Looking at the logs on some of the WorldForge game servers made available for public use, I have noticed many errors from users trying to create characters of types which do not exist. Examples include human, knight, dwarf and elf. Clearly given the number of errors we have made a serious mistake in the user interface provided in sear for creating characters, in that it provides no guidance on what types are acceptable.
The only character type currently supported on servers is settler. This is described in the Sear Quickstart Guide but buried a little too deep for most people to spot. If you have been having difficulty creating a character, please accept my apologies for this shortcoming in the user interface, and give it one more try. The development code has already been updated to be more helpful, and the next release will feature this as well as many other improvements that make sear easier to use.
I feel that this a gui issue or perhaps even an avatar. An image or simple idle animation of the settler needs to be displayed for users to recognize. Take for example any other game they all have a model demonstrating how the character will look. Furthermore its not very difficult to tweak the hue of a color so the rags can be blue, red etc, this will give variation to the game content
Of course. In fact I did implement a view like this in apogee, which is a simpler client I wrote for testing some features. Sear will have this once some more work has been done on the gui core.
That was me BTW.