So they put tails for Aliens in the game finally?

bron · November 2012

I saw two female characters today who had tails and they weren't Caitians. I checked and their Info said Alien. I asked how, and besides "I was born with it" I didn't get any other answers.

I'm perfectly serious. I even had some people from my fleet alliance show up and confirm.

Here's the pic: http://imageshack.us/a/img831/1231/screenshot2012111913010.jpg

darkstarkirian · November 2012

bron wrote: »

I saw two female characters today who had tails and they weren't Caitians. I checked and their Info said Alien. I asked how, and besides "I was born with it" I didn't get any other answers. I have screens, which I can't post right now because I'm not on my computer.

I'm perfectly serious. I even had some people from my fleet alliance show up and confirm.

So while I'm getting my screens, who can shed some light on how to get this?

I'll happily wait for the pics. Update your OP when you get them loaded.

Update: I checked an Alien character of mine at the Tailor, and checked the alien Character Creator, and found no option for a tail.
Possibilties:
a. a new option that is unlocked that no one has heard about yet
b. it's "trick" at the tailor, and therefore an exploit
c. they are mod hacks

timelord79 · November 2012

Were the tails Caitian looking?

Cause it might be the same glitch that allows Gorn heads with bare chests.

vestereng · November 2012

Nah it's an exploit.

centersolace · November 2012

bron wrote: »

I saw two female characters today who had tails and they weren't Caitians. I checked and their Info said Alien. I asked how, and besides "I was born with it" I didn't get any other answers. I have screens, which I can't post right now because I'm not on my computer.

I'm perfectly serious. I even had some people from my fleet alliance show up and confirm.

So while I'm getting my screens, who can shed some light on how to get this?

Pic's or GTHO.

I want to see this.

zebulongiles · November 2012

Would the tails be unlocked for the alien type if the person has Caiten or Ferasen for one of there other characters? I don't know as I don't have any Caiten or Feresan captains on my account. Just curious if it works that way?

ashkrik23 · November 2012

There's a certain species of chief science officers for Fed that have very small tails. There are nothing like the cat tails. Best place to find them is Epohh Fields.
Or did you mean actual player characters?

zebulongiles · November 2012

yeah, actual player characters, if someone has a caiten or ferasen character on their account, would it then be possible for that player to select a tail for an alien captain on the same account?

ashkrik23 · November 2012

zebulongiles wrote: »

yeah, actual player characters, if someone has a caiten or ferasen character on their account, would it then be possible for that player to select a tail for an alien captain on the same account?

Ah ok I see, I misunderstood the original post. I've seen people in the tailor make these characters with tails before, or a Caitian with full borg armor like the Engineering boff uses. I don't know how they do it though.

darkstarkirian · November 2012

zebulongiles wrote: »

yeah, actual player characters, if someone has a caiten or ferasen character on their account, would it then be possible for that player to select a tail for an alien captain on the same account?

I have Caitians.
Refer to post #2.

zebulongiles · November 2012

Cool, thanks for your quick response, answers my question at least.

I was just wondering if that was a possibility for how a tail would be on an alien captain type or not, wasn't the case then apperently. Have a good day/afternoon/evening

And Happy Holidays.

nikkyvix · November 2012

There are alien NPCs on New Romulus with small, tapered, furless tails. The one Fed officer I saw was a pink-skinned alien resemblant of a burly Saurian.

azurianstar · November 2012

For the life of me, I never understood why Cryptic never added more alien options for the customizer. While I won't argue that the majority of aliens in Star Trek were humanoid, we did have alien-alien races too.

Beaked Saurians
Avians
Aquatics
Aborians
Gorn

And lots more.

I always wished they add a legitimate options to add beaks, snouts, tails, feathering, claws (hands and feet), and various kinds of tails. My Fed Tactical was always meant to be a reptilian thats more friendly looking than the Gorn, but until this recent.......creativity, I never could have that.

So be nice for Season 8 that the team opens up these options to us than locking the door.

darkstarkirian · November 2012

Any news on those screenshots bron?

bron · November 2012

Good timing. I just got on my computer.

Here you go. Also putting it into my OP.

http://imageshack.us/a/img831/1231/screenshot2012111913010.jpg

That's one of them on the right, with the Info open. The other one had run off when I took this. The character is now famous.

Thoughts?

It's killing me to not know this, since I was one of if not the first to have a human/Caitian idea for the game. Since Open Beta I had it in my character's profile that she was one, then when they added compatible ears to Aliens around season 4, I jumped on that. People had been complementing me on my catgirl look for ages and asking how I did it. I was happy to explain the ears, but now I see people with a tail and it makes me go "I want!"

thewonger · November 2012

Man, furries scare me the most.

cerritourug · November 2012

She also has Android implants.

lincolninspace · November 2012

I have also seen Fed aliens with Gorn heads or the ones that are really short like shorter than you can make them with the default tailor.

suprcheese · November 2012

I once was able to give my alien character a tail, but no longer; I saved the costume but if I edit it again the tail will disappear.

I believe it was an unintended side effect of the massive tailor glitches that happened a while back around the end of August or so, where no one could change their Rank or Badge, and people's legs and chests were disappearing, and boff costumes would randomly change to off-duty and become uneditable... good times.

See: http://sto-forum.perfectworld.com/showthread.php?t=330921
http://sto-forum.perfectworld.com/showthread.php?t=325471

EDIT: Oh, IIRC when alien characters get tails it makes their nametags (the ones that float above the character) sway from side to side with the tail. Was that the case when you saw these characters?

pigeonofclay · November 2012

Something similar happened to one of my characters a couple of months ago. When switching to body armor, only the lower half appeared, leaving the top half in regular clothes.

