How picky are you with how you make your character?

I'm VERY finicky. My friends joke that I can't go more than a day without a trip to the aesthetician ( they're completely right. :( )
Would be nice to see some other picky people here to comfort me. :')

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Originally Posted by tENAxc

I'm VERY finicky. My friends joke that I can't go more than a day without a trip to the aesthetician ( they're completely right. :( )
Would be nice to see some other picky people here to comfort me. :')

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I'm the same, I will spend HOURS at the creation screen. And then after a bit will buy those potions and remake it cause a color is off or something. I'm NEVER happy for a long time. It also helps my excuse as I'm a comic artist so my thoughts on design change a bit from time to time.

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Originally Posted by tENAxc

I'm VERY finicky. My friends joke that I can't go more than a day without a trip to the aesthetician ( they're completely right. :( )
Would be nice to see some other picky people here to comfort me. :')

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I am also very picky, can take me hours in character creation playing with options to get my character just right. Then in game I change my hair a lot and have used my share of Fantasia.

If there is character creation involved, it's generally a good bet that I will spend a number of hours on it before I find what I like, followed by fine tuning via test runs (since character recustomization can get costly). In this game, I tend to change hair styles and colours often.

I think I'm comfortable with my current hairstyle and hair color. Before when I'm a male highlander it's hard to find best hairstyle and hair color lol.

I was in a hurry to get started so I took 5 mins in the character creator when making my Duskwight Elezen, literally everyone else I know that plays spent at least 30+ minutes, I was also the only person in my group of friends and family that never touched any of their fantasias until quite recently.

I won't lie, I loved my derp Elezen man, he really grew on me as I played, I mostly settled on a static look and only went to the aesthetician to see new hairstyles. I thought about using my fantasia to change his height or to change some slight facial features, but it wasn't necessary.

That said, I recently changed to a Lalafell, for a change of pace and to wind up a friend, I spent a good 20+ minutes on my potato and I am happy with the result. Dunno if I will change back anytime soon.

It took me a couple of hours to fine tune my Fem Roe so her nose wouldn't look like a block of wood like so many of them do. My Lala it took about an hour. I spent more time on the contours of my characters to give them a unique appearance other than hairstyle and eye color.

i had spent almost 2 hours in total on my first character an hour on the 2nd one and a hour and half on my current one.

I'm very picky with my character tbh...

If I change my glamour and even a single strand of hair clips - off I go to change my hair. ;)

I remember I used a fantasia and went back in-game.
Skin color was 1 shade too tan and I immediately bought another fantasia just to change it :mad:

Every fantasia I get usually ends with an hour or so in the aesthetician and a couple other fantasia fixing stupid minute details only I notice. I think I've got my Elezen to where I like her. Meanwhile in the back of my head, "YOU SHOULD MAKE A ROE AGAIN!"

I spend an age in creation and have liberally used Fantasia even to stay the same race but vary my look more than can be achieved via the aesthetician, which I use quite a lot, personally I just fancy a change every 1-2 months, it's even worse now I am at the level and can afford multiple glamour so my look now needs to match my outfit(s) :).

Picky to a point, the hair is whatever until they implement locs,twist or cornrowls for males.

I'll be after a specific look when i make a new character in anything, and depending on the creation system can spend hours on it.

XIV is realitvely simple with its limited fixed options so it doesnt take too long to make what im after, since i can snap options quickly as i have a preformed idea.

I wont change anything after though so i do have to make sure its right first time.

even being specifically picky i can be done in about 15 minutes in the XIV system.
Black Desert tho, that takes me 3 hours +

VERY picky. Couple that with the crappy customization this game has (The ONLY 2 races that can be bald are Hyur Highlanders and Roegadyns. Really?) and it comes as no surprise I've spent around $100 on Fantasias just to get my guy looking right (Oh, yeah, and the aesthetician only does hair and makeup and not skin. Maybe one day Squeenix will come out with a tanning booth >.< ). Even "lesser" games like Runescape had more options, and it's only $7 a month. :eek:

I can spend hours in the character creation, keeping notes of my choices, then I make them to see how they look like ingame and then delete them and redo them if I'm not satisfied. Sometimes look in character creation and ingame are not exactly the same hence checking how they look like ingame, or other elements like light can make your character different then what you had in mind. Though once I make a final choice I rarely change it after.

I can usually put together something fairly quickly, usually about 30 minutes, but I'm never satisfied the first time around. I will need to make adjustments after having the character in game. Skin tone is a big one (really wish they'd let us adjust that with the aesthetician!) but sometimes I decide I don't like the way a hair looks, or the height of a character. I started as a lala, but hated the way they walked and didn't like everyone looking down at me during cut scenes, so I changed to a Au Ra. I enjoyed the Au Ra and thought she was adorable, but she looked like everyone else, just horns instead of cat ears, so I changed to Roe. After a couple of minor adjustments, I'm completely happy with her, and don't see me changing any time soon.

