Here's my money, change my race!!!!

[Janethetaru]

We should be able to pay $25 and change races say once every 5 years. I rolled taru because they're cute but nobody will take taru DD's because we have crappy hp. I don't want to have to do all that leveling or missions again

[L0IRE]

We should be able to pay $25 and change races say once every 5 years. I rolled taru because they're cute but nobody will take taru DD's because we have crappy hp. I don't want to have to do all that leveling or missions again

they should have a race change by this point, I know im going to incur hate on here over something but i agree with you

[Dragoy]

I would not mind such a feature, I guess. I would definitely be yay for it, if that way they could reduce the monthly fee to something more acceptable (yeah, never going to happen, I knowes).

Personally I would not have any use for such a thing, however.


On another note, this forum is intended for feedback and suggestions concerning their websites, not in-game content. Something under the Gameplay (http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxi/forums/286-Gameplay) or even the General Discussion (http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxi/forums/86-General-Discussion) forum would suit this topic better methinks. ^^

[Dragomair]

I agree 100%.
I'm a proud Elvaan, but it sucks being a WHM with a Taru DD that gets one shotted.

[Krashport]

I should be able to pay $25 and change races say once every 5 years. I rolled taru because they're cute but nobody will take taru DD's because we have crappy hp. I don't want to have to do all that leveling or missions again
Fixed that for you. I'd say since we pay a monthly sub why not adopt the same system they're using w/ FFXIV(14) on race change. Kinda like when/if paid sub for so many months we'd get Veteran Rewards, seems more fitting.

[Anjou]

Frankly I don't understand why they don't put this in, I mean it' nothing but pure money to them, people will do this along with a face change system. It'd be MUCH better for a lot of people who want to change their faces solely on the fact that the bald Hume Male probably won't stay bald for 10 years of his life, or the Ponytail Hume F face eventually cuts her hair to be shorter, thus resulting in F4 face (The cute one imo). It is not that hard, especially with the coming costume system.

[Crevox]

it sucks being a WHM with a Taru DD that gets one shotted.

Let me act like I think I know what I'm talking about

Earthen Armor

Okay I'm done


We should be able to pay $25 and change races say once every 5 years. I rolled taru because they're cute but nobody will take taru DD's because we have crappy hp. I don't want to have to do all that leveling or missions again


I wouldn't race change for something like this. I know the HP difference is pretty noteable, but I'm sure there's things you can do to get around it.

[Mnejing]

I wouldn't race change for something like this. I know the HP difference is pretty noteable, but I'm sure there's things you can do to get around it.
Like being stuck playing support jobs or whm all the time?

[L0IRE]

yeah they've been talking about race/face change for a while in the forums, make it like a 25$ service and call it done

[Camate]

Greetings everyone,

Thank you for the suggestion. I've informed the development team that there are a lot of requests for a race change system.

In the meantime though, below is a comment from Producer Akihiko Matsui, which I think you will all be interested in reading.



Matsui here.

We’ve been carefully looking into the individual characteristics of each of the five races, and based on the conditions of the current end-game content we have decided to perform the below adjustments:


Increase the HP of races other than Galka
Increase the MP of races other than Tarutaru


Each races HP and MP pool will still maintain the original hierarchy, but we will be increasing these stats to close the gap.

This adjustment is scheduled to be implemented in the March version update.

[Mnejing]

Nice start but what about stats now? Some races could use more Str, dex, and agi than others.

[Numquam]

I don't want to change race...I want to cross dress >.<

[Twille]

stats aren't all that far off with new gear and such.
The HP/MP difference, however, has been VERY noticeable. Glad to see this change being made.

[Blah]

BOOOOOOOO erm I mean YAAAAAAY they're looking into it.

[Frankbrodie]

I don't want to change race...I want to cross dress >.<

Exactly the only thing I would do. And I'd pay $25 for it too.
Though I do think they should limit it to the 90 days per, like the server swap paid option.

I wanna be a female Elvaan :)

[Numquam]

Exactly the only thing I would do. And I'd pay $25 for it too.
Though I do think they should limit it to the 90 days per, like the server swap paid option.

I wanna be a female Elvaan :)

OMG! Me, too! Which model? I want to be the red head with pig tails. A little taller than what they have now and maybe less broad shoulders with a bigger chest to accent my womanhood.

[Frankbrodie]

OMG! Me, too! Which model? I want to be the red head with pig tails. A little taller than what they have now and maybe less broad shoulders with a bigger chest to accent my womanhood.

I like all the female Elvaan models. They strike me as the nearest models to an actual 'proper' female body.

You can often times find me running around as my wife's character 'Ruthterry' (yes that's me if you're on Phoenix lol)
Her character is the B3 model just looking at them on the wiki page. You're thinking of the B4 which is also really nice.