Interesting effect, but disappeared when I changed costume.

methos71 · November 2012

lincolninspace wrote: »

I have also seen Fed aliens with Gorn heads or the ones that are really short like shorter than you can make them with the default tailor.

I've actually wondered about the "really short like shorter than you can make them with the default tailor" aliens that I've seen, given that I spent an eternity putting together a Yoda BOFF. I'm pretty happy with how he turned out, but I would love to have made him just a smidge shorter. Anyone have any idea how that's done?

And I thoroughly agree with the general sentiment here that there should be a greater variety of alien parts in the character creator. Love the character creator as it is now, but would love it all the more with greater alien bits and bobs.

knuhteb5 · November 2012

bron wrote: »

Good timing. I just got on my computer.

Here you go. Also putting it into my OP.

http://imageshack.us/a/img831/1231/screenshot2012111913010.jpg

That's one of them on the right, with the Info open. The other one had run off when I took this. The character is now famous.

Thoughts?

It's killing me to not know this, since I was one of if not the first to have a human/Ciatian idea for the game. Since Open Beta I had it in my character's profile that she was one, then when they added compatible ears to Aliens around season 4, I jumped on that. People had been complementing me on my catgirl look for ages and asking how I did it. I was happy to explain the ears, but now I see people with a tail and it makes me go "I want!"

Pretty funny, but has anybody figured out if this is even possible? The borg feet really cracked me up when I saw them because they look like cat paws :P

Edit:

suprcheese wrote: »

I once was able to give my alien character a tail, but no longer; I saved the costume but if I edit it again the tail will disappear. I believe it was an unintended side effect of the massive tailor glitches that happened a while back around the end of August or so, where no one could change their Rank or Badge, and people's legs and chests were disappearing, and boff costumes would randomly change to off-duty and become uneditable... good times.

See: http://sto-forum.perfectworld.com/showthread.php?t=330921
http://sto-forum.perfectworld.com/showthread.php?t=325471

EDIT: Oh, IIRC when alien characters get tails it makes their nametags (the ones that float above the character) sway from side to side with the tail. Was that the case when you saw these characters?

So it must have been from the glitches then. Interesting. What annoys me is that this feature should have already been in the game as an option for everyone. We shouldn't have to glitch the system to get the tail option to appear on our characters.

suprcheese · November 2012

Yeah, I agree tails should be officially available to alien characters -- or heck, since Cryptic likes making money, they could sell "holographic tail emitters" to any character for Zen, people would definitely buy those. It would take a trivial effort by the devs, too, probably changing only a few lines of code here and there would do it.

markhawkman · November 2012

methos71 wrote: »

I've actually wondered about the "really short like shorter than you can make them with the default tailor" aliens that I've seen, given that I spent an eternity putting together a Yoda BOFF. I'm pretty happy with how he turned out, but I would love to have made him just a smidge shorter. Anyone have any idea how that's done?

And I thoroughly agree with the general sentiment here that there should be a greater variety of alien parts in the character creator. Love the character creator as it is now, but would love it all the more with greater alien bits and bobs.

The main trick I know is to make not only the total height of the character really short but to also reduce the size of all of the parts of the character.

I've been intermittently seeing Zentraedi throughout my entire time playing. That uses a similar take. Stretch every part of the char to be tall.

Wait a second.... Mrowl is wearing a Borg Boff suit!!!!!!!

bron · November 2012

That's right super cheese, the name plate was moving with the tail. Pretty sure, anyway.

But yea, she also had the full body borg outfit at one point WITH tail. No screen of that, but I saw it.

So everybody is stumped, huh?

suprcheese · November 2012

bron wrote: »

So everybody is stumped, huh?

I'd say it's either a result of a tailor glitch -- of which there have been many -- or a costume mod, of which there are fewer, but they do exist.

cerritourug · November 2012

I mast be just a glitch, I once have one of those with my Orion female.

knuhteb5 · November 2012

markhawkman wrote: »

The main trick I know is to make not only the total height of the character really short but to also reduce the size of all of the parts of the character.

I've been intermittently seeing Zentraedi throughout my entire time playing. That uses a similar take. Stretch every part of the char to be tall.

Wait a second.... Mrowl is wearing a Borg Boff suit!!!!!!!

You just noticed the borg toesies? LOLZ

markhawkman · November 2012

knuhteb5 wrote: »

You just noticed the borg toesies? LOLZ

"Just" now? I didn't see this thread until page 3....

knuhteb5 · November 2012

markhawkman wrote: »

"Just" now? I didn't see this thread until page 3....

I was just poking fun at that fact that everybody is so mesmerized by the kitty ears and kitty tail that they fail to see the borg toes beneath :P Meowsistance is futile!!!!

methos71 · November 2012

markhawkman wrote: »

The main trick I know is to make not only the total height of the character really short but to also reduce the size of all of the parts of the character.

I've been intermittently seeing Zentraedi throughout my entire time playing. That uses a similar take. Stretch every part of the char to be tall.

Wait a second.... Mrowl is wearing a Borg Boff suit!!!!!!!

Thanks for the heads up Markhawkman! Though, I'm fairly certain that I shortened Commander Yoda's legs as short as I could manage. I'll have to check again though. Here are pics of my wee green, pointy eared BOFF:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v70/Methos6848/Star%20Trek%20Online%20Adventures/screenshot_2012-09-24-23-07-33.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v70/Methos6848/Star%20Trek%20Online%20Adventures/screenshot_2012-06-05-20-03-02.jpg

So they put tails for Aliens in the game finally?

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