Suggestion: More Character Creation Options, Please

This is a list of suggestions I have compiled from an older thread I did on the subject.

Vejjiegirl's Thread showing how many customization options each race and gender currently have.

*Note: this is NOT a list of demands, just suggestions. No one should expect to get all of them but getting a few (or even just one or two of the bigger ones) would be very nice. *

Some Customization Suggestions
- More Face Option for all races and genders. As of now, Male Midlanders are at 6, Female Midlanders are at 5, and everyone else is at 4.
- More Mature and/or Youthful options for every race and gender.
- More Androgynous options for every race and gender.
- More facial features options for brows, eyes, noses, mouths, and jawlines/chins.
- More facial hair options for every race.
- Naturally, more hair and face paint.
- Remove the Gender and/or Race lock off of more hair.
- Give more distinction between the two tribes of each race. As of right now, only Hyurian tribes look different from one another.
- Add more tattoos and facial features (like beauty marks, scars, forehead gemstones, etc.)
- For Au'Ra, separate horns from the face. Naturally, add more horn options as well.
- For Au'Ra, more face scale options.
- For Au'ra, maybe add the option to select the color of your horns and scales. Raen could have lighter colors, Xaela could have darker colors.
- For Elezen, Lalafells, and Miqo'te, add more ear options. Maybe even add a half-Elezen ear option for Hyurs and Roegadyn.
- For Miqo'te and Au'Ra, add more tail options. Bob Cat Miqo'te.
- For Miqo'te, add a fang/no fang option for both tribes. Maybe even add a fang option for the Au'Ra too...Maybe...
- For Highlanders, let them have an eyebrow option like the Au'Ra.
- For the rest of the races, add an no-eyebrow option.
- Muscle sliders for every race and gender.
- Pump up the breast slider a bit more. Minfilia is clearly using hax for those. >w>
- For Female Lalafell, maybe boost the effect of their breast slider a little, so that it is actually noticeable.
- Booty sliders for every race and gender.
- Give us Body-Shape Options
- Allow users to set a default expression for our characters face. Maybe I want a character that looks smiley or a character that is grumpy-looking.
- Add one more area to the customization screen that is evenly light with white light.
- Maybe add a way for races to unlock other races' hairstyles.
- Allow players the chance to get the Lightning and Snow hair, like cash shop, Gold Saucer, etc. We got it! :-D
- Add a Dark-Light setting (like with lip color and face paint) for Hair Highlights (some of the hairstyles don't allow dark colored highlights).
- Add a way for Lip Color to be the actual color and not just a tint.
- Allow a character to have more then one Face Paint option on them.
- Allow player the ability to change their eye color at the Aesthetician.
- Give races more voice options from other races.
- Mix-Race options

"Au Ra" doesn't have an apostrophe in it.
The mipsselling is such a pet peeve! >_O

Ye have to understand how data works to understand why character customization is the way it is.

Just mentioned this in another post but you have to see every character variables as a unique piece of data. Say each piece is 1 MB. Now consider this. if every race is limited to 500MB then they have to abide by that to keep it balanced. They can slowly dripfeed in new content as they use techniques to lessen the data to hold said information, but at a base they can't do that.

So you have 4 hair, 4 faces, 2 eyes, 5 tails, that's 160 variables. Now say you have 4 horns added to that. Now you have 160x5 640. Huge jump. It's not as easy as it sounds to add in new options. As much as they would like the option there are limitations to what they are capable of.

I like a lot of your suggestions, but this one has some serious potential.

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Originally Posted by Mimilu

- Maybe add a way for races to unlock other races' hairstyles.

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Rather than simply changing the hairstyles and automatically adding them to the aesthetician for everyone, they could allow you to unlock race-exclusive hairstyles and gear via quests? A Five Races (plus the Au Ra) version of the Beast Tribe questlines, full of fabulous prizes and exposition for the lorehounds amoung us?

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Originally Posted by Mimilu

- Bring back the booty slider for every race and gender.

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Did we ever actually have this? I thought the butts were just bigger, period.

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Originally Posted by Canadane

"Au Ra" doesn't have an apostrophe in it.
The mipsselling is such a pet peeve! >_O

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Don't worry, you aren't the only one. It bugs the hell out of me.

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Originally Posted by Mimilu

- Allow us to set a default expression for our characters face. Maybe I want a character that looks smiley or a character that is grumpy-looking.

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This could be easily implemented through the emotes I think. Just allow us to set a constant expression by selecting one of the current face emotes.


Also, I am seriously on board for being able to unlock other races hairstyles (AND VOICE OPTIONS) somehow.

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Originally Posted by Ashkendor

Did we ever actually have this? I thought the butts were just bigger, period.

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It looks bigger when I wear metallic gold coeurl speedo.

How about adding more voice example like for /laugh , combat voice, or anything? I find some voice is good but horrible when on fighting and burst out laughing.

yes please, all of this.

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Originally Posted by Mimilu

- For Au'Ra, separate horns from the face. Naturally, add more horn options as well.

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I remember this one not being possible yet. Click here to find out why.

As for the other stuff, Airget gives some reasonable reasons why that's unlikely to happen anytime soon. I'm sure they are juggling with their actual memory limits to fight against these limitations atm.

These are all great, but sadly stuff like this takes a really long time - and LOTS of effort.

