Quote Originally Posted by lunar_seraphim View Post
I never understood how people can spend "hours" customizing one character with the limited options we have.
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.