Change eye color, and rework the trains(QoL)

Just a couple of QoL changes I'd like to suggest.

1: Allow us to actually change the eye color of our characters. As of right now, eye color is automatically blue. It's a small thing, and this'll most likely be an RPers wishlist item, but there are different colors for eyes. Currently the only way to actually change eye color is to toss on an aura, but just because I want green eyes, doesn't mean I want green glowing eyes.

2: The trains. Since the merger of the green and yellow lines, I've found them to be so much more useful. Before, if I was in Talos, and wanted to get to Kings Row, I'd Ouro, hit Atlas, then go to KR. Now I can get there in one shot. I LOVE it. But...

Can we get rid of the train pulling up to and leaving the station? Just inside the station itself I mean. Having the train running the tracks is fine, but more times than not, I run into the station, the train is there, I click on it, and nothing happens, because it's just about to leave, and then the doors close, it moves off, and then I'm stuck waiting for the next one to arrive. Yes, this takes about five to ten seconds to complete, but it's still a minor annoyance.

If I could just run in, and jump on the train at any time, without having to wait, it would just make things feel smoother. Not to mention the piles up that we've faced from the Kahn and Sis Psy TFs being WST.

Not big things, or things that I expect any time soon, but just like something someone could work on when they have a moment.

When they originally made the game, if they had made a physical eye behind the face and skinned it seperately, and each face (except ones with closed eyes) had a hole cut in it, it would be trivial to add new eye colors, or even cat,reptile, etc eyes, and even animated eyes that look around and/or blink.

However, since the eyes are drawn onto the face, it would be far more difficult to add eye colors. Likely, the only way to do it would be to add a pattern (which would be different for every face) that allowed us to color the eyes when it was selected. See various chest and pants patterns for examples of how they've done this already.

The problem with this is that you wouldn't be able to change the eye color of a face wearing a mask or makeup, and if you changed the eye color, you wouldn't be able to add a mask.

This is one of those "It's a great idea, but at this point, it would be a ton of work for minimal return" ideas.

As to the trains - I remember paying for a griffin ride in a certain other game, then going to make dinner, eating it, and getting back before the griffin arrived at my destination. I can live with the 10 second delay between trains.

I honestly think we need a large-scale reworking of heads in general. They're still connected to the neck and shoulders in a VERY ugly way, most of the old faces still have horribly grainy textures, and the face 3D details are just... BAD!

I don't really want Champions' style "one face only ever," but we need better faces, and we need more details and more control over them.

P.S. I would LOVE the ability to alter the eyes. Not just eye colour, I mean making have a solid pupil, no pupil and so forth. This adds a lot more personality to a face than most people think, especially when you start going down unusual routes.

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Originally Posted by Arcanaville Samuel_Tow is the only poster that makes me want to punch him in the head more often when I'm agreeing with him than when I'm disagreeing with him.

Huh, guess I've just been lucky(Or unlucky) to have chosen the blue eyed faces.. weird.

But yeah, a new face pattern would be ideal... but then Roderick does pose the point of each face being different... I mean, I'd love to use the lip color, and make-up options for my female characters, but they never fit the faces I select, mainly in the lips.

And to Roderick's comment about the trains, yes I know it's a minor delay, and I'm not trying to say travel in this game is pointlessly too long. It's really not. The only time when I groan over travel, is when I have to travel out to the far north islands in Talos. Oddly enough traveling across IP, or the Shards don't bother me, but that does.

The difference between traveling across zones,,using tunnels, or ferries in CoV and using the trains is I'm doing something in the former. I'm in motion, and being engaged in the game, and the travel aspect. As un-heroic as it might seem to some people to take a train to get to the warehouse where the evil Dr Evilton is concocting his evilness, it feels even less so to arrive before the doors close, wait for the train to leave, and another to arrive.