Lumi

Pretty much everything that's already been suggested, for the most part. Please incorporate all the customization features users have made possible with the user-made hacks/mods. They're really great and much of the work's been done for you already in that regard. The extra skin tones, clothes coloring, print options, makeup intensity - all fantastic and seem like common sense to add them in. I would personally also love to see further shape customization - YES I know people used to use it to troll and be idiotic, but I'd like to see us have the freedom to take sliders further and have ... well, fatter characters, very skinny characters, etc. Tattoos, piercings, all that jazz suggested 1000 times is all great too. I've mentioned it before - freckles! I'd love to be able to give my characters a dusting of freckles, be it facial or full body freckles, adjustable in coverage and intensity with sliders perhaps. Please let me colour my eyebrows and pubic hair too.

Which is 99% of people, including most of the people for whom RL gender matters. I mean, what can one do? Do you run up to every female character in the club and ask if they're really girls? All the gender benders will go silent and the real girls be wary or even a little creeped out. Ultimately they're gonna take a gamble. That's often going to get them burned because you've brought personal limits or inhibitions to the internets with them and gambled on them. Others' inhibitions are not my problem. Nor does a profile note saying RL is important obligate me to do or say anything. I have my own profile note that says keep RL well away from me. Think that stops people wanting to go there anyway. Nope. Of course not, I get asked about RL regularly. I'm here to have fun and keep my online interactions very separate from real life. I don't care about the feelings of others, or their wishes or inhibitions. I pay a sub here to enjoy myself and not for anyone else's benefit. If they get their feelings hurt by a faceless person online well that's just tough, maybe they'll learn from it. People need to educate themselves on the environment they're in then find a way to incorporate their desires or inhibitions into how they act or react themselves, as honestly other people don't owe them squat.

On a side note this is actually a fascinating topic that I've been interested in for many years. I've bent genders, races and species and am totally comfy playing guys, girls or creatures lol For anyone interested in the psychology behind it go take a look at Nick Yee's research. He's a cyberpsychologist who's published some fascinating papers on gender bending in MMOs among other topics.

I agreed, Rob. At least in the context of someone asking you directly if you're a guy/girl and they respond with a lie. That's deception, and I dont agree with doing it. though unless you're intending to hook up in real life there's really no harm that can come from it tbh. Honestly though I think that's a question that rarely gets asked (least in my experience). People merely make an assumption on gender and dive in. They want to gratify themselves and there's few things more powerful than peoples desire to believe something is real. Then some time down the track by some means this person discovers their assumption was actually incorrect and then begins to cry "deception". Truth is they deceived themselves.

I don't know how others handle themselves in such situations, but I never lead anyone to believe I'm anything. They can make assumptions, sure. But there's nothing I can do about that. A typical interaction in 3DX for me goes something like this: Random guy: hey gorgeous, lookin good Lumierre glances to the side to take in the person talking, she forces a little smile as she brushes her hair aside and gives a wave in reply "Heya! Uhh, thanks!" It's pretty obvious from the first moment you engage my characters that you're talking to them, not the real person. Every word they say is in quotation marks, usually accompanied by some narrative and the only time the real me is talking it ((is like this in double brackets to signify it' out-of-character)). Experienced roleplayers will recognize that instantly. Occasionally I get approached by someone who's like this. John notices the attractive blonde at the bar, gazing over his drink he keeps his brown eyes fixed lustfully on her lithe figure. After a few moments he decides to approach, lifting his shades and smiling as he introduces himself "Good evening, I'm John. Enjoying your night?" Those are the kind of people and encounters I'm here for. Fun with other roleplayers. Nowhere along the way is anyone lead to believe anything about who's behind either character.

Not sure how you got that out of my post. I'm totally against deceiving people. When you play with me you do so not knowing who or what I am. I don't claim to be male or female and I refuse to discuss my own real life, other than the occasional bit of small talk. If you can't handle the unknown then move along and play with another character.

