Character Creation Limit vs. Issues with Appearance

phairdon

CoolsHisHands wrote: »

The deletion limit has been super helpful in combating gold spam. The simple solution to your problem, which doesn't help spammers, is to provide a face-changer NPC costing in-game gold, like they did in Skyrim. And perhaps that's exactly what they'll do when they add the Thieves Guild content.

I've been here since minute-one of release and threw my characters together pretty quickly in order to get leveling right away. I definitely wouldn't mind the opportunity to tweak them a bit again in the character creator.

In another game I play, total make over kits are sold. Also hair style kits, adding new hairstyles to the game. IMO having items like the aforementioned could be a good thing.

Nefrast

I wonder why no character creation tool offers various lighting settings. That should be trivial/cheap to implement and would allow one to see the character in all kind of different illuminations. No game I saw ever offered this, but all games suffer from the issue that the lighting during creation is very different to that in most or at least many parts of the world with the effect that the character looks very different.

PolskiBunny_ESO

RainfeatherUK wrote: »

I'm still promoting the idea that there should be a 2-3 day timer on character adjustments in the creation screen before its then locked out.

Gives people opportunity to adjust without deletion; preserves the bot protection system / any system in the future that intends to charge for appearence alteration; whilst allowing them to get it right/be happy with their character before heading out.

Works effectively in Chinese and Korean MMO's across the spectrum anyway.

Like keeping the character sort of saved in creation during playing, or able to edit even after playing?

They need to have a better screen that's most representative of how the character looks because there are differences. Maybe the creation screen should have an option or two for a sort of change of scenery or like, a short demo area where you can run your character?

I was thinking today at work that having like, six hours available after initial creation could be an option because then you'd see how you run, fight, etc and it gives you time to figure things out and adjust based on the gameplay.

TheShadowScout

Let's keep the deletion limit, and just get the promised barbershop quicker.

Let it allow "everyday" appereance adjustments like adornment, hairstyle or makeup changes for a gold cost, and "redesign" changes like eyecolor, height or voice for a crown cost, fiddle until satisfied, then click "done" and pay the price, as often as you may need / can afford until you are satisfied with your character.

Possibly even with a function for free changes withini one day ort so of character generation, though I would assume they would want to avoid setting a precedent, and charge all the way for more profit...