Request for More Character Customization Options

[TheDustyOne]

Here's my wishlist:

• Separate height into Torso Height and Leg Height. This may not be as feasible with seated animations, but it'd be nice to have some visual variety there where I could make someone just a little more squat or leggy.
• Waist slider. Nothing crazy, just let me be a little slimmer or a little wider.
• Hip/Butt slider. Practically a meme at this point, but seriously, our glutes are pitiful. Being able to widen the hips would be a bonus.
• Muscle definition. Currently the muscle sliders are only for a few races, but they also only affect the normal map and don't affect geometry. It'd be nice (if difficult) to have someone completely buff rather than just toned.
• Faces. Lots of faces. Every race only has about 4 (sans midlanders, not sure of any other exceptions), and female Elezen really only have 2; the other 2 are the same as the first ones but with makeup. Also highlander men still need an option for eyebrows, lore be damned. Separating the horns from Au Ra would be nice too, give them more horns while we're at it.
• Extra tweakable options to the faces. By this I mean more eye shapes, mouth shapes, nose shapes, eyebrows, etc. Only having like 4-6 options is pitiful and you could easily extend those options with proper sliders instead to affect their height, width, and shape.
• Decals. Scars, tattoos, extra scales/body hair/fur patches, there's a lot you can do here. Ideally, let us have as many as we want on our character and let us have some degree of freedom in placement, within reason. I can forgive Square for not letting us place body hair in our nether regions, but I'd like it if I could put a tattoo damn near anywhere.
• Beards. We need the option for thick, bushy beards, not just stubbles and short beards. I'd probably swap back to my male highlander more if I could give him a proper beard.
• Overhaul face paint. Why can I only select one type of makeup and colour? I'm fairly sure my character is capable of blue eye shadow and red blush if she really wanted.

[ThatOneDiviner]

Here's my wishlist:

• Faces. Lots of faces. Every race only has about 4 (sans midlanders, not sure of any other exceptions), and female Elezen really only have 2; the other 2 are the same as the first ones but with makeup. Also highlander men still need an option for eyebrows, lore be damned. Separating the horns from Au Ra would be nice too, give them more horns while we're at it.

God, I feel like I'm going insane every time I have to tell non fem elezen players about that neat 'trivia' thing but yes. That's been driving me up a wall ever since I realized it. Which is especially insane, given how male elezen have some of the most differentiated facial options available to players with the grandpa face and the visibly younger face. All while the two middle-ground adult male elezen faces remain distinguishable from each other too.

Beyond that, it's also sad to me that we haven't gotten a better variety of hairstyles in a while. Most noticeably - black hairstyles. Other games manage to do this and keep it within poly count. If Wizard101 can do it, then XIV doesn't really have an excuse. Clever use of textures can do a lot of the heavy lifting for you if you absolutely need to, but it's not 2013 anymore. The poly excuse doesn't really hold water there.

For a game that heavily advertises its story and the importance of the WoL/PC and being able to roleplay as them, it's really hard to get into it because of how lacking the CC options are in game.

[VyelChuChu]

I definitely also want to support the suggestions of separating features like au-ra horns and hrothgar hair/whiskers/the fore-head horn from face types!