Sex change?


Adeon Hawkwood

 

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So, playing my Arachnos Soldier, level 10 hits and they tell me to go hang out with the Facemaker, so I can get my first real costume choices. I'm all excited (though I do love the costume I managed to wrangle up with just the defaults, particularly once I got the backpack), and I go do the mission for her.

The Facemaker's all "Stare into the void of my eyes and tell me what you wanna look like for this rather convenient disguise-based mission in which you will make your new costume," I stare into the void, and...

She gave me a sex change.

So, I deal with it, I make my disguise the opposite sex and figure that maybe the next costume will work better.

Long story short, it doesn't. It's the same as the last one, sex change and all. My question is: How in god's name do I fix this?


 

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lol


 

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Originally Posted by Dz131 View Post
lol
I would agree, except the character's name is Boxylady. Emphasis on LADY. Having every additional costume slot negate the lady part is rather... compromising...

Can't find anything on the wiki about it, and my forum search-fu is not strong enough to see if this is a known issue.


 

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the part about being granted a male costume is a bug, i think it is changeable though with the super tailor access (super tailor access must be bought from the market if you did not own the science booster pre freedom)


 

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It sounds like what happened is that you setup your initial costume slot as male rather than female, new costumes always copy the old one. The easiest way to fix this is to buy Super Tailor Access from the Paragon market, doing this and talking to the right tailor (the one with a name like "plastic surgeon" or something) will allow you to change gender. The other option is to delete the character and re-roll.


 

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Originally Posted by Adeon Hawkwood View Post
It sounds like what happened is that you setup your initial costume slot as male rather than female, new costumes always copy the old one. The easiest way to fix this is to buy Super Tailor Access from the Paragon market, doing this and talking to the right tailor (the one with a name like "plastic surgeon" or something) will allow you to change gender. The other option is to delete the character and re-roll.
i believe there is a known bug out there in which a female VEAT gets their first non arachnos costume slot and forces it to be a male generic even though they are female in the primary costume slot


 

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Originally Posted by Necrotech_Master View Post
the part about being granted a male costume is a bug, i think it is changeable though with the super tailor access (super tailor access must be bought from the market if you did not own the science booster pre freedom)
I looked into that, but it only sounds like it changes your base gender, height, and such, then applies those changes to all costumes. I can't find out for sure if this would fix the gender change for all costumes after the first one. And, I'm not sure I wanna spend the cash to find out and have it fail.


 

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If it is a bug, anyone know if a petition can get it fixed so people aren't forced to pay money to fix a bug (that's a precedent that has pretty ugly connotations right there).


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Originally Posted by GavinRuneblade View Post
If it is a bug, anyone know if a petition can get it fixed so people aren't forced to pay money to fix a bug (that's a precedent that has pretty ugly connotations right there).
I put in a ticket. We'll see how this goes. In my experience, NCSoft has better customer service than most companies, albeit slightly slower than preferred.


 

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Originally Posted by Bags View Post
I looked into that, but it only sounds like it changes your base gender, height, and such, then applies those changes to all costumes. I can't find out for sure if this would fix the gender change for all costumes after the first one. And, I'm not sure I wanna spend the cash to find out and have it fail.
Super Tailor access basically allows you to change *anything* for a given costume. Height & gender (male to huge is a gender change here) are the two things that you couldn't already change. But it otherwise works like any costume change, a change to one costume doesn't affect any others.

I have a character called "Medieval Crisis" where the idea is that different warriors from different places and times share the same body, and each time one takes over, the body changes to match the warrior. So I have a "dark knight" (huge model), a samurai (regular male model) a dwarf warrior (huge and very short if I remember correctly), a valkyrie (very large female model) and an elf warrior (short/slender female) and a couple of others. THAT'S the thing that Super Tailor Access is really good for.



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Originally Posted by Bags View Post
I put in a ticket. We'll see how this goes. In my experience, NCSoft has better customer service than most companies, albeit slightly slower than preferred.
I've got no complaints, and I'm prone to bitchy when my expectations aren't met. Most times, it's not even slow..


 

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Originally Posted by Bags View Post
I looked into that, but it only sounds like it changes your base gender, height, and such, then applies those changes to all costumes. I can't find out for sure if this would fix the gender change for all costumes after the first one. And, I'm not sure I wanna spend the cash to find out and have it fail.
No, it doesn't apply the change to all costumes. The changes are made per costume. Thus you can have a character that goes from male to female to huge.




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No, it doesn't apply the change to all costumes. The changes are made per costume. Thus you can have a character that goes from male to female to huge.
And each one with a different set of capes, auras, weapon, colorized powers, alternate power animations -- but you don't need the Super Surgeon for those.


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Originally Posted by GavinRuneblade View Post
If it is a bug, anyone know if a petition can get it fixed so people aren't forced to pay money to fix a bug (that's a precedent that has pretty ugly connotations right there).
A petition works just fine Gavin. My daughter had the same bug on her Widow and they granted her a Super Tailor session for each costume slot so she could change the character sex back to female as it should have been.

Don't spend money or points purchasing a feature to fix a bug that's not your fault. This is a known issue per the conversation my kiddo had with the GM, and it was supposed to be fixed in the last patch per the email she got, but still seems to be happening.


 

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A petition works just fine Gavin. My daughter had the same bug on her Widow and they granted her a Super Tailor session for each costume slot so she could change the character sex back to female as it should have been.

Don't spend money or points purchasing a feature to fix a bug that's not your fault. This is a known issue per the conversation my kiddo had with the GM, and it was supposed to be fixed in the last patch per the email she got, but still seems to be happening.
It very well may have been fixed in the last patch. From what I have gleaned (which is everything I can find out about the cause/effect without seeing any mention of the bug other than this thread), the new costume slots all duplicate slot 2. I earned my 2nd costume long before the most recent patch, but I never did missions to earn further slots until yesterday.

It could very well be fixed, I just don't level fast enough, and I'm easily distracted by shinies.

Edit: It's fixed, in exactly the way you said. All is right with the world.


 

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Cheers Bags, and thanks Myddie!


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I can be found, outside of paragon city here.
Thank you everyone at Paragon and on Virtue. When the lights go out in November, you'll find me on Razor Bunny.