Expanded Character Creation!! (Can Male Highlanders Have Eyebrows Pretty Please?)

With the team mentioning they won't be adding any new playable races in the future, I hope that means we will be getting more customization options in Character Creation! The graphics update was a good start, but creating characters is such a huge draw for a lot of players and being able to expand their horizons for how their characters look aside from glamours and hairstyles would be a huge plus ^ 7 ^

I know the lore plays a part in what customization option is available for each race/clan, but I would like to at least have my WoL not look like he has to draw in his brows every morning :'') Doesn't help that seeing certain NPCs using the male highlander model WITH proper eyebrows feels like a tease....

Would be nice to have more option to make our WoLs.

Scars would be a nice option to the face customisation to see, that one AuRa has it in the Alexander raid

i agree, i would really like an expanded character creator. i'm really hoping it will be one of the flagship additions for 8.0.

something that i would really like is bigger hrothgar ears. either a slider or a preset for different sizes. it kind of baffles me how tiny my ears are sometimes.

Agreed, I hope at very least we would get some new face options but what I truly wish would be some sliders, while I love the graphic update, my main middie just doesn't look as good anymore as she did before update and my alts can't replace my main. I would imagine some basic face sliders to be doable even with the current spagetti code. As for body sliders, I don't even dare to dream.

The in lore excuse for Highlanders is BS anyway as it is only specific to Ala Mhigan Highlanders only. It's not even a racial trait but a regional one. I would love for more customization options, especially as we get more sub races. Between Ishgardian Elezen, Hhetsarro Miqo'te, Xbr'aal Hrothgar, Shetona Viera, and more.

Also unlocking Au Ra horns from faces. Please for the love of god.

I would love if the various facial marking for miqo'te would be cross-gender and added to the tattoo section instead.

Male midlanders need more beard options that are separate from our face.

Yep, even if they had to take some resources away from other parts of the game, I'd be all for more character creation options. Hell they could probably fund a whole year of server bills from the fantasia purchases.

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Originally Posted by Wasselin

Male midlanders need more beard options that are separate from our face.

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The males of all races do! Miqo'te only have a handful of options and for certain face types only. We need like a big increase in options for everyone.

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Originally Posted by Aco505

The males of all races do! Miqo'te only have a handful of options and for certain face types only. We need like a big increase in options for everyone.

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More beards would be fantastic. Also highlander eyebrows as long as they are an option, my highlander doesn't need em.

Guys deserve more beards, absolutely. I made the suggestion in another thread that beards could be added to the "Faces we wear" glam slot just so all characters could use them freely and we could start having variety. There is already a moustache and beard glam in the Mogstation from an old Starlight event, so there is a start.

Personally my "why not let ME have this" that I've been asking for is to unlock the multiple gender- and race-locked hairstyles that only male Miqo'te can use that have black ears and/or spots. Only in a few of their vanilla options. If the devs could make the ear tips a toggle like certain facial details or just let others use those hairstyles, I would never take it off. They look extra good with the lion tails.

I've been asking for this since ARR so good luck lol

my dream would be that instead of new races, they go back and add more customization options to all the current races. i'd really like more face types, ears, etc. it's always nice to have more options!

I just want more fur and hair colour options for my Hrothgal (whole colourwheel pls), but really, the customization options are terribly limited in all aspects and for all races. That entire system needs an overhaul, decoupling hair/ears/horns/etc. from the faces, giving everyone all sliders (buff slider for all! also butt slider), and really, 4-5 options per setting is very little.

Also, can I please have a fluffy long tail option? I miss my fluffy Miqo'tail.

If Highlanders could have eyebrows I'd immediately make one. I just haven't found a hairstyle that covers the non-eyebrows and that I like enough at the same time, so I never made any... it should be so simple to make a toggle for it too (once they figure out how to give us more slots, which I think is the issue they mentioned at some point?) so I truly hope they get on it after the housing and glamour updates.

Yapping time I guess. Sorry lmao

More mature looking face options would be nice. Currently a lot of races are either 17 or 71. It is a little silly.

+1 the beards and eyebrows. Even just some stubble would be a nice start if they don't immediately want to commit to new meshes.

The sliders thing will likely never happen because of how the clothes work. AFAIK they are all individually fitted to the different models, which is why the buffness slider also barely changes the body shape. Shape sliders would cause intense clipping issues, as much as I would love having them, so I think that is not happening until there's a full rework of how gear works. We might get them on faces, though. Might interfere with expressions, I don't know how hard that would be to fix.

Tails? For Miqo? I really do not understand why they did not get an update in DT with the player model revamp. The fluffy ones look so terrible. Maybe more ear options as well for them within the canon ear shapes. I do not play one but I can imagine them being an integral part of the character design and even to me it feels a little lacking. Same goes for Viera.

Au Ra. Why, in the year of our lord 2025, are on some hair styles the extra horns/scales still not the same color as the body scales? Also a contender for uncoupling the faces from the horns. Maybe another option or two. Would also be nice to see tail decorations.

Poc hairstyles. It's time. Please.

New voices? I know we have quite a few already but that has always been the worst one for me when making an alt. On one hand so many that sound extremely similar, and on the other hand then there's extremely jarring jumps between deeper and higher pitched ones. Would probably be the cheapest and easiest to implement, just add some in between. We listen to our avatar yipe and groan all day, might make some folks happy to adjust the sounds.


In general one of two things would be good to do, though I lean towards the latter:
1 - double the face presets with new feature options for each. SE may prefer this because it is less work and they can control how the players look a bit better for cohesion and lore.
2 - remove feature and face locks completely and open customization for all options within the subrace. I personally would like to have all options because people do have children and all that, but I suspect that would be highly unpopular for 'erasing race identity'.

I'd also like for freckles to be separated from face paint.