What I would like to see in Character Creation

[Enur]

While this does sound nice on paper it would require a massive amount of work.

We got 7 races (highlanders got unique emotes)

Lets say we got 20 emotes per race. Thats 140 animations if every race got one of the races animation sets. Multiply that by 7 and you got 980 animations the devs would have to make.

And thats not counting the genderspecific emotes. Then we would need 1960 animations

[Zojha]

While this does sound nice on paper it would require a massive amount of work.

While true, it's a lot less than you make it out to be, because most animations could simply be converted, rather than redone from scratch.

The main issue there would probably be Lalafell, since they're the most "deformed" of the races. Not sure if those could be converted without looking choppy or otherwise awkward. Might well be they don't even have a compatible skeleton.

[Shikiseki]

While this does sound nice on paper it would require a massive amount of work.

We got 7 races (highlanders got unique emotes)

Lets say we got 20 emotes per race. Thats 140 animations if every race got one of the races animation sets. Multiply that by 7 and you got 980 animations the devs would have to make.

And thats not counting the genderspecific emotes. Then we would need 1960 animations

Well that seemingly doesn't stop NPCs that use other race specific animations and emotes like that midlander dude from the scholasticate questline using highlander poses and npc unique emotes (why is that even a thing...).


I'd like to see more cross options like many others that'd be really cool. Making a roegadyn lalafell? a highlander kitty girl? an eleezen aura? To be fair since we won't get a new race, they could put effort into doing that instead (unless there's going to be a surprise strike of Viera with that upcoming Return to Ivalice Raid)