Girls go bare too.

I did an inventory of my female characters in CoX and only four have "with skin" type costumes, invariably these are due to theme (eg. Wonder Woman or Psylocke styled). All my female characters have the bust slider in the left third of the bar (default looks to big to me).

Curiously of the five female players I've teamed with in the past, three regularly went max-size on their toon's busts. One of those had toons with costumes that are invariably skimpy.

I suppose some of the views posted earlier regarding assumptions go back to the old saying, "This is teh internet! Where men are real men, women are real men, and kids are FBI agents."

In closing: That green haired 36HH/22/36 in the bikini that you see next to Ms Liberty might be played by Comic store guy from The Simpsons but it could easily be a lady having a bit of fun. Either way, just be polite.

I'd use the "with skin" options a lot more if they had some texture to them, that's the only thing that stops me.

You know, I used to dress my female toons in reasonably tasteful outfits, but then guys online would always start thinking I was really a woman in RL and start getting ideas, and it ruined some friendships..... and it was awkward. It seems I make a very charismatic woman.

Now I dress them so they show as much skin as the concept will reasonably allow. Haven't had another problem since I started that policy.

However, I have an etiquette question: If I get invited into an all-girl SG, should I make a point of informing them as to my real life gender, or just go with it? I assume that they're inviting my toon.

Long long ago I had a female character invited to an "all-girl" (RL and character) SG. They didn't actually ask that specifically and I never volunteered it, it was a blind invite. I decided a couple of days later I didn't like the sets or concept and deleted so it never came up, but I have debated what I would've done. It's not like they could ever know for sure (short of a physical meeting heh), and I'm not the type to hit on people, so it was really a question of theoretical ethics.

Until I know otherwise a assume the player is male by default. If the player if female, all well and good. Generally when I address a toon, though, I always treat and address the toon as the gender portrayed, not the gender of the player behind it. I also treat my toons the same way; males hit on female, females hit on males (And sometimes females).

As for how I dress my toons, it depends on the concept. My female Inv/SS tank wears full spandex because she's insecure about her body image (Chest slider all the way left, physique and hips all the way to right. Small chest, big bottom) but projects a sub consious forcefeild that will protect skin-tight clothes, but not looser ones.

On a side note I'm having art of the toon commisioned. It's still being made but when I got the rough sketch she had stelletos on. The character has normal heeled shoes, not stelletos. The second rough sketch had this fixed.

Another one has a former Playboy Club waitress gaining powers from a rabbit tailsman and using a playboy styled bunny costume to fight in.

Another still wears leather top and leather straps pants in one outfit and a bare witch outfit in another... And neck to toe leather in another.

Another is dressed as a cowgirl. And another full fishnets and a window chest top. What they wear depends on the character, how mobile they are, tough, ect, ect...

I think the reason alot of people assume that scantly-clad females are guys IRL is because they themselves are guys who make scantly-clad females because they know they will be looking at this toon as they play. As a webcomic once said (PvP I think) 'If I have to stare at an (butt) all day, might as well be a nice one'.

Bugs the **** out of me when people, regardless of RL gender, make scantily clad characters then whine their heads off when it gets acknowledged.

I'm close to 40 characters now on Virtue between 2 accounts and my "girls" have a wide variety of outfits.

Martial Arts robes with bikini bottoms and wraps
Classic style with long sleeves and and a bikini botttow to form a leotard style look
My Valkyrie is in full battle armor

Basically I just like to give each their own distinct look and personality (don't rp much but do have bios on almost all of them and even the outfit revolves around that.

Now when December rolls around every single one becomes Santa's Sexy Helper. LOL Just something I do as a joke for all the guys I have made friends with over the years. Look at the outfits super heroines were wearing in the 50s and 60s in comic books and tell me the Artists didn't plan those to entice boysm to buy them. LOL I see nothing wrong with it and in over 4 years I have only had ONE creepy get get a little strange in IMs.

This one's back, huh?

One thing I may or may not have mentioned here before is the difference between male and female costume options. It's incredibly easy to make women in revealing costumes. They have several categories (Tops/Bottoms with Skin, Shirts, Skirts and Short Pants) seemingly specifically designed for this. You'd be a fool not to expect to see that a lot, and probably more than is statistically likely. However, men simply DO NOT have those options. Think about it - how many ways do you have to make a revealing costume for a man? In fact, let's count the ways:

1. Bare Chest (Smooth or Muscular) with patterns on top and a chest piece to hide his nipples (we want it to look like a shirt, not body paint)
2. The ONE briefs lower leg texture.
3. Bare Chest. Just Bare Chest.
4. Err... What else?

That's just it - you can dress a woman in her underwear, in a variety of revealing outfits, in variety of sexy outfits an you don't even need any imagination for it. That's what the costume editor is designed to do. But making a man revealing requires a lot of creativity and not a little bending of the rules. I remember a guy who had what looked like half armour, only he'd used a bare chest with a Belly Tee (I think men have access to that), an Enforcer chest piece and a pair of Tech Wings. Clever, but practically the only combination that could have worked.

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Originally Posted by Arcanaville Samuel_Tow is the only poster that makes me want to punch him in the head more often when I'm agreeing with him than when I'm disagreeing with him.

Makes me think of the 'Chilly Desperado' - an Ice/Ice Tanker I made back in 2004-2005 who ran around in his briefs and a cowboy hat.

... What?

Well, that's because Winky hasn't shown up to say how bad it is.

Perverts, all of you! Hang your heads in shame..






Carry on. The skimpier, the better!

If heroes wore sensible clothes they would either go fully armored if that's their only defense or then go naked. After all, a hero may be invulnerable but their clothes are not and considering how often heroes get doused in fire, acid etc. it would soon get expensive. Actually most tech based heroes are probably filthy rich to be able to replace all damaged power armors.

To OP... boys go bare too! Most of my guys walk around half naked or in "fetish straps". I even have a satyr character who wears trench coat but no pants.

Actually, going naked is an option for sufficiently inhuman characters, of which I have a few. The less humanoid the character, the more they're allowed to reveal. We're just not allowed to have characters with visible external genitalia or secondary sexual characteristics.

(Ha ha! Dangly parts.)