Post-Velious: more faces for old models?
 

Yes, I know, Velious is a long way off and any considerations beyond that are even further out. Still I think it's fun to discuss what may/may not be possible (or interesting) to the Devs when that time comes.

If the number of face options isn't baked into the client or otherwise unchangeable, I think it'd be sweet to have a bigger selection of faces per race. Seems to me everybody wins here: it's not going the way of Luclin models — which apparently everybody detests — and it gives us a little more character uniqueness.

Just my 2cp.

Tangent: maybe months/years down the line we could have a forum sub-section for post-Velious brainstorming? Or does it already exist and I'm blind?

Are you high?

They are clientside. I'm also fairly sure they do not plan to do anything post-Velious.

I know the graphics are, but are you certain the code itself enforces client only? It would've been more scalable if they'd done something like:

* client passes input (i.e. race) to server
* server responds with either total count of faces or a full list of images corresponding to files in client folder
* client cycles through results accordingly

Then again, I'm sure quite a bit of EQ code is neither scalable nor sensical.

Where was this officially stated? I've seen posts where it was stated that they would "evaluate" what direction, if anywhere, to take things after Velious. I certainly didn't get the impression that everything was on lockdown after Velious and no ideas could be entertained.