If you're in a real silly mood, it'd be funny for a "Wo Man" super hero.
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This is yet another example of the Devs being way too "politically correct" for their own good.|
Originally Posted by Mister Rik
So c'mon devs/costume people, make all the symbols available to everybody! Pretty please?
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I can understand when they refuse to do something like give males a version of the fishnet pantyhose because they could at least pretend to argue that it would take "too much time and effort to recreate an entire costume item to fit a different body type".
But when it comes to these planetary symbols it's an obvious case of arbitrarily removing an option from the costume creator. There's no such thing as multiple versions of symbols for each body type. There's not a "male" version of the Alien symbol and a "female" version. There's just one thing in the editor used on ANY body type. This means that they had to go out of their way to prevent Mars symbols from being used on females and Venus symbols being used males.
That level of censorship is fairly pathetic all things considered.
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So yesterday I came up with a "character concept" idea to create an all-female "team" of characters based on the solar system, with the "Planet Symbols" chest emblems on their costumes.
So I created:
"Mother Sun" (Radiation Emission/Fire Blast Defender)
"Girl Mercury" (Kinetic Melee/Super Reflexes Scrapper)
"Venus Lass" (Gravity Control/Earth Assault Dominator)
"Erdmadchen" (German for "Earth Girl") (Plant Control/Storm Summoning Controller)
Then I got to "Ms. Mars" (Broadsword/Shield Brute) and discovered the Mars planet symbol is not available to female characters. That led to also discovering that the Venus symbol is not available to male characters.
Now, I understand that the planetary symbol for Mars, a circle with an arrow pointing up and to the right (♂), is also used as the symbol for "man"; likewise the Venus symbol, a circle with a cross pointing down (♀), is also used as the symbol for "woman". But in my opinion, if they're going to be listed under the category of "Planet Symbols" then all of them need to be available, regardless of character sex. Their planetary meaning is their primary meaning. The gender representation is secondary.
So c'mon devs/costume people, make all the symbols available to everybody! Pretty please?