Better Character Creation

[Feone]

Imo, all the character creation needs is a very clear warning about the wiki and the forums. Clearly stating you need to use these or risk missing out on important information.

[Trenix]

between this and your desire to have the game be flat i think you should just go eat a handful of **** the next time you want to open your mouth instead of annoy everyone with your worthless suggestions.

With that type of attitude, go back to Haven & Hearth, because like your signature you're acting like an ass. The new developers asked why I bashed the previous ones, it's because their fans and themselves acted in a similar fashion. It's disrespectful and unprofessional. It's why both of their games really didn't do too well. Being an underground developer supported by a tiny fan base isn't something to brag about, it's embarrassing at the very least.

like every other game out there

That will never be a reason for me to consider something.

That being said, yes character creation could be nicer and I'm open to some suggestions on how that could be. On the test server it players a nice little melody. What else can be done?

Well maybe lets start on my second impression of the character creation within the game, even though both times I was confused. One character changes my gender, which took me awhile to figure out since both woman and men look rather similar. The table with the mirror changes my facial features, which also took me awhile to figure out since the angle we start in the game doesn't show our face changing so I had to click it a few times to see what's happening, which wasn't visible until I moved away from it. I actually thought the mirror was going to change my hairstyle, which it clearly didn't. The chest gives me my clothes, which I've noticed that all it provided me was a shirt, which last time I could of swore I additionally got some boots. Not sure if maybe something went wrong or what? Another person changed my hairstyle, another changes my name, and the bucket of colors changed my hair color which some people may get the impression that it changes the color of your clothes or skin color instead. See, it's unorganized and confusing...

So how can this be improved? When creating my character, that's exactly what I want to do. I don't want to be walking around with a character that's grayish and needs to be converted into a person. Instead I want to click on something that'll quickly change me into a male, quickly select the color of my hair, quickly select my hairstyle, and quickly set my name and then be able to start playing the game. While an argument saying that all games have it, therefore you should have it may be a bad one, it's not because I want to remove originality. Sometimes things are a certain way because that's simply the best way to do it. It's professional, convenient, and organized, while the current way makes it seem like the developers couldn't even go out of their way to make a proper character creation screen.

[Mereni]

The character creation was made by the old developers. The new ones have already said they intend to improve it and add a tutorial. That's what 'shipwreck island' is on the development roadmap. You should go take a look at that.

I don't think the character creation itself really needs that much work. At most, improve the dialogue spoken by the different people on the docks so that what each object or person there does is more obvious. Of course, you still have to bother to read what they are saying, but if you don't, that's only your fault.

[JinxDevona]

The char creation was added to and in my opinion is fine now. My only issue is more options, like a long braid for example. That said, it should very low on the list of importance, considering all the things that still need to be done.

[Trenix]

The character creation was made by the old developers. The new ones have already said they intend to improve it and add a tutorial. That's what 'shipwreck island' is on the development roadmap. You should go take a look at that.

That really doesn't mean that the character creation will be changed, all I've been told is that we got an additional melody.

I don't think the character creation itself really needs that much work. At most, improve the dialogue spoken by the different people on the docks so that what each object or person there does is more obvious. Of course, you still have to bother to read what they are saying, but if you don't, that's only your fault.

People don't play MMO crafting games in order to do quests, such as creating your character (?). I'm ok with a tutorial, but that's entirely different than creating a character. This is not hitting two birds with one stone, it's just being disorganized.

[Orcling]

Havens char creation displayed your countries flag, which was awesome. Shame that Salem doesn't have that.