Character Creation Options!

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Originally Posted by Soukyuu

Because too many people end up dragging sliders to random directions trying to outdo each other by making the characters as ugly as possible. Or, if the system allows it even abuse it, try selecting a character that is 1 pixel wide everywhere :P
Best system would be one that allows sliders but limit them to realistic proportions, imho.

The discussion is starting to repeat itself btw, we had most arguments and counterarguments for the systems a la Aion/PW already.

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This is why the Phantasy Star Universe-esque slider would be good. It allows for good diverse body types, but it also prevents you from being able to create the oddly shaped extremes you can in games such as Aion.

I'm for more choices but I'm 1000000% against sliders. People just abuse those and make retardedly small or large characters, I'm on SE's side of keeping everyone pretty.

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Originally Posted by AlphaDragoon

This is why the Phantasy Star Universe-esque slider would be good. It allows for good diverse body types, but it also prevents you from being able to create the oddly shaped extremes you can in games such as Aion.

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That's what I've been saying all this time but most people just think "SLIDERS=UGLYSTICKMEN" and ignore the rest:

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Originally Posted by Chain

I'm for more choices but I'm 1000000% against sliders. People just abuse those and make retardedly small or large characters, I'm on SE's side of keeping everyone pretty.

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See what I mean? (No offense, Chain, you were just the nearest person posting that :P)

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Originally Posted by Warm

Yes we love ff xiv character creation style but it need more varieties !!
I'd like devs to put more varieties for character creation but not character change tickets like in Aion please
Make it like this
1. existing characters can recreate and race change twice
2. add barbershop so people can change their hairstyle (hairstyle only ! and add rule that each character can only get hair-cut once per 2 weeks or month)
Its just my idea :]

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There's no need whatsoever for limitations. You could make it a potential Gil sink, and that would be dandy, but otherwise, I don't see the point of "restricting" it.

Agreed, I don't think a limitation should be imposed on something such as changing hairstyles/tattoos and whatnot =) Players should be free to do so as long as they're able to spend the gil necessary. Now for something as drastic as changing gender/race/clan and such... I think that should be done with a ticket of sorts through account services.

As for sliders, I'd welcome it! They could impose a limit of course for just how skinny/fat you can make certain races, same with height so we won't get lalafell sized Roegadyns (as amusing as that'd be to see). I remembered the first wide game art they featured with all those races gathered, that some speculated the blond hyuran at the front looked to be a child and people thought we may be able to choose "age" for our character. That would have been interesting, but not totally necessary.

As for face sliders, further being able to fine tune our choices from the base faces would be fantastic, even if most of the time you're the only one to truly appreciate the differences in the choices you make.

My only real complaint about the customization features in FFXIV is that a lot of the options look exactly the same.

When I was making my character, there were multiple instances where I would select a different option on one aspect, but couldn't tell what had changed on my character.

What's the point of having ten different options for a particular aspect of your character's appearance when all ten of those options look so near identical that you'll never be able to tell them apart?

We don't need more options, we need greater distinction between existing options.

We had such limited options at launch and I really do hope to see more customization options. ...At least some new hairstyles if anything else. 4 styles per some races is horrid. :[

Hair options are really disappointing. I expected more. I kinda expected to see different options for front, back and side hairs.

Barber DoH class, can I have it ;v

Speaking of hairs though, I wouldn't mind if they added
http://www.gamedepiction.com/media/ff11-elvaanm5.jpg
to the game. I was disappointed when I didn't find it when I bought the game, since that was my character in 11.

A barber is DEF a must. And, imo, it doesn't need any sort of a cooldown or real money. Just make it a fairly small gil cost everytime. Changing your skin color/face/etc, that could be more grounds for spending real money (even though, I still think that could still cost gil, maybe a cooldown).

I play WoW (I know ..), and the barber is prob one of the most fav things they ever added. It's just nice to be able to change up your look here and there. Really takes out the monotony.