Long Nails: I'm sorry to ask, but...

tasshena

Now that I've seen 'Long Nails' for female characters, I'm sorry to say that someone really needs to look at fingernails sometime. The nails as done are too long, they would break in a moment. Not to mention they're not even pretty at that length.

It may have escaped the art department's notice somehow, but if you ask an actual woman (instead of just looking at the, uh, 'private image collection' you brought in), they'll inform you that women who wear their nails at that length are rare. Most consider them claws at that point, and ugly.

Don't suppose the art team has the resources to consider doing 'medium length nails' that only stick out 1/3 as far past the fingertips, do they?​​

bloodyriz

Actually, I suspect the reasoning behind their size is simply visible scale. Yes if you manage to zoom way in and see them up close they are gawd awful long for human like nails. However, in a normal view, at the type of scale and range we see each other at, much shorter than this would be virtually invisible to each other. Heck in a normal view I can barely see them on my own toons, of course the ability to put some color on them would help alleviate this.

artan42

They are the same as the ones for males so they can't just be decorative long nails, they must be claws. Look at the Remans in Nemesis, I think that's what they were going for. ​​

angrytarg

I agree with @artan42 here. While I have to wonder about Cryptic's 'interpretation' of the female anatomy at some points, "long nails" aren't supposed to be 'decorative' finger nails (I'd never wear those off-duty, let alone on duty. But then again I just need to scratch mine at some rocks from time to time to keep them all fine and dandy ) but rather alien claws, like reptlian or predatory ones.​​

tasshena

And when do you ever, EVER see a Human, Romulan, Vulcan, or anything else outside an Orion, Reman, and a couple Klingons maybe have nails like that, anywhere? If so, point me to where on Memory Alpha, because I sure as hell don't remember it. ​​

architect13

For the love of god, please put a subject in the thread title . . .it is really not that hard.

tasshena

bloodyriz wrote: »

Actually, I suspect the reasoning behind their size is simply visible scale. Yes if you manage to zoom way in and see them up close they are gawd awful long for human like nails. However, in a normal view, at the type of scale and range we see each other at, much shorter than this would be virtually invisible to each other. Heck in a normal view I can barely see them on my own toons, of course the ability to put some color on them would help alleviate this.

I suppose I can accept that somewhat, but I notice it significantly when I'm at normal view even, I don't zoom out as far as you do apparently.
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dragonsbrethren

artan42 wrote: »

They are the same as the ones for males so they can't just be decorative long nails, they must be claws. Look at the Remans in Nemesis, I think that's what they were going for. ​​

Yeah, this is just the reuse of an existing asset, unlocking it for more species. I agree, they're not the prettiest, but any loosening of asset restrictions is appreciated.

bloodyriz

So Calevista, are there any plans to make these nails colorable?