I'm still messing around (that's an understatement) with this new feature for 0.11 - but you'll notice a couple of things here - NPC now render and the starting avatar is slightly less of a homely bastard than before.
Both of these things are due to a lot of enhancements I've been making under the hood in 0.11 and the 2D drawing engine it relies on. The first outcome of this is that the Exclusive version of Queen of the Seas now comes with a huge array of sliders to manipulate how your face looks, the second and equally as interesting one will be the addition of some of preset faces for the normal game and a general improvement in how they look overall.
Anyway, now that 0.10f is out (check it out, it has a lot of bug fixes over 0.10e), the next update for Supporters and above will probably be a 0.11 Play Test version. Keep an eye out for it by checking back here to see how it's progressing!
Cheers,
Mal