only arguing for new cosmetics not being part of the default set.

Any updates on the underwear bug? I know it's a known bug that only effects the oldest characters and that it's been brought up in the past https://forums.eveonline.com/default.aspx?g=posts&m=894977#post894977 but you guys really need to fix it with all this new clothing coming out.


Write that that script CCP karkur

I tested the new clothes upon stumbling on them accidentally, and although they're very interesting, they left me wondering wether we'll see racial clothing in the future. I can't imagine an amarrian female wearing none of those, but further, one of the main issues with the avatar creator is that characters got (can get) a strong individuality, but their collective identity is null. There's now ay to tell what race is someone, which kind of detracts from the RPG element.

A big +1 for this, its what Uru / Myst Online did and worked well in most cases (in fact some clothing had two color selections to work with). One item did not allow it (the colorful jacket at the end of TPOTS), so I suspect the trick was through one or two extra texture layers that defined the tinting locations.

SL allowed this with just about everything - to the point where smart designers will supply their wares in grey tones and allow the wearer to re-tint as needed. I would buy things regularly in that format (or in one case, create my own). The reverse of that was There.com, which did not allow tinting (like NeX), and I tried to always make do with what I had or just not buy anything at all.

Eve-based example - I do like the corporate jacket in NeX (the one where it says you can have the sleeves embossed), but not its color (grey I believe). If I could get that tinted closer to goldenrod it would fit in-line with the character background.

I'm supposed to be on vacation this week (hah!), perhaps I'll spend the time to get some examples up. Had finally caved in once already within SL and ditched the original (2004) hair, since it was broken on newer viewers.

The cuff section on the new boots looks off to me. When you zoom in on them, you can see a gap of empty space between the character model and the cuff.

I hope that it's actually referred to as the "Decency Check" in the code.

Not sure that this (full body shot) would count as "decent" anywhere outside of a nightclub, though. :P

That said, I am quite fond of the black skinsuit with gold trim. (Pics: close-up, full-body)

It's a lot less black and white now as compared to pre-incarna avatars. It IS a lot more difficult to judge say who's gallente via the outlandish hair style or amarian due to the cyberknight with obvious head visor.

Yet do they all look the same? No. There is quite the startling quantity of ethnicity specific diversity represented across all the avatars of Eve. With a bit of practice you can fairly easily determine who's of which descent.

If you created a flashcard game with a guess the ethnic background goal, images flashed for 5 or so seconds in conjunction with ethnicity & bloodline tick button, you could probably get pretty good at it with a little practice.

Sure we are demi-god ! We have all the money that we can run around as we please and not link "society" wants us.

IIRC 11ISK were a month payment for a mid-class worker.

P.s. great fixes ! Keep on going CCP

Obviously this is well past the 5 seconds time limit, but the shape of your avatar's eyes and skull (ed. - and skin tone) say "Khanid" regardless.

That sort of challenge works better when you give a random set of portraits without names. ;)

(Speaking of, feel free to guess mine with the same restrictions. I've had people get it wrong ingame.)

EDIT: More on-topic, I don't see a problem with the idea that people might have some trouble identifying what bloodline someone is without practice. Bloodline no longer has any measurable effect ingame beyond your sculpting mesh, and your race doesn't affect anything it didn't before (starter skills and standings, npc corps, default noobship, etc.), so at this point even your bloodline is merely a cosmetic choice.

Not to mention, that's sort of how it works in real life: if you take a couple average caucasians from various parts of Europe, the US and Canada, if none of them speak, and are all wearing similar clothing, you will probably be hard-pressed to figure out who's from where. Similarly for people from asian parts of the world, if you have a group of people from China, Japan and Korea that meet the same requirements (nobody talks, similar clothing), while you might be able to tell that they are not all from the same line of descent, it'll take practice and a trained eye to be able to tell who is who. (That wasn't intended to be racist, so if it comes across that way, I apologize.)

The same should be the case in EVE. Generally, most of the bloodlines are still pretty obvious after a little while. I can look at a portrait and tell which bloodline it is with almost perfect accuracy as long as it's not one of those hideous examples of the extremes you can reach with the editor (Large Collidable Object, for example). A little bit of practice and you will too. :)