character login screen

Heimdarm · March 2020

I know it's a very small thing and far not as important as many other things, but I think it would be great if we have race specific login screens. The reds all have a snowy background even if they are not nord, but dark elves or argonians. Blues has the desert background while it's mostly the redguard's biome. Could we have race related background please?

VaxtinTheWolf · March 2020

Instead of race, It's themed on one of the zones of your character's alliance faction. So, that's why it is how it is currently.

Heimdarm · March 2020

VaxtinTheWolf wrote: »

Instead of race, It's themed on one of the zones of your character's alliance faction. So, that's why it is how it is currently.

Yes, I know, it's obvious. But if they choose to create only one picture per faction, they should choose the capital's landscape, which is not in the desert for Daggerfall.

ForfiniteStories · May 2020

Agreed. It would be nice seeing something else other than the same three backgrounds. It's also jarring seeing my characters in backgrounds that are in contrast to their character.

While I do support the idea of racial-based character screens, I would also like to see faction-based character screens. For example, I have a Dark Elf character in the Thieves Guild and a Dark Elf character in the Dark Brotherhood. While having a Dark Elf theme background would still be an improvement, I personally feel some characters would best be represented by their faction.

And yes, I do like to stare at my characters for a moment. Without them, and a sense of identity, I'm sure people would have a lot less fun playing the game.

Heimdarm wrote: »

I know it's a very small thing and far not as important as many other things

It's a Themepark MMO. What exactly is important? These "very small things" are quite literally what make these games what they are.

twev · May 2020

I don't know why we can't log from one character to another directly without having to go to the log out and log in.

I don't expect it to be instantaneous, I completely understand that the server has to save the first and initiate the 2nd, but it should be accessible from a menu inside the current character.

Casterial · May 2020

Its a great recommendation, but can we hold off on "cosmetics" and "nice to haves" until the need is fixed, which is game server optimization?

newtinmpls · May 2020

Casterial wrote: »

Its a great recommendation, but can we hold off on "cosmetics" and "nice to haves" until the need is fixed, which is game server optimization?

No we cannot.

Because
1-If that was the case we would never GET these small things
2-Not every issue needs every team
3-sometimes a little nice thing makes the big annoying things more tolerable.

virtus753 · May 2020

As far as I’m aware, we are getting a new character select screen: Greymoor for everyone.

I suspect this was due at least partially because of the introduction of alliance tokens, to eliminate a potential issue with toons that have changed factions. I’m thinking it might be similar to transmutation, where the item transmuted retains its ID and therefore original trait for certain purposes, such as research, while its new trait overwrites the old in combat. Perhaps alliance changes are done differently, though.

We’ll have to see if eliminating a potential bug is worth the uniformity of every toon having the same background. I suppose that will be up to personal taste.