[DEV REQUEST] Balancing Character Customization

[Vejjiegirl]

To bring this into a, imo, better perspective:

Amount of option combinations for each race/subrace:

• Midlander m / f: 699.840 / 350000
• Highlander m / f: 299.520 / 1.267.200
• Elezen m / f: 1.520.640 / 7.488.000
• Lalafell m / f: 1.589.760 / 2.995.200
• Miqo'te m / f: 1.814.400 / 11.232.000
• Roegadyn m / f: 201.600 / 792.000
• Au Ra m / f: 1.451.520 / 2.520.000

Winners are Miqo'te female: 11.232.000
Losers - Roegadyn male: 201.600

By a factor of 55,7.

Numbers were calculated using data above taken from the Heavensward Benchmark, excluding those that are the same for each race/subrace in the lower part.
Muscle, tail length, etc. were taken as factor 5 (0, 25, 50, 75, 100) with the exception of lalafell's bust size being 2. (sorry but it's either nothing or barely nothing :b)

This is really interesting information!
I always thought female Au ra had the least customization but if you factor Tail Shape and Size as two things instead of one it gives them a tiny bit of an extra push.
I did notice when going through all the male customization that Male Roegadyn had the worst >_< I really hope they decided in the future to give Roegadyn more face shape options,
You never see enough Roe Love at all, its mostly Miqo'te, Hell Roegadyn's new sit animation wasn't even previewed.
Anyways, i'm going off topic. . .

You are correct... I found this out yesterday actually looking at the source code to a 1.0 server someone made. Face info is sent as a single 32bit integer to the client. In 1.0 the characteristics, the characteristic color, mouth, nose, features, ears, eyes, and iris all into 32 bits using a bitfield.

Characteristics were 5 bits. (31 options) <- This is probably as flags rather than a number though, so actually 6 options
Characteristic Color was 3 bits. (7 options)
Face type was 6 bits. (63 options) <- This is probably as flags rather than a number though, so actually 7 options
Ears was 2 bits. (3 options)
Mouth was 2 bits. (3 options)
Features was 2 bits. (3 options)
Nose was 3 bits. (7 options)
Eye shape 3 bits. (7 options)
Iris size 1 bit. (2 options)
Eyebrows 3 bits. (7 options)
With 2 bits remaining that the author didn't know or were unused. (3 options)

(Add up the bits and you get 32, or 4 bytes)


Look very similar to the caps we have now. Assuming SE still uses that in 2.0, those are the hard caps until they change the data size. I'd assume that SE would've restructured how the info was stored but I guess due to time constraints, worked with what they got since this setup is probably referenced all over the game.

Do you know what the 1.0 Cap for Hairstyles was?

[BunnyChain]

This is really interesting information!
I always thought female Au ra had the least customization but if you factor Tail Shape and Size as two things instead of one it gives them a tiny bit of an extra push.
I did notice when going through all the male customization that Male Roegadyn had the worst >_< I really hope they decided in the future to give Roegadyn more face shape options,
You never see enough Roe Love at all, its mostly Miqo'te, Hell Roegadyn's new sit animation wasn't even previewed.
Anyways, i'm going off topic. . .

Fixed a couple mistakes and the number of Miqo'te tail options...

New Miqo'te numbers m / f: 2.419.200 / 14.976.000.

Ratio of Miqo vs Roe ~74,3x more combinations for the former.

[Magis]

Do you know what the 1.0 Cap for Hairstyles was?

The character creator sends it as a byte but the game itself sends it as a 32bit integer. So either 256 options or 4294967295 options. Regardless, hairstyles isn't a problem. All these caps are per race per gender btw, so like a Hyur Male can have 256/4294967295 options to them self.

Again, this is 1.0 so I dunno what SE does with 2.0.