Portraits were better in Beta. Your design is ridiculous.

[GTK0HLK]

Just came back to the game after awhile, what are portraits? What's the point of them?

I've seen them pop up and annoy me but like whats the point?

you can turn it off in the options.
In short it's just a Card/Identification/Presentation of your character to who ever is in your duty that supports it.

So like the adventplate, but it's only the image.
Had they gotten this right, there would be really no excuse for anyone to NOT have it.
But as it is. it's a real pain, even for those who would do it constantly/persistently/with effort(outside of the RPworlds).

Practically just like locked glamour, it shouldnt work that way.

So much pains.
[though not as much as it would be for the Fantasia Addicts. But on that note, someone not having a adventplate set up is just as annoying]

[Ivtrix]

I really don’t understand what they are thinking with it being tied to your gear sets

I don’t know why you can’t just have a universal one

The menu and system is needlessly complicated and restrictive

[GeorgieGorge]

you can turn it off in the options.
In short it's just a Card/Identification/Presentation of your character to who ever is in your duty that supports it.

So like the adventplate, but it's only the image.
Had they gotten this right, there would be really no excuse for anyone to NOT have it.
But as it is. it's a real pain, even for those who would do it constantly/persistently/with effort(outside of the RPworlds).

Practically just like locked glamour, it shouldnt work that way.

So much pains.
[though not as much as it would be for the Fantasia Addicts. But on that note, someone not having a adventplate set up is just as annoying]

Thanks for your explanation.

However with all the stuff wrong with this game, they add so many useless features. I don't need to see what someone's character looks like, I can just look at them lmao.

[Packetdancer]

I said it before: the weird thing is the system already can work simply off of the pose and apply whatever glam you are wearing. It just doesnt use this to work properly. If you have a working portrait, change your glam, update your gearset and then look at your portraits it shows you a preview of how that portrait would look with the updated glam but you still have to hit save on the portrait aswell. It's just doesnt function for 0 reason.

My gut feeling is that saving the portrait actually saves it to the server, and that there's a sanity check of "does the checksum for the gear in the portrait match the checksum for the gear you're wearing" (basically the same check that turns the Update Gearset button active on the character panel), and if it comes back with "nope" it then probably uses a default portrait.

Which... I get the design. I do. I understand why it would be that way, from a development standpoint.

But it is super annoying in implementation nonetheless, and I feel like most of my personal annoyance could've been avoided by just... using the stored portrait 100% of the time, even if your gear/glamour has changed.