Useless stuff - IDEAS FOR RYZOM - Ryzom Community Forum

#1 Added by Daomei 1 decade ago [de]

Just a couple of ideas which are completely useless:

1. Underwear

I would love to have the opportunity to wear underwear in the style of the other peoples. It does not seem logical to me that we may wear armour of any nation, magically fitting our size (great thing!), but have to stick with the dessous fashion of our people all time.

Same with color. Undies are red when one logged off naked and log on again, but only until one reclothes. I would like the opportunity to have more than one color, and have it either persistent or a way to re-dye. This may be depend on materials, even hard to get ones. I am prepared to die for ;)

2. Hairstyles

I know that interracial hairstyling was once possible, but considered a bug and turned off soon (was only for a day or so). I met a Matis with Fyros hairstyle, once. I would love to have that possibility, maybe along with the once announced hair stylist advanced occupation.

3. Facial expressions

While the variety of looks and the individuality of characters is absolutely great, our faces are a bit mask like. I would love to be able to change the expressions, maybe over an emote, to smile, laugh, look sad, or cry. I fear that this would be hardest to implement, just to think about.

Edited 4 times | Last edited by Daomei (1 decade ago)

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#2 Added by Mjollren 1 decade ago [de]

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I'll add this here since the general topic is "body and character modifications":

- Allow changing one's weight, not freely but maybe on a cooldown (once per irl week). Atysmas and weddings certainly contribute to my belly.

- Allow changing one's height, maybe 1-2 steps from the previous height. Only doable once or twice per toon, so it could signify "growing up" or "growing old".

I doubt this can be done in an automated way though without programming new logic into the game though.

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#3 Added by Suboxide 1 decade ago [de]

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1. underwear => think thats gonna take some time with remodelling => more pressing maters then this.

2. Hairstyles => I guess some ppl like to change daily more is better (myself I have had my hairstyle for as long as i can rember)
=> ps maybe atleast give marauders a hairstyle/tatoo option since they can't buy one in the camp and can't buy in towns because of fame so once you go marauder you can't change hair or tatoo

3. facial expressions => Ryzom 2.0 toughether with jumping

4. the getting fatter and aging => somebody recently told me they actually made it but never implemented it in a post I did of some zorai looking really old in the mara camp

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#4 Added by Daomei 1 decade ago [de]

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@Suboxide: won't consider my proposal high priority, sure. But I think at least part of may be done even by volunteer programmers (believe the graphical stuff is in the open source part). And as you probably noticed, especially we women are already thorougly undressed in a lot of armor types ;) (kidding, let the boys have fun). So I do not see that adding these kinds of clothing would need too much remodeling.

facial expression: yes, would be much, probably. Again, not sure whether that would be in the open source part (and much less sure whether someone would give it a try).

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#5 Added by Subox 1 decade ago [de]

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Maybe implement an automatic bra opener like this one: http://goo.gl/Po65jd and make it top priority

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#6 Added by Keldun 1 decade ago [de]

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Nevrax Artists were a bit more productive than their coders. They actually made all underwear styles for all races in all colours (same as armour)

They are even still in the client (along with some other old unfinished stuff, like the aeden aqueos mobs)
There just is no button to change them in game.

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#7 Added by Foolishhunter 1 decade ago [en]

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Hey Daomei!

I'm a relatively new player and this is my first forum post; lucky you ;)

I like these ideas and I don't think they're useless at all. I would love to have some more options for character customization in Ryzom! If it's true what you guys are saying, and I hope it is, it seems like all hairstyles and skivvies for all races are already worked into the game and Mjollren's ideas for changing body shape and aging don't seem like a stretch either; If the options are already built into the client, it seems there's no reason players shouldn't have access to them :D

(really I'd love to get some of that fantastic Fyros hair on my Tryker

I'll add that, if possible, it would be awesome to have all tattoo options open for all races
Opening up more potential for customization would increase the variety of player expression in Ryzom; which = fun lol

Here's my two cents on implementation though. If the aforementioned options were put in the game, they would need balancing to be fun; ie. I wouldn't want to be able to, as a Tryker, simply walk up to a Fyros tattoo artist and purchase a new tattoo. One way to keep it balanced would be to require a minimum amount of fame with a race before having access to their cosmetics (sorry marauders). This has a role-playing sensibility; once ingratiated to an atys culture you can adopt their customs and styles ;)

Skivvies could work on the same principle; you could only have access to another races if you're fame with that race met a minimum requirement. However, adding a "Skivvy Store" would be silly, so an option to change them could be relegated to the item equip menu. A base plan to change their color could be added to crafting and could be available to all players from the get go (consider removing the option to do beige?)

Aging and body shape changing could be awkward to implement in a balanced way in game; but what if it worked like a catelyzer? Say I want to have the option to be old, I might have to buy a "Weathered Soul" item which, when activated, would make me appear old, or if I wanted a round belly I'd have to purchase an item which would do that if activated. Such items could be limited use like catelyzers for balancing purposes or permanent items you get to keep and activate/deactivate at will, but either way they should probably be expensive; it would be fun to have to earn them like status symbols!
There is a lot of potential for goofy fun in divvying up body modification in this way too; for instance there could be an item that nearly maxes your arm size to let people "get buff" or an item which close to minimizes all body sliders besides height which would let people role play as starving adventurers who've been out in the wilds of Atys too long XD

And if body modding was relegated to items; temporary ones, like a fattening one, could be given out for free at holidays like Atysmas

TL:DR
The long and short of it is; I'm all for more customization! I like having the potential to be what I want to be in a game, it's a big part of the fun of role-playing, but I also want it done right; I want to have to earn "useless" aesthetic changes because not earning this stuff takes some of the fun out of it!

Ryzom devs, can we make it happen :)??

Last edited by Foolishhunter (1 decade ago)