Appearance Matters! – Discussing your character’s appearance

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Ask any Domini, image is everything. Character creation is always an interesting experience in MMOs. For some, it’s a painstaking process where every last detail has to be meticulously chosen. For others, it’s too time consuming and they happily hit the random button instead.

The modern day setting of the game will certainly add a new level of customization options that most MMO players are not accustomed to. After all, most of the genre is predominantly fantasy based.

Even after creation, the city life does not stop still for Kindred. Fashions will change, as often as the seasons. An eternity of shoe options…. oooh.

Visualize your character. Now for some questions dear Kindred…

1) Does your character’s appearance matter to you?
2) Will you base your character on your real life appearance?
3) What hair options/colours would you like to use?
4) What clothes do you see yourself wearing?
5) Should Sabbaths have restrictions on or unique clothing options?

Feel free to share any images you have if you like. Artwork, photos, avatar screenshots. etc

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1. Of course!
2. For the most part I do, at least a more strapping version of myself anyway (when I don’t gender swap).
3. As many as possible.
4. My character would probably wear suits or high fashion clothing items.
5. I love this. I could see CRUOR Corp getting upset if they catch you wearing something absurd or the Orthodox Theocracy if they see you spending more on your outfit than in contributions. I also like the idea of receiving unique clothing options due to our alliances.

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Ok so:

1. Yes and no: i don`t want 100 people to look like they are some kind of clones of mine.I want to be unique. But i will not stand 20 minutes to choose what color of my hair to pick.

2. No. Im a goddamn vampire in a virtual world, if i want to scare someone, i will send him Baby Baby by Justin Bieber.

3. My character will be bald. :))))

4.This is a good question. I would like something like a parka( i think this is the word) or something with a hood. Or if i can, i will make something from a werewolf skin and bones, like tribal clothes 

5. No, they shouldn`t put many restrictions on this, but i don`t want to see members from Orthodox Theocracy and Cruor corp running around in underwear.

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1) Does your character’s appearance matter to you? ………………………..yes
2) Will you base your character on your real life appearance?………………partially
3) What hair options/colours would you like to use?………………………….lots
4) What clothes do you see yourself wearing?…………………………………basic but functional
5) Should Sabbaths have restrictions on or unique clothing options?……..within limits

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1) Does your character’s appearance matter to you? ………….. Yes it does
2) Will you base your character on your real life appearance?……….. Quite unlikely
3) What hair options/colours would you like to use?……………. White haired Mohawk if i can
4) What clothes do you see yourself wearing?……………………Punk style, Leather jacket and plaid pants with suspenders
5) Should Sabbaths have restrictions on or unique clothing options?…………To a degree perhaps, If they are in high society it would make sense, but if you are going under cover to sabotage someones operations, i dont believe a suit and tie will cut it.

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1) Does your character’s appearance matter to you? Yes… very much.
2) Will you base your character on your real life appearance? No, I’d prefer to be someone else, else why roleplay?
3) What hair options/colours would you like to use? Please, please give us nice long, flowing hair for females. I’d provide the gambit of natural colors and several unnatural also. Styles – at least 3 short, medium, and long, and maybe a few standard things like braids, ponytails, etc.
4) What clothes do you see yourself wearing? That’d be flexible, but probably a bit of goth, bit of high elegance, a bit of punk, and some medieval capes, etc would be nice.
5) Should Sabbaths have restrictions on or unique clothing options? I think they should have basic gear that’s more accessible to them than others, but I wouldn’t restrict it, no.

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1) Does your character’s appearance matter to you ? – Yes ! i like to tweak it as much as possible for my liking 

2) Will you base your character on your real life appearance ? – Maybe a little, or maybe a totally different looking Don’t know

3) What hair options/colours would you like to use? – Please! Some cool looking Long hairs! Normal long hairs, Dreads, Rastas, Ponytails etc.

4) What clother do you see yourself wearing? – either Matrix style asskicking leather or some baggy/shady big clothing so i can conceal myself to the crowd, or then some Psychedelic raver outlook = Green rastas, black big raver pants and some black vest and some accessories !

