[SUGGESTION] Character creation needs an overhaul/rework/more options

[BluexBird]

I think we have more than enough skin tones. More body types would be nice. But I think what we REALLY need are better beard options. Come onnn, SE! Give us the beards!

[Hanayumi]

Heres hoping they'll look into improving currrent races once femhroth drops, guessing in 7.0, so maybe by 8.0 and beyond for any character improvements if they do...

[Pip_Chick]

I would like:

- more fur textures and colours for Hrothgar
- some different textured ears for Viera
- an option for dog ears on Miquo'te
- a tall female Au'Ra with maybe some red scales (like the one in the concept art)
- perhaps a dog head for Hrothgar too
- an option for the Hrothgar to not have a hunch
- an Elezen with "fixed" proportions and longer ears
- better-looking beards
- good-looking eyebrows for all races
- eyebrows for Highlander
- a more muscled female Roegadin body option
- give some better shape to Roegadin male (other than refrigerators)
- fix the male Au'ra run animation
- decouple horns from faces for Au'ra
- add a tail option for Viera
- fix the Hrothgar battle animations that make our spine break
- add a slimmer option for Hrothgar

I think that sums up what I would like to see as options, besides the spine-breaking animations (that one should be a must)

[Seelie]

Made an account just to add to/bump this thread.
I would really, really love to simply have more options, and to see outdated customization options replaced with better ones.

Most of my suggestions have been said already, but I'd still make them again just for the sake of it.

1.) More face presets for every race. Since male midlanders get....7 now? I think it would be fair for everyone else to have that many, at least. I feel like people get very attached to their faces in this game, and it would be nice if we could all feel just a bit more distinct.

2.) Obligatory: More default hairs, and more unlockable hairs, specifically long ones! I would personally like to have some long braids or twintails, but just a variety of longer hairs in general would be super nice.

3.) I'm not sure how much sense this suggestion will make, but I think it would be nice if the color options are overhauled and updated. I'm very picky about how colors look in this game, and with the addition of viera it has become extremely obvious that the skintone options of the 2.0 races are noticeably wonky. The viera have a much nicer selection than anyone else, a wider variety of undertones to their skin, and overall they just look a lot more realistic to human skin. 2.0 races are plagued by a lack of undertone consideration, causing many tones to look kind of unreal or fake. Alongside that, the hair colors are also just extremely limited. I do think a sophisticated color wheel could solve some of these problems, but I'll settle even for an updated palette.

4.) More customization for scars/freckles/moles/makeup/eyebrows/eyelashes would be super nice!!! And I'd really like to see the "lipstick" overhauled completely...sometimes you can make it work, but most of the time it just doesnt look like lipstick at all.

5.) More tail/ear/etc options for everyone!!! Spots, fluff, whatever!!!

6.) I think they'd have a difficult time with adding more sliders, but I'd be very happy if they added a "body type" selection some day, even if the options don't have a huge range, it would be nice to have any variation at all.

7.) The default "room" for the character creator menu is notoriously bad. I know you can switch to the "gridania" area to have a better look at the colors you're picking, but since the default is still that dark aetheric sea, I really think it ought to be updated. There is no good reason for you to customize your character in a poorly lit void that warps the colors of everything you're looking at. I hope it will be updated and fixed alongside the rest of the lighting in the game.

[Themarvin]

Usually it is kept more simple in MMOs due to the resource and impact on others on having to load/register a gazillion extra things may cause lag and performance drops as well as putting stress onto the servers, especially in severe populated areas.

So it is something to think about as well, first of all update what we got... then look into what else can be done.

[boopadoop]

character models with higher polygon count and updated textures especially on the hyur would be phenomenal even
and ppppppppuhhhlease different body types
i'm not asking for obese characters but they are ALL hella lithe, let us have some hips and thighs, it's not fair that the male au'ra hog them all the thigh meat.

