What determines what gender you choose for your characters?

[Megasiel]

Originally Posted by Lhancelot [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

I started being comfortable playing female characters on swtor, for some reason the PVP seemed to alleviate a lot of the pervy weird tells and stuff, I guess it's assumed most that play female toons who PVP a lot are probably male? I still got called all kinds of misogynistic names in the warzones, but that just made me try harder to piss enemies off.

It seems trolling is more effective on a female character too. I think some dudes actually get more angry when a female toon beats them in a game. I was called a bitch so many times in warzones, that just made me grin harder. The angst on swtor in warzones was real! (I miss that.)

I had a fairly equal amount of male versus female characters on swtor! Since then, I have felt pretty comfortable playing female characters.

***Sadly there's no PVP on p99, so I seem to get more pimply faced neckbeards who send me tells trying to fish for my sex irl.

Pimply-faced neckbeards may be annoying, but I've also seen worse. CSGO was much like the SWTOR PVP experience you described. A day with just "go make me a sandwich" insults is a good day; a bad day would be the entire lobby of 20 strangers changing their Steam name to some misogynistic version of your name or teaming up to verbally bash you (and anyone who stands up for you) or intentionally kill you because they don't want you to be on their team. The funny part is that in CSGO you don't pick gender or character appearance, all of the avatars are male. People figure out your gender via voice chat, assumptions based on your name, or you telling them. The anonymity of the internet can be ugly sometimes.

Off-topic: On the SWTOR server I played on, warzones are officially dead. You either join a pre-formed team and schedule to play against another pre-formed team for a couple hours on the weekend, or you don't play. Ever. A real pity, they were fun.

IRT OP: I play female characters because that's who I've always played. At this point it's habit more than anything else.

[Polyphemous]

This question could be quite problematic for P99. What if a player who lives in Canada decides his character is now a different gender; if the GMs don't immediately change to the gender he chooses (any of the 100+ available IRL) then Rogean et al. could be committing a felony. The ICC at the Hague might have to get involved.

[Pokesan]

Originally Posted by Lhancelot [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

***Sadly there's no PVP on p99, so I seem to get more pimply faced neckbeards who send me tells trying to fish for my sex irl.

c'mon you're deep enough in to recognize forumquest is the real pvp

[Mead]

Originally Posted by Lhancelot [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

***Sadly there's no PVP on p99, so I seem to get more pimply faced neckbeards who send me tells trying to fish for my sex irl.

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[Lulz~Sect]

I've always been one of those retards' that names their characters after (at the time) girlfriends. Also, dat wood elf booty.

Only male characters I ever was able to stomach are Troll SKs / Iksar NECs.

[Spyder73]

Originally Posted by Lulz~Sect [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

I've always been one of those retards' that names their characters after (at the time) girlfriends. Also, dat wood elf booty.

Only male characters I ever was able to stomach are Troll SKs / Iksar NECs.

Lulz character screen looks something like....

Alone - level 60 monk
HandSolo - level 60 warrior
Abandonded - 60 wizard
Companionless - 60 ranger
Deserted - 60 rogue
Isolated - 60 shadowknight
Lonesome - 60 magician

[Lammy]

Originally Posted by Lulz~Sect [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

I've always been one of those retards' that names their characters after (at the time) girlfriends.

So your characters are named Diamond, Lexus, and Savannah?

[dbouya]

Oh, also, my love of sometimes picking female characters goes back to mass effect1/2/3 femshep's voice actress was just so much better than maleshep's.

Personally I think now in 2017 no one really thinks that character gender matches player gender, or cares about it. I know back in 2001 people still thought that, but in 2017 I think people just pick the specific character models they like.

[Kiwix]

I'm a chick, so I play chicks. Only exception is my dorf which is male, and you know why.

Originally Posted by Lhancelot [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

The only drawback I have had playing my female toons is how every once in awhile some creepy dude sends some odd, off-the-wall lame attempt of a flirt. This happens way more than it should imo, too. Never realized how many creeps there was on P99 till I started playing female characters.

Tbh I can't really remember this happening to me. Maybe I just repress it. Maybe it's because, I'm used to it every day online as well as offline so I dont notice it any longer. Baybe It's because I just enjoy and take it as compliments.

Maybe it's because my main was a super sexy hot ogre chick for a while 8]

[Lhancelot]

Originally Posted by Kiwix [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

I'm a chick, so I play chicks. Only exception is my dorf which is male, and you know why. Tbh I can't really remember this happening to me. Maybe I just repress it. Maybe it's because, I'm used to it every day online as well as offline so I dont notice it any longer. Baybe It's because I just enjoy and take it as compliments.

Maybe it's because my main was a super sexy hot ogre chick for a while 8]

I have had many comments and emotes thrown at my female human necro, enough to understand the female avatar definitely adds an element of attention my males never get.

See, you have had these kinds of words and phrases leveled at you for so long, you even had a freudian slip in your post proving it!

Originally Posted by Pokesan [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

c'mon you're deep enough in to recognize forumquest is the real pvp

This actually true, the banter and forumquesting is about as close to PVP as you can get for P99, and I even thought of that earlier before you wrote that Pokesan. [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]