Soul Calibur style female gear will do for me

oh come on folks. what about Conan the Barbarian and all that lot?

What I find silly is all the "heroes" are always in very good shape. No fat merchants, scholars, etc? I would be nice to see tall, short, thin, fat, etc. NPCs as well.

Instead, we are discussing fashion? No one ran around in armor 24-7, it was too hot and bulky! So let's have them dress up like Ken and Barbie and have parties where everyone judges you by your clothes.

Wow, when I made the crack about chainmail bikinis on page one I never thought people would still be talking about it 5 pages later.

If you want to squelch this uhh... discussion... just start talking about shopping for shoes.

At any rate, there is nothing wrong with different style for different armors.

Even more importantly, I'd like the clothing choices you make in the beginning to matter - not as in determining how the gear you get are designed physically, but in color choices. After all, you BUY most armor, and having it dyed in a color scheme similar to your starting color choices wouldn't be that far off. (A sovereign can afford a little flamboyance there.).

As for female / male armors, it was common for roman centurion leather armors to be molded into looking more physically impressive. Six-packs and all. The same was also normal in greek armor. I see no reason why women wouldn't be just as vain.

A counterpoint is that the male armors here doesn't concern themselves with such details either. Still, it would be a nice detail; I think some of the armors really could do with more stylish designs... but some armors you find do have stylish designs. (Unfortunately at least one of them - black and red armor piece - doesn't offer any protection at all. 0. None. Zero. Not what you expect from a legendary armor you dig up.... unless you're an archaeologist and not an adventurer.).

I remember one day at work the woman had to go in and get new bullet bouncers (3A bulletproof vests) the new vest they were issued were designed for females and had a new contoured design ie there was room for there breasts so they didn't have to keep them strapped down all day in ill fitting armor designed for men. I asked one of my friends how she liked the new armor and she said "it's great now my boobs aren't sore"

I remember another time playing WOW and a friend of mine needed me to put some stuff in my bags because hers were full of her different outfits that she would change into when she went to the auction house, so that she looked nice. also there always seemed to be a channel in vent with female players talking about how there characters race looked prettier in this outfit as opposed to that outfit and blah blah blah <change vent room>.

So from these experiances I've concluded that.

1. Woman prefer armor designed to fit them properly.

2. When woman play games they like there character to look nice or "pretty"

 I say give them "pretty" dresses that they can put on over there properly fitted armor. If your looking for porn Brad mentioned something about Troggs in another post ask him to clarify ... or wait for the mods

Agreed. Gender equality is great and all good until it blurs the line between the different sexes. I'd just, at the very least, enjoy visually knowing that my women are women because right now, I sometimes can't. And like another poster said, Elemental isn't supposed to be super realistic so we should be able to have some leeway in designs.

mmm........now that the armour visual debate has heated up nicely......I wonder if I could introduce the request for "breast-physics" on all female characters?  I think that's what's *missing* from the game to be honest.  We're all here in the name of realism afterall......  hehe 

There's an app for that...  (or at least there used to be)

Now THAT is more like it Gravedancer

Sexy cloth for casters works, and makes sense. You have holy female priests in robes, or unholy female warlocks who like to show skin; sure.

But please make the armor look like it's actually trying to protect them, even if it's curvy. The screenshot posted a bit ago was nice.

To be fair, guys weren't wearing much back then either. Remember conan the barbarian? Just a piece of cloth or leather covering his crotch and some boots. Then there's He-man almost doing the same thing. Even in those pictures you show, there's a guy showing off more leg than a NFL cheerleader.