Red hair, actual red hair, is a birth defect, most likely to occur in Irish and inbred people (hence the nobility).
If we start classifying things as birth defects just because they are a result of closed breeding, then we might as well say that being Japanese is a birth defect.
Now on topic: I think Adarias' pallete can't work with a 100% black or red, the colors are subdued and muted. Reminds me a little of Ragnarok Online. I think you should definitely add non-natural hair colors like lavenders, blues, greens and pinks. More customization options are never a bad thing. Nobody wants to have a twin in-game. If you need ideas for different hairdos I can come up with a few :3
yeah....we just aren't doing really unnatural hair colors. It might be a bad call on our part but I personally just plan hate them. Fil's writing a system that won't produce the same style and color hair if it is already present, so we avoid obvious twinnies, and if possible im going to try to get him to make it not even have the same shape......there are usually at
most 6 mercenaries on a team (not story characters or constructs, which have unique portraits) and split between two genders, so i think we can manage to avoid in-battle twins.
Also, nobody will have the same features as Roarc (the hero). Though you are able to choose him a look from much of the library (with "older" styles like grizzled beards and wrinkled faces and big warty noses being locked - he is 17 at game start), MOST of his styles (hair color hair style nose eyes mouth) will be taken out of the pool as soon as he is made. For the nitpicky, note of course that his skin color and eye color are not locked, as these are hardly unique enough for us to care.
If enough people whine about it, we might have an option that allows another 8 colors (with all your blue and green and ugly nonsense) for the anime people to enjoy, but i'm not intentionally making a game with strange hair.
This is not by any means impossible, in many games the humans stick to fairly natural colors. The final fantasy series almost never includes strange hair color since the old days (when it was more about color counting and differentiation on a 16x24 sprite), nor does the suikoden series (or for that matter, most konami games). I don't see this as being a problem.
What's hard for me to understand is that 99% of games reuse the same 6 people over and again, but people always suggest that I add more customization options >.<.
I've mentioned that so far as we know, this game is PURELY single-player, right? It's not an MMO!