Human Customization?

[DaPacemDomine]

Will we be able to customize our avatar as the human race in-game? The only options I've seen in streams and YouTube videos are for the African American male and the Caucasian woman and I'd be interested to know if we'll be able to further fine-tune our appearance as the human race.

 

[Finalsong]

You can select any one of the Human portraits for your first leader, but can't customize it like CK2

 

[DaPacemDomine]

So there'll be a variety of human portraits to choose from? I'd only seen the two mentioned in the OP, never any options beyond that.

 

[Verenti]

There are a variety of portraits and then each portrait has a few phenotypes to choose from (I'm guessing European, African and Asian. There might be addition sub-phenotypes to handle hair colour)

 

[DaPacemDomine]

There are a variety of portraits and then each portrait has a few phenotypes to choose from (I'm guessing European, African and Asian. There might be addition sub-phenotypes to handle hair colour)

That's exactly what I was hoping to hear. Thanks very much! As long as there are a few types to go across the spectrum and vary the potential for leaders, that's perfect. My Galactic Byzantine Empire will need all the colors of humanity's rainbow to spread its dominion among the stars.

 

[Milten]

Will we be able to customize our avatar as the human race in-game?

Only for the first one. After that they are randomly selected from all possible portraits. So I wouldn't call it "avatar customization".

 

[DaPacemDomine]

Only for the first one. After that they are randomly selected from all possible portraits. So I wouldn't call it "avatar customization".

Doesn't that assume we're a democracy, though? If we play an empire, won't the leader portrait remain static?

 

[Milten]

Doesn't that assume we're a democracy, though? If we play an empire, won't the leader portrait remain static?

Not after he/she dies, no.

 

[DaPacemDomine]

Not after he/she dies, no.

One would presume, then, that we should be able to edit the saved game file to change the leader portrait if we get a configuration we don't like?

 

[Es57]

Not after he/she dies, no.

There is one thing I wonder, though.
Since the heir to an emplre is supposed to be the child (or at list of the family) of the previous ruler, does that mean that rulers will always have the same ethnicity throughout the game ?

 

[anomalacaris]

You can select any one of the Human portraits for your first leader, but can't customize it like CK2

Leader fashion designer DLC incoming.

 

[Milten]

One would presume, then, that we should be able to edit the saved game file to change the leader portrait if we get a configuration we don't like?

Naturally.

Since the heir to an emplre is supposed to be the child (or at list of the family) of the previous ruler, does that mean that rulers will always have the same ethnicity throughout the game ?

Wouldn't expect game to handle that. Someone from royal couple may have "lusftul" trait.

 

[Glopnir]

There is one thing I wonder, though.
Since the heir to an emplre is supposed to be the child (or at list of the family) of the previous ruler, does that mean that rulers will always have the same ethnicity throughout the game ?

I was just thinking along similar lines... Although it probably doesn't follow that the spouse of your Emperor/Empress would automatically come from the same genetic stock. So some variance would still be possible. It'd be nice if the game *did* handle it to some extent, with the ethnicity/hair-colour of the next generation being weighted towards that of the previous ruler.

 

[[Q]uik]

There is one thing I wonder, though.
Since the heir to an emplre is supposed to be the child (or at list of the family) of the previous ruler, does that mean that rulers will always have the same ethnicity throughout the game ?

I think that's hoping a bit too much from the simulation not to mention that you have no idea who your ruler had the baby with, a african and a european won't necessarily make a dark skinned offspring necessarily (although s/he will be colored) so just picking randomly makes sense - unless you'd want to simulate down to "who did your ruler marry etc" which IMO is just useless extra-clutter mechanics that holds little to no value

 

[ahhheygao]

We can speculate all we want, but so far none of us know how exactly the sub-Phenotype option works during character creation (I'm not talking about the avian mammalian part).

Of course, modders will likely release homogenous human races on day 1 if we were forced to have DIVERSITY for our human empire.

 

[Yenzen]

There is one thing I wonder, though.
Since the heir to an emplre is supposed to be the child (or at list of the family) of the previous ruler, does that mean that rulers will always have the same ethnicity throughout the game ?

Sometimes uniting humanity means uniting with humanity.

 

[ahhheygao]

Sometimes uniting humanity means uniting with humanity.

Not if muh Supreme Leader Nuclear Gandhi had his way and purged the rest of humanity already!

 

[Yenzen]

I think that's hoping a bit too much from the simulation not to mention that you have no idea who your ruler had the baby with, a african and a european won't necessarily make a dark skinned offspring necessarily (although s/he will be colored) so just picking randomly makes sense - unless you'd want to simulate down to "who did your ruler marry etc" which IMO is just useless extra-clutter mechanics that holds little to no value

Kind of disagree that a future DLC could make an interesting aspect of internal politics with the succession and ruling family (autocracies), political infighting among the elite (plutocracy and military dictatorship) and shifting power of parties (democracies).

 

[Eldorian]

As long as I can make one of my generals a Filipino man named Johnny Rico.

 

[Es57]

Sometimes uniting humanity means uniting with humanity.

In that case you assume that your pan-human government is a tolerant, democratic one.

But what if Earth is ruled by space nazis ? There might not be the same diversity...