Getting a gear upgrade compared to logging in and having less health all of a sudden just because of your toons gender is hardly the same thing.
You know you can take everything you said and say the same thing about racials.
Why are you bringing up gearing in a customization question? This had nothing to do with gearing lol
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Sure, but the point is that we already have racials, what you’re suggesting is essentially a racials 2.0 on top of the already existing racials. It just seems unnecessarily excessive.
Like I said, I could see it working as a purely fun and flavour thing, but racials on top of racials just feels like it’d only serve to make things needlessly complex.
Well, they could always add a trans option - to keep appearance and stats intact.
-_- Please no. I’m saying this as a trans person. Please no.
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Pretty sure a ladyorc could turn a human male into pretzel 
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… why?
giving players choices is a good thing right? If people are that put off by not wanting a benefit to cosmetic feature, then why are racials such a huge thing? Cuz… u know, they are.
Because being trans is not a choice for people like me. Gender Dysphoria is not nice to deal with. So having people all “hur lemme take the Trans option!” just really rubs me the wrong way.
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It’s just a game tho. I mean, think of how many straight dudes are playing female avatars. If some person is going to have a problem with that, (I’m trying to mean no offense here), then it’s kind of on them - to get over, not the game or the other players. Surely you understand?
Sexuality has nothing to do with being Trans. Taking a mental problem like gender dysphoria and turning it into a weird buff is just weird. And a bit disrespectful.
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Yes it would be bad. Forcing people to play a certain race to get the most of their character is bad enough. Forcing people to play a gender is even worse.
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The problem with your suggestion is its really stupid, and the cosmetic things you mentioned would stop being cosmetic.
Seeing a return of the previous secondary stats that were removed(looking at you parry and dodge) would be a far better change than this mess.
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Physiologically speaking, there is such a thing as sexual dimorphism, and it does give a literal, real ‘buff’ in our world. Guys and girls are literally constructed differently from conception and operate with different ‘bonuses’ in life. If you disagree, whatever man.
And I was not talking about sexual preference.
As to the perks of choosing male or female, i see nothing wrong with it, if each is given some kind of benefit trade off - for the sake of gaminess.
If people are that put off by it, well, it seems like a cultural hang up.
Make up your mind dude.
Also just because something exists in real life doesn’t mean it has to be shoved into a fantasy game.
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yes there is, but it’s not always ‘male stronger than female’. There are species where the dimorphism is very much minimal or non-existent and there are others where the females do all the heavy lifting and are physically bigger and stronger as a result.
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All this would do is give GD something else to complain about “why is male so much more OP than female” or visa versa, we already see what goes on about class and racial balance. This would add a whole new level.
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I was responding to your point…
I’m focusing about in game, the character itself, in the world, internal game consistency, not about the player and their RL problems. The player (not talking about the character) can be whoever, whatever gender - i dont care.
And no, a game, a fantasy genre, must use/respect certain aspects of our reality to make something relatable - in some form. The more familiar it is, the more relatable, but possibly less unique. If it’s entirely unique, it may be too unrelatable.
How would Intellect work then? Because we’d be effectively saying one gender is not as smart as another, which would only cause issues. And we can’t just have this for agility, strength and stam, theres a 4th primary stat.
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You had to go there huh?