... as a "Fem" I would REALLY like to be able to wear what ever armor i want, instead of like, two and one loaded with accessorys that cost the same as 5* rec... -.-

~Tsu

If you go to general in the topic asking about Bechamel's gender, the admins say something about not believing in genders or something like that, so... I don't think it's going to happen.

I think I like the idea :D Though yes it will take a lot of work.

IMO the greatest thing about the concept of this game is the unisex gender characters. No stereotypical female chest plates or anything, just neutral environment suitable for all ages

So kinda like the tails from the tailed helm to be added free to helms for girls, and removed from emberbreak for guys, or perhaps the shape of the eyes changed.

Considering how hard it'd be to make separate models, I think a new eye style would be MUCH much easier. If I'm able to make new eye textures and can use them, I don't see how hard it'd be for OOO to do the same.

So +1 on new eyes to make ladyfolk happy.

WHY??? I agree that this is kewl, but still...

What would be a practical reason for this? First off, Spiral Knights isn't a role-playing game. Second, I don't want to give my fellow teenagers another reason to be immature. Like if you were a girl and made it obvious through a gender feature that you were a girl, you'd then have to deal with loads of idiots trying to ask you out.

Instead of having OOO double the amount of armour looks to fit both sexes how about this? Accept the fact that in all games, males and females are going to have different fashions. Some of these costumes in Spiral Knights are meant for males and some are meant for females. There is no need to give an explicit option for players to advertise their gender, what we already have is more than enough. In other games you are locked in what you can wear based on the gender you pick, just think of Spiral Knights as giving you the option to wear whatever you want regardless of your gender.

Considering how hard it'd be to make separate models, I think a new eye style would be MUCH much easier.

+1 as well.
Currently, eyes are just circles, what gives knights a neutral look. A simple option to add eyelashes or whatever would be nice.
It'd be great if someone could come up with an artwork of a new eye texture.

@Thimol
Some people like to 'visually distinguish themselves as male or female'.

-1 to this suggestion because I'm fine with the Knights as the way they are... however it is they really are

last two MMOs I ever played were heavy as heck on character customization (lots of body, hair, and face options) so it was sort of a relief SK only gets three helmets three armors and 24 colors for our starting and we can wear pretty much anything.

...Though I find it odd though that we have to wait till we can get 3* armors until we can get a single ponytail helmet but we can get a pigtails helmet at starting. But that's not exactly relevant here.

@Metagenic
"What's the point of gender selection if there isn't really much roleplaying in this game?"
It doesn't matter if SK's an RPG or not, we are asking for genders for the sake of customization.
Do you think only RPGs have gender selection? hell, no. Shooting games, sports games, action, adventure, whatever; any of them could have gender selection simply because it is nice to have an extra option to add to your character.

Some people like to 'visually distinguish themselves as male or female'.

From a purely visual standpoint, I'd like to customize my character, but I just have this feeling that once it's introduced, I just feel as if a huge chunk of the playerbase would start asking to have even more options in customizing appearance, for different genders and species, possibly even for orientation.

Eyes probably would be easier to implement.

Probably, but the eyes should be implemented sometime in the future anyway (though for some reason, I'm not hearing anything on it from the devs).

Nice, Iron! I never really noticed that forum avatars have different eyes from those in-game.
That just sucks, why would OOO remove them? They look too awesome to be left out.

"That girls could have skinnier frames/whatever and maybe some gear could be heaps different from other gear, like wolver gear."

If they do implement gender, PLEASE don't do this. As if girls aren't bombarded enough with skinny being the ideal look for females. They are thin to begin with.

Honestly I don't think genders need to be defined other than by fashion. And even then it's not the end of the world if people mistake your gender. I get seen as a guy all the time, and when I am not seen as a guy someone's hitting on me -_-;

I think I would enjoy some more body types but I can understand if they don't do this. Why? Because I don't think there's a definite body model. All of it is based off the armor, so they would have to redo a second set of armor for every set of armor just to get a gendered look. It's not like WoW where the armor is pulled over a preset body frame. :s

No no no, if you actually look at an anatomy textbook or a real person you will notice that the truth is on average guys have wider shoulders and narrower bottoms (and a less rounded shape overall) while girls have larger bottoms owing to have to push babies out of them if they ever decided to have them.

This "girls are slimmer/skinnier" thing is nonsense who even came up with that.

"I don't think anyone ever said they were skinnier"

Toxicblade is insisting on it. And you just did too.

No dude I'm not saying anything that would be considered as too much detail unless you've never seen a human body before.

Also... ever seen a "Venus Figurine"?

However the probability of bipedal life-forms that look even remotely like humans evolving elsewhere is so ridiculously low I discarded the idea that they weren't human/built by humans and thus granted similar traits/related to humans.

It would be more likely for the Knights to be three-legged blood-spitting crater-dwelling arthropods who have carapaces branded with genetically determined patterns/images akin to a Care Bear's sign or a Pony's cutie mark than to be "non humans that manage to look human in spite of the low probability of this happening".

The better, simpler, non-overanalyzing explanation is that the Knights are human or really similar to humans because the players and the game devs are human.

Your argument is that men are more muscled, therefore girls should be built smaller. This doesn't mean that they need to be made "skinnier." Look at your damn knight. It's very slim to begin with. Make it anymore skinnier and you suddenly have a winx character or a Monster High girl. This doesn't send out any positive messages that this is how a girl -should- look by an MMO.

And as others said women tend to have wider hips. It even shows in the skeletal structure. If anything if you wanted to should a female body type then you'd probably want to make her a little wider in fact.

I do happen to be a lover of the thick hour-glass body type. But I also think that if they were going to aim for a female body type, they should aim for average.

By the way: My boyfriend wore the divine set with his royal jelly crown for a while. Men can like.. wear robes and stuff. I know it's not a very manly set but I don't see the divine as explicitly for girls.