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It's not like the only two options for female clothing are burqua and bikini. I think there's plenty of high heels and lingerie already, and I'd like to see more armored outfits and boots with cleats. Or, y'know, more lingerie for male models. Either of those is good, really.
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I'm a DIRL and all the female characters I've built in this game so far have all been very firmly of the armor and cleats school. Why? Because they're "Bob" darned superheros! They get shot at with guns, flamethrowers, nuclear weapons and worse! It's just pragmatic. "Bikini girls with machine guns" might be a fun song but is definitely not something to guide the sartorial decisions of gals who want to be in the super business!
And no, I ain't building any superguys in lingerie either. Sorry gals.
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I forgot who told me this, but it's one of those Interenet laws: On the internet, the amount of clothes you're wearing is inversely proportional to the frequency with which you'll be hit on.
And that's the reason I've never been to the dance floor in Pocket D on Virtue.
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I just want to say that most of those characters likely really are girls, because there are a lot of us on this game. I run into them all of the time.
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I run into 'em all the time too. Again, and again, and again.
...the CSRs have warned me to stay 500 ft from female avatars now.
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It always seems to me that the point of being a superhero is that you can walk through a hail of bullets, route a small army, and slug it out one on one with a pagan deity dressed in your pajamas if you so-choose. Adding armour seems superfluous unless you're going for either a batman style Badass Normal character. Or a powered-armour type. Wearing a bullet-proof vest, and padding just doesn't seem like it would significantly improve Wonder WOman's survivability.
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Admittedly I am contributing quite highly to the number of girl characters with a guy player.
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I have three female characters (out of about two dozen total).
My villain has a lace top and mini-skirt.
The two heroes have 'realistic' outfits, although one also has a Fusionette tribute costume. However, due to a tradition in a weekend task force group that one person started, both of them have bunny oufits. One one task force, we had 7 out of 8 with rabbit ears and varying degrees of bunny costumes. 
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and padding just doesn't seem like it would significantly improve Wonder WOman's survivability.
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I'd also like to see more revealing and 'pretty' costumes for males. Ruffles and lace can be used to very good effect in male costumes.
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I wholeheartedly agree. I've wanted to make a fop character for a while.
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I am all over this.
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I dont know what that means, but I assume its something cynical, and therefor probably correct.
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That hasn't been the case in my experience but, I digress. Carry on.
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Ahh, quite so.
But seriously, if someone's already tough enough to take an anti-personel-rocket to the chest at pointblank range or leap off the top of a 100 story building and walk away (as even teh absolute weekest characters are) adding kevlar is a bit superfluous.
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Same.
I think the only scantily clad chick I have is one where I used the witch costume choices that came with the magic pack.
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You could at the very least wear clothing that doesn't make you look like a total goob.
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I'm a DIRL and all the female characters I've built in this game so far have all been very firmly of the armor and cleats school. Why? Because they're "Bob" darned superheros! They get shot at with guns, flamethrowers, nuclear weapons and worse! It's just pragmatic. "Bikini girls with machine guns" might be a fun song but is definitely not something to guide the sartorial decisions of gals who want to be in the super business!
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Same.
I think the only scantily clad chick I have is one where I used the witch costume choices that came with the magic pack.
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It depends. If they can slow incoming projectiles to a halt without blkinking, and throw up a repulsion field at the same time to send them back from the direction they came, they don't need much more than a bikini.
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I'm a DIRL and all the female characters I've built in this game so far have all been very firmly of the armor and cleats school. Why? Because they're "Bob" darned superheros! They get shot at with guns, flamethrowers, nuclear weapons and worse! It's just pragmatic. "Bikini girls with machine guns" might be a fun song but is definitely not something to guide the sartorial decisions of gals who want to be in the super business!
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Same.
I think the only scantily clad chick I have is one where I used the witch costume choices that came with the magic pack.
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It depends. If they can slow incoming projectiles to a halt without blkinking, and throw up a repulsion field at the same time to send them back from the direction they came, they don't need much more than a bikini.
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Assuming they don't get caught off guard.
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And here I was, expecting to see people posting their scantily clad characters. The most revealing of mine are Sable Drift and Unquenched.
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Same.
I think the only scantily clad chick I have is one where I used the witch costume choices that came with the magic pack.
