Male and Female skins....

[ReCycled]

Here's something I've always been curious about. When I first starting playing on-line I chose some male skin and connected. Seeing half of the players running around in female skins I was surprised how many chicks played Quake. As things progressed it was more surprising to find out all these chix were male players. Well - why the heck do these 'men' choose female skins? Ambivalent gays? Cross-dressers? In turmoil over their own sexuality?

Everyone is used to this now and a skin is just a skin. Still.....  I'm sure when Id designed the players they had democracy in mind for providing outfits for players of both sexes.  But gender is gender. Why pick your opposite gender? I know of no female players who choose male skins.

So there you go.....

 

[[BTF]adam]

females appear skinnier, harder to hit

[Krlll Mule]

females appear skinnier, harder to hit

Yea, I wondered if they were less of a target - that cant be right tough....can it? I'm a fat grunt.  No wonder I'm easy to hit.

[ReCycled]

Actually they have the same bounding box, I believe. Originally (1998) people believed you could get a video card edge because it takes less time to render a female skin. Infinitesimal difference......

  

[pantaloons]

Huwaa, huwaa is easier on the ears than humph, humph!

[cyberneticimplant]

females appear skinnier, harder to hit

I think this is the main reason. Although they might have the same hit box, the player still has to spot the target, and the female skin is smaller.

[[BTF] Reflex]

I just like the sounds better,

  it is easier on the ears

[[BTF]Gator]

i have always played as male.  My dad played as female for years as MzDizastar.   i always thought that was pretty wierd.

i do think the female is a touch harder to see, then hit.  That, and they always tend to be so damn red and melt into the maps, akjdflajdf.


But my hax work on both, so no matter really.

[Remedy]

I just like the sounds better,

[KobraKlaws]

man what I wouldnt give for someone to post a thread about something half way intelligent, I check this forum everyday and all I see is the same ffa/jumpmod newb shit right and left, granted this isnt the dumbest question ive seen in the last 30 days, but it sure makes the top 10

Easy now.  Remember that this is *tastyspleen.net* and not a TDM/1vs1 community such as the fallen q2players.org.  This place started as a FFA server, and currently vanilla is still the most popular server out of the bunch.

Sometimes it is easy to overlook the fact that this is a FFA community at its core because tastyspleen serves as a refuge for a good number of TDM/1vs1 players. 

I couldn't care less about this "harder to hit" stuff.  People are always seeking unnecessary advantages, but each to their own.  I'll continue using male/razor as I always have since I started playing back in July of 1999.

In my opinion, the only acceptable answer to why someone would pick a female model is because of sound preference.  Then again, I very much prefer the death sounds of the male models far more than the female ones.  Not sure if the developers intended it to be funny, but that's how it comes across to me.

[haunted]

depends on which male/fem skin and what map.

[Remedy]

lol kobra, I was talking about the lack of insightful discussion on this forum, not about tdm vs ffa or even ts.net vs q2p.org, plenty of ffa players are bright enough to start threads, punk, elysium, quadz, laurelin, crazed etc are all reasonably intelligent if not above average, I just dont see why we cant have a discussion that doesn't involve something idiotic, seems like the only thing I ever post here is shit talk on the smacktalk forum and its cuz all of the other forums are filled with stuff like...

"omg quadz remove so and so jump newb from admin!"
"omg quadz make me a jump admin!"
"how do I bind a key?!"
"why do guys wear female skins?!"
"Granny owns so and so newb"

the irony is I dont think anyone here even gives a shit about this kind of thing except me, kinda like the blind eye everyone at monsterkill turns to the spiked model hacking there, and I know I'm wasting my time even typing this.

[UUD-40]

...are all reasonably intelligent if not above average...

I think intelligent would be above average...   

Who cares about the jump babies?




I think athena is somewhat hard to see in some maps. Am I the only person who tunes out the jumping sounds?

What about cyborg and crackwhore models? 

[KobraKlaws]

I get your point.

[Fluffy Bunny [Wuss]]

MOOOOO!