[DEV REQUEST] Balancing Character Customization

[Shurrikhan]

But... all of the races are humanoid, with maybe the exception of the lalafelin baby-faces...

And don't most active players play the tailed races? ._.

I am not claiming otherwise. I am only saying that clearly there are certain approaches to how development time for character design choices is allotted, and maybe, just maybe, there's a good reason those are taken over a quota system.

Did <furry-scaled-tailed race 2> get 6 face, 5 tattoo, 4 jaw options? But they already have the same total components? I said 6 face options!
Did <tail-less hairless race 1> get their 4 tail options? No? Because they have no tails?! Madness!

If anyone really want a specific face or scale design or tail type and think that others would similarly feel more manifested in or attached to their characters if it were implemented—or even just a type or feel thereof—they ought merely to suggest it. Or one could point out what appears to be missing from the coverage of the race. But "give us as many face options as the humans" (in my, entirely personal, opinion, 6 variants of derp) is just not likely to get what you're looking for. The developers of these assets most likely stopped where they did because they thought they'd more or less covered their bases. You can prove them wrong, you can throw out some lucratives.

Nor can one rightly claim unfairness when far more players will benefit from a given allotment of development time, or, on the other end, the "less supported" race already necessitates additional customization categories or greater work per option (less the case in our mostly unvaried races, apart from the initial investment of tails, for which they allot no time for anti-clipping after 1.x, horns, and relative armor rescaling, largely for varying headsizes and male au'ra triangle heads*).

*Probably not a big deal really; I just felt like poking fun.