Secondly, if skin tones are freely available, why aren't hair colours as well? Restricted hair colours infers racial consistency...unrestricted skin tones does not. (locked clothing debate also)

Also if CCP is allowing more variety with skintones and hair color, why don't they just make all the clothing options available for all the races.

Just discovered my character's current skin tone is not available. Why not?

Seems a bit counterproductive to remove skin tones.

Also if CCP is allowing more variety with skintones and hair color, why don't they just make all the clothing options available for all the races.

http://i660.photobucket.com/albums/uu328/Seriphyn/ccpdiversity.png < gooby wat da fak
Secondly, if skin tones are freely available, why aren't hair colours as well? Restricted hair colours infers racial consistency...unrestricted skin tones does not. (locked clothing debate also)

The hair color restrictions have been lifted

Entertain for a moment the idea that maybe our characters are immortal transhuman demigods, who can sleeve into a freshly-baked body composed of reconstituted bacon, vegetables and soylent green.

http://i660.photobucket.com/albums/uu328/Seriphyn/ccpdiversity.png < gooby wat da fak

For the 'caucasoid' bloodlines, 14 skin tones are fine. That type covers from Europe to India IRL, relatively same facial structure, but diverse range of skin tones, from pale (Celtic) to super dark (Tamil).

The problem emerges with 'negroid' and 'mongoloid' bloodlines. Female Brutor look fine with the 14 skin tones. Because the male Brutor is so obviously "I'm a black person", it does NOT work. Same with the Asian races...that Khanid looks like chocolate...

Secondly, if skin tones are freely available, why aren't hair colours as well? Restricted hair colours infers racial consistency...unrestricted skin tones does not. (locked clothing debate also)

The new skintypes replace the old skin tones.
If you like your skin tone, and don't want to change it, you are free to keep it... just don't apply a skintype and save your character. You should be able to change everything else on your character.

Now people are made of SOYLENT GREEN?

Mind. Blown.

Sorry I disagree, it just looks wrong because of the lips, they aren't changing color with the rest of the skin.

Only thing I'm not going to be keen about is less subtle variation in the existing skin tones.


More variety is fine. But less subtlety isn't.

can't have the old ones and the new ones? I'm curious as to the limitation stopping you from having both available, or is it a design choice?

just so we are clear, when I talk about skintypes and skin tones, this is what I mean:
skintype = new skin colors
skin tone = old skin colors

We feel the current color skin tone range is too narrow and having to pick one of 6 skin tones that are pretty much the doesn't make that much sense. We want to allow characters of all bloodlines to use the new skintypes we creates, and that range is pretty broad and the colors pretty evenly spread.
So if we wanted to have the old color also available, the options would be 20 for each bloodline, which is too much, and the color palette would just look weird with maybe 10 very white options(for Amarr), and then the rest.
Also, we want to move to use the new skintypes (behind the scenes they are totally different from the skin tones), but realize some people might not be happy to change colors so we are allowing people to keep their old skin tone until they actually apply a new skintype and save the character.

CCP, can you please stop dodging the question and tell us what it will take to get all clothing and hairstyle choices unlocked for all characters as well? Pretty much everyone has been asking for this from day one of Incursion.

I remember a CCP dev saying "Why would a Caldari wear an Amarr robe? It doesn't make sense" the first time the above argument was brought about.

I guess my question would be: if we're going to go this far with customization (with hair too, now, and eventually racial blending), why not get rid of all of the previous bloodline archetypes completely? That would mean going to an All Points Bulletin type model, for example. That makes little sense to me, but I have to ask.