Petition To Expand Character Creator

[MOZZYSTAR]

give me a booty scale, and a chisel scale for non-hyur races that clearly have mooscles (like Miqo'te). I'd also like to change body shape a little if I wanted to, like broader chest, broader shoulders, tapered hips or something, or straight/rectangular/etc.


I'd also like more skin colours. Like super pale and super dark (wasn't there a dark inky skintone for miqote's that they paled/dimmed down?).


Also, different types of ears not subjected to change via hairstyle for miqo'tes.


AND ALSO -keeps rambling on forever in a day-

[Ryaz]

But, but... Potato servers!!

SE would have to really invest time and money into overhauling things. Unlike Blizzard, they've shown that they are really unwilling to do that. They're very happy with the status quo and taking our money to fund other projects instead of investing it into FFXIV.

[Nyvara]

I would be happy with just unlocking all hair and facial hair.

I wish I could find it but I recall Yoshi saying something about how he wouldn't do that because it makes the characters look to real? That made no sense to me.

Also I find it really disturbing that for four year at least, perhaps longer (I'm fairly new) that the same excuses have been used for -everything- "blah blah servers". In all that time nothing has been upgraded?

[number473]

I would like some customization options relating to the character's animations. Specifically being able to choose your run animation, idle animations and so on separate from your race.

I'm not going to change my character's face at this point since it just seems right after all these years, but I do think that there should be more customization options. Especially I would like there to be some options for customizing body shape. I would even just like to make my character 5 to 10 cm taller.

It would be nice if they added more natural hair colours. There are plenty of options for weird colours like green or pink but comparatively few dark hair colours, specifically browns. I'd really like to see more options for natural looking brown and black hair.

[Awful]

I think a texture revamp would heavily help this game a lot of the textures on the character, for example ears, feet, hands, are all very low poly same with the butt/arms SE needs to come out with a HD texture pack in order to implement such changes problem is they're still clinging onto server issues which I don't understand this excuse after 4ish years. Other things I'd like to see are:

-Dying in layers (basically what GW2 has)
-More sliders and deeper character creation
-Revamped colors in the character creation (more vibrant colors using saturation etc)
-More facial options for males/females (more facial hair for men, more makeup options for women)
-Muscle sliders for all races
-Hair styles unlocked for every race

[Theodric]

It's going to be very interesting if we end up getting a new race added in 5.0 but no adjustments to the playable races that exist at the moment.

[Rokke]

It's going to be very interesting if we end up getting a new race added in 5.0 but no adjustments to the playable races that exist at the moment.

tbh I expect it. All races are human shaped so you have a base body, from there they just have to assign it’s designated “options” (ear length, tail shape/length, muscles etc) in the allocated space. They don’t take clipping into account if Au Ra are anything to go by so gear isn’t really altered and if it has the same # of options they don’t have to muck with existing coding. Its the easy way out.

Meanwhile, things I don't think we'll see (because it would involve 'new' data):

Au Ra horn options - they could have done this at the start instead of giving us a choice of tail shapes. They decided not to. I wonder if it was deliberate 'forced variety' so people wouldn't all gravitate to the one design of horns?

I wish they gave us horn options instead of the stupid limbal rings. Worrying about people gravitating towards a single pair of horns seems like a moot concern when in game the bulk of males and females I see use face 1

[Bahati]

-MORE FACE OPTIONS (I can't believe some races are still stuck with four... FOUR.)
-Muscle tone for non-hyur races (male and female)
-The abililty to have more than one face paint at a time (freckles AND eyeshadow? Too much to ask?)
-Option to set standard emotes by character (rather than stuck with whatever race/gender option)
-More voice options

I'm being modest here, most of this is just additions to what we already have or options we already have being unlocked for everyone.

[MsQi]

-MORE FACE OPTIONS (I can't believe some races are still stuck with four... FOUR.)
-Muscle tone for non-hyur races (male and female)
-The abililty to have more than one face paint at a time (freckles AND eyeshadow? Too much to ask?)
-Option to set standard emotes by character (rather than stuck with whatever race/gender option)
-More voice options

I'm being modest here, most of this is just additions to what we already have or options we already have being unlocked for everyone.

If they just separated some of the facial features it would feel like a lot more. Horns and face should be entirely separate, as should face and stripes for Miqo'te, among others.

complexion (skin features like freckles, etc.), cosmetics, and face paint should be separate things.

[Melichoir]

Id love for the character creator to be more nuanced. But as people pointed out, it would require a lot of work. Im not opposed to that, but revamping character creation does not seem like something SE is going to do pragmatically, particularly when the shelf life of MMOs is shrinking. I cant, honestly, remember any relatively modern MMO that redid its character creation other than WoW (at most) to the degree thats being asked for.