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It depends. If they can slow incoming projectiles to a halt without blkinking, and throw up a repulsion field at the same time to send them back from the direction they came, they don't need much more than a bikini.
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I can understand the mindset of wanting to always dress females in "realistic" Batman-esque clothing because let's face it not many superheroines IRL would likely fight crime in 5 inch stilettos even if they could. 
But there are plenty of examples of superheroines in comics like Supergirl who are nigh-invulnerable. From a RP point of view if I had a character with god-like defensive powers like that they might be motivated to wear something relatively skimpy (i.e. Wonder Woman) because after all it's not like they -need- to wear armor or sensible clothing to protect themselves.
For me basically it boils down the character concept I'm working with at the time. Some of my girls follow the "sensible clothing" school of thought while others follow the "wear anything they want sensible or not" idea. I try to let the character concept dictate their outfits instead of always wearing the same type of thing for every character.
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I'd question whether the first one is scantily clad, or fully covered... really could go either way.
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after hearing for ten thousand times in the forums that most of the girls are really guys, I wanted to disagree. Most don't seem to be to me, or at least a big percentage don't seem to be.
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I'd question whether the first one is scantily clad, or fully covered... really could go either way.
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Her skin's black, but I see your point.
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Same.
I think the only scantily clad chick I have is one where I used the witch costume choices that came with the magic pack.
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This is true, however, some of the skin choices are so revealing that I can't see how anyone could realisticaly (and yes I know it's ridiculous to use that word in a game like this) move around in them much without, you know, having a Janet-Jackson-at-the-Superbowl kinda thing.
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It always seems to me that the point of being a superhero is that you can walk through a hail of bullets, route a small army, and slug it out one on one with a pagan deity dressed in your pajamas if you so-choose. Adding armour seems superfluous unless you're going for either a batman style Badass Normal character. Or a powered-armour type. Wearing a bullet-proof vest, and padding just doesn't seem like it would significantly improve Wonder WOman's survivability.
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Well, sure, if a game character's origin story is that of a supertype blessed with some kind of invulnerability, fine, all they have to worry about is public decency laws in Paragon or the Isles. Or the eye rolling of their friends as they tart around.
But there zillions of origins where no invulnerability exists. Batman or Ironman being two good examples.
Sure, Wonder Women doesn't really need armor but she does need to be taken seriously. She could wear a suit that gives her all the freedom of movement she needs without being puerile. The suits that martial artists wear address all this quite well.
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Not that I disagree... but what brought this on? This thread is a non sequitir.
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This thread was brought on by a desire for fun. It was my only motivation. I think it will be a fun thread, and it has been already. Besides, after hearing for ten thousand times in the forums that most of the girls are really guys, I wanted to disagree. Most don't seem to be to me, or at least a big percentage don't seem to be.
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Well experience is all that counts. In my experience its mostly guys trying to rip people off. The ones I have found out to be real women/girls tend to have issues and bring them into the game.
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A lot of girls won't let on that they're girls in-games due to the treatment they'll receive (or at least the fear of it). Just before I took my last hiatus from the game I had a guy hit on me in-game, which was a seriously creepy experience (far more so than I would have expected).
From my experience on Freedom, most people really don't care in the slightest what gender you are- unfortunately just a few people can greatly over shadow the masses.
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I've only had one bad experience in COH so far involving what may or may not have been a girl. I've played a lot of MMOs and have had plenty of 'tee hee i'm such a cutie and i'm new pls donate some money' type of crap. In other MMOs this type of behavior gets old fast. I typically just shy away from MMO populations in general. I solo and keep to myself mostly.
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Its a good scam, I assure you! You'd be amazed what you can talk random pickup group people into doing for you. I had one obliging fellow give me the last recipee I needed to complete my Ragnarook set once.
Yes, I know, Im a horrible person.
Interestingly enough though, all but one of the tiems people have made unwated sexual advances towads me in-game have been with MALE characters. People flirt when I play my female ones, bu the blatant, rediculous, "comes up to you in pocket D and tries to stick their hadns down your pants while asking you to become their [Insert strange Fetish Here] loveslave" stuff seemed to happen a lot more ot the man in the 3 piece suit than the woman character in the form-fitting leather bodysuit. Go figure.