Suggestion: Start with your own Duplicant

[MiruSama]

Hello
First I wanted to say, that I really love this game!
I've already played many hours now and started a few new colonies, it's so much fun!

I thought, while playing it and making a new colonie, that it could be very cool to start with an Duplicant that looks like yourself, or like someone you want him to look like.

So that before you get into the part by choosing your first 3 duplicants, you get the chance to design one of them by yourself. So no random rotating.
That you can change the hairs, the color of the hairs, the color of the skin, the face parts and all this stuff. maybe that this duplicant is also more a chef/captain for the colonie and got a dress thats looks nobler then the others
Also for the clothes it would be pretty cool, that there would be colored clothes for the jobs, like in star trek, but thats not a big deal ;D (but it would be cool)

I don't now if it would be useful and good if the player could also choose the stats...maybe a directon of what the duplicant should be, but I think this should be random at all. Oh, but to change the acting would also be cool! maybe this could also change the stats in a random way? so a duplicant that acts lazy wouln'd be a big learner or something like that
For me I only wish to make an own duplicant/avatar, cause that would be pretty awesome!

I know this is nothing important for now, but maybe you can think about that and bring that into the beta or something

Have a nice day!
 Miru

[Developous]

I would love to see this, but I don't think the officials would see it as anything but OPPPED...

Or would they?

[Airget]

Rather than starting out with a custom Dupe, think it be more interesting to use science to create unique Dupes, that perhaps have different respiratory systems and desires. Might make the game more complex but it would create an opportunity to have to manage different gases and bases for the unique Dupes to live in certain locations while using that advantage to allow them to  work in locations where Oxygen-based Dupes can't breath.

[RKBKirin]

Customizations of Dupes would be great to see!  One has to think that's part of the plan for this game, I would be shocked if that's something that they don't intend to do.

As for customizing the stats, I wouldn't mind seeing a way to assign them, but it would need to be balanced.  It could be like any RPG character generation system where you assign stat points and then have to pay for good traits and get bonus stats points for bad traits.  I suspect there already is something like that at play with the RNG for making Dupes.  

If that's too complicated then just a general job assignment filter would be enough for me like picking a Dupe to be a miner.  Maybe even picking a particular trait you want like Amphibious but that would need balancing too of course.