Astro Cake
Senior Member
Why would you ever need or want to make your skin color lighter, though?
Harriet should have a Tanning Salon in the next game
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For variety.
I'd rather play as a villager with light skin tone, which can be changed to darker skin tone by tanning, than to choose a villager with darker skin-tone and not be able to change it later.
oath2order
#Porygon2024
Best way to change race for skin customization purposes: Character creation screen. No getting around it.
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Because black and brown people exist, not variety.
Astro Cake
Senior Member
This thread makes me understand white folk less.
oath2order
#Porygon2024
It's funny how you guys are all for variety until it's mentioned that people might want to lighten their skin then suddenly it's all "NO WE CAN'T HAVE THAT IN THE GAME."
some people want what they want
Yes, but skin tone is completely different than face structure.
What's the point of adding skin tone in order to not offend people, if they can't knowingly pick the one they want?
The Peanut Butter Fish
Less trash
What if you could pick a town climate and that would effect it as well as Harriet having tanning?
I don't remember saying that. I'm saying that we shouldn't be doing it for "variety", that makes it sound frivolous and unnecessary. It's absolutely vital for people who aren't light skinned to be able to easily play as themselves in game, not because you want variety.
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i feel u
I'd rather be able to choose that in the beginning, I think that it would be unfair for people with darker skin than the default to have to unlock the salon before they can change that. It would be best if it could be changed through Rover but I'm not sure what question that would be, or it could be like the character's facial features and depend on unrelated questions so you could get a random one or look up the answer you'd have to choose to get the one you wanted.
I like the idea that was given in the first page.
"I'd prefer if they allowed you to pick your skin colour during character creation. One brilliant idea I heard from someone on this forum is that you could fall and scrape your knee, and Rover would offer you a skin-coloured band-aid, and you could choose the one that best matches your skin tone."
Maybe you cut yourself with your train ticket or smth. Not impossible, and very cute idea.
And keep the tan feature. So folks who like to tan and change their tanning can just just a lighter colour at the beginning and tan normally (maybe have some more reasonable tanning colours now that you have the option of having dark skin right at the beginning, so they make more sense depending on your original skin colour). Maybe even have a tanning bed on Harriet's in case waiting in the sun is too much of pain. The tanning bed tan could last longer, too.
These are all applicable ideas that can happen at the same time, they are all very different aspects. Skin colour being different from tanning should be something they fixed for NL imho. Because it is. No one goes from snow white to chocolate brown from tanning, we know they put that for skin colour variation but it's a pain for dark skinned folks. They shouldn't have to go out of their way to be brown/black in the game.
"I'd prefer if they allowed you to pick your skin colour during character creation. One brilliant idea I heard from someone on this forum is that you could fall and scrape your knee, and Rover would offer you a skin-coloured band-aid, and you could choose the one that best matches your skin tone."
Maybe you cut yourself with your train ticket or smth. Not impossible, and very cute idea.
And keep the tan feature. So folks who like to tan and change their tanning can just just a lighter colour at the beginning and tan normally (maybe have some more reasonable tanning colours now that you have the option of having dark skin right at the beginning, so they make more sense depending on your original skin colour). Maybe even have a tanning bed on Harriet's in case waiting in the sun is too much of pain. The tanning bed tan could last longer, too.
These are all applicable ideas that can happen at the same time, they are all very different aspects. Skin colour being different from tanning should be something they fixed for NL imho. Because it is. No one goes from snow white to chocolate brown from tanning, we know they put that for skin colour variation but it's a pain for dark skinned folks. They shouldn't have to go out of their way to be brown/black in the game.
Tap Dancer
Senior Member
I hate how dark I got last summer! I'll try to remember to carry around an umbrella this year.
Mr. Marowak
Ground-Type Prankster
"I'd prefer if they allowed you to pick your skin colour during character creation. One brilliant idea I heard from someone on this forum is that you could fall and scrape your knee, and Rover would offer you a skin-coloured band-aid, and you could choose the one that best matches your skin tone."
That's actually a great idea.
???: "Oh, did you trip getting on the <vehicle>? Here, I have some bandages. Take as many as you need."
Then the bandages would appear on the bottom screen, each representing a different skin tone. When you pick one:
???: "There we go! All patched up!" "Say, that bandage matches your skin perfectly! I can't even see it anymore!"
???: "Oops, forgot to introduce myself again! My name's Rover!"
Then it could lead into the other questions. Just a thought.
That's actually a great idea.
???: "Oh, did you trip getting on the <vehicle>? Here, I have some bandages. Take as many as you need."
Then the bandages would appear on the bottom screen, each representing a different skin tone. When you pick one:
???: "There we go! All patched up!" "Say, that bandage matches your skin perfectly! I can't even see it anymore!"
???: "Oops, forgot to introduce myself again! My name's Rover!"
Then it could lead into the other questions. Just a thought.
Ghost Soda
(he him or they them)
bc people can't look it up online or anything.
Maris82084
Senior Member
It is important to have your avatar look and feel like yourself. No discrimination, no hurt feelings. We are trying to change the world so skin tone does not matter. It is what the person is like. their personality and actions that make or break them. I agree light-skinned should not necessarily be the default, and most games give you the option to customize. I think it should be a part of the beginning. Choose a skin tone, and later it is a feature of the salon. The same way you can change hair or eye color. BUT...I think it should be more than dark and light. It is a fantasy game. There should be pink, blue, green, and any other color. This allows for expression. Your Nintendo Mii is you, the AC character is just an expression of your character.
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