What do would you like to see added to the character creator?

[KisaiTenshi]

I only have one thing to ask.

WHERE THE BLOODY 'ELL ARE MY DRILL CURLS SE?!

Yes Please.

1. You're definitely not wrong it's not that major with an except of the Au Ra, but it is a notable enough difference. I'm not going to lie, I made that point with the Au Ra specifically in mind (Honestly this thread was originally going to be just about them), but I got to thinking, "There was a girl a while back that wanted to be as tall as her husband when they're both Miqo'te, so I should probably list is under the "All race" idea. I mean, plus it's still noticable to the point where things can get a little annoying if you want to be a girl and also be as tall as the guys of the same race. It works in the inverse as well, Perhaps you're a guy Roegadyn and want to be as short as the girl, well they're still a 9 inch difference, which is pretty noticeable! One particular issue I have with the "Age-slider" concept is it's ultimately limiting, say someone wants to be big and tall and have a baby face, for humor or whatever reason, well it's come into conflict a good bit with the age-slider controlling too much like say the face and height. It'd be better to just have the height slider imho, it adds more options without limiting them as well.

The reason I phrased it the way I did earlier was because "youthful" characters tend to be around the same height, and so are elderly. The intent was to change the extents of the height slider by that factor. After playing Aion, I do really think it can become ridiculous. Customization is great until you have people making purposely awful choices.

2. Oh of course clipping is a concern, but so many things already clip in the game (Hint never wear robes in a windy area if it bugs you), the addition of a few more things wouldn't hurt honestly, especially if it opens the door for more customization options.

I mean, would a short tail option really interfere with the animations that much?

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I'm a little curious with regards to the gear from 1.0 being worn by the Au Ra, does it lack a butt or not?

The way the game is designed, is that the tail is "glued on" part of the base model. But the "alligator tail" on the Auri just looks absolutely awful, being the only tail that doesn't have the same shape as the Miqo'te. Like seriously who designed this and went "oh we can just leave this bizarre curved gap between the butt and the tail.

Hence why this thread will devolve into a Miqo'te and Auri butt argument. Which the developer at some point earlier in the forum (October 2013, so launch time) did say why they did this:

Hello,
Lead designer Takeo Suzuki here.

We understand that you all care deeply for the detail and shape of your characters, and while the development team is really happy about this, we would like to keep the specifications for character’s butts as they are.

I’d like to explain a bit about why we changed the shape of character model’s butts. It all began when Yoshi-P and the character team sat down and reconsidered what should be prioritized for players when we moved from 1.0 to A Realm Reborn.

Based on this discussion it was decided to place emphasis on the below:
• New races (male Miqo’te, female Highlanders, and female Roegadyn.)
• Increase the amount of content and the amount of reward items (equipment and weapons)
(We want to make a team that can create more than four times the amount of rewards compared to what there was originally.)

As a result of thinking about what could be done to fulfill the above objectives all while converting everything over and optimizing all the data by completely remaking the graphics engine, we decided to reduce the cost by simplifying items that were too complex when making them. One aspect of this was the graphical display of waist equipment.

I deeply apologize for those of you who were really partial to what Miqo’tes looked like in 1.0, but this decision was made so we could relaunch with new races and a lot of new equipment. We will be implementing a wide variety of really cool looking equipment moving forward, and we appreciate your understanding on this.