5) Should Sabbaths have restrictions on or unigue clothing options? – Can’t really say…

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1) Does your character’s appearance matter to you? Yes

2) Will you base your character on your real life appearance? My character will look exactly like me if that’s possible 

3) What hair options/colours would you like to use? The same I have in real life

4) What clothes do you see yourself wearing? Similar clothes that I wear in real life + some clothing that fit the dark world of Project Dogmat

5) Should Sabbaths have restrictions on or unique clothing options? For most clothes no, but the best gear should have

clan restrictions

[mortal Offline]

1) Does your character’s appearance matter to you?

OMG yes! You wouldn’t catch a Domini dressed in last months fashion under any circumstance! I think equipment should give clans different buffs, like a black cocktail dress can give members of the Domini a bonus to their Sabbath’s special power. Wile a business suit should give members of Cruor a bonus to money they make. I’d like to do away with the “leather armor protects you more than cloth” mindset of thinking, and go more towards “how can I get players to dress the roll without forcing them”.
2) Will you base your character on your real life appearance?

Maybe, I’ll probably have an Orthodox alt that looks like me, along with multiple others.
3) What hair options/colours would you like to use?

I’m actually not too picky on hair for men. All I care about, is that they have a few grunge punk styles, and outlandish colors.
4) What clothes do you see yourself wearing?

Black PVC pants, a leather harness, and tall black buckled boots, matched with a wide variety of piercings.
5) Should Sabbaths have restrictions on or unique clothing options?

I don’t think so. I think some Sabbaths should be rewarded for wearing Sabbath appropriate attire, but not restricted.

~Shadow is but the result of light.

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1) Does your character’s appearance matter to you?

For sure! A good editor really matters to me, and definitely having the chance to change certain stuff after creating the char (like clothes) would be awesome.

2) Will you base your character on your real life appearance?

Depends, not necessarily.

3) What hair options/colours would you like to use?

Some variety in hair styles. Regarding colors, the more the better, but just having the basics is nice.

4) What clothes do you see yourself wearing?

LOTS of possibilities! xD

5) Should Sabbaths have restrictions on or unique clothing options?

Up to a certain degree, yeah.

I don’t see many Domini wearing rags. Cruor Corp might tend to more “business” clothes. At least I would favour people wearing certain styles in certain occasions.

But I would set also restrictions like making some clothes appropiate for certain actions. A bullet proof vest is great for combat situations, but you shouldn’t wear it in a ball (I mean dancing events), or while meeting a high-profile character.

And certain clothes (like, let’s say, a bullet proof tuxedo which would match a B-classified bullet proof vest) should be very very very special and rare items. And definitely, best combat gear should resemble combat gear.

• This reply was modified 3 months ago by  Valeri.

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1) Does your character’s appearance matter to you?
More than you could possibly imagine.

2) Will you base your character on your real life appearance?
No.

3) What hair options/colours would you like to use?
I honestly don’t know yet, probably short hair and dark colors.

4) What clothes do you see yourself wearing?
Since I play to go the Aristocracy of Domini I suspect some higher fashion clothing.

5) Should Sabbaths have restrictions on or unique clothing options?
I don’t think so, but dressing accordingly could have an effect in the game that you won’t have when you are wearing something that contradicts the idea of your chosen sabbath.

I'm going out to get a bite to drink.

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1) Does your character’s appearance matter to you? Depth of character customisation matters to me to the point where I won’t even try the game if it’s very basic and limited. It’s important for immersion.

2) Will you base your character on your real life appearance? Most probably not, especially since I’ll play as a female, as per usual. If I will, however, make a male character, I will not base him on my RL appearance, but make him either badass or comical.

3) What hair options/colours would you like to use? I would prefer full color palette. I’m very picky with hair colors. Some people might say having a blue haired character in this game might not be realistic, but you could always argue it’s just a hair dye.

4) What clothes do you see yourself wearing? Since I’ll be most probably rolling a Domini, I can see myself wearing a mix of classy and sexy outfits.

