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CCP Karkur, you can't cover 72 choices with 14. Want proof? My main's color is gone, and there's nothing that even resembles it... She's darker than 7, redder than 8, less yellow than 9, and lighter than 10. Oh, ain't she out of luck?

Look at me... you won't be seeing any skin color like this after Inferno

This aside, I dislike this kind of "one size fits all" approaches. We all wear the same clothes, do our hair the sam way, now we all sport the same skin colours... what will be next? Everyone having the same eyes, the same nose, the same cheeks? It's quite depressing IRL going to another country and see exaclty the same brand shops, and now it turns that there in New Eden all capsuleers are of one of merely 14 skin colors. Call that "diversity" if you want to, but that's not diversity in my book, it's the exact opposite, is homogenization.

14 colors per race instead of 6 would be more diversity. But 14 colors instead of 72 is not more diversity.

And shame on you if I ever lose my main's color due to some glitch in preserving the old diversity.

Couldn't have said it better myself. I don't like how this seems to lose grips with any connection to realism.

You know, this is some kind of damned if you do, damned if you don't situation...

From Team Avatar's POV: either tell management that they essentially wasted the art resources allocated to them because players won't buy the final product; or **** off players by not listening to their reasonable demands to preserve old and better content and not asking them prior to undertake the hacking down of diversity.

From pro-WiS POV: either we buy what they hand to us, and so everyhting will go in the future; or don't buy it, so wer'e ungrateful pricks and there's no point to throw us any bones.

Wow, youre a nerd playing a character that looks like a total nerd..

You have just made my month. I missed my black hair.

And?

I found the idea of someone playing EVE Online, and furthermore playing EVE Online on the test server calling someone else a nerd as if it meant anything pretty damn hilarious.

And 23,000 years before EVE, people still wore glasses just because they liked the look, even if their eyesight was fine - you just have a pair of 'neutral' lenses, or go frames-only. It's a fashion statement.

You are thinking about this too narrowly, and trying to solve the wrong problem. The problem isn't that there are too many options and you need to pare it down. The real problem is that there's no easy way to stick them on a color wheel together. It shouldn't be too complicated to solve that problem either, just have relatively few main base colors on a color wheel, and then when you choose one have a bunch of different shades of that color to pick as your final color. If you do that, you can have your simplistic color wheel, and all the options become available to everyone. Best of all possible solutions.

You make a big mistake when you assume that it's possible to have too many options in character creation. The more diversity available the closer everyone can get to their vision for their character, and the happier everyone is.

Skintone severely bugged on Sisi - skin change after exiting re-sculpting to default (?) color. I wasn't able to keep pale skin on Gallente character - check this image:

http://i.imgur.com/n7oGp.jpg?1

Beware.