I did make an alt to try out Highlander, and had to fantasia after a couple of hours because I could not handle their run. So I have two FemRoe's now, one from each clan, and I love them both.

Very picky with my character. I spent hours trying every race and taking screenshots of them.

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Originally Posted by Joe_Schmoe

VERY picky. Couple that with the crappy customization this game has (The ONLY 2 races that can be bald are Hyur Highlanders and Roegadyns. Really?) and it comes as no surprise I've spent around $100 on Fantasias just to get my guy looking right (Oh, yeah, and the aesthetician only does hair and makeup and not skin. Maybe one day Squeenix will come out with a tanning booth >.< ). Even "lesser" games like Runescape had more options, and it's only $7 a month. :eek:

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yeah, the bald thing irks me. I wanted to have my old female hyur have a cool shaved head haha.

I am very picky with how my character looks, i will literally spend hours tweaking and trying different things, and depending on the MMO...I have even gone so far as deleting characters after playing for a few levels just for a small thing that would irk me.

I spend a lot of time in character creation and at the aesthetician. Even have lots of characters saved for when i change races.

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Originally Posted by Eul

I think I'm comfortable with my current hairstyle and hair color. Before when I'm a male highlander it's hard to find best hairstyle and hair color lol.

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Agree on this. Male highlanders really have very few options for hair etc that look good on them. And dont get me started on the eyebrow issue as well...........

I never understood how people can spend "hours" customizing one character with the limited options we have. That being said, I have spent a multitude of hours just playing around with the options available, albeit, split across several characters (some of which will never be created). It's fun to create characters, but with such limited options, I probably spend no more than a half hour(?) on any given character. I usually have an idea of how I want my character to look and tailor the available options to create that image. Perhaps if you do not have a clear identity of your character you can become lost in the predictable patterns of customization (ie. eye shape 2 is always droopy), but otherwise, I do believe people are embellishing the amount of customization this game offers.

I usually look for 3 things. The most Elfish looking race. Long hair. and DYE IT BLUE. Been doing that now for about 4 years.

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Originally Posted by lunar_seraphim

I never understood how people can spend "hours" customizing one character with the limited options we have.

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I actually did spend hours in the benchmark trying to come up with an Au Ra I liked because I knew I wanted to be one as soon as I saw them. My friends picked on me for spending so much time on it. I probably have 20 or so saved files and there were many combinations that I didn't like enough to save. I experimented with Raen and Xaela, different facial feature shapes with the different faces, different skin tones for each face, different hair colors and eye colors with those various skin tones, etc. It's not hard to spend hours tweaking and playing around if you don't really have any idea what you want to do in the first place and you're trying to create your character from the ground up. Heck, I wasn't even sure what gender I wanted at first. After some experimentation, I decided I wanted to be a guy and figured out that male Au Ra seem to be either bored/indifferent or angry by default. I didn't want my character to look actively pissed off all the time, so that narrowed my facial feature options considerably, and then I went back to experimenting with skin, hair, and eye colors. It's really not hard to spend that kind of time on it. I have to like the way my character looks if I'm going to play it day in and day out. I'm so picky about the way he looks that once I found something I liked and used the Fantasia, it really hasn't changed at all since even with the new haircuts and such that we've gotten. The only thing that changed was my highlights went from orange to bright red and I removed the scales on his nose.

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Originally Posted by Ashkendor

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You said you did not have a clear picture of how you wanted your character to be so I can understand how you spent quite a deal of time creating your character. But that was my point. If you can't see your character prior to creating them, I can understand how exciting the options of the character creator can be. I, however, have always fancied being a light brunette "bishi" character with blue eyes. So I created my main Kye in that image as both Hyur and Elezen with little difficulty. It wasn't until my FC went (mostly) Lala that I departed from that mold and it was fun to experiment with shades of violet and blue to create the character I currently am.

However, I have gone into the character-creating process every time with a clear image in my head. A warm but protective Roegadyn. A stoic, no-nonsense Au Ra. A proud, determined Elezen. A sensitive, intuitive Elezen. In my eyes, only certain faces depict these adjectives. So I walk into the character creating process with these ideals in mind and work with what is given to me. And I am absolutely not complaining. I love each and every character I've created. I just don't personally see the "SO MANY OPTIONS" others see. :/

I spent days and days trying to get the right character....on the benchmark....weeks before the release of ARR xD

And i spent the last week asking myself "should i stay lala ? should i go Roe ? but if i go Roe, will i miss my lala ? but i want some change ! But change is not always that good"
So many people in my head to help me creat my toon xD

took me 15 mins maybe?? be wanting to change to au'ra but cant find a decent look so i stick to kittyman lol

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Originally Posted by DarkmoonVael

Agree on this. Male highlanders really have very few options for hair etc that look good on them. And dont get me started on the eyebrow issue as well...........

