Request for More Character Customization Options

[TBerry]

I'd like to have muscle tone sliders for all races.

[Gourdian]

- blue tongues for f raen and black sclera for f xaela. one of the most arbitrary and disappointing gendered differences in the game to me since I picked it up
- better eyebrows, especially for races like f miqo, m au ra, m viera
- tangentially related but fix the eyebrow makeup on m viera. it completely misaligns from where the actual eyebrows are giving you weird mismatching double eyebrows, so you cannot even use it to alleviate the thin eyebrows situation
- if not sliders, then ass options. feel like I should specify this includes guys
- curlier hair options including tightly curled hair
- nose options for flatter/lower nosebridges and also bigger, more pronounced/strongly defined noses
- old women
- posture adjustment for viera and hroth

& as for my most unrealistic ask, more varied body types. I think stockier/fatter au ra would be cute lol.

[Dagny]

A lot of really great suggestions so far, thanks everyone!

[CaptainLagbeard]

Extend the bust slider into both directions.

Increase max tail length.

Tail girthwidth slider.

Instead of just having the eye, nose, jaw and mouth types, give us sliders for them. The current types can exist as presets.

[s32ialx]

I feel like with such a character focused game like FFXIV, that the character customization options are sometimes lacking. I'd like to see some more options when it comes to creating a character, such as having a character look older, or perhaps a different body type! Here's a small list of options I'd like to see:

• Separate Au ra horns from faces, so any face can use any horn type.
• Give all races 'limbal'-like options for eye glows or colors.
• Allow us to make our characters look older, or slightly thicker! I'd love for my au ra's tail to be even thicker, for example. I have some friends that RP older characters, it would be nice to see the wrinkles they're supposed to have in game.
• Add more facial make up options, and allow us to use multiple at once. Having blush and eyeshadow at the same time would be really nice!
• Allow for pronouns to be set separately from body type. If this is hard to do in character creation, you could have a Loporrit NPC in the over-world help you change it, maybe?

What other customization options would you like to see?

_copied from the other thread with the same premise_

Can we please get equal skin tone options across all races? This kind of visual segregation makes no sense.

Why can't I play a Keeper of the Moon with a warm white-tan skin tone? Why is that look only available to Keepers of the Sun, while Moon Keepers are stuck with pale or albino-looking options? And don't say it's because of "moon vs sun", if that were the case, Moon Keepers shouldn't be able to walk around in daylight. But they clearly have darker blue and melanin-rich skin tones, which proves they can handle sun exposure. Since melanin increases with sun exposure, there's no reason to restrict skin tones by race. Every skin tone should be available to every race. Stop limiting players based on arbitrary visuals.

While we're at it, what's going on with the eyes? You're making it so Sun Miqo'te can't see at night, and Moon Miqo'te are basically blind during the day. All Miqo'te and cat-like races should have the same eye structure, either slitted or round, or better yet, code it so their eyes adapt to day and night like lamps do. It would make way more sense and actually reflect their feline traits.

Also, who decided Sun Miqo'te don't have fangs? That makes the least sense of all. Fangs are a core part of their identity and biology. Removing them for one clan feels arbitrary and unnecessary.

And please don't use "lore" as an excuse. That's what clan marks are for. There are better ways to distinguish clans than limiting skin tones, fangs, or eye shapes. Real-world tribes and clans don't work like that visually. These features should be customizable for roleplay, not locked by race.

Why can't Moon Miqo'te have a clanless face option? Let players choose how they want their character to look without being boxed in by outdated presets.

Also, for Au Ra, if red and green skin is an option, then red and green scales and horns should be too. It’s a simple fix that would make customization more consistent and inclusive.

[Seelie]

I really hope that with the promise that they won't be adding any more playable races from now on, we will be getting robust and worthwhile character creator updates in future expansions. I will be really, genuinely, truly disappointed if this doesn't happen at least by 9.0, but 8.0 would be so cool.

Personally, the things that I want most, which I think are feasible within the technical limitations of the game, are as follows:

1.) More than 4 face variants for all races, preferably at least 5, though 6/7 like hyurs have would be ideal. They have proven that they can add entire new face slots to the creator already, so they should do it more.
2.) Greater variety of wavy/curly/afro-textured hairstyles. They said something about polygon counts causing difficulty before, but certainly there are more efficient and less intense ways of modelling stylized textured hair.
3.) Proper makeup customization. The lipstick and facepaint options already present just leave a lot to be desired. It would be so nice to have lipstick that actually looks like lipstick some day.
4.) Didn't think of this til I saw it earlier in this thread, but blue tongues for raen girls, absolutely!
5.) The darker shading of viera noses, even after they've restored several things that people miss from the old graphics, viera still lack that contrast they used to have, and it was cute.

[KhujaRela]

1). Better hair models/current hair models better implemented in different races (really! there are hairstyles with too short bangs and bald spots in any f race that isn't Miqo'te and Lalafell....). I need more long hair with bangs and waves. Male elezen and Male viera and even Female Viera have nice fluffy hair... I don't mind clipping, I want more long curvy hair I already have too much short and spiky...

2). Please fix colors in character making... Lipsticks are a joke. Neither light or dark look realistic... it's too obvious it's just a filter that turns them grayish or too 'vibrant'. Even 'natural' lips look ugly and too pale, specially since 7.0 they lack texture and deph.

3). Eye and hair colors, apparently hyur only can have shades of gray...specially on eyes, look dull and darker than other races. If you want your eyes to be seen at all you have to stick to blue and green. I wish I could put a good yellow/hazel eyes that look really vibrant like honey. Or a deep brown, or a deep blue...

4). More variety on face options, in general, there are drastic changes in eye shape from 3 to 6, but 1,2 , 4, 5 look almost the same? I say random numbers, but sure do you understand what I mean.

5). Of course sliders. Not only for boobs and tails please... I wish we had a bit more variety on other body features.

6). Make up options... I wish I could use blush AND another feature, like freckles, eye shadows, tattoos... but I need blush in my characters otherwise they look to pale/plain to me :')


Also I don't mind to wait extra for 8.0 I think it's unrealistic to ask for more content, core changes that haven't existed for 12 years, and expect they release all them at once at a fast pace... I think the graphics change while necessary is really lacking and needs a lot to get fixed (like returning to TRUE old faces... not that mess they made). I think devs deserve to rest and have vacation time. Programming, designing, 3D modeling... it's all artist jobs, and the base game its probably a big learning curve for someone who enters anew, so it's important they have a good developing team, if they get overworked and leave/get sick ...it doesn't matter how much money the company makes. Hiring new talented people is ideal but that people will need to learn and adapt to the perks of a 12 year old game. I think it's just realistic to expect bigger waiting times when bigger changes are made to the base game, not only to add new content...

[mallleable]

Being able to have fangs would be nice.

[freshavocado]

1).

2). Please fix colors in character making... Lipsticks are a joke. Neither light or dark look realistic... it's too obvious it's just a filter that turns them grayish or too 'vibrant'. Even 'natural' lips look ugly and too pale, specially since 7.0 they lack texture and deph.

This!!! With hair colors bc theyre not homogenous among races. Viera have dull purples but miqote are very vibrant
Also bring back my nose smudge please

[blargle_ragequit]

I genuinely believe mare might never have been created if there were enough body types. So many of the people I've seen who are sad about recent events are chubby, transgender, or an ethnic minority, and just want people to see themselves in their characters! And I play other MMOs that have more options for body shape and ethnic looks, and those games don't have visual mods at all, even though they have healthy (encouraged) modding scenes!

(To be clear, I'm not affected by the recent actions, I just know people who are.)