[Suggestion] Paid Race Change Program.

[Spectreman]

Why not? I'm not changing anything but why not give the option to others? It's a win-win situation.

Oh, i forgot, SE is being run by a bunch of amateurs.

[zataz]

>.> i say if it makes some happy why not?

[Splinters]

Admit the truth, you all regret not being a taru. It's understandable. I would argue further that if you selected galka or elvaan, you should be given the choice to change to taru for free, and have some kind of singing telegram with candy and flowers delivered to you.

[Daemon]

If SE allows Race, Gender change, then they will have to allow Name change too. Otherwise you will see people like Mike, Steve, Dave, Chris, Danny running around looking like a female Taru, Hume, Elvaan for the fun of it..


And you know it will happen regardless.

Sounds like one of those crime stories where the criminal runs into hiding changing his name/gender. Steve became Eve to avoid being caught for conning someone.

Imagine the girl next to you was actually a dude.

Edit: Not so much as a problem for girls because they actually think before doing something stupid. Where as us guys do before thinking and say screw it after its been done.

[Mirage]

Good, because we could use a name change feature too.

[FrankReynolds]

If SE allows Race, Gender change, then they will have to allow Name change too. Otherwise you will see people like Mike, Steve, Dave, Chris, Danny running around looking like a female Taru, Hume, Elvaan for the fun of it..


And you know it will happen regardless.

Sounds like one of those crime stories where the criminal runs into hiding changing his name/gender. Steve became Eve to avoid being caught for conning someone.

Imagine the girl next to you was actually a dude.

Edit: Not so much as a problem for girls because they actually think before doing something stupid. Where as us guys do before thinking and say screw it after its been done.

Rule number one: There are no girls on the internet. Unless you have seen her lady parts live in the flesh in real life, that chick is a dude. I personally have 8 mithra mules all named after porn stars.

Who says there arent Mithras named billybob already in the game? There is no gender rule for naming your character.

[Daemon]

Rule number one: There are no girls on the internet. Unless you have seen her lady parts live in the flesh in real life, that chick is a dude. I personally have 8 mithra mules all named after porn stars.

Who says there arent Mithras named billybob already in the game? There is no gender rule for naming your character.

Well Mithras only have 1 gender. Difference is you choose the name from the start knowing that your character will permanently be named that til the dying end or until SE allows you to change it.

Also big difference naming a mule than naming a character you will be playing a good majority of the time. And depending on how SE implements race/gender change if its destined to see the light of day.

Players could abuse the system if not implemented properly. I mean if you could just change you race / gender at any given moment, whose to say that bad things will never happen?

On another game I've seen someone befriend someone else, borrow equipment and money only to vanish after changing their race/gender/name.

And yes I've seen crazies change gender to be funny. Walking around named billybob as a female "Dude like my new dress?"

P.S. let me put on a record for you. Aerosmith "Dude"

Edit: Unless all men don't have wives to play with and have vocal chords surgically enhanced to make them sound like females on Skype. Just thinking about it makes me shudder..

[Karbuncle]

I'd of named my Character Blaise and it'd still be a female mithra. I'd call it RickyBobby and make it a female Mithra. For every person who tries to match their name to the sex of the race they chose on an MMO, theres 1000 people who name it their favorite thing or the name they've used on every MMO before it.

I Personally didn't look at races and go "Imma be Hume Male cause it fits my name he best", I wanted to play THF, so I Picked Mithra as it was the best race for the job back then. I named it Karbuncle cause at the time, Carby was my favorite Avatar from FF8 and I was a FF nerd, I was also like 12, so, yah, creativity wasn't completely on my pallet yet.

Either way, If i could change my name, i wouldn't, I don't think many people would no matter how silly their name is, because its their identity. Plus, IDK If you've seen some Server-hop LS Bank drama from back in the day? No amount of Name/Server changing is erasing your identity, your a** is still getting found by someone. Theres one dude who's created new characters even and is still tracked for the sh*t he pulled.

IDK why someone would be crazy for 'Changing gender' in an MMO as a joke... Or why It'd be a bad thing? I mean, seriously, what harm does it bring to you if your friend went from a Galka to a Mithra, are you going to have funny feelings in your special place cause it has majestic pixel boobs now instead of manly Galka boobs?

Regardless, I see what your fear is, but everything you're afraid of already happens in FFXI, and depending on the price, no ones going to rip off some random dude and pay to change their race/name, effectively erasing their identity, when they could probably just buy the gil for cheaper (If they're ripping people off for gil they've likely considered doing that anyway). Even if they did go through with this identity change, and they were part of a LS, each of the LS members would have to be okay with the rip off or someone will out them... or their friends, so forth, unless they were dropping that too.

The chances are miniscule at this point, and they could just add a 1 month timer on it like Server hopping. limiting the amount of frequent name changes and so forth. Or they could just as easily make it a "One time Deal", like Item restoration.

P.S if this comes off as a bit rude, sorry, I make jokes, sometimes at others expense, Don't mean too, just happens. You're an allright guy Daems just saying you're fear of what this could bring is wholly irrational.

[Daemon]

P.S if this comes off as a bit rude, sorry, I make jokes, sometimes at others expense, Don't mean too, just happens. You're an allright guy Daems just saying you're fear of what this could bring is wholly irrational.

Not at all, your response did not come off as mean or rude and believe me I've seen plenty.

I agree if SE did limit the change that makes it worthless to fool around and be stupid then yeah it could work out. Stupidity does happen. As I said before.

Girls actually think before they do something stupid however us men do it without thinking and then say screw it after its been done.

I'm not homophobic, if I'm going to swing the other way, I'd rather be with a dude and not a man posing to be a girl especially role-playing the part just to make them-self fit the description.

Galka to Mithra isn't a great example in my opinion. I just think if I knew someone like my good buddy Demonjustin play the entire time as a man, and then switched over to a Taru-female it might be funny at first. But then after awhile it would just feel awkward.

Edit: Yes the jokes will come pouring in if I know you as a man who purposely changed into a woman. Although it may not be severe as it possibly could be from others.

Edit2: Still to this very day I still get confused if I'm actually talking to a Mithra or a Mantra D: Difference is we know Mithra is limited to 1 gender and anyone who wants to play the class has no choice.

[Karbuncle]

Personally when/If i play FFXIV, I'm still going to be a Female Mithra, Male Mith's be damned. Probably going to make it resemble Karby too. At this point, Karbuncle isn't really me, In my mind Karby is Karby, Kinda like how I don't picture Squall from FF8 as me, But as a Character, i see Karby as a Character now... So if i make that jump to FFXIV, Still going to be a Female Manthra.

My motto when it comes to FFXI/Mithra/FemChars, Always assume its a dude until proven otherwise, NOt because "NO WOMENZ ONLINE", but simply because its much safer to assume so... Less confusion, Less being ripped off, less everything.