[Imperialistic]

Originally Posted by Rufus

Door and I tried out a new game today, and after the long install we were psyched to start it up and try it out. We were excited and came to creating our characters.. then came the extreme disappointment. There was a limit of around 4 different hairstyles with predefined colors, per the very small amount of races that they had. I couldn't look like anything that I've ever envisioned my character to look like, and at this point I lost a lot of motivation to play the game.

When asked, only 15 out of 250 players asked on Graal said that their characters appearance wasn't important to them at all. How your character looks is very important. If you can't even make a compromise when you're first starting out, you don't feel inclined to upgrade by it, you just end up feeling uncomfortable about playing the game. With this in mind, the trial head limitations do more damage than good.

Trials are limited to 10 heads: only 2 of them are passable as female, 1 of them doesn't even exist, and you don't really get a very diverse range. One of Graal's greatest features is the ability to customize your character, the ability to change your look and represent yourself is as very open. I don't feel like this limitation should exist at all, it could be placed on limiting players to only wearing globally uploaded heads. However if you're going to keep it, change the head limit from 1-10 to 1-500; it will give both male and female players the opportunity to feel comfortable and welcomed to the game, and even more inclined to pay to play it.

pure brilliance, amen ftw.