Petition To Expand Character Creator

[SomeRandomHuman]

I want to start this thread to see just how many people are in the same mindset and that it hopefully gets seen by the forums team and passed along someday.

If you are in favor of the dev team undertaking the big revamp of current models and gear, gives this post a thumbs-up/like and leave what you personally would like to see added to the creator as a reply.

I personally want variety in the body shape/weight. As it stands the only selection you get on body types/shapes is only by picking the different races.

Then my next big thing is accommodating the choice of out character being left or right handed. I know it takes a little more work than just mirroring all the animations and models but as a lefty I feel a little disconnected from playing a right handed avatar.

[ShinShimon]

Significant changes in models would require significant changes to all existing equipment. All 10s of thousands of it. Not gonna happen. Anything like that kind of effort on models is gonna be going towards making entirely new races.

[DeaconMoore]

An expanded character creator would be awesome.

The official SE stance though is the server hamsters would all die horrible deaths trying to load more character data.

[Antonio_Xul]

I just wish they'd unlock all the hair and facial hairs for everyone. They definitely need to add more faces and facial hair as well. Being a carbon copy of everyone of your race gets old. Also, I wish they would actually look at our hairstyle request thread and pick out new hairstyles from there and add more than one or two at a Time like they use to.

[Kirsten_Rev]

I want to start this thread to see just how many people are in the same mindset and that it hopefully gets seen by the forums team and passed along someday.

If you are in favor of the dev team undertaking the big revamp of current models and gear, gives this post a thumbs-up/like and leave what you personally would like to see added to the creator as a reply.

I personally want variety in the body shape/weight. As it stands the only selection you get on body types/shapes is only by picking the different races.

Then my next big thing is accommodating the choice of out character being left or right handed. I know it takes a little more work than just mirroring all the animations and models but as a lefty I feel a little disconnected from playing a right handed avatar.

I'd like to see this, but only in the context of a total overhaul of the graphics engine and underlying infrastructure. If they wanted to hold off on content for a year to eliminate the atrocious clipping, design high-resolution textures for the environment and player gear, rebuild game assets around more flexible model choices (so as to allow for weight sliders, truly non-humanoid races, etc.), address monster draw distance algorithms throughout the entire game, etc., then I'm all for it.

Alas, for a one-off, I don't think it's an efficient use of developer time.

[Rufalus]

The official SE stance though is the server hamsters would all die horrible deaths trying to load more character data.

They get this request a lot. Real official stance is it will be a lot of work and hard to do, but maybe someday as part of a wider overhaul. So it's a no for any time soon but not absolutely saying never.

[Tint]

I don't think a complete rework is a wise decision.

But I would like more tattoos and facial markings. They only add new hairstyles with patches, why not expand the other already existing options too?

Also removal of that stupid sandals so we can finally be barefoot!

I also would like to have left handed characters. The rework of the animations should not be a huge problem, but this would also be a new option in character creation and they couldn't even seperate horns from faces for Aura. Also reworking all existing cutscenes is too much hassle. But I guess we can oversee that the character appears right handed in them.

[GrumbleBeard]

I'd love new character creator options. New hair, facial hair, tattoos, more sliders. Hell I'd love to see a third subrace be added to each existing race that mixes things up a bit.

Unfortunately, you're going to run into some problems.
-muh servers!
-muh budget!
-muh dev time!
-muh priorities!
-muh limitations!

While there may be ways around some or all of these things, they only need to cherry pick one of them to have an excuse to NEVER EVER your hopes and dreams into oblivion.

[Rongway]

Of these suggestions, implementing a left-handed setting would probably demand the fewest dev resources.

[Theodric]

I'd be fine with more facial customisation.

We need more tattoos, facial hair options for male characters, more scars...

It'd certainly be better than getting hairstyles and little else. Especially when many new hairstyles are designed with feminine character models in mind.