Gender Ratios in City of Heroes

Yeah, I hear you.

On the males that I build I tend dial things for slim or average builds and they still wind up looking like olympic swimmers. So I tend to put a lot of bulky clothing and armor on 'em. I dig that it's a superhero game about cartoonish proportions and they are supposed to look like body builders but it would be nice to open the editor up to some other body types instead inhumanly perfect mesomorphs or thwarted mesomorphs. Just so I can try to defy cliche a few times, just a few.

Almost all the gals I've built, I've perversely built as robots or space critters. With space critters and robots, I've gotten pretty good at dialing, dressing or armoring away all the obvious guy or gal mammal characteristics to make them as machine-like or alien as possible. Aside from the weird arm posture gals have, my gal bots are pretty hard to tell from my guy bots.

(You know what i want? Weird alien and robot hands that don't look like human hands. Some tentacles, pinchers or weirdly articulated twelve fingered hands or something. I know this is hard because then we'd have to redo all the power animations for hands other than human ones. The pirate hook does look pretty silly holding a katana for example.)

And in terms of the grunts? Well it's rather disappointing when your robot or alien sounds so human, let alone steroid-y or girly, but I just ignore it.

I've got only two female characters that are human women.

One is an elderly or middle-aged magician specializing in magic based around arrows and plants. It was hard to make her look her age--not that I was trying to make her look frumpy or something--but I think I pulled it off. She looks sort like Jane Goodall or Susan Greenfield, both beautiful older women in my opinion. Maybe she looks like Susan Calvin, or how I imagine Asimov's Calvin as looking.

The other is a superhuman martial artist. She's young but it was actually pretty easy to give her a uniform that seemed realistic (freedom of movement, yet some protection as well) and didn't make her look like a streetwalker.

Anyway, as a old-fart DIRL, the ratio of my alts is about 75 percent dudes--but even most of those dudes are robots or aliens too--or just silly.

I for one welcome our new cat overlords.

You got that right!

I am 33 and mail and I have two accounts both Full on every server, there likely are more Males than females but actaully counting them would be a chore at the moment. I have gone away from any kind of logic of why amles over femalese ore females over males. I generally just build to a concept and some times that means Male some times it means female and some times it doesn't matter.

Doom/Batman in 2012

The Resistance has boobs too, and better hair!

Are the femme models really wiggling their butts as though they were wearing high heels? I don't see it that way. Women naturally have a different gait than males due to different pelvic structure, and high heels don't create a swinging gait so much as they create a mincing, tiptoe gait.

From wikipedia on Pelvis:

The acetabula are wider apart in females than in males. In males, the acetabulum faces more laterally, while it faces more anteriorly in females. Consequently, when men walk the leg can move forwards and backwards in a single plane. In women, the leg must swing forward and inward, from where the pivoting head of the femur moves the leg back in another plane. This change in the angle of the femoral head gives the female gait its characteristic (i.e. swinging of hips).

However, the male running animation is truly unrealistic for an athletic male. I am fairly certain they did an animation for Huge males and simply transferred it to the normal male. The graceless stumping fits for Huge but looks highly abnormal for normal males.

I find that those ones definitely apply to why I make them. Another reason for some of my characters;
5. IRL, I find that I make more friends that are female than male. Quite a few of them have given me bursts of inspiration(either in name, character or something they did/said) and it usually feels right for the inspired character to be female too.