Race unlocking hairstyles, hempen sets, butt slider, customization, addressed:

[Kryis]

oh i know that you can buy the one that is lock to your race but a lot of people would like to use the other ones too instead of them being lock to one race pre set.

well. butt slider going from a no to a "probably not" is a nice change of pace.



they're the ones that change depending on what race you have. you can buy them from those consortium shopkeeps.

[Fourbestintoner]

Using face 6 instead of face 3 would cause packet loss, please understand.

[Mwynn]

Using face 6 instead of face 3 would cause packet loss, please understand.

So do bigger butts..., they are dangerous to the World of Hydaelyn and each Butt out there has the Potential DDoS'ing the entire Datacenters.
It's quite funny how a Character Model can cause "Network Lag", ya right, not in FFXIV to say, ... Network Lag via Model or Faces ... Ya.. right <_<

Not Funny anymore, it is not funny anymore... (Not directed at you xD)

Only thing that needs to be loaded are the Models and it's Body Pieces when you get near a Player, this, of course, is not really Network Intensive, it would take over 1.000 Players in a Zone to make a minimal effect on ones Latency...
The rest is calculated Client Side and takes Perfomance of your Hardware....
(INB4 someone berates me, if FFXIV truly lags because of Character Options, I think it is time that Square Enix uses the "Triple Budget" for better Servers.... because this is truly ... a joke...)

[Naunet]

Customization (more face options): Character data is sent constantly back and forth between the game and the servers (JSON), which deals with packets. If they added more customization, it would increase packet size, causing stress on characters and the game.

This always makes me lol. The MMO that has super limited character customization has devs that claim adding more would put stress on the game. They need to learn what other MMOs do.

It's not the server capacity on SEs end that is the main issue (although they do appear to be having stability problems lately), it is the reliability of the internet providers and the data throughput to the users systems.

If it wasn't SE's fault, then way more MMOs would have these problems. Except they don't. Because it's all on SE.

[Slirith]

This always makes me lol. The MMO that has super limited character customization has devs that claim adding more would put stress on the game. They need to learn what other MMOs do.



If it wasn't SE's fault, then way more MMOs would have these problems. Except they don't. Because it's all on SE.

*clap clap clap clap* My thoughts exactly.

[Kling-Klang]

Only 2 new jobs.
No new race and no new options for characters.
Even with PS3 dropped.
Cool expansion.

[Medicine]

Only 2 new jobs.
No new race and no new options for characters.
Even with PS3 dropped.
Cool expansion.

Yeah i'm not feeling it either, honestly wouldn't even buy this expansion if it wasn't for my FC.

[rainichan]

My guess on why it would still be kind of ridiculous for them to give us more customization: we're still based on the deprecated base code of 1.0. The same code that gave regular flowerpots the same amount of data in what we have in characters in 2.0's code. They're slowly phasing it out, but that takes time, especially with how quickly they give us content. But because of the code used to implement all the things, it translates into "too much of this data the way we have to write it is going to fubar some connections, let's wait on it."

If you want to blame, put blame on to the 1.0 producer for creating the base that is likely keeping the new devs from fixing their mess.

[Medicine]

My guess on why it would still be kind of ridiculous for them to give us more customization: we're still based on the deprecated base code of 1.0. The same code that gave regular flowerpots the same amount of data in what we have in characters in 2.0's code. They're slowly phasing it out, but that takes time, especially with how quickly they give us content. But because of the code used to implement all the things, it translates into "too much of this data the way we have to write it is going to fubar some connections, let's wait on it."

If you want to blame, put blame on to the 1.0 producer for creating the base that is likely keeping the new devs from fixing their mess.

Aren't they getting double the funding they got for Heavensward with this expansion though? Why aren't they upgrading all their technical stuff and everything with that money as well?

[Averax]

They can add two to three new hairstyles each patch but they can't add more of other things in character customization?