5) Should Sabbaths have restrictions on or unique clothing options? I don’t think so. It might be more according to the lore and general feel, but I feel we shouldn’t be restricted. It would be hilarious seeing a hideous looking Hort dressed fancy as hell.

• This reply was modified 3 months ago by  CyberpunkPie.

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I make all of my MMO characters look like my Real Life self as much as possible, which shouldn’t be too difficult in this game as I am very pale.

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Omg y u do dis, Serenika!? hahaha! I have so many characters, all very diverse. Don’t know if they’ll all get their time to shine but for the sake of continuity i’ll answer for “Kaido”.

1) Does your character’s appearance matter to you? Yes! Each of my characters are very diverse, It makes me sad seeing so many look alike toons in mmos.
2) Will you base your character on your real life appearance? Hmm tough one. Kaido is very much his own young man but his fashion style and my own are very unique and very shared.
3) What hair options/colours would you like to use? This is always a killer for me in games. Lack of diverse choices. Dragon’s Dogma used an awesome system of shared hairstyles across genders. This made it so a man could have long, flowing locks and a female could have a very high-fashion male model cut. Just like real life! More games should allow this. Personally, Kaido has medium length platinum white hair. I’m hoping that something similar will be implemented in game!
4) What clothes do you see yourself wearing? Very retro, hipster, artistic style. Bold colors and prints. Metalic fabrics and furs. Not afraid to mix and match and be ‘out there’ in terms of fashion. Not something you’d probably see alot of in the Orthodox Theocracy
5) Should Sabbaths have restrictions on or unique clothing options? I don’t think so… If sabbaths are like political parties, you should be able to look and wear whatever you want. There shouldn’t be a uniform… if say there is some sort of get together for the OrthoTheo members and Kaido rocks up wearing a bright pink fur coat and green pants, and the rest of the members find it awful, then that will just be part of character development and interaction.

Doesn't your great pride fear God any longer?

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1) Does your character’s appearance matter to you?
Yes! This should be one of the most Important features in the whole game

2) Will you base your character on your real life appearance?
It depends on what character and how many character I can create with one Account. But i also prefered cross-gender-Charactering

3) What hair options/colours would you like to use?
From long to short, from punk to high sociaty-stylings. For colouring there should be all kinds of Color, Punks would be prefered colourful hair, maybe someone will create an old man so he should have grey. So i dont think you should limit it to only a small amount of colors

4) What clothes do you see yourself wearing?
It should fit in a world of darknes. Dressing like Punks, dressing like goths, medival styling, barock-styling leather jackets and coats.

5) Should Sabbaths have restrictions on or unique clothing options?
depends on the role of the sabbath

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1) Does your character’s appearance matter to you? Yes, it contributes to immersion (meeting clones is uncomfortable) and makes you feel that the character is yours.

 

2) Will you base your character on your real life appearance? No.

 

3) What hair options/colours would you like to use? A color palette would be nice, including realistic colors and some dyes. Maybe the option to have a secondary color? people with colored hair tend to dye just a portion of it. More important than that, I like the idea of hairstyles not being restricted to gender.  

 

4) What clothes do you see yourself wearing? Casual or leather or something with hood. 

 

5) Should Sabbaths have restrictions on or unique clothing options? No. Clothes shouldn’t be uniforms.  However it should be rare to find a gala dress being sold in the city’s outskirts, or an outfit related to some sabbath’s rank at a random shop. 

 

• This reply was modified 2 months, 3 weeks ago by  Incarna.

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1) Does your character’s appearance matter to you?

OH GOD YES… I mean.. sure. Why not?
2) Will you base your character on your real life appearance?

nope. maybe. probably not.
3) What hair options/colours would you like to use?

I would love to see long hair, cause its so rarely an option, and multicolored hair options.
4) What clothes do you see yourself wearing?

Mostly street clothes – shorts, skirts. A couple nicer outfits for society events.
5) Should Sabbaths have restrictions on or unique clothing options?

