[BUG] Hairstyle changed after relogg

Neferath · May 2014

Hi there, i was just about to reorganize my banking space and to transfer some of the crafter mats to several "Slave"-Characters. After relogging with my crafter alt, her hairstyle was changed out of the sudden into a totally stupid looking short hair cut.

While this might sound funny at the first moment, this is first really annoying for myself and second, shows that the server-stored character information seems to be "vulnerable".

The question now for me is ... how am i supposed to get my original hairstyle back?

ZiRM · May 2014

You can't.

xMovingTarget · May 2014

She didnt like it, so she got a hairstyle of her choice at the barber. If you like it or not !

Dunno, never had a similar bug happen to me. but as NiRN stated, you are unable to change it again. As bad as it is.

Neferath · May 2014

Well closing and restarting the game several times now did resolve the problem but still, i guess someone should look into that since, as i said, the character information seems to be vulnerable.

pronkg · May 2014

Sorry but this is hilarious haha

ZiRM · May 2014

ZOS needs to get on this bug ASAP!

Monyan · May 2014

Hahaha (I'm sorry)

By the way the barber is nice idea. But personally I would use some tattoo saloon. I just simply forgot to make some on my mage ;_;

KariTR · May 2014

You know I never bugged it (bad me), but about 5 days into the game an adornment appeared on my character's forehead and has never gone away.

I really, really don't like them at all. Not only do they defy physics, but they can totally ruin the look of an otherwise carefully put together costume, so I prefer my characters to be as adorn free as possible.

I just pretend my character has her own idea of what looks good (and fortunately, I only see her from behind in game)

I'm not sure what you mean by 'vulnerable', but this isn't the first game I have played where updates have affected character customisation. I know logging into Vanguard was a bit of a lottery but at least you could re-customise after creation. Even so, some of the changes were pretty devastating. My Dark Elf's hairstyle in L2 changed completely one day and in LotRO I seemed to have constant hair colour issues, I suspect due to lighting upgrades.

Noswell · May 2014

Now I'm no genius on the subject of women, but doesn't a radical change in hairstyle mean she's unhappy with her current relationship and strongly considering breaking it off? If I were you, I'd have a good long heart-to-heart with her before she does anything drastic.

You might want to also make a quick check of her belongings to see if there's more white wine, greek yoghurt or chocolate there than is usual.

Epona222 · May 2014

I haven't seen this bug personally, but of course am glad that your character now seems to have reverted to her previous hairdo!

I would support the idea of having barbers in game to make minor appearance changes, such as adornments, hairstyle, and facial hair, and to add tattoos - you know what, achievement-based tattoos that you could add would be a great idea. I don't know many people who keep the same hairdo/earrings/beard style constantly, and being able to make limited changes to certain aspects such as get a haircut or a shave or change your jewelry would be really great.

Neferath · May 2014

KariTR wrote: »

I'm not sure what you mean by 'vulnerable', but this isn't the first game I have played where updates have affected character customisation.

This appearance change wasnt due to an update but due to a relog only.

With "vulnerable" iam speaking about the following:

Your complete character data is stored at the ZOS server wich is actually quite fine and the way it should be. But if a simple relog is able to change your appearance, there is also a chance that a relog is able to change other data regarding your character setup, progress and so on.

Despite the funny aspect of it, and i totally get it since i for sure would have made my jokes too reading this thread, this "is" something ZOS should have a look at.