[Suggestion] Paid Race Change Program.

[Tsukino_Kaji]

What? Who dug this thread back up? >.<

[Jackstin]

What? Who dug this thread back up? >.<

Dunno but I'm glad they did. It is more likely to get implemented if it is shown to be a consistently popular request.

[Mirage]

I would also like to say that if the gender/race specific equipment really is the reason why we can't change, I personally would be entirely fine with having to re-do the quests that grant these pieces of equipment.

Other than the RSE chest quest, I can't think of any quests that give race/gender specific gear. I also can't think of any questlines where your gender in an earlier quest changed the rewards of one of the later quests. Besides, RSE gear isn't even exclusive. You could just sell your Mithra RSE on the AH and buy new Galka RSE (fictional example, this will of course never happen).

[Eldwir]

Even though my thread's been dead for a while now and it was just necro-bumped, I'm absolutely glad that someone performed a search on the forums about this cause !

[Anapingofness]

I would also like to say that if the gender/race specific equipment really is the reason why we can't change, I personally would be entirely fine with having to re-do the quests that grant these pieces of equipment.

Other than the RSE chest quest, I can't think of any quests that give race/gender specific gear. I also can't think of any questlines where your gender in an earlier quest changed the rewards of one of the later quests. Besides, RSE gear isn't even exclusive. You could just sell your Mithra RSE on the AH and buy new Galka RSE (fictional example, this will of course never happen).

They could also implement an NPC that changes one RSE to another. Not like it'll be game breaking since it's bloody RSE.

If they're worried about "balance" then they could make it so that the player performing the race change has an key item that is used up on use when talking to said NPC when changing one races RSE to another. i.e. Mithra RSE -> Galka RSE
This key item would then be obtained when/if the player changes race again.

[Camiie]

I know in WoW when you change race your race specific mounts and faction levels are changed automatically by the system to the corresponding mount/faction for your new race. There is no gender specific gear that I know of.

I wouldn't think it impossible for SE to set up something similar where any gender/race specific gear or KIs are automatically changed.

[Winrie]

I don't know why SE would bother to think we'd care about old outdated RSE over a chance to change our race/sex/looks

Simple suggestion, add a cosmetics npc or whatever barber whatever you needa call it person somewhere in game, make buyable changes to appearances that you can only alter say once a month for x amount of Gil. And race could be changed via this npc once every three months to whatever SE chooses for x amount of Gil. This isn't remotely difficult go implement and I'm sure a lot of do not care about RSE that badly, simple adds like this are nice and I'd love something like this to be added, I'd care not to restart to be a different race/look considering the gear I have and time spent. Trust me SE small changes like this that we scream about is worth trying.

[Mirage]

Not to mention, this sort of feature has come sort of an industry standard.

[Eldwir]

I must say, it is very nice that new positive posts are spawning, because when I started this thread, a year or something more ago, very few were okay with the suggestion I made.

In fact there were more bashing posts than actual contributions, since apparently the biggest problem with it was the fact that the change would've been "game-breaking" according to the majority of the posts that have been against this suggestion.

I won't say how they should be doing it in detail, however looking at how the things are now, if we can switch to a different server through the SE Account Management System, I could very well say they allow us to do it from there as well, without having to implement a feature in game such as a barber NPC or alter the graphics and whatnot that would so "drastically" alter the game...(Playstation 2, sigh).

From your FFXI Options Panel, let us select the "Character Recustomization", allow us to "check boxes" according to which kind of race/gender/face we desire and then press "Confirm". Race swap isn't mandatory since as I said, boxes checking would allow you to skip the Race Change option.

Once more, there would be no real need to tweak the system and implement a visually entertaining 3D race/gender/face creation screen with the ONLY purpose of letting us re-customize our hero...since IF they won't update the models, that is pretty much how they are going to stay, and we pretty much know, consequently, how they look like in game.

Also considering that what we saw in the character creation 10 years ago wasn't AT ALL what they ended up looking like in the actual game EITHER WAY, so no big loss in having your character wiggle their arms in a 3D environment in a fluid way, if they will be the way they are right now the game, at the end of the eye candy presentation.

The payment is processed and next time you log in, just as when you change servers, your character will be in his/her new model of your choice.

Cannot think of anything better. (For now.)

[Scuro]

I disagree with changing your race, BUT I totally support the ability to change your character's hair style and facial features. Changing race and sex is over the top, but for someone that has changed his views on how his character looks now vs how it looked then, I would definitely change somethings, but I wouldn't make a new character after putting in 10 years of my life into Scuro. Changing races doesn't seem like a good idea because people would abuse it to change their race to that which will benefit their class or w/e, and in the realism of the game just doesn't come out well, the same with sex changes. Yet I full well support hair and facial changes. Even if I have to pay for it like when one wants to server transfer, I would gladly throw down a 10 or a 20 to alter my character's physical appearance again.