Sure! look at TSW – what says hidden secret society better than an easily identified uniform! /sarcasm

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Sorrosyss wrote:

1) Does your character’s appearance matter to you? 2) Will you base your character on your real life appearance? 3) What hair options/colours would you like to use? 4) What clothes do you see yourself wearing? 5) Should Sabbaths have restrictions on or unique clothing options?

1) Yes, I always like to glance at my avatar a lot during gameplay.

2) Only if I play online with a girlfriend do I have a tendency to do this.

3) Normal haircut options. I’ve played games where every haircut is out there except 1 or 2, and that’s not ideal.

4) I gravitate toward an image like the one evoked by this album cover. I was sorely missing an option for an appearance like this in Bloodlines.

5) It’s a good idea that sounds very tricky to implement. I can imagine some sort of dress code limitations adding to the game, yes.

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Masks. It is no secret that I have a soft spot for masks.

Masks are my fetish.

Please add masks.

I want masks, I need masks.

Why boner?

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1) Does your character’s appearance matter to you?  Yes 
2) Will you base your character on your real life appearance?  No. 
3) What hair options/colours would you like to use?  

Something like that

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4) What clothes do you see yourself wearing?

More like that

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5) Should Sabbaths have restrictions on or unique clothing options? No

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So one question, will we be able to customise our character’s face only or body as well? Because in my opinion it’s very important if we’d have a wide variety of body sliders as well so we can make our characters truly unique. I really don’t like it when I can customise only my character’s face. I think Aion is a very good example of how character creation should look like: tons of options for different face style, hair, full colour palette for eyes and hair, skin tone, accessories, tons of sliders for face and body, customisable height, ….

 

And of course there has to be a breast size slider, bwahahaha xD

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the infamous breast slider, it is everywhere even in dark corners such as these >:D 1) you give me the names of anyone who says no (i’ll take care of them silently), in other words YES!! 2) Depends on the game & setting, try making me look like a faerie in a virtual world lol 3) this is really really important, if our hair/color options get effed up… just plz give us plenty of unique options for meaningful immersion 4) i reiterate my point above 5) i don’t think so, just don’t make it so it gives anyone an unfair advantage for balancing D:>

the goodies :D:D

as far as my overall look goes, I am using Chloe from Life is Strange (PLAY IT) as an ideal template onlyyy more vampy xD

i am really hoping to get a look like this one, i just love the style

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1. Gosh, yes! I bought VTMB recently and my primary annoyance with the game is that I can’t customize my character’s appearance. It also bothers me in online games when everyone looks the same – it pulls me out of the world. It’s also just lots of fun! Half the reason I’m so excited for Black Desert Online is because of the complex character creator!

2. Probably not. Something I love to do is create my original characters, but sometimes I’ll make myself.

3. It would depend on the character, tbh. I’d love it if there were a wide range of options – so if I wanted, my character could have long, thick hair and boast a very dark and deary colour palette, but another character could have more creative, bright coloured hair styles that clash with the environment.

4. Again, would depend on the personality of the character, but I mostly see myself wearing either heavy trench coats, or gothic dresses (short, long, whatever). I’d love variety here, as well – maybe even lolita style outfits (for men and women!) – so everyone looks different.

5. I think there should be some restrictions, but not so many that we look like we’re wearing a uniform. Maybe joining a particular Sabbath could unlock clothing, hair and makeup styles (if makeup is in the game).

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CyberpunkPie wrote:

So one question, will we be able to customise our character’s face only or body as well? Because in my opinion it’s very important if we’d have a wide variety of body sliders as well so we can make our characters truly unique. I really don’t like it when I can customise only my character’s face. I think Aion is a very good example of how character creation should look like: tons of options for different face style, hair, full colour palette for eyes and hair, skin tone, accessories, tons of sliders for face and body, customisable height, …. And of course there has to be a breast size slider, bwahahaha xD

In the current build, there are four areas you can adjust at character creation;

Skin, Head (Face), Body, Clothes.

There are varied sliders, including for height, and yes that includes breast and bottom size options. :p 

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Oh thank god for breast and bottom size options. All my fears have been relieved

But seriously, it’s great to hear there’s gonna be a lot of sliders.