Petition To Expand Character Creator

[Kirsten_Rev]

I want to start this thread to see just how many people are in the same mindset and that it hopefully gets seen by the forums team and passed along someday.

If you are in favor of the dev team undertaking the big revamp of current models and gear, gives this post a thumbs-up/like and leave what you personally would like to see added to the creator as a reply.

I personally want variety in the body shape/weight. As it stands the only selection you get on body types/shapes is only by picking the different races.

Then my next big thing is accommodating the choice of out character being left or right handed. I know it takes a little more work than just mirroring all the animations and models but as a lefty I feel a little disconnected from playing a right handed avatar.

I'd like to see this, but only in the context of a total overhaul of the graphics engine and underlying infrastructure. If they wanted to hold off on content for a year to eliminate the atrocious clipping, design high-resolution textures for the environment and player gear, rebuild game assets around more flexible model choices (so as to allow for weight sliders, truly non-humanoid races, etc.), address monster draw distance algorithms throughout the entire game, etc., then I'm all for it.

Alas, for a one-off, I don't think it's an efficient use of developer time.

[Rufalus]

The official SE stance though is the server hamsters would all die horrible deaths trying to load more character data.

They get this request a lot. Real official stance is it will be a lot of work and hard to do, but maybe someday as part of a wider overhaul. So it's a no for any time soon but not absolutely saying never.

[Tint]

I don't think a complete rework is a wise decision.

But I would like more tattoos and facial markings. They only add new hairstyles with patches, why not expand the other already existing options too?

Also removal of that stupid sandals so we can finally be barefoot!

I also would like to have left handed characters. The rework of the animations should not be a huge problem, but this would also be a new option in character creation and they couldn't even seperate horns from faces for Aura. Also reworking all existing cutscenes is too much hassle. But I guess we can oversee that the character appears right handed in them.

[GrumbleBeard]

I'd love new character creator options. New hair, facial hair, tattoos, more sliders. Hell I'd love to see a third subrace be added to each existing race that mixes things up a bit.

Unfortunately, you're going to run into some problems.
-muh servers!
-muh budget!
-muh dev time!
-muh priorities!
-muh limitations!

While there may be ways around some or all of these things, they only need to cherry pick one of them to have an excuse to NEVER EVER your hopes and dreams into oblivion.

[Rongway]

Of these suggestions, implementing a left-handed setting would probably demand the fewest dev resources.

[Theodric]

I'd be fine with more facial customisation.

We need more tattoos, facial hair options for male characters, more scars...

It'd certainly be better than getting hairstyles and little else. Especially when many new hairstyles are designed with feminine character models in mind.

[Raikai]

One thing they could add, and it wouldn't - necessarily - require a big overhaul is more options for faces, face paints, eyebrows, eye and mouth shapes.

Seriously, you can only go too far with just 4 face options.

But in an ideal world, we could have sliders.

[Edax]

Can this game engine handle scarfs? That would be a neat detail to add to the game.

Oh and arm and leg tattoos please. I really was a fan of the designs of Till the End of Time.

[HyoMinPark]

I’d like to see more options added to the existing races in character creator:
—Unlock the race-exclusive hairstyles (hairstyles don’t make a race)
—Add more faces
—Add more options for faces (e.g., add the option to remove clan markings from Miqo’te the same way one can remove some of the scales on some of the Au Ra faces)
—Add more options for tattoos (body tattoos, not just face tattoos)
—Allow us to have more options for face paints (why can I only apply eyeliner/eye shadow or only blush?)
—HD textures for our character models
—Revamp the hands and feet: my character’s fingers are like sausages and she doesn’t have actual toes, just darker pixels painted onto her feet to make it look like she has toes
—Get rid of the perma-sandals


That’s just a few things I would like.

[Dornob]

I personally would like for them to expand on the emote examples when you choose a voice set, like at the very least showing a few more emotes to test the voices with. Also testing for battle grunts/voices would be very much appreciated.