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Oh finally I am able to create a topic here. Sooo *cough*

I'd like to suggest two things for Joymax to forward to the developers so they can at least consider them.

First of all - Player Characters

I understand that this is Digimon Masters Online and thus Damon, Thomas, Yoshino and later Kenan are important characters. What I don't understand however is why we cannot create our own DATS characters of the same universe? I mean, wherever I go, I see at least 10 copies of my own character only wearing slightly different outfits, and over 20 clones of the other characters running around.

Why is it necessary to have dozens of clones of these main characters? I'm sure it wouldn't be all too difficult to add some character costumization... a few more faces, new hairstyles and colours. Only these and they could be applied to their specific characters (as in Damon, Thomas and Yoshino start with different stats, this would be the same). There could be faces, hairstyles and hair colours for the players who picked Damon, different faces etc. for those who picked Thomas, different female variations for those who play Yoshino etc.

And they could just apply this as a patch, perhaps add an in game beauty shop and tradable beauty shop coupons in the cash shop players could sell to others. If they want to keep their Damon/Thomas/whatever look, they don't have to change. But if a player would like to stop being a clone, they could create their own more or less unique tamer look.

Now at a time where every MMORPG offers so much free costumization (and then we didn't even mention their cash shops), this should be something worth to consider. It is purely cosmetics and could make many players very happy - including myself. It wouldn't change anything about the gameplay, only that we would get the chance to well, not be a main character clone surrounded by even more clones.

Second suggestion - Starter Digimon

Again, I know this is Digimon Masters Online and again, this Agumon, Gaomon and Lalamon are important. I could suggest a lot more possible starters but the lack of choice is not really what I want to talk about (in fact, the lack of choice just makes you want to get other digis even more, which is cool here). What bothers me is that we cannot put our starter digimons into the archive and possibly delete them.

They will ALWAYS occupy one of the 3 digimon slots. We can only decide the digimons for the other two slots. Why? I personally don't like either of the starter digimons and would much rather have something else on their spot. For example I could have a Virus, a Vaccine and a Data digimon of my choice there. Now this really shouldn't be difficult to add, the ability to remove these starters from the 3 digimon slots.

That was all I wanted to suggest.

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More character costumization in terms of face, hairstyle and hair colour so we wouldn't be the XYth clone of the main characters and the ability to "unequip" our starter digimon from the 3 slots we were given.

What do you guys think about these suggestions?

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The reason why they chose to stick with those Tamers and Partner Digimon is because they based the game off Savers/Data Squad. Also, the game is under control of Bandai, meaning, any major changes made by the developers (Digitalic) have to be approved by Bandai first before they get released. Hence there are no new Digimon partners aside from those three (plus Falcomon in the future) and other Tamers. We do, however, tell the devs about how players want to customize their characters, or at least add more choices, but I guess it all depends on what Bandai wants.

Thanks for your suggestion though. ^^

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Hi there, thank you for the reply ^_^

I do know the game is about Savers/Data Squad and I understand the importance of the main characters... I just don't see why there has to be 30 Damon, 17 Yoshino etc. running around in the same arena.

It's good to know that similar ideas have been forwarded to the developers already, I'm looking forward to some possible changes in terms of character costumization.

As for the starter digimons, my problem wasn't the lack of choice but the fact that we cannot unequip/delete the starter digimons so they will always take up one of the 3 slots and we can only choose what we want for the other two slots. Being able to nequip them and add a 3rd digimon of our choice would be neat. I hope this will be forwarded to the developers as well sometime.

Thanks for replying again

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I'd love to be able to send away my Agumon. I'd be happy keeping him in 'storage,' but I just don't like having the ugly little dino in one of my Digimon slots. Character customization is a fantastic idea as well, I'd pay to be able to have something like that. (:

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I've been wanting to hide away my stupid savers agumon forever. When agu original gets released I really dont want to have to use 2 slots for agumon. One of them I want and one that just seems like less than the rest of the team. I'd also love some customization with my character but I don't think I'll be changing out of my schoolgirl uniform any time soon

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@ Amy: Yeah, I'm not really fond of either starters which is why I suggested them to be removable from the slots. Plus the whole clone issue makes no sense... if this was a single player name and we could pick one main character, that works... but for an MMO where everyone has to look the same?

@ Nick: I prefer the original one too and wondered what those who have savers Agumon already and want original Agumon too will do... dedicate two slots for Agumon? That's a no-no in my book... By costumization I meant face, hairstyle and haircolour, so your Yoshino could look not Yoshino-ish at all, but as a much more original schoolgirl (also lucky you, I want that uniform too but I won't make a new character just for that...)