Does playing as the dino work, level wise, the same as survivor levels (caps at 101), or like dinos (caps at 73 if you start at level 1)?
It's kind of grindy starting at level 1 and being bad at everything. (': And awkward when you add more dinos to your group through the breeding function and they all get to be high levels, but you're stuck at level 11 and can't really fight anything.

If there were a way to start at like, maybe a tamed level of 224 (or your server's dino max level based on settings), that'd be a pretty nice start for making the most of playing as the dino. I already tried the custom dino option, but it doesn't seem to let me spawn in a dino at a certain level.

Orrr suggestion?: A custom leveling system for player character dinos so every level also grants us a random base stat like it does in the wild, in addition to the tame stats we can add, and we are able to level up all the way to like, 450?

Edit: After some more testing the custom feature, I found that you can spawn at randomized levels it seems? However a bug I noticed is that regardless of which gender you chose, your gender will be randomized. Another bug is that creatures like direwolves can't seem to howl when custom spawned, and females don't have the mating bar and can't mate.