I agree, they should add poses. It has never bothered me but people complain about it from time to time on here. Also, the character delete limit combats bots, so that has to stay.

I had to spin the character so many times hoping it would trigger a semi-normal posture (it does but it's random). But yeah. A pose changer option to see how things will look would be GREAT.

Also a toggle for in game lighting! The CC seems to use ambient lighting and frontal lighting only while in-game uses harsh lighting from above or ambient , especial in the case of Daedric realms like Coldharbor.

I do know that the limit has to stay because it prevents bots I just added it as "Alternate impossible" option for a stronger point on my personal feelings when i fail third time in a row when creating new character.

I did notice characters look a lot thinner ingame than they did in character creation. Also, the noses look a bit different.

Facial piercings, an option to change tattoo color and voices that actually sound like in the game. That is all.

Bots prevention or no, I do feel like the 3 deletion character limit is just a bandaid at best. No other major MMO's have a silly limit like this to combat bots. The games not new anymore either, bots have moved onto Archeage now. Even if ESO slowly increased this and see how things turn out. Maybe bump it up to 4 and then 5 a day and see if anything happens. If the bots swarm in then fine, knock it back to 3.

On top of that, the fact you only regenerate 1 deletion a day makes it even worse. At least give us all 3 back in 24 hours or something. I doubt this is going to make bots go crazy again, they would still be very limited. This is not a lackluster free to play MMO. We all paid money for the game an our sub fee and should be allowed to tweak are character as much as we like. Until zenimax adds in a barber shop or something that a newly created character can access easily, this will continue to be a lackluster fix.

Even a simple fix like giving us one free appearance mod in the newbie island would be good or something. I still think Oblivion did it best letting you readjust once escaping from prison.

The character creation screen does have some issues as mentioned in above posts.

1. Characters definatly look thicker in the game sometimes in the arms or legs then shown on character screen,
2. Noses often come out a bit different.
3. Same with chins
4. Hair/skin color can be hard to judge sometimes due to the coldharbor lighting in character creation. Would be nice to have a button to give us nice regular out door day time lighting in the game


I know a lot players might not care about their appearance entirely, but some of us are perfectionists in this sort of thing. I don't excpect the guy named Zombie *** who spamming zone chat with useless banter to care about his appearance much, but many of us like to be immersed in the world, and having that perfect character makes a big difference.

What I noticed is that the creation model doesn't quite fit the in-game model. I designed an Altmer Mage to look like the Trailer Hero and she did, for the most part, in character creation. In-game her face is thinner, her cheekbones are different and she's frowning. I created a Bosmer Mage the same way and she looks close to right though, so it might just have been that my eyes were deceiving me.

Many of these differences are probably down to lighting (face mostly) and posture (body). I really hope the characters are not actually slightly different in character creation.

What I have the most trouble with in character creation, which took me a few deletes and retries to figure out, is skin color and waistline. The latter took me quite a while to get right because due to the different posture it seemed to always generate a kind of cleft/dent, until I just left that slider roughly in the middle and made some adjustments to thickness. This may only be a problem when you create female characters with narrow hips and a bit of meat on their bones (thickness at the level right before they actually start to develop a beer gut).

The solution: Use normal ingame daytime lighting and have the characters stand as they usually would ingame. At least have them as an option.

A bit off topic: Why do posteriors get sooooo much bigger when wearing (heavy) armor? I mean it's logical for armor (especially heavy) to add volume, except it doesn't for the rest of the body, where it looks like body paint apart from gloves and shoes. This disproportionate volume gain in the posterior area has led to me creating female character with posterior dimensions set at the minimum, because this way it looks about right with the armor on.

Osira wrote: »

The only issue I have with character creation is the real and depressing lack of faces.
You get one that you can change a little, more angular, more soft, thinner... In the end the basic face is still here and I feel a bit sad when every npc in the game and even players almost got the same faces.
Only original character I saw was someone making a goblin out of the Orc race, yet he had to completely make a skinny and weirdo face&eyes.

Did you use the sliders for individual chages to noses, eyes etc.?

I made a dunmer female into an Asgard (SG-1). Looks quite convincing.

The two things I need are:
a) saving/loading a template to continue working on it later or using it for another char.
b) a scale showing a toon's height relative to other races.
The height slider has almost zero value because when you actually see how you are doing compared to others in game it is already way too late to adjust anything.

LIGHT

omg the light ar creation sucks so badly i wastet around 20 chars because they look so stupid with normal light

Nestor wrote: »

Character delete limit needs to stay.

However, I have finally learned to make my characters skinnier than I think I would want them to be. So much so that I make them thinner, then take even more weight off (arms and legs mostly) as they tend to grow in the game.

Your characters must be particularly thin then as on the skinniest option they look rather malnourished to me.

Agree abiut better lighting, hair, and some poses maybe. But I would like to see the option of light, medium or heavy armor as well, and not just the armor ZoS assigned to the class (hint much?). If I want to be a DK in medium armor or a Sorc in heavy, I would like the option to see that on my character while creating it.

2 things
More options for all settings
The option to tweak the character once, after reaching Tamriel rather having to guess in the chargen.

And as an aside, someone to calibrate all ZOS monitors so that colours look like their previews, in the chargen and dye system. I just looked at some blacks, which looked 'black' or very dark greys, but on the item were fairly light greys!
Similar issues with 'skin' tones...