Maxis agrees with Laurenke
cwieberdink:
I guess Maxi believes blue eyes really are superior. Are there ANY darker skinned Maxis sims with brown eyes? Every black Maxis person my sims have met has those blue/gray eyes. It bugs the crap out of me. I don't mind some (a few) having blue or gray eyes, it looks striking on Dirk Dreamer, for example, but come on! That's not the usual color for people of color. And it's not like you can just change them later in the mirror, although there is sim-surgery through SimPE, but that would be a pain to do for all of them....
Chris
Brynne:
I have noticed that, too, and find it annoying. It's very unnatural. I don't think I've had a single dark-skinned sim with dark eyes yet. I have to give them colored contacts. What is wrong with this picture?
J. M. Pescado:
Well, there's several reasons involved: Firstly, in real life, eye, hair, and skin colors are genetically linked traits, not independent, as they are in the game. Secondly, the Dreamer family is clearly not of primarily African descent: Their facial features are more European, not Negroid. My guess is that they're probably Middle Eastern, or North African, judging from the names of some of their ancestors, areas with a great deal of contact with the European world. And finally, the townies generated are basically a random selection of colorations, and don't actually have an ethnicity at all. If you want any ethnic anythings in your game, you're going to have to do it yourself. It's worth noting that the game probably is the least adept at producing Orientals. There's also the fact that the dark blue is dominant and often rather persistent, as well as quite striking, so when you don't get the expected brown, you notice.
cwieberdink:
Even if they are Middle Eastern, Puerto Rican, Hawaiian, Central American, Mexican, etc..... those people usually have brown eyes. So are there any light skinned Maxis sims with brown eyes? If it is a random assortment of colors, you'd think some would get those browns.... And I always thought that brown was dominant. But blue is? ???
Chris
Brynne:
Ivy Copur (the adult, dark-skinned one, not the teenaged one) is a prime example of the european-featured dark-skinned blue-eyed sim. And the only orientals I've seen in the game are Pao Mellon (the mailman) and possibly Mary Sue Pleasant. Not sure about her, but I think she looks somewhat oriental. The fact that I can't tell says something, I guess. All of my more ethnic characters in the game are home-grown.
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