We saw an early version of character creation back in March. How is that coming along? Any possible ETA on when we might see more about that?
TL;DRNo ETA is given, but a feature team is working on character creation; the first stage is only selecting faces, hair and eyes, then hopefully female characters, then sculpting, after persistency is sorted.
I'm going to avoid the ETA, but there is a feature team around it right now that's working on it. And again, our plans are very staged in the approach. Stage one is not going to be a Black Desert or a GTA-level sculpting and this kind of stuff. The first step literally is just to get you guys to select the items that you want your character to represent. So that means, I think we said, nine faces, a couple hairstyles, a couple eye colors. Because what we have to solve with that, and there's nothing super complex, but we have to do it, is we have to write all this to your persistency. And we have to also figure out how many different character slots you have on an account, because there's been talk of that. Is a ship package a character slot, or do multiple ship packages give you multiple character slots?
It's just to meet up with all the future work, right?
Those fundamentals are so important to address before you're molding your guys' nostrils and these kind of things. We have to get the proper persistency in place. So I really, really hope that this is very soon, but it depends on how well this feature team goes. We, of course, have a goal to get this out to you as soon as possible, even in just the simple selection set of hair, eyes, face, and just selection of a bunch of different ones. Once we have that, female comes next, hopefully. If the female doesn't come, then we go straight to sculpting. But yeah, so first step that, then females, and then sculpting.