Even when the backgrounds were still faction-based, I had always wished they were rather based on the character's race. But actually it wouldn't be much more work for the devs to let the player choose from a selection, I guess, so that might be an even better solution.

A choice of background would be nice. Back when I played DCUO (and learned to animation cancel) you had a choice of login backgrounds and character selects based on the DLC you had on your account. Assuming the old screens have not been deleted they could do this. Hell, be a nice thing to give ESO Plus people a wider choice to choose from.

Yes but only if it doesn't make login times slower. Otherwise no.

Yes, I miss having different background for my character and seeing the same one over and over is boring (even though it's cool). A list of presets to choose from would be awesome.

nukk3r wrote: »

Even if you take RP factor into account, not every character was born in their supposed province.

That's why I think a few premade backgrounds to freely choose one from would be good. Let's say 1 for every country/race. So if you play a Breton born in Skyrim, you could choose the Skyrim bg. Or you could choose by the place you currently quest in, or just what you think looks best.

@Ajaxandriel What might work would be taking a screenshot of the home and selecting that as a background? It would be static, though. But the loading time would probably be fast, if the picture would load from the local screenshot folder.

Syldras wrote: »

That's why I think a few premade backgrounds to freely choose one from would be good. Let's say 1 for every country/race. So if you play a Breton born in Skyrim, you could choose the Skyrim bg. Or you could choose by the place you currently quest in, or just what you think looks best.

Yes. I need a Morrowind background for my Breton, a High Rock background for my Khajiit, and a Valenwood background for my Orc.

No need to add more right away. But since we have at least four sitting on our clients so far, (unless they got deleted when the new one arrived), just let us pick from what we have. Then add more as they crop up.

I think the easiest option would be to have 9 backgrounds - one for each of the initial playable races - but give us the option of selecting our favored background in the character menu (like how we select titles or outfits). It'd also be a fun callback to games like Arena and Daggerfall which used that setup.

Of course, some places are easier than others. Places like Hammerfell could go with either a desert like Alik'r or a badland like Craglorn, Elsweyr could get the plains of the north or the jungle of the south, etc.

If I were choosing backgrounds, I'd make them simple animated images (wind blowing, etc) themed in each of the major story zones (5 per alliance). I might also include Craglorn's badlands as a sixteenth one. The chapter and DLC zones have significant overlaps with the others. With that, the only things that really have no similarity would be Coldharbour and the Gold Coast...so maybe those would need to be added in as well.

And of course, they could put other ones in the Crown Store.

What would be fun is also if the loadscreen ended up client-side, so the server side just had the character with no background. The client side would be where you get to see all of that, so performance wouldn't be affected. Then again, I know nothing about game programming, so I don't know how feasible that would be.

I wish the selection screen is a complete black or a single image with a list of character name to choose from. Yes! Not even showing the character model at all. All these so that the selection screen take less then 1 second to load.

TempPlayer wrote: »

I wish the selection screen is a complete black or a single image with a list of character name to choose from. Yes! Not even showing the character model at all. All these so that the selection screen take less then 1 second to load.

Indeed that could be a possible option of the toggle among all the other, for people who prioritize performance at entering the game.

Haven’t seen that

Wow this guy had quite a bright idea too

MartiniDaniels wrote: »

Best option would be to create different background for every zone and show character background as zone from which he logged off.

This could replace any toggle because we would simply have to log off in the preferred zone to get our preferred background 🤔