New Tattoo's

Or they didn't like it being on two but yeah its good to know they did that lol. Makes you feel warm and fuzzy

At the very least we should have the tattoo of our patron deity /twelve or something like that

I love the idea, but I suspect its a lot of work. Currently the model system replaces the various body parts with the model of the gear. The skin parts we see are in fact parts of the gear 'dyed' to match the color of the skin underneath. When you add tattoos to that you need to have an addition version of every gear piece that shows skin for every different tattoo introduced to the game. Effectively say one swimsuit chest piece with say 15 different torso tattoos will require 15 different separate skins for the same model. This is how they deal with the legacy tattoo I think since there have been occasions where gear pieces have been added where the legacy tattoo didn't show when the gear was released.

This means that the game has to store a vastly larger number of gear models. It also means that every piece of armor that shows skin has to be modified for every tattoo added both retroactively and in the future. So to make body tattoos work they will either have to overhaul the games model system or spend a lot more time on the working on armor designs.

Simply put regardless of how they add tattoos, its highly likely it will be a major piece of work which will require either a substantial system overhaul or a lot of retroactive remodelling. If we ever see them I imagine they would be part of expansion feature. Its is one I'd love to see though. Having a good looking character is one of the fun aspects of games like this.

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Oh, threads got consolidated! :3 Good! Means we're being read! ;)

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lol yeah I was talking on the other one and wondered where it went.

Signed! But i'm sure we'll get the same excuse we always seem to get now, "Adding more tattoos would cause the servers to crash!". lol I kid i kid! :p

Memory limitations. Whatever we ask and specifically about character customization, inventory space and housing options the dev team and Yoshi in person always bring up the server memory limitations about those. They state they reached the maximum memory allocation and can't add more options any time soon. I'm not a server technician or a game programmer to accept or dismiss his statement as true but I'm a bit skeptical about his statements on those matters. I really wonder if this an easy excuse they come with or if it is the hard sad truth about this game. And if this is the truth I really wonder if the hardware for servers they use is poor or they have really limited budget or it's just a poor implementation. Maybe we will never know but for now they can't add anything more because of the memory limitation as Yoshi states.

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Originally Posted by Belhi

I love the idea, but I suspect its a lot of work. Currently the model system replaces the various body parts with the model of the gear. The skin parts we see are in fact parts of the gear 'dyed' to match the color of the skin underneath.

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That's an interesting way to go about it... I had no idea that the gear was dyed to match our skin tones but I guess it makes sense since there's less of a load on the server. I think I also remember Yoshi saying something about wanting to separate the Au Ra horns from the faces, but there's a limited amount of data that can be held for a particular race, and Au Ra is all maxxed out.

Bumping this thread :D

Let the tattoos from other races be used by all races. +_+

Being from Scotland, I would love to see some Celtic (or Norse) themed tattoos available for various parts of the body. If they had really nice Celtic designs for the thighs/legs, I kid you not, I would run about Eorzea pantsless all day long :D

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Originally Posted by myahele

At the very least we should have the tattoo of our patron deity /twelve or something like that

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This is a really really great idea. I would love a tattoo of my patron deity (preferably on the back)

Yeah, the tatoo thingy would be a great idea to compensate those who didn't there in the V1.
Like tattoos regarding to deities or races we chosen...

I would be so happy if I could have the hourglass of Althyk between the shoulderblades. Our patron dieties do not do much other than modify some elemental resist stats which is not much, it would be cool if we could show off what we chose a bit more as it gives more depth and character.

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Yeah, the tatoo thingy would be a great idea to compensate those who didn't there in the V1.
Like tattoos regarding to deities or races we chosen...

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Way to ruin the good feel that's been in the thread so far. Seriously, compensation? /noserub

That aside, those tattoo ideas are good and would be incredibly lore friendly.