I might take an A4 I suppose. To be a bit different from her character for when I dual box.

[MarkovChain]

Nice boost to PLD elvaan, just need to wait exactly how much MP.

[Anjou]

Do we have a possible estimate when a decision on the race/face change is going to be made? A lot of players are willing to shell out MONEY (That thing that keeps this game going) to change their face or race. Why is it so hard to reach a decision on this?

[Bukota]

Greetings everyone,

Thank you for the suggestion. I've informed the development team that there are a lot of requests for a race change system.

In the meantime though, below is a comment from Producer Akihiko Matsui, which I think you will all be interested in reading.

That's wonderful for all the Elvaan F fanboys that can't wait to have a sex change.

Now can we get an update on where we're at on this important issue from over a year ago?




Known Issues

•The Elvaan female parry animation may not display properly.



http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxi/threads/27457-September-25-2012-(JST)-Version-Update?p=364086&viewfull=1#post364086

There is no "May" about it.

This still hasn't been fixed.

I just unlocked Ninja and spent an hour meticulously watching this.

Still broken.

Hey Female Elvaan wannabes ITT, you ever actually heard the sounds Elvaan F makes in combat?

Did you know one of their basic animations doesn't even work?

Have you seen how they hold a great katana? Clue: google for Hasso-no-Kamae.

They are a horrible and unfinished choice with laughable combat animations and squeak-toy audio. BUYER BEWARE.

[Rockets7]

I have friends that said they would join again if we could pay to change our race...

[Tohihroyu]

Would be great is they paired this with adding male mithra & female galka (shaddap they would not be ugly, they'd be just like female roegadyn only they'd have a tail) I know a few who would gladly change to a male mithra, I know it'd take a while to do though, adjusting gear, making all the faces/hair and different tails/ears and so on....then again more than likely "ps2 limitations" and unlikely to ever happen.

[Imoille]

I feel like a race change is a bit much with how much easier their making all the missions.
But I would enjoy maybe a Barber Moogle, Change hairstyle every so often.

[Camate]

Greetings,

In regards to the previously announced changes to HP and MP for each race, the status of this adjustment has changed and I would like to give an update.

The development team has been working to implement this adjustment as quickly as possible; however, they determined that the HP of monsters that were associated with each race would also increase. (Program-wise, there are monsters that have their HP determined by referring to an HP table for each race.)

As adjusting every portion of this would take a considerable amount of time, we will be looking to make this change after April.

I apologize to keep you all waiting for this change, but we appreciate your understanding.

[FaeQueenCory]

however, they determined that the HP of monsters that were associated with each race would also increase. (Program-wise, there are monsters that have their HP determined by referring to an HP table for each race.)
LMAOwha?!
That's.... such a bizarre design choice.... even for "space saving" from over a decade ago... Though I'm curious if you're talking about things like Fomors... or if it's just a super crazy random HP association...

Cause if it's just Fomors... I don't really think it would matter that the shades of the playable races match the HP/MP increase... (especially the MP... it's not like 5500 MP is any different than 5000 MP when the thing dies in a single WS...)
But now I'm REALLY curious how far this rabbit hole goes? What races are all linked together? Why was this done? Is it more than just Fomor?

I just can't get over if it's more than just the shades... most games have reference tables like that... but have unique entries for every "race"... why does FFXI have this overlap? (skyrim is a good example of what I'm talking about, and easy to crack open and dig such data out for yourself too.)
I want answers to this!
Cause this is really interesting.

[Luminiferous]

Probably related to many mission battlefields. There are a lot of fights in the game that could be referencing an HP table as Camate mentioned. More than likely the Ark Angel's are related to this, as well.

[Ophannus]

Yeah humanoid mobs; Fomors, Maat, Trusts, Campaign NPCs, Tenzen, etc...

Who knows? Maybe it even extends to other mobs families for the sake of convenience. Maybe Orcs use the same stat growth as Galka and Mandragoras use the same stat table as Tarutaru. As a rubric for size/weight, small light mobs would use Taru, large and heavy mobs would use Galka etc.

[AyinDygra]

So... create a new race table only for playable races, and use that "new" race information, and allow the NPCs to continue using the old race table.

Just a thought.

[FaeQueenCory]

Yeah humanoid mobs; Fomors, Maat, Trusts, Campaign NPCs, Tenzen, etc...

Who knows? Maybe it even extends to other mobs families for the sake of convenience. Maybe Orcs use the same stat growth as Galka and Mandragoras use the same stat table as Tarutaru. As a rubric for size/weight, small light mobs would use Taru, large and heavy mobs would use Galka etc.
I wasn't really including things like Tenzen or Maat... Cause they ARE the playable race...
But it's like the second half of what you said... So weird.
And it would be interesting to know what random race is secretly one of the playable five in the coding.