Everybody's the same body shape?

[GraceSunhayes]

Originally Posted by Vandelay

I've noticed that nearly everyone is picking the same body shape for their pirates. The game gives you several choices for body shape, but hardly anybody's making a short pirate, a chubby pirate, an overly skinny or an overly muscular pirate. (Nearly everyone is causcasian too, but that's another story). To me, that's almost a game design flaw because people seem to be finding too many of the choices unusable. Or maybe it's just me. What do you think?

Hey Van.... I'm pretty shallow lol. I made mine on how I'd like to look. I've made most of my online characters for different games for the same reason lol. I think its mid life crises lol. I don't think I could make a chubby one..lol

[Wenchtastic]

In honor of this thread, I will make my next character a short, fat, black woman with a hugely tacky, clashing wardrobe.
At least I'll stand out in a crowd!

[koalita]

In phase 1 of beta I made a short fat black female pirate. My husband's current pirate is a skinny black man. Very easy to find him in a crowd.

[Ms_Moofers]

Interesting topic that I thought much about in phase 1. At one point, I created a short, fat, ugly as I could female and found that nobody would choose her to crew (even though her notoriety and cannon skills were higher than others around her) - nobody would help when fighting bad guys - noone would talk to her - unless it was to say thanks if I healed them. Sadly, I decided, people are prejudice against certain body types - even put all this in a bug report. This time around I have 2 pirates - one amazon type (she is huge and scary - LOL) and one normal. The normal looking one gets more invitations for friends, crews, guilds, etc - even though i think the amazon looks more like a female pirate, looks stronger, etc - I do hope we see more body types once it is open!

[Blackhole_Galaxia]

Well thats an interestiong topic. I notice that the girls are all the same body type. But the boys i dont really notice anything the same about them. But im happy with my character.