Sorry for getting short with you guys. That was unacceptable behaviour on my part and I apologise.

It's just that myself and many other Incarna enthusiasts have been after this basically since Incursion in early 2011 and we've always either been straight out not answered or told "I'll ask the art team", and never given a response.

Why not allow access to a different range of skin tones (a blend) when mixing? Sort of like at Fanfest, where a white Amarr and a dark Brutor mixed produced an olive skinned guy.

Anyways, shortly after I replied, the creative director came back and I asked him whether we would ever consider that. He said he wanted to give all bloodline access to all clothes at some point, but probably through the LP store or something like that (I don't know if he has discussed it with the art director, who may or may not agree). So there is no timeline on it, but there is at lest interest in doing it.

I didn't ask about the hairstyle, but from my point of view, we will need to lift some restrictions if we put in racial blending (whether it's give you access to the hairstyle of the other bloodline or something else),
I hope that answers some of your questions somewhat... I'm not sure there is any better answers at this point.

I do rather liked the way the skin tones were handled is this video with the blood line blending. The Amarr-Brutor blend looked superb both facial feature and skin tone wise.

I am a fan of this, but I am worried that the archetypes will break down before blending. I think blending is great, but basic character archetypes have been a part of EVE since 2003 and I don't see why it should (more or less) go away.

No problem at all, apology accepted
Anyways, shortly after I replied, the creative director came back and I asked him whether we would ever consider that. He said he wanted to give all bloodline access to all clothes at some point, but probably through the LP store or something like that (I don't know if he has discussed it with the art director, who may or may not agree). So there is no timeline on it, but there is at lest interest in doing it. I didn't ask about the hairstyle, but from my point of view, we will need to lift some restrictions if we put in racial blending (whether it's give you access to the hairstyle of the other bloodline or something else),
I hope that answers some of your questions somewhat... I'm not sure there is any better answers at this point.

Updating Sisi... but let me guess: no olive skins, no red skins, and Asian with chocolate skins.

Will be back briefly.

I said this on backstage and I'll say it here too, Seri.

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. Consider for a moment that these may be the kinds of people who ask the clone company to add gruesome facial scars to every single clone to look cool and edgy despite the fact that these people don't put themselves in harm's way - and the same with tattoos: you don't just buy that one tribal, you have the tattoo artist tag a dozen of your clones!

Considering this, might it not be possible that we should be looking at this as melanin-modified clones rather than rage about ethnicities and genetics?

tl;dr: chill the hell out.

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.

So racial blending is definitely being considered? I know it was previewed at fanfest but being able to do it doesn't necessarily equal that you will. I'm all for it and I imagined it working as simply you'd get access to the other racial clothing, tattoos and hairstyles/colours.

Faction clothing for LP is a pretty neat idea. Are you guys also still doing the clothing themes, such as cyberpunk, buisness, scientist etc?

Also whatever happened to the eye implant on sisi last year? The one which looked like this. It was really cool, looked like an electronic eyepatch for us pirate types

I do rather liked the way the skin tones were handled is this video with the blood line blending. The Amarr-Brutor blend looked superb both facial feature and skin tone wise.

Is the replacement of the skin tones with these 14 skin types a preparation for bloodline blending?

Still I would strongly argue here that it should not be possible to make a White Guy with Black Features or a Black Guy with White Features ... this is not out of any silly racist perspective, but simply that it is not possible in real-life.

Lastly, a while back I found an awesome bug (it was regretably fixed) that lets you look like you have clear glasses. Is there any possibility we could get our hands on some of those?

As of today, awesome bug has been turned into awesome feature... I doubt that it will go out in Inferno, and I don't know how it will enter the game, but the asset is in

It is possible that we will restrict it a little bit (for example, Amarr might not have the darkest color, and Brutor not the lightest).
The world we live in is so diverse that I'm pretty sure you can find dark skinned people with "white" features, and light skinned people with "black" features.
I think the skintypes we have now work pretty well... my favorite test character, who is Civire, now has dark skin, and another favorite is a white Brutor. I think both look very good, and I'm pretty sure we see people similar to them all the time in real life

Yes, racial blending is still being considered, but there is no timeline on it or anything.
The clothes are pretty much on hold now, so we are not really working on the clothing themes. There are actually a few new items(space suits) on Sisi right now, but I'm about to filter them out because they are not going out in Inferno and are just work in progress.

The eye implant still exists, it's just filtered out... I am not sure what's going to happen with it though.

Come on, CCP Karkur... we've moved down from 72 racial skin tones* to 16, and you just killed yellow, red and olive skins in the process. Are you sure that newspeak is not the third language for CCP?

I see red people every day, but not in New Eden. I see yellow poeple every day, but not in New Eden. I see olive people in my mirror, but not in New Eden. In a rough estimate, your new skin tones just left out 75% of humanity.


*6 racial skin tones x 3 races x 4 empires = 72

[Come on, CCP Karkur... we've moved down from 72 racial skin tones* to 16, and you just killed yellow, red and olive skins in the process. Are you sure that newspeak is not the third language for CCP?

I see red people every day, but not in New Eden. I see yellow poeple every day, but not in New Eden. I see olive people in my mirror, but not in New Eden. In a rough estimate, your new skin tones just left out 75% of humanity.


*6 racial skin tones x 3 races x 4 empires = 72

It is possible that we will restrict it a little bit (for example, Amarr might not have the darkest color, and Brutor not the lightest).
The world we live in is so diverse that I'm pretty sure you can find dark skinned people with "white" features, and light skinned people with "black" features.
I think the skintypes we have now work pretty well... my favorite test character, who is Civire, now has dark skin, and another favorite is a white Brutor. I think both look very good, and I'm pretty sure we see people similar to them all the time in real life

Come on, CCP Karkur... we've moved down from 72 racial skin tones* to 16, and you just killed yellow, red and olive skins in the process. Are you sure that newspeak is not the third language for CCP?

I see red people every day, but not in New Eden. I see yellow poeple every day, but not in New Eden. I see olive people in my mirror, but not in New Eden. In a rough estimate, your new skin tones just left out 75% of humanity.