New Avatars

[Insolent Mine Guild]

I have an example of the new pirate avatars that everyone calls "nasty", "fat", and "gross", they are quite nice, (But no one likes them)

[SteamweaverJ]

Oh, wow ... i actually liked that they look a little more realistic ... guess that's a minority opinion. Rather sad to me, really, for what this might say about the power of ideals ...

[Dr. Zeppers]

Some better screenshots posted for actual comparison:
http://www.piratesonlineforums.com/f...3&postcount=19

The problem here is "What is realistic?"

I live on the west coast. Body builder types, wide muscular shoulders and small waists are a norm here.
I visit family in midwest, and average body types change, thicker midsections, etc. Who decides whats real?

Also, this is a fantasy/movie pirate world. Realism went out the door with voodoo dolls!

They should have added the features, instead of changing them, allowing pirates to truly make the pirate they want, and not be limited by others narrow sightedness.

[SteamweaverJ]

Okay, well other than making a great deal out of some rather puzzling stereotypes (having lived out thataway and having grown up in the midwest and south, i know better, lol), i will just say this much: even games and the "fantasy world" have affects on people that most folks do not realize or maybe even think about unless it affects them personally. Having lived it, and having studied it as a student, and as a social services worker treated the resulting problems, and taught it as a professor while listening to students stories about this for a good while now, it is undeniably clear to me and quite a few other people that such "realms of the unreal" have very real consequences for a whole lot of people, especially younger folks. If you need any reinforcement about how "real" avatars are to some people, just visit the "A" servers' "hook up" spots on any given evening.

If you wish to know more or want to discuss this further i am more than willing to do so via PM, although i will not respond to hate mail, lol.

Oh, and i saw Sven's post earlier today and really do think his new pirate looks much more realistic. I like the images a lot ... and really do wish that they would let us have the more realistic shapes on our current pirates. And i do agree that "They should have added the features, instead of changing them, allowing pirates to truly make the pirate they want, and not be limited by others narrow sightedness."

Altho, more and better content and bug fixing would be more appreciated by me, lol.