Please add various body shapes and skin options in character creation

[s32ialx]

You do realize changing to highlander changes most animations and various other race options, right? It's not the same thing. Regardless, Miqo'te and Au'ra have the same issue and they do not have a larger size option, so your point is moot.

Exactly it's bad enough the vanilla characters look young as it is without having the special people who use the dark magix to make themselves look even younger. Thankfully the thing I see most people who use dark magix is to look more fuller and older more mature, so just give us those options less reasons to use dark magix means less reason to run into creeps.

[Underscore]

Currently, XIV is operating on a limited budget and adding something new or different is going to cost us something
This game can only be improved by leaving something else by the wayside, it's just how it is with the budget/manpower they have

It would be great to have something like what you proposed, but I'm not sure if a solution like that is realistic considering how afraid of clipping the devs are

They can add new features just fine, especially easy stuff like this. What did we lose in exchange for second dye slots, facewear or the strategy board for a few examples?

Clipping shouldn't be a problem either, since the feature OP is requesting would simply adjust the scale values of the character's skeleton. This would automatically adjust gear along with the base body, because on the backend they're essentially the same thing. Whether they use sliders with fixed constraints (like the bust slider) or a selection of presets, it wouldn't be very difficult to prevent people from going overboard.

[Gaiinahat]

I would be happy if they would just smooth out the octagon-shaped arms and legs. It's 2026. Walking around in a Roblox body is just so 2006.

[Luna-Mare]

I'm an apple-shaped female and when I read these things, (100% my fault), it absolutely kills me. We have no hips and no butt and large and wide waists, slender limbs and decent-enough-to-Nophica boobs. I'm 36, my thighs are the same as when I was 12, and I can't particularly say I've ever equated that to looking like a teenager. But ignoring that, other than her small boobs and height, I find Alisaie's body-type pretty relatable. The female characters in game, especially Middies, Highlanders, Au ra and lalafell have waaay more hip and butt than me (and while it looks way better than my body, it bothers me and makes me think there is something wrong with my body). I have no curve in the back that all the girls seem to have, so I assume that's what gives me the illusion of them having a butt and in-game I usually wear dresses and skirts, which emphasize the hips, so probably adding to that illusion. I think I like maining lala because they have a more normal-to-me waist, despite having a more typical pear-shape. I think people should be able to have larger boobs, hips, thighs and butts, but I want a slider that goes the other way, too and a waist and height slider, as well. Only upper-height Middies can be my height and I hate it T.T More options the better!

As for the skin/hair/eyes, I really like the idea of having an RGB-color wheel picker over what we have now. I can never find the shade I want, even if it seems like we should be able, too... >.<

[Absurdity]

I would find it superior if we had a color wheel to choose skin tone than the grid pattern we have. I do find it lacking.

Even with hair, sometimes it is so hard to find that exact shade you are looking for.

It's probably a grid pattern for the exact same reason why body sliders would need to be limited, to prevent neon purple abominations.
So if they added a colour wheel it would have to come with heavy constraints.

[s32ialx]

It's probably a grid pattern for the exact same reason why body sliders would need to be limited, to prevent neon purple abominations.
So if they added a colour wheel it would have to come with heavy constraints.

who cares let people be neon, have you not seem the crazy ass colours some of the races can already be.... have you not been to sol9 where they have neon hair....

[Doopliss]

I'm an apple-shaped female and when I read these things, (100% my fault), it absolutely kills me. We have no hips and no butt and large and wide waists, slender limbs and decent-enough-to-Nophica boobs. I'm 36, my thighs are the same as when I was 12, and I can't particularly say I've ever equated that to looking like a teenager. But ignoring that, other than her small boobs and height, I find Alisaie's body-type pretty relatable. The female characters in game, especially Middies, Highlanders, Au ra and lalafell have waaay more hip and butt than me (and while it looks way better than my body, it bothers me and makes me think there is something wrong with my body). I have no curve in the back that all the girls seem to have, so I assume that's what gives me the illusion of them having a butt and in-game I usually wear dresses and skirts, which emphasize the hips, so probably adding to that illusion. I think I like maining lala because they have a more normal-to-me waist, despite having a more typical pear-shape. I think people should be able to have larger boobs, hips, thighs and butts, but I want a slider that goes the other way, too and a waist and height slider, as well. Only upper-height Middies can be my height and I hate it T.T More options the better!

As for the skin/hair/eyes, I really like the idea of having an RGB-color wheel picker over what we have now. I can never find the shade I want, even if it seems like we should be able, too... >.<

I don't have your body type but I also thought equating things like hips and thigh size with age was an eye-rolling comment, but I won't say anything more on that. Still, I am sorry by how frequently you likely have to read claims like that, considering they've gotten increasingly more common on the internet in recent years.

That being said, I'm also for more options in general (though I admit I prefer the game's aesthetic and clan distinctions keeping some consistency). With how gear is fitted in this game, I do worry about the possibility though. Mostly because when it comes to adjusting bodies for special NPCs like Hien or Sphene, there tends to be issues with neck seams outside of their customized gear...

[Absurdity]

who cares let people be neon

I do, I'd rather not have walking crimes against the eyes.

have you not seem the crazy ass colours some of the races can already be....

I have, and those colours are all reasonable for what skin tones their respective races can have. Sure, Sea Wolf Roegadyn and Raen can be green, but it's certainly not neon green.

have you not been to sol9 where they have neon hair....

Solution 9's entire existence was a mistake.

Mostly because when it comes to adjusting bodies for special NPCs like Hien or Sphene, there tends to be issues with neck seams outside of their customized gear...

That doesn't come from anything to do with body scaling, it's their custom faces. The developers give them their own unique head model but because they're supposed to only wear this specific outfit (which conveniently covers the neck) they never bother to fix the texture seam.
Or their head wasn't made to fit on the normal player body in the first place, so the two meshes never connect properly.

[Astronis]

It's probably a grid pattern for the exact same reason why body sliders would need to be limited, to prevent neon purple abominations.
So if they added a colour wheel it would have to come with heavy constraints.

It wouldn't lead to abominable neon skin colors if they changed the current swatches to a color picker with the same color range. Just more options within the same confines.

I'm an apple-shaped female and when I read these things, (100% my fault), it absolutely kills me. We have no hips and no butt and large and wide waists, slender limbs and decent-enough-to-Nophica boobs. I'm 36, my thighs are the same as when I was 12, and I can't particularly say I've ever equated that to looking like a teenager.

There are a lot of people who don't seem to grasp that female au ra aren't "young girl" shaped, they are "attractive adult Japanese woman" shaped. Same as the people who think female midlanders are unhealthily thin. No they aren't! You're just used to seeing people who are a lot bigger!

I just don't think the devs can, at this point, really build different body shapes and have all the armor look good on them. They already have trouble with that with the shapes we have. Would be nice if that weren't so!

[CCheshire]

They can add new features just fine, especially easy stuff like this. What did we lose in exchange for second dye slots, facewear or the strategy board for a few examples?

Clipping shouldn't be a problem either, since the feature OP is requesting would simply adjust the scale values of the character's skeleton. This would automatically adjust gear along with the base body, because on the backend they're essentially the same thing. Whether they use sliders with fixed constraints (like the bust slider) or a selection of presets, it wouldn't be very difficult to prevent people from going overboard.

I mean, there were a few posts explaining that it would need to add a new skeleton to all the races along with them having to adjust all leg animations, and that even dual dye system is terrible already, and they really tried with that one for old gears.