any1 else wonder why there is not an option to pick a black female character in this game ?:confused::confused::confused:
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any1 else wonder why there is not an option to pick a black female character in this game ?:confused::confused::confused:
yea i wonder why
I wondered the same thing. I mean they have a black man but no beautiful black woman...I'm stuck playing as a dark haired chick with pouty lips (not that I mind, cause my bf thinks she's cute lol)
Guess the main point of the thread isn't being addressed so I'm out. Peace
Dr. King said "black". The UNCF and NAACP each use words in their names that are even less likely to remain on the Forum after the mods come through. And, incidentally, I'm a native American; on a completely unrelated note, my great-grandmother was a member of the Penobscot tribe.
There are other places to be black than America and there are other places to be from than Africa, regardless of the color of one's skin.
That being said, I'd have to agree - there should be greater variety in the pics. Greater variation in skin color is a fairly simple way to manage it.
Yeah, I would call the people I know black, not African-Irish. Also, coloured is stupid because that implies red, green, blue, yellow etc.
OMG...there are enough probs with this game, too much more and evony will short itself out! And then they'll have an excuse to be slow!
hey they dont have a asain character either :/
and i heard Iraqi's love to play this game.....
as well as China and India.... hmmm whats going on lol
BMS
It is a good point.
They could just make all the characters green...then we dont have to worry about race.
Oh and im black and as long as people dont use any term related to my ethnicity as a derogatory remark im fine. I AM Black, I AM an African American. Its not that big of a deal.
But i personally gave a thought to a black female character as i am a male so i couldn't care less
Most if not all of the avatars are from a 3D program I use called DAZ Studio. I figured it out cause the models look like the avatars lol.
DAZ isn't really big on black characters but they do have some. Guess Evony just hasn't updated in...forever.
I think the bolded part is the key. It all depends on what way you say it and what context it's in. Like you said, it only becomes an issue when someone uses the word in a derogatory way.
In relation to the OP, I'm in support of varying images to represent a wide range of ethnicities. In fact, the idea to add more in-game avatar options is under construction over at evony.feedback.com. You can add this to that particular discussion by following this link: http://feedback.evony.com/evony/topi...e_girl_avatars
Evony is supposed to take place around medieval Europe. During that time, Europe was predominately populated by whites.
While, despite that, they still have non-white avatars and no apparent gender inequality, I'm guessing they made a few exceptions but didn't cover every contingency.
Think what if a black pic was attacked by a white one, or the other way around. I think that there would be a lot of spam reports saying this guy is racist.
There's a different between game theme and game playability. The inability to teleport cities, the need to find actual space to store millions of troops or billions of food/stone/etc., the need to take months or years to construct buildings, or weeks for scout reports, the fact that food can go bad or become diseased, the fact that barbarian cities should be reduced to ruins instead of being perpetual food farms, etc. etc. to reflect realism, would greatly inhibit playability.
Avatars are purely cosmetic value and have no effect on the game. Therefore I imagine, when putting together a game with a theme faithful to medieval Europe yet still with interactive game mechanics, pretty pictures were very low on Evony's priority list compared to other things (IE; the ability to move cities).
C'mon guys, the proud Nubian Queen was just wearing a helmet on avatar picture day.
Yeah, I knew that, it's why I tried to convey my semi-seriousness with a smiley at the end of the my point. They could still include the ethnically diverse avatars in my opinion. It's not like the players are going to care that Evony didn't strictly adhere to its medieval theme. They care more about having their own race included than keeping it historically accurate.
lmfao
but on another note, the mongols were rampaging around that time, so were others I don't know of I'm sure lol
would be a friggin headache for evony to resolve hate attacks claims if they did introduce multi-coloured avatars in game tho.. plenty of dikheads around.
Back on topic...
I've known quite a few black people in the past, and for the most part they don't really give a rat's rear end about the fact that I have a different color skin than they do when it comes to even having a good chat with them.
It's what's on the inside that counts.
There is always going to be the pea-brain that's going to have this pathological urge to crash the party for the smallest reasons. I don't see why those few should stop Evony from adding more variety to their avatar list...
Heck, even if they added Martians and other weird things as avatars, at least it would be something out of the ordinary options that have been around for not quite two years...
more avatars
more diverse races for both the male and female choices
that's what is being asked for.
if a person wants a nubian princess or a mongol king the choices are just not there
what would it take really?
now to the reality check, how many players do you know that still have the default?
because i know heaps
Gotta say, I look a lot like that arrogant guy with the roman nose and curly hair. That's why I'm him. I ought to shave more, though...
Let's steer clear of racial topics.