Voice traits!

[Nullbear]

Voices:

Human Voices are held in an 8 bit genome. The first four bits are taken.

So we're DEFINATELY going to have:

Stuttering
Slurring
Lithpth (lisps.)
and Mimicry.

Mimicry will ONLY allow humans to mimic other human voices. You will not be able to mimic a dionaea, for example.
Stuttering, Slurring, And Lisps, Will affect how your voice is modified and sounds to others.

The other four will be 'accent' variables.
I'll do the first five. (Wait, isn't that MORE than all of them?)
Note, I'm using very generalized, 'bastard' accents. This is intentional. I'm making the assumption that nearly 600 years from now, Most languages will have changed, merged, died, etc. And there will be much less variation in languages/accents.

Pedigree will be what the rich, 'purebred' fucks have all livin' high and mighty on their 'rich' moons and shiznit.

Sol will be the most generalized, standard human accent. The most bastard dialect of all.

Everything else, is everything in-between.

We have 2⁴, or 16 possible accents. Fill them out! And if possible, Give a general description as to how that accent sounds, and how it will be implemented in-game. (Slightly bluer tinted text, italics, a specific font, bold text, etc.)

0000
0001
0010
0011
0100
0101
0110
0111
1000
1001
1010
1011
1100
1101
1110
1111

Note, Just because the bitflags include eachother, That doesnt mean the dialect should be a mix of the two dialects. Ex. Orient + Slavik should not equal something in between the two just cause they combine, Feel free to put whatever, wherever. Just input some stuff to add.

[Par]

Hmm, I feel this might do more harm than good. While it is a fun feature, I suspect it might get annoying after a while. Fonts are okay, but colors will definitely cause distraction, unless they are very light.

I don't know of any other way this could be done, though.

[Hate9]

Orient is going to be HELLISHLY difficult to see.

[Nullbear]

Thats a bit of the idea.

And as for colours, Its intended, at least for humans, for the colors to be rather neutral, and close together. Only enough variation to tell them apart from eachother. The fonts i acctually use are completely unrelated to the ones i would use.

[Nullbear]

Alright, How about i simplify it more then?

Only difference is in color, and even then, only slightly.

[Par]

To be honest, the only way we'll find a good solution is trial and error. Once we get a game going, try each color and different font combinations and see how they actually look in-game. An agreement on the forums might not look good in-game.

[Nullbear]

^ Fair enough.