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I'm pretty sure they didn't... or at least I don't see how that could have been possible since it's just a flag and that hasn't changed since Incursion.

BLUE skin ................... this is EVE not Smurfs in space.

ah, no. There is a set of carefully picked hair colors, and some of them were not available for some of the bloodlines. Those restrictions are being lifted.

ib4 the gnashing of purple smurf teeth.

They need to make sure the clothes match the new station backgrounds?

Quoting this because I know this was an option in the past.

Why was it scrapped?
Because you knew we would do bad, very bad, things with it?

If you keep to the current, must look like a today character, I think you should not avoid the obese characters.
You can already create in the modeler one of those anorexia models that think they are sexy (/me shudders) running on the catwalk around in "victoria secrets" stuff.

While I think this is nice for new players and a bit for some role-players, I honestly wish more was being done to further our use of our avatars.

I agree with many of the comments here that I would rather have more customization options. I understand the need for natural-looking colors in a creator as theoretically this is you creating the look the character was born with versus something that the character modified about themselves later.

But when do we GET to those modifications?? This is the future and it is sci-fi! The Burning Life novel covered a lot of really interesting body modifications available in this universe, when do we get THOSE?? Even if we have to pay for them, even just exotic hair colors/styles could be fun.

But more importantly, if we can't move past the postage-stamp images as the only way we see each-other then our avatars are still pretty much useless for anything besides forums.

I know many players get violent at the idea of putting ANY work into not spaceships but some things could be done with a small amount of effort with some big wins for immersion and avatar purpose.

Some suggestions:
- Making trades of contraband items impossible by any means other than face to face (datapad to datapad) interaction. I know from fanfest that you can easily simulate the corridors between captain's quarters or even just allow one person to invite another to their captain's quarters.
- Give private convos between individuals the ability to use the actual 3d avatars when conversing. You could match lip-flap to chat text or EVE Voice sounds. If you were really cool, you would add gestures. If you were really really cool, you'd add the ability for players to use a webcam to capture their movements while they talk (Logitech did this a long time ago with bundled webcam software so I know it is possible).
- Allow corp/alliance leaders to record speeches using their avatar which could then be played by their members or news or enemies.
- Create conference rooms (only need 1 room per race type) and allow corp/alliance leaders to stipulate that certain policy votes can only be made by votes of people who are present together in a room.

I'm sure other players might have some good ones as well...
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Modifications and color selection are already lore, what are you holding back for exactly?

I'm glad to see a myriad of new colors. I still have objections related to the art direction of bloodline archetypes (skin, hair, eye color related) but as we're only a week from Inferno I'll have to let it pass.