Not really. Try looking at it from both perspectives. For girls who wants to enjoy naughty fun here I understand keeping gender secret as of course once the other player discovers you're female then it'll all become about real life. The poor girl can't roleplay or escape happily as the guy on the other end generally can't get the 'real' girl out of his head. "Are you playing with yourself in real while we do this?" or "Do you look like your avi?" or "What are you wearing right now?" right up to "Do you have a boyfriend in real?". The immersion is lost in people's lust for the real person. Likewise if you're a guy playing a girl I can understand keeping that secret as it would kill the immersion for any but the strongest roleplayers. Honestly, on the internet, here in 3DX or in any 'game', if you expect a female character to be a real female then you ARE the odd one out. I assure you. Expect them all to be male then you can't be disappointed because the population in such places is always more than 75%+ male (often 90%+), unless it's a game directly marketed to female tastes. You learn that pretty quick if you spend a lot of time in online communities. You see it's not about "right" or "wrong" - it's just demographics, it's just reality and the way things are. So I think people need to realize that before they enter these kinds of environments, but humans being humans, and stupid being stupid, a new naive 'sucker' is born (or registers) ever day. And so we see these kinds of threads emerge regularly, and they will continue to emerge until the end of time as people discover all is not as it seems online, especially in adult environments. Awesome. Well, there's two claimed, third-hand examples. I'm obviously completely wrong about 3DX's potential as a real life dating site. Sure, there might be one or two very isolated examples to the contrary, but my point still stands. I think the thing is you're not actually fucking anyone. You're not fucking a dude or a woman. You're just co-oping on a little erotic storytelling online with another person while watching pixels doing naughty things. For most people there's not even the writing, just clicking buttons and watching pixels inter-mesh. The real action is happening in your imagination. But I totally agree that for some people they want to know who or what they're playing with. And that's fine. But it's also fine for people to keep that private and not answer. If you can't handle that then keep walking and nobody will get hurt or have their time wasted.

Just a quick post to close the thread and say thanks to all the folks who contacted me! To be honest I've found it very difficult to find someone suitable. Arranging to meet ingame has been very hard, due mostly to timezone differences and my own intermittent play times (sometimes I'm on daily, other times I'm off for weeks). Combined with that I've found it hard to find a cuck who's a solid, skilled roleplayer (or likewise a RPer who's genuinely into the hotwife scene). It's generally only been one or the other. I'm still searching, but I'll leave it to a chance meeting ingame now if it's ever going to happen. Thank you everyone!

Somewhat a common thing in traditional gaming. I know a lot of women elsewhere who play as male characters to avoid attention or special treatment. In this environment or any adult online environment though I'm sorry to say but I believe you'll find 90%+ of the entire 3DX member-base are male. There's a few ladies around, but they're heavily outnumbered and as a previous poster said it'd be a very boring environment if people all played true-to-real-life. If that's the kind of environment you prefer then you're making a mistake coming to a 'game' like this. People are indulging in fantasy fun and exploration here, and the more real-life you introduce to that the less fantasy you can enjoy. It's self-defeating, which is why I'm never surprised to see people frustrated that they can't find a real girlfriend here, or starting another thread disjointed after just discovered some girls/futas etc on the internet are really men. I have not ever, ever once heard of any real-life romance story or serious real relationship come out of 3DX. It's not what this place is for. If this is what you seek then YOU are doing this wrong. You WILL end up frustrated and disappointed. My real-life is good. If I want a relationship I'll go to plenty of fish.com. I do love a good erotic puppet-show though and come here to roleplay fictional characters enjoying fictional lives in a fictional world. It's fantastic for that. But while I'm roleplaying that's not to say everything I express through my characters is fictional. If you ask Lumi how she is and she says "great!" then chances are I'm doing great in real life too. But if you start to ask where I live, how old I am, what gender, if I'm in a relationship, do I look like my avi etc I'll just reply ((No real life, sorry)) and walk away. That's all 3DX is to me - a puppet show. It's none of my business who or what is behind your character, and honestly to keep the feeling of immersion I don't want to know. Likewise it's none of your business who or what I am in the real world.

I'm not that "nasty" but gimme a call sometime.

Been a while since I posted, been away for a bit. Got inspired to make a new character tonight, a third sister to go with my other two. I called her Shelbee and took some shots to begin filling her little gallery. Was pretty happy with how they turned out! Her profile picture All three sisters together in Fresco

My sister Eclairre and I had a lovely time shooting with Ramrod, his friend and the adorable Yesgirl. Ramrod made us both feel very comfy and we even put aside our "no anal" and "no sister on sister" rules just for his photo shoot. Thanks Ramrod! Look forward to writing about our time in my own blog soon.

Thanks for the nice words! ♥ This is an old thread though. You can find the new one here: http://3dxforum.com/index.php?/topic/3200-lumis-adventures-ii/

Nope. Still need to login to 2.0 using an existing account, which you need to subscribe to create. I looked at their Twitter posts + forum info about the Beta, can't see any mention of it being free.