Physiognomy
 

I'm somewhat curious to know how players feel about the fact character's faces can be freely switched in-game. Personally I think it removes an important aspect from a characters identity and I wish the function were excised (though I realize this could be difficult to accomplish from a developmental standpoint).

they should take a mug shot of everyone and if a guide ever sees someone with the wrong face he gets banned

Should have thought harder on this segment before mashing "post".

Lol who cares.

Right well if a few more people comment on the apparently comical insignificance of this post I guess I'll have my answer.

I agree with you Rainflush. A person's face should be their face

I'm pretty sure it was impossible to change your face until Luclin or PoP. I support the OP for his other reasons listed, too.

pretty sure it was luclin. I assume the developers haven't made this change because it's something they'd have to screw with in the client?

I think it may actually post-date PoP, as I quit in the middle of the SoL expansion and briefly resumed play during PoP, but it wasn't till I tried that god-awful "progression" server thing that I recall seeing it.

I would almost have to assume it can be disabled by the server similar to how they can disable the use of the cartography system and the dye system. It cannot be entirely client-side else nobody else would see the changed face. At some point the client has to tell the server which face is being picked and the server sets it in the character database.

Is it possible to stop that from happening? Sure. Is it worth spending time on when there are almost always more important things that need fixing? Not imo.