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Why do players make "human" custom aliens?
tilarta
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I've seen this enough times to be genuinely curious as to the reason why it's done at all.
Whenever I'm in KDF or Romulan Republic only zones, I keep seeing ordinary humans.
I assume these are custom aliens, as there is no human option for these factions.
You have unlimited potential to create your own species as a custom alien and the best thing they can think of is to just make an ordinary average human?
To me, that is just wasted potential, you can do anything and you choose to do nothing at all with the options?
I suspect the reason is that they actually resent the faction they are playing, so are choosing to pretend they are still a human for some reason.
I've met one player who was doing a James Kirk riff on his fake human and tried to get me to play along on my custom alien KDF (who does not resemble a human at all!).
If ingame characters could have given death glares, mine would have! :mad:
And I've also seen "white" Orions enough to know that's another way to simulate humans.
Whenever I'm in KDF or Romulan Republic only zones, I keep seeing ordinary humans.
I assume these are custom aliens, as there is no human option for these factions.
You have unlimited potential to create your own species as a custom alien and the best thing they can think of is to just make an ordinary average human?
To me, that is just wasted potential, you can do anything and you choose to do nothing at all with the options?
I suspect the reason is that they actually resent the faction they are playing, so are choosing to pretend they are still a human for some reason.
I've met one player who was doing a James Kirk riff on his fake human and tried to get me to play along on my custom alien KDF (who does not resemble a human at all!).
If ingame characters could have given death glares, mine would have! :mad:
And I've also seen "white" Orions enough to know that's another way to simulate humans.
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Plus a lot of people enjoy playing the oddball character. Just as a Romulan Captain is odd in the Federation - I have one of those! - a Human Captain in the KDF or Republic is likewise odd.
secondly, it opens a lot of tailor options for me.
thirdly, there arent any race traits that are really worth having kdf-side.
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I for one start with a human for all my aliens, and then change bits and pieces to create a Star Trek Alien: aka human prostetic. Just gives me the correct feeling.
If you look at my avatar, you might see a human. Its an alien, with small details to distinct himself from humans. Lets see if people find the.
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My reasoning:
RP.
My RP background for most of my characters is one of Human mercenaries. Or better a very human like species (essentially augments. But not related to Khan^^).
This is why my KDF tac looks human, and my romulan tac is nothing but "another version" of the same character, in RP terms its the same character.. And since I consider most of my characters to exist in the same continuity his involvement with the RR is being married to my Romulan Eng which is half Romulan. Both use an identically looking and named ship and each has a BO version of the other.
Another reason for me is away team lead issue: I have about 20-30 costume slots. And I usually recreate every bo of the same sex as costume, so I can "in rp terms" send down my first officer or tactical officer to lead away teams.
Pity that I can't build female costumes on my male characters and vis a verse.... ^^
Sort of. Yes, but the other races have (or had?) a racial trait. Not sure after this last patch. ? The total was the same, the aliens could choose their custom "racial" bonus is all.
I don't think aliens that cosmetically look like humans have this trait, or even if they did, all aliens would have it regardless of cosmetic choices.
Someone said it is unlimited but this is not true; it is extremely limited. It allows only humanoid (2 arms, 2 legs, upright, one head, no tail, ..... no fur, only a few skin patterns, ....) shaped creations and all you can really do is distort that a little (long legs or neck or oblong head or extremely short etc).
BTW humans are not the only ones you see. Ive seen romulan klingons, among others. Basically, if you want to be a rogue member of a race that has joined another faction, the alien gen lets you do that.
well, if they have it they have it ( I could not remember what the big list to pick from had) but this is still totally unrelated to how the alien actually looks....
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This is the main reason why people choose Alien really. Most freedom in everything. I guess some people find it funny to have a 'human' running around the KDF, where 'real' humans are restricted to go.
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Eh I got so tired of those Orion beach babes at Qonos I went ahead and rolled a shirtless Orion hunk who is TRIBBLE :P
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I do know from my KDF Orion female toon, that while the seductive trait does not show in the list since the S9 change, the ability still works from the tray. So it seems like specific specific traits are still there, just that they are no longer selectable and do not count against your trait selection.
Romulan aliens or alien species can be very hard to distinguish from just humans. You can see an alien that the ony thing it has are ribbs on the head and a slithghy pattern. If you dont look really closer you will always think it is a human. But its not.
Some people just want some light aliens with some interesting patterns and some physical details, thats all. The rest of the body will be 100% human. The "alien" species is made for that purpose, to have a human look with finer details. Thats the reason people creates alien toons. That and for all the trait possibilities. And of course, for the costumes.. since starfleet costumes are TRIBBLE, most of em.
I am curious as to why It isn't possible for a human to rebel and switch factions. Why couldn't a human decide they wished to join the Klingon faction is that all that impossible or you just don't want to see it?
You can do quite a bit by altering just the body sliders. It's possible to create pumps, platform shoes, and you have access to long nails and more hairstyles.
Indeed.. I have both an Andorian and a Vulcan in the KDF
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Why would any human even want to? Their kitchen is terrible. :P
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I'm also rocking an Alien "Joined Trill" in the Romulan Republic (Starfleet-aligned of course).
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I did try a KDF "TOS Klingon" Alien, but I could never get him to look right so ended up being a no go for me.
If i ever made another Alien character I would probably go and say that they are a Changeling and have very different looks for each costume.
As to Rom Repub, well STO roms are basically humans with pointy ears already so I don't bother.