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    DynamoAce's Avatar
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    Ace Ark
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    Character Personality type inclusion?

    So this is a little idea that came to me from one of my previous threads on emotes.
    We already have some great customization for Character appearance, down to their appearance, face, voice, idle poses, sitting poses, etc. When it comes to that you could say that can give off a personality type of a character.

    What are your thoughts on personality types the way we do for our retainers? While we don't really get our own speech bubbles of text, maybe something to do with the way our characters carry themselves?

    To clarify I suppose through talking animations, walking/running animations, their usual face expression. Most of faces offered are usually straight faced, or very..angry looking. Maybe if we get an option of having the choice of their default expression being a smile (Not as exaggerated as when you use the emote), cocky smirk, somber, etc.
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    Last edited by DynamoAce; 07-26-2016 at 03:44 PM.

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    I LOVE THIS IDEA.
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    Crowe Valtyr
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    PLEASE even if it was just a small selection of options a la retainer personalities, it'd be fun :3c
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    Glad to hear it lol.
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    Great Idea!

    This is a really solid extension of the 'perma-expressions' emotes that I've seen mentioned before. I actually hadn't considered how we already have something like this for retainer creation. I'd really love it if the devs went all out for this concept and it did include things like idle poses, running animation, un-sheathed weapon pose, expression etc..
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    Talia Rai
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    I'm for this. DCUO has a similar function. It's a nice touch for character customization.


    Also a butt slider pls >.>
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    You're talking about such minor things like facial expressions or gestures. Some are mentioning entirely new animations for running, fighting, and poses. The amount of design time needed to make such insignificant changes isn't worth it in my opinion. We need meaningful end game content, new kinds of content, and countless other things the devs need to be working on. I could care less if my character smirks or smiles or frowns, or runs slightly differently. Who spends this much time staring at their character? It seems over half the recommendations on these forums are for more and more fluff content. I just don't understand how this impacts the enjoyment of the game at all. What is the psychological pay out for seeing my character run slightly different or stand slightly different? Sorry, I just dont get it. So many better ways for the dev team to spend their time.
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    Yes! I was hoping for something like that when I started the game and saw that I could choose a sentence in a cutscene.

    Quote Originally Posted by Krazymagic View Post
    You're talking about such minor things like facial expressions or gestures. Some are mentioning entirely new animations for running, fighting, and poses. The amount of design time needed to make such insignificant changes isn't worth it in my opinion. We need meaningful end game content, new kinds of content, and countless other things the devs need to be working on. I could care less if my character smirks or smiles or frowns, or runs slightly differently. Who spends this much time staring at their character? It seems over half the recommendations on these forums are for more and more fluff content. I just don't understand how this impacts the enjoyment of the game at all. What is the psychological pay out for seeing my character run slightly different or stand slightly different? Sorry, I just dont get it. So many better ways for the dev team to spend their time.
    You do realize that one thing doesn't HAVE to exclude others, right? The guy that model a pose is not the guy that make a concept art for a dungeon, nor is the guy that work on the mechanics, or the guy that makes the bgm, or the guy that writes the lore, or the guy that decides the map, or the guy that design bosses, or the guy that design outfits. etc, etc. Stop treating game developing like something that 5 people do and everyone do pretty much everything at the same time.
    If you play the game for beating monsters and get stats good for you, but this is a MMORPG, and many RPG fans play it and care about their character.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Krazymagic View Post
    You're talking about such minor things like facial expressions or gestures. Some are mentioning entirely new animations for running, fighting, and poses. The amount of design time needed to make such insignificant changes isn't worth it in my opinion.
    One of the very popular key selling points of many MMOs is freedom in character customization, especially when there are glamour systems. People love getting into that kind of thing. :P
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    Tani Shirai
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    I'd rather see development of this kind of stuff for our characters themselves, such that the player can select (from) different default facial expressions, different conditions for their change, maybe certain emotes shared across race and differentiated instead by personality type, etc. I've no real interest in these details in a bank-substitute, no matter how good their interest returns may be.
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