Oh yeah please I want body tattoos. And not just a little tattoo, I want to be able to get a full arm/leg tattooed and even multiple parts of the body at the same time. We need more body options in general. Most of the character creation is only focused on the face, the only body features we get is the char's height, muscle tone for certain races, tail for Au Ra and Miqo'te, and boobs (which btw needs more... range I guess we could say). We need a butt slider, a fat slider (why would the WoL be skinny ? Would be funny to see some fat Miqo'tes and Elezens out there), a leg height slider and muscle slider for everyone and not just the shadow effects that make you think your char is more or less muscular, we need to be able to choose the actual muscle thickness. But that's for another thread lol.

I'm all up for body tattoos. It's one of my favourite things in real life.

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We need more body options in general. Most of the character creation is only focused on the face, the only body features we get is the char's height, muscle tone for certain races, tail for Au Ra and Miqo'te, and boobs (which btw needs more... range I guess we could say). We need a butt slider, a fat slider (why would the WoL be skinny ? Would be funny to see some fat Miqo'tes and Elezens out there), a leg height slider and muscle slider for everyone and not just the shadow effects that make you think your char is more or less muscular, we need to be able to choose the actual muscle thickness. But that's for another thread lol.

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I've seen what the 'logical end' of those sliders can produce and... frankly, I'm glad it's not here. Look up such games as Blade & Soul and Scarlet Blade... then be glad we aren't them.

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I've seen what the 'logical end' of those sliders can produce and... frankly, I'm glad it's not here. Look up such games as Blade & Soul and Scarlet Blade... then be glad we aren't them.

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In most games sliders use to go to the extreme (especially on the ones you listed). We don't need the extremes, but some more choices for customization. If you don't want sliders, I want at least a "body type" choice like we have different face types. We need to be able to have more curves both on the sexy side and on the "fat" side to match everyone's tastes. Right now we can only do skinny characters. Even Roegadyns look kinda skinny for a "bulky" type race.

Given the amount of adventuring our characters do I would be surprised if they managed to maintain a very pudgy body type XD
But I would like more options yeah, customization is great.

I think tattoos of deity or class or race or being able to place tattoos other than on the face would be great

I distinctly remember them talking about players being able to get the neck tattoo's that all the scions have at one point. Is that idea still in the works, or did it get scrapped?

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I distinctly remember them talking about players being able to get the neck tattoo's that all the scions have at one point. Is that idea still in the works, or did it get scrapped?

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That would make alot of sense; since we're also called Scions.

But that might be a Sharlayan thing

The sharlayan/scion tattoo would be neat as well, but I personally would like more back tattoos

I'm glad I'm not the only one bumping this thread now

sadly the memory limitation is the ps3 if they ditched that then there would be no problems i have a ps3 but its terrible to play this game on it lol

If I had some sweet tats. I'd show em off urrr day!

The idea sounds dope, but at the same time people would go shirtless all day long. I think I would get tired of seeing shirtless people. Besides players on the game already go naked. Can you imagine if they added body tattoos that you can choose from? and you place em at any parts of your body??? I think you guys get it

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The idea sounds dope, but at the same time people would go shirtless all day long. I think I would get tired of seeing shirtless people. Besides players on the game already go naked. Can you imagine if they added body tattoos that you can choose from? and you place em at any parts of your body??? I think you guys get it

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Really, the only problem I can think of is that there are sets of gear in the game that already come with body paint. Say they add tattoos/body paint or whatever, when you wear one of these sets you'll have them overlapping each other, which I can't imagine will look very good. They'll either have to go back in and add a hide feature on those pre-existing armors or idk, probably won't be looking at those armors to glamour unless you like looking like someone spilled something on you.

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I distinctly remember them talking about players being able to get the neck tattoo's that all the scions have at one point. Is that idea still in the works, or did it get scrapped?

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I don't even understand why we don't already have this....we are technically a scion...>.> I feel so excluded without it.

Gimme henna designs for my hand/arms

https://40.media.tumblr.com/4d7eddab...836mo1_500.jpg

Would still like to see more tattoos that we can get that go between the shoulderblades, independent of gear. The symbols of the twelve would be awesome.