[Request] Please allow us to save the designs of player characters we examine!

More than once I've spotted a well designed Midlander, Raen or Xaela guy that I've wanted to use as inspiration for a retainer or an alt. Yet often it can be difficult to work out the exact specifications when accounting for skin tone, hair dye and other customisation features.

I propose the inclusion of the ability to save the designs of player characters that pique our interest. The option could be added to the same menu that pops up when you click on a player to examine them.

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Although I love this idea, you’d be amazed at the amount of people who get insanely triggered if you even remotely copy their outfit designs.

I could see this becoming a problem on the RP servers....
Most people strive to be unique, not to have their looks cloned.

Already hard enough to achieve that with the limited options in the Character Creator
I definitely vote to keep this out!

I'd be okay with it IF it was limited to NPCs that are based on the character generator. For player generations, I'd definitely say no. Just play around with them, and you can get some pretty cool mixes without necessarily needing to use someone else as a preview :)

i dont see any problems with it, its not like other players can see your retainer

Speaking from experience,

having someone copy you and imitate you is actually quite creepy.

Why would you want to imitate someone else or copy them?

Not just trying to imitate my appearance but also stealing my unique name, namesday and Twelve's Guardian.

Lastly, some people can and do feel their character designs are an extension of themselves, and or a form of art. It also is potentially an avenue of which one could be considered breaking the terms of service.

3.4 Impersonation. You may not impersonate any person or entity or fraudulently hold yourself out as a Square Enix employee, representative, or any other Square Enix-connected person or being affiliated with any such person or entity. This means you cannot log into someone else's account, or deceive or mislead other people as to your identity. For your own safety, we encourage users to safeguard their privacy, remain anonymous, and never give out personal information to other users.

You dont need to copy anyone, and I'm confident Square-Enix will not, and also should not, implement such a feature.

I'd consider it to be a form of flattery if someone sought to copy my character's design. I certainly wouldn't take it personally, since my character isn't me!

Considering there's already cases of fan artists' characters being ripped off, right down to their in-game name, I feel like this wouldn't be a good idea.

I've never cared for people copying my outfits in MMO's - I made it for me, not for others to steal

I'm sorry, I would rather not.

I see enough sameface catgirls and Sadu clones. I would not like to to suffer a hivemind army of even more of them.

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I've never cared for people copying my outfits in MMO's - I made it for me, not for others to steal

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The development team are ultimately the ones who made the outfits, though.

Everybody is welcome to copy my current glamour if they wish to:

https://img2.finalfantasyxiv.com/f/0...jpg?1581659757

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Originally Posted by Daniolaut

Speaking from experience,

having someone copy you and imitate you is actually quite creepy.

Why would you want to imitate someone else or copy them?

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Or perhaps I just did not know there was a dyeable version of my outfit and it was cause for me to investigate.

https://i.imgur.com/ogrDHy9.jpg

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Or perhaps I just did not know there was a dyeable version of my outfit and it was cause for me to investigate.

https://i.imgur.com/ogrDHy9.jpg

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You must be on pc cause if your hot bar. Tho why does everyone keep it in the middle? Isnt it hard to see? https://i.imgur.com/R9gk6rv.jpg I have to put mine at the side.

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You must be on pc cause if your hot bar. Tho why does everyone keep it in the middle? Isnt it hard to see? https://i.imgur.com/R9gk6rv.jpg I have to put mine at the side.

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When I eventually became an omnicrafter, I had to resort to 4 hotbars so I flatten out the layout.

https://i.imgur.com/deAxKVt.png

considering the CC is all about presets its not really hard to do as is it would just cut out the middle man

I would rather not either its bad enough as it is with people looking the same.

people are clones of each other but that is because character creation is very limited :(

I wouldn't feel comfortable with the ability to copy someone's look. It's hard to look unique in a mmo as is... (Especially for Hrothgar!)

Would be easily used as a tool for impersonating and trolling.

If you wanna share your characters look just upload the saved appearance slot to somewhere.

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Or perhaps I just did not know there was a dyeable version of my outfit and it was cause for me to investigate.

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Enjoy Anemos!...

Me and my sisters won't found cloning so creepy. Right, sisters?
https://i.imgur.com/TB2iABx.jpgZi An: yep!
https://i.imgur.com/TB2iABx.jpgLu An: sure!
https://i.imgur.com/TB2iABx.jpgKi An: of course not!

No one uses the face I use anyways...

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Originally Posted by Theodric

The development team are ultimately the ones who made the outfits, though.

Everybody is welcome to copy my current glamour if they wish to:

https://img2.finalfantasyxiv.com/f/0...jpg?1581659757

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You humble bragging? Sure, I'll have to see how that glam looks on a female character first though!

Nice outfit. :p

Being an artist myself, I consider my character to be my own work of art that I spend a lot of time trying to perfect to my liking. Being able to do something like this is basically the equivilant to stealing someone's art and go around saying you created it in my opinion.

I don't agree with this. I don't see it ever being implimented and I hope it never is.

Luckily not everybody is possessive when it comes to their character design. In fact, in many other games the ability to share designs is integrated into the character creator itself.

The game and all in it is SE's IP in the end. Besides, you can now copy other people's waymark placement. I think it'd be a marvelous idea!

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Originally Posted by Theodric

The development team are ultimately the ones who made the outfits, though.

Everybody is welcome to copy my current glamour if they wish to:

https://img2.finalfantasyxiv.com/f/0...jpg?1581659757

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All black isn't really my thing- too many players wear black all over to begin with

I can see where some people are coming from, but it seems like you guys have forgotten something. While I cherish my character very much, I realize that I technically don’t own her. None of us own our characters. SE owns them. Even if you say they’re yours, that will simply never be true, unfortunately.

While I don’t really have an issue with this feature per se, I don’t see it being implemented in the future. Kind of because the option to view other players’ gear is already good enough probably from the devs’ point of view. For colors, we could just guess. No big deal.

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Originally Posted by Theodric

Luckily not everybody is possessive when it comes to their character design. In fact, in many other games the ability to share designs is integrated into the character creator itself.

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And in other games it's a feature that the owner of a character decides to use or not to use. That's one thing to share your preset on your own volition (and thus - choose if you want or don't want to), that's another thing to let players just copy others without their consent.

That said, if there was a tool to save your preset and share it on your own will - then sure, why not, and this shouldn't be that hard to implement even. Original proposal - please, no.

Our CC isn't exacly flexible so meeting a similar character isn't a rare thing, but knowing there can be somebody who clones your character on purpose, without you even knowing about this, is a bit creepy, considering there were cases when it was done in a not good way to the point where people RPed as somebody else's characters without asking permission.

Don't really see why this system would be an issue as long as people have a choice of opting out of it to avoid "plagiarism" (FFXIV honestly does not have enough options both character or glam wise for me to consider this a legitimate issue) or are just self-conscious.