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Characters are getting so BIG

dcboy57dcboy57 Member Posts: 71 Arc User
edited June 2015 in The Art of Star Trek Online
Please reduce their size to a more realistic scale. Some characters, like the Breen Thot in the campaign, is huge and probably over 4 meters tall. Average NPCs' heights are close to 1.9 meters and that's just odd. Worf is taller than 2 meters and he doesn't appear to be like that in the show.
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  • bloodyrizbloodyriz Member Posts: 1,756 Arc User
    Who is Commander Wolf?
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  • royalsovereignroyalsovereign Member Posts: 1,344 Arc User
    bloodyriz wrote: »
    Who is Commander Wolf?
    Jaime Wolf? :D

    "You Iconians just hung a vacancy sign on your asses and my foot's looking for a room!"
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  • turbomagnusturbomagnus Member Posts: 3,479 Arc User
    Heh... Nero Wolfe?

    Seriously, though, since television and movie studios are limited to hiring humans as actors/actresses, there's some innate size limitations there - some races in the Star Trek universe are supposed to be that huge when they're not just humans in makeup; Hirogen, Gorn, Klingons, just to name a few. The game being computer graphics and not humans in makeup means that size limitation isn't a problem.
    "If you can't take a little bloody nose, maybe you ought to go back home and crawl under your bed. It's not safe out here. It's wondrous, with treasures to satiate desires both subtle and gross; but it's not for the timid." -- Q, TNG: "Q-Who?"
    ^Words that every player should keep in mind, especially whenever there's a problem with the game...
  • dcboy57dcboy57 Member Posts: 71 Arc User
    royalsovereign wrote: »
    bloodyriz wrote: »
    Who is Commander Wolf?
    Jaime Wolf? :D

    I meant Ambassador Wolf, hehe

  • turbomagnusturbomagnus Member Posts: 3,479 Arc User
    Wasn't the guy's name in 'A Taste of Armageddon' (TOS) Ambassador Fox?
    "If you can't take a little bloody nose, maybe you ought to go back home and crawl under your bed. It's not safe out here. It's wondrous, with treasures to satiate desires both subtle and gross; but it's not for the timid." -- Q, TNG: "Q-Who?"
    ^Words that every player should keep in mind, especially whenever there's a problem with the game...
  • dcboy57dcboy57 Member Posts: 71 Arc User
    turbomagnus wrote: »
    Heh... Nero Wolfe?

    Seriously, though, since television and movie studios are limited to hiring humans as actors/actresses, there's some innate size limitations there - some races in the Star Trek universe are supposed to be that huge when they're not just humans in makeup; Hirogen, Gorn, Klingons, just to name a few. The game being computer graphics and not humans in makeup means that size limitation isn't a problem.


    Ya you have a good point, now the in-game characters' heights seem more reasonable. It's still hard to get used to a 4 meters Breen tho -__-
  • turbomagnusturbomagnus Member Posts: 3,479 Arc User
    You have to remember, we don't know what the Breen look like, never have - all we know is that Betazoids can't read them (TNG: "The Loss"), they've been in conflict with the Federation (TNG: "Hero Worship"), and they wear some kind of environmental or encounter suits (DS9 and STO)...

    A twelve foot tall encounter suit doesn't mean that the Breen are that tall... It could just be an intimidation thing. ...They could be three-foot-tall anthromorphic penguins sitting in the torso and controlling the suit through robotic limbs, we don't know.
    "If you can't take a little bloody nose, maybe you ought to go back home and crawl under your bed. It's not safe out here. It's wondrous, with treasures to satiate desires both subtle and gross; but it's not for the timid." -- Q, TNG: "Q-Who?"
    ^Words that every player should keep in mind, especially whenever there's a problem with the game...
  • bloodyrizbloodyriz Member Posts: 1,756 Arc User
    dcboy57 wrote: »
    royalsovereign wrote: »
    bloodyriz wrote: »
    Who is Commander Wolf?
    Jaime Wolf? :D

    I meant Ambassador Wolf, hehe

    Do you mean Worf?
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  • dcboy57dcboy57 Member Posts: 71 Arc User
    bloodyriz wrote: »
    dcboy57 wrote: »
    royalsovereign wrote: »
    bloodyriz wrote: »
    Who is Commander Wolf?
    Jaime Wolf? :D

    I meant Ambassador Wolf, hehe

    Do you mean Worf?

    Ya you were right. I mis-spelled his name lol, silly me.
  • bloodyrizbloodyriz Member Posts: 1,756 Arc User
    Ya, I thought that might be it. No worries, typos happen just wanted to be sure of whom you spoke.
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  • captaincelestialcaptaincelestial Member Posts: 1,925 Arc User
    I made a character yesterday, a Tellerite.

    From the description and what I've seen on TV, they are supposed to be short, by human standards. And yet, the minimum height was 5'10", maximum 7'0". Very strange. I made mine 7'0" with stretched out arms and legs. I slightly towered the NPCs in the Starfleet Academy in the tutorial.
  • nyniknynik Member Posts: 1,628 Arc User
    I always assumed that Cryptic's reasoning here, and indeed most other games developers, is because in a group pve environment especially, people may lose sight of the enemy if they were of regular height. They enemy could be surrounded by melee characters/pets/effects that it makes selecting them hard. A taller bad guy is just easier to click on and see.
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