but yes the textures on our faces
some of them are absolutely horrendous
PLEASE
the highlanders SUFFER immensely
and the youthful male elezan face is hideous, what are those eyebrows?????
the faces with really weird dark blotchiness across their cheeks needs to go, add it to skin details - things like eyebags, heavy tired eyes, better blush, scars and wounds or other blemishes, better freckles, all separate from makeups and face pains - and layering face paints and/or makeups please

and. options in the faces that are more varied? i LOOOOVE droopy eyes but there's not a lot of options for that, esp in miqo'te, i sad. give me soft, droopy eyes. and different JAWS. all our jawlines are like.........v's for females. u know, just a complete overhaul where we can sculpt our own faces to a certain degree would be amazing and allow us more variety :t things i want from my character: droopy eyes, somewhat square jaw or round chin instead of pointy, noses that are kinda arched or hooknose for everyone, wider noses for certain races ahem

just
idk man
our char creation is super outdated
even wow has updated their models and textures
they still look kinda super ass and creepy eyes but
please i am begging
let us be prettier (or intentionally uglier or more rugged) and up to the quality of newer npcs with unique heads
and for the love of jeebus let us adjust the shoulder and hip width
elezen shoulders are hideous and heads way too small and necks too long
roe ladies would be lovelier IMO with an option of wider hips
seriously wider hips and i'll hop on board
they can have boobs but no hips i can't stand it here

and of course
EVERYONE
literally eVERYONE
deserves a booty buff
like a permanent perpetual booty buff not a piece of glam
seriously on our gear there's so much room for a booty to be there and it wouldn't ruin LITERALLY ANYTHING because have u seen the gap between the bottom of chest piece armor and the giant gap between it and our practically concave booties?? MERCY

look
even just being able to legally scale the bones of our models wouldn't ruin the meshes of our armors too much
i have seen. pictures. ok. it works as long as you don't go overboard, mostly bc of our low poly parts looking funky

literally i do not care if every 7.0 resource is dedicated to giving us better polygons across bodies AND armors (for da love of mog give the bust of the summer indigo shirt a few more too) IT'S COOL IT'S FINE I CAN WAIT FOR CONTENT JUST JUST MAKE US LOOK BETTER

i wuv my buns but i do not want dorito jaw+chin please let me become more square lol

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA


also we deserve better hands and feet

*also*, if y'all reworked the char creator and allowed us more control of the shape of our characters' faces and bodies and just gave us overall better optipns and variety then it might significantly reduce the desirability of mods for a number of people who just want simple things and improvements. it'd be less tempting for those of us who do want to abide by tos ..

it'd also be really cool if we could change hairstyles a little bit in specific parts like in picrews to choose different bangs/ fringes or hair pieces that frame the face. i dont like a lot of hairs specifically for the fringe or lack of framing hair like the alma hairstyle on miqote and viera just looks so awful and would be tons cuter if we could have loose face-framing hair. or even the contest hair with the side ponytail if i could change a different fringe i'd love wearing that. and the new island sanctuary ponytail makes me irrationally angry bc the face framing hair pieces are so floaty and off the face and imo only looks pretty good on lalafell but on miqo and viera once again looks icky icky ick

[Antonio_Xul]

I can’t believe it took this long for someone to mention Elezen necks, but we need a slider for that to make them shorter or if you would like even longer.

One thing that hasn’t been mentioned is maybe an option for different movements & poses. The Elezen suffer from some of the worst movements in game. Please give us an option for different animations. It should based on character attitudes. Not all Elezen should be some posh, fancy boy or girl. My character is supposed to be a scrappy, tough guy, but our awkward movements just make me cringe. I have to run around with my weapon drawn, so I can change how I run & walk. Please add an animation option. I know other races also dislike certain animations from their characters, so I know I’m not alone in this.

Another thing I’m surprised no one mentioned is maybe add a 3rd clan per race. We know some exist like that Roegadyn Samurai we met in Stormblood (I forgot his name) who was with Yugiri. That type of Roegadyn is currently uncreatable. That suggests it’s a different clan. How about adding it to the game along with all other races. It would add some new flavor to the game seeing completely new versions of races we’ve grown to love.

[boopadoop]

boop because i am Desperate

[Chloe_Saunders]

To be honest I think a. Humans should get to be like the girl in heavenward half elf, elfs should get an add on to appear with horns like conjuring guild
Scales on Audra should have color options
Split tattoos and makeup catagorys, add ninja class as a start, more height options for each race I feel like while there is average height our characters could realistic my be smaller or taller than the normal, personally I'd like age sliders to change up how different we all are, at least young/old stuff
Add a scars category
nd add a tattoo category
Add body jewelry
And I'm good

[Milus]

Better light in the character creator, how many of you took ''hours'' trying to pick your skintone to it looks nothing like you tought it was going to look like in the actual game?