Hopefully they'll add them bit by bit though! :o

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Originally Posted by Mimilu

- Allow players the chance to get the Lightning and Snow hair, like cash shop, Gold Saucer, etc.
- Add a Dark-Light setting (like with lip color and face paint) for Hair Highlights (some of the hairstyles don't allow dark colored highlights).
- Allow a character to have more then one Face Paint option on them.

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For the love of god SE! just plz add the lightning event stuff to store so we don't need to hear this anymore more people aren't gonna stop asking about till you add it. Secondly more face paint/tattoo's would be nice if possible

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Originally Posted by Blackbird1

For the love of god SE! just plz add the lightning event stuff to store so we don't need to hear this anymore more people aren't gonna stop asking about till you add it. Secondly more face paint/tattoo's would be nice if possible

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Looks like the PC version of Lightning Returns comes out in December, so we've probably got at least one more run of the FFXIII event before they'll just plop it in the cash shop like all the other event items.

Maybe they will be able to expand on customisation options when they drop PS3 support as they have stated they are pushing the limitations of the PS3 to the limit. FFXI had even less character customisation options due to the XBone and PS2.

Would love a lot more indepth character customisation myself also.

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Originally Posted by Airget

Ye have to understand how data works to understand why character customization is the way it is.

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That's why I put the disclaimer on top saying it would be nice if even just one or two of the bigger ideas got through. >w>

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Originally Posted by Lukha

Rather than simply changing the hairstyles and automatically adding them to the aesthetician for everyone, they could allow you to unlock race-exclusive hairstyles and gear via quests? A Five Races (plus the Au Ra) version of the Beast Tribe questlines, full of fabulous prizes and exposition for the lorehounds amoung us?

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Exactly! More lore, more culture, more prizes! : D

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Originally Posted by Ashkendor

Did we ever actually have this? I thought the butts were just bigger, period.

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For some odd reason I thought there was. >w>()
I'll go and fix it.

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Originally Posted by Vespar

This could be easily implemented through the emotes I think. Just allow us to set a constant expression by selecting one of the current face emotes.

Also, I am seriously on board for being able to unlock other races hairstyles (AND VOICE OPTIONS) somehow.

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That's what I was thinking, like set it so Smile or Grin or whatever as your default.
I didn't think of voices! :o
Adding to the list!

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Originally Posted by Ashkendor

I thought the butts were just bigger, period.

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I miss my butt. :(
It would be nice to bring back the backsides.

I fully agree with all of this. I understand that adding to the character customization requires a lot more space and I get that. FFXIV has one of the best customization systems ive yet to see. but as a player that takes great pride his appearance I would love if these options could be put into effect

The Elezen race needs a total overhaul. Don't you wish there were features like Alphinaud and Alisaie? Almost all of the races are stuck with their 1.0 features which are now heavily outdated but Elezen bear the worst features of all. They are disproportionate, their ears look like they are made of a cheap cardboard and I once heard that the development team decided to shrink their head size for 2.0.

I agree in full. I love the elezen but they just DO NOT give the player a lot of appealing options to work with. and the alphinaud and alisaie feature ur asking for should've been implemented a LONG time ago. I'm sure all of you have seen the cute little miqote girl in the shire dressed in pink. why cant we make our characters that short if we want to? or what if we want a fat or skinny character? and of course a lot of the females need a butt expansion/reduction option. elezen is great and all, I mean who doesn't like elves? but some ppl don't want their character to scrape the ceilings

Something something PS3 limitations.

But seriously though, I would like a muscle slider that does a bit more than add dimples to my tummy please.

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Originally Posted by Tanama

The Elezen race needs a total overhaul

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I love Elezens, truly.

But it looks as though each section of the body were separated (legs, arms, head and torso), scaled up independently from the other parts then rejoined last minute.

In a game where glamour is end-game, all models need to be looking their best.

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Originally Posted by XLauncher

Something something PS3 limitations.

But seriously though, I would like a muscle slider that does a bit more than add dimples to my tummy please.

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I agree, proper muscle definition instead of random bumps!

I made a thread about this in the past with some statistics. to be honest I really don't know about the PS3 limtation argument seeing as they are perfectly fine adding new hairstyles in every update.
http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...-Customization

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Originally Posted by Vejjiegirl

I made a thread about this in the past with some statistics. to be honest I really don't know about the PS3 limtation argument seeing as they are perfectly fine adding new hairstyles in every update.
http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...-Customization

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I'm gonna post a link to your thread in the OP. ;D

As much me and many others would love these options, SE just "can't" just add in these things wouldn't first getting over the server limitations. As for mix races, I personally don't agree with that option. That should be an NPC only thing regardless of the game and race.

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Originally Posted by FallenArisen0990

As much me and many others would love these options, SE just "can't" just add in these things wouldn't first getting over the server limitations. As for mix races, I personally don't agree with that option. That should be an NPC only thing regardless of the game and race.

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I don't see why more faces cannot be done, how much different are they from hair?

I wish you could adjust the body types, not everybody has skinny shoulders and wide hips especially on male characters...

It's a shame the character creation isn't more on par with say Aion. (Though not allowing such weird extremes on sliders perhaps lol.)

Even just allowing us to flip hairstyles (so we chose fringe side), or the colours of hair accessories and the ability to choose none would be nice. (No headband option or option to choose colour.)

I support the hell outta this!!!!

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Originally Posted by Alex073088

I support the hell outta this!!!!

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Thank you for bring this thread back. >w>
I was thinking off adding more to the list. ;-D