Separate Au Ra horns from Face

[Iscah]

An NPC is one object, while a player character is a pile of objects that all have to load in at the same time. It's like the difference between unpacking an action figure or a Lego kit.

I don't think that's the case. NPCs are still built with the same collection of individual settings as player-characters, which you can look up on sites like Garland Tools; however, the devs have the ability to apply a custom face to them, and actually seem to have more settings rather than less. (Picking whether the NPC is an adult, child or elderly body type, for example.)

I would guess that the difference is that they don't need to be transmitted to other players' computers because the appearance data is already there locally, so it can afford to be a larger amount of data than player characters.

[DarkMasamune]

I gotta say that I agree with OP ; being able to choose whatever horns we'd like to have, like viera ears for exemple, would be great.

[Gararr]

Hoping that with 7.0 they completely revamp and update the character creator. It still annoys me that there is only one Au Ra face that I like and I am stuck with horns that I don\\'t like.

Don't get your hopes up. 7.0 will add Female Hrothgar, and SE doesn't like to do more work than what their simps will excuse.

Since that FemHroth will be 7.0, expect any expansions to the creator to be 8.0 at the earliest. So another 3 years.

Please understand they don't have the budget for more as a poor small indie dev. You'd nor want to make yoshi cry on stream would you? :

[XianRo]

Don't get your hopes up. 7.0 will add Female Hrothgar, and SE doesn't like to do more work than what their simps will excuse.

Since that FemHroth will be 7.0, expect any expansions to the creator to be 8.0 at the earliest. So another 3 years.

Please understand they don't have the budget for more as a poor small indie dev. You'd nor want to make yoshi cry on stream would you? :

Its literally so stupid.
Like...the game has 27M subscribers. It must be making hundreds of millions in sub fees every month not to mention everything GOOD is generally an $18 minimum online store purchase.
They can absolutely afford to overhaul the CC for 7.0, they could certainly afford to extend the next patches maintenance a few hours to get hrothgar hair unlocked from their faces (coughgangosnpcshavebeenherewithunlockedhairsince5.25cough) in addition to freeing au ra from the shackles of "I adore this face but do not vibe with the horns".
Since they never have to make another Ultimate now that its impossible for raiders to play this game with 146 m*ds active they can spend more time making the cc engine not so dang lame

[SturmChurro]

Its literally so stupid.
Like...the game has 27M subscribers.

I don't think this game has 27 million subs..

[XianRo]

I don't think this game has 27 million subs..

right yes 27M PLAYERS, but Im sure the vast majority pay a sub.
Even if it were half that number thatd still be hundreds of millions a month.

[Vahlnir]

right yes 27M PLAYERS, but Im sure the vast majority pay a sub.
Even if it were half that number thatd still be hundreds of millions a month.

We might have that many accounts created, which is something that SE boasts about regularly, but we have nowhere near that many active subscribers. Both of those are two completely different things. 27 million just looks better for advertising. We don't have even half that number for active subs, or even close to half. Most likely a few million at most, which is still profitable, I'm sure, and respectable in this day and age when MMOs as a whole are on their way out the door. But they'll be back. I truly believe that.

[Sheriyana]

100% in support of being able to choose the specific horns we want. How this wasn't thought of during the race's creation back in Heavensward is a mystery to me. Tails should never have taken precedence over horn customization. I would have thought such things would be glaringly obvious.

It was literally talked about by the devs before the expansion came out but guess it turned out too difficult or whatever. I remember they said they'd try to make it happen before expansion launch and I was very disappointed when the benchmark came out.

[HeyMcFly]

The whole character creator is so limited yet they have no problems making npcs with combinations that we can't use...

This right here should be top comment.

[HeyMcFly]

It was literally talked about by the devs before the expansion came out but guess it turned out too difficult or whatever. I remember they said they'd try to make it happen before expansion launch and I was very disappointed when the benchmark came out.

If the community that was upset about viera/hrothgar had been just as upset about au ra horns- we'd see it done