Thread: Request: 2.0 Character Creation option, Left Handed.

Originally Posted by AdventZero

Just a simple request from a left handed person to the FFXIV dev team that I hope they'll really think about. It's alwase bothered me in games that let you make your own character that I could never pick to us my real main hand in game too, it seems almost unfair really, yes lefty's are rare but that doesn't mean we should be completly ignored just because of that, and with 2.0 getting a new creation system I feel this is my last chance to get to use my blade in my true main hand, my left hand.

I know that there are better things SE could focus on, but this is a now or never kind of thing, so please give it some thought.


(Not sure if general discussions is the right place for a request or not, couldn't see anywhere else that looked right).

I'm sorry if someone has already said this, but I only glanced over the few pages this thread has created, but simply put:

When FFXIV, FFXI, WoW, Aion, Archlord, Moshi Monsters or whatever send information between your computer and the servers they use 'Packets'. These packets contain the necessary data for the server to do what you expect, this is a number of things:

Text, Movement, Character Data, Position, Rotation, etc.

ALL of your characters unique information that is constantly being changed is being sent in these 'packets', so whenever you start adding in more character customization options, armour pieces, etc. the packets become heavier as more data is added, which would in turn create 'lag' as the packets would require more time to transfer between yourself and the servers.

TLDR

The more you add, the more strain it puts on the servers creating lag.

Source:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_packet
http://searchnetworking.techtarget.c...inition/packet