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Oh gosh. Eyebrows. I've actually found myself not playing certain races because their eyebrow options are trash LMAO.

Depends on the character creator. With the options we have, I was able to make a character to my liking in only three days (plus 2 more for the name) and only used one fantasia so far - lots of aesthetician visits before I had the lightning cut, tho, since the other cuts just didn't quite fit what I had envisioned.

Skyrim...I think I spent more time fiddling with character adjustments of all kinds than actually playing the game. The more options I have, the harder it becomes to actually be happy with what I have because there's still improvement potential.

Very picky, the face needs to match the type of character that I want to make.

An example: With male Lalafell, I want to have a cute face that scream youth and adventure. With female Miqote, I prefer to make a tomboyish female, give her face/tatoo/hairstyle that fits a lone hunter.

Every time I fantasia to a new character design that I plan to keep for a while, I pretty much know that it'll take me $50 to get it exactly the way I want it. :P

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Originally Posted by Laerune

Very picky, the face needs to match the type of character that I want to make.

An example: With male Lalafell, I want to have a cute face that scream youth and adventure. With female Miqote, I prefer to make a tomboyish female, give her face/tatoo/hairstyle that fits a lone hunter.

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Wow, I wish I was that decisive. I can't make up my mind at all.

I've spent more money than I want to know about on Fantasia potions because if anything is slightly off, I need to correct it. I always spend hours in character creation too, even just comparing two slightly different colours. Don't worry, you're not the only one!

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Originally Posted by WinterLuna

I've spent more money than I want to know about on Fantasia potions because if anything is slightly off, I need to correct it. I always spend hours in character creation too, even just comparing two slightly different colours. Don't worry, you're not the only one!

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Pretty much this. I have probably spent a couple of months worth of subs on Fantasia alone. :p

Well when creating a new character i have basic templates i use for each race because those are the options i enjoy.

If i feel something got messed up i will delete the new character and remake it to be sure.

When fantasia-ing my character, i'll first create a new character, check all the animations to make sure i like them, and then make a couple others if i'm still hung up between one or two options.

When actually using the fantasia on my character, i'll use the data from the character i decided to use and triple check every option to make sure i got it right, and only then will i confirm it.

Not very. I spent about 5 minutes on of each of my characters and I've never used a Fantasisa.
I tend to stick with defaults on the smaller details since I'm impatient to get to the game by the time I reach them in the creator.

I've Fantasia'd Isaac (the dork to the left of these words) more times than I care to count. I roleplay, so just about every detail has to line up with his story and backstory for it to work. Though come to think of it, he should have darker hair, and darker skin (he's from the desert).

I tend to be extremely picky with my characters' appearance, and it tends to change as I map out their backstories. My DRK, Midori, studied in Sharlayan (I like to believe Doma and Sharlayan formed an alliance at one point so they could be A Little Less Scared of Garlemald (TM)), so that's what her glamour and appearance is set to match. My SMN, Sh'mara, is actually from the same place as Isaac, though her story follows a much different path. I'll need to reevaluate her appearance at some point, though once she's capped, she'll probably wear typical Arcanist gear, and won't have much/anything to hint that she's a SMN (she might not even keep the Soulstone with her, ICly, in case of capture).

I also have a facsimile of Alexander Louis Armstrong that I need to level, who will never wear a shirt, and who I spent probably ten hours total tweaking in the character creation screen.

I spend a fortune changing my skin tone because one moment I'm happy and the next my skin is clashing with my outfit of choice. Oh how I wish I could change that one detail at the Aesthetician. :(

I'm also very picky. In the two years I've played this game, I have been female Midlander, Highlander, Elezen, both sun and moon Miqo, both Raen and Xaela and Lala.

For the first time in that two years, I decided to actually play a male character. I first did a sun cat, then decided that was a little too common, so switched to a male moon cat . . . and I have to say I love him.

I also will not stand for any clipping, so if I make a glamour and the hair clips, I always have to weigh which I like more - the glam or the hairstyle. Normally the hairstyle loses out and I end up at the aesthetician.

I'm picky with skin color too. I've done light skin and dark skin alike, however it has to be just the right shade. It cannot be too yellow or too red. I'm pretty confident that SE has made a fortune from me on Fantasias.

I think I spent around two days initially creating my character in 1.0.
My first character was very similar but I re-rolled to start with some friends and changed it slightly.

When 2.0 came around all I had to do was adjust the eyes to look like the original me, as they didn't carry over to the right colour.

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Originally Posted by AmalahRose

I spend a fortune changing my skin tone because one moment I'm happy and the next my skin is clashing with my outfit of choice. Oh how I wish I could change that one detail at the Aesthetician. :(

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My God your Au'ra is just so beautiful on your signature *.*

May I ask you what hair colour you used on her please ?