Change your wyvern color!

[Troca]

Darn, I guess that just means you'll have to give us Lancet instead of something useless. What a shame. /sigh, I'll have to make do with Reis Wind and Six Dragons I guess. Oh well.

Because your obnoxious little snipes are going to be enough to get an ability as potent as Six Dragons or Reis Wind for dragoons.

Yes. Those are for more realistic requests of the dev team than a bit of individuality.

[Coldbrand]

Because your obnoxious little snipes are going to be enough to get an ability as potent as Six Dragons or Reis Wind for dragoons.

Yes. Those are for more realistic requests of the dev team than a bit of individuality.

Oh no, regenga and drain/aspir, surely this will unravel the entire balance of FFXI.

Especially as we enter the final tier of character levels. Apparently requests are only realistic if they have 0 impact on gameplay and would seal off DRG's final levels as having received nothing of real value. Thanks for the tip!

[Elexia]

Greetings adventurers!

As always, we thank you for your thoughtful and enthusiastic feedback.

We would like nothing more than to implement a feature to personalize wyvern color. Unfortunately, while technically possible, this would require considerably more work than it might appear at first glance. It is not just a matter of changing color values, but rather would require new textures to be created for each color scheme. This means that, sadly, a feature similar to the linkshell hue selection is simply not feasible.

With a full plate of updates on the way—a milestone list for forthcoming version updates will be released in the near future—cosmetic updates will have to be given lower priority. Still, we understand dragoons' strong feelings about this issue, so we’d like to revisit it should the opportunity present itself somewhere down the line.

Thank you for your understanding!

Well, if we can't get this yet, can I recruit Areuhat as a pet?

[Troca]

Oh no, regenga and drain/aspir, surely this will unravel the entire balance of FFXI.

Especially as we enter the final tier of character levels. Apparently requests are only realistic if they have 0 impact on gameplay and would seal off DRG's final levels as having received nothing of real value. Thanks for the tip!

This was the topic a mod decided to respond to instead of your bellyaching about something that may well be on the way, already. That, and the dozens of posts in this thread before it tell me more than a few people find value in the concept of a customizable wyvern.

Sorry that doesn't coincide with your hardcore FFXI e-peen fest.

[Dinh]

Greetings adventurers!

As always, we thank you for your thoughtful and enthusiastic feedback.

We would like nothing more than to implement a feature to personalize wyvern color. Unfortunately, while technically possible, this would require considerably more work than it might appear at first glance. It is not just a matter of changing color values, but rather would require new textures to be created for each color scheme. This means that, sadly, a feature similar to the linkshell hue selection is simply not feasible.

With a full plate of updates on the way—a milestone list for forthcoming version updates will be released in the near future—cosmetic updates will have to be given lower priority. Still, we understand dragoons' strong feelings about this issue, so we’d like to revisit it should the opportunity present itself somewhere down the line.

Thank you for your understanding!

I'm not sure why this is unfeasible, as with the Linkshell Icon, which ultimately is a UI icon with a base color (probably a light gray) with shading or ambient occlusion applied, selecting hue and saturation just applied the color code to the image, why can there not be a base UVW texture for the wyvern with shading or ambient occlusion applied and the same system for the Linkshell hue and saturation be applied to that as well? Granted, the main coding issue would have to just modify that one single UVW inside that .dat file...

[Coldbrand]

This was the topic a mod decided to respond to instead of your bellyaching about something that may well be on the way, already. That, and the dozens of posts in this thread before it tell me more than a few people find value in the concept of a customizable wyvern.

Sorry that doesn't coincide with your hardcore FFXI e-peen fest.

Yeah, asking to have the second most classic ability Dragoon's have after Jump is an "e-peen fest". You're a real cool guy.

[Usukane]

Greetings adventurers!

As always, we thank you for your thoughtful and enthusiastic feedback.

We would like nothing more than to implement a feature to personalize wyvern color. Unfortunately, while technically possible, this would require considerably more work than it might appear at first glance. It is not just a matter of changing color values, but rather would require new textures to be created for each color scheme. This means that, sadly, a feature similar to the linkshell hue selection is simply not feasible.

With a full plate of updates on the way—a milestone list for forthcoming version updates will be released in the near future—cosmetic updates will have to be given lower priority. Still, we understand dragoons' strong feelings about this issue, so we’d like to revisit it should the opportunity present itself somewhere down the line.

Thank you for your understanding!

It's a sad day for our wyvern customization apparently, even though it was a resounding success as far as topics go for our job forum.

[Ophannus]

We won't get Lancet.
English: Spirit Surge
Japanese: 竜剣
Romanji: Ryuuken.
Translation: Dragon Sword

Ryuuken is what Lancer/Lancet/DragonSword were called in the Japanese versions of FF9/FF10/FF5 respectively, so Spirit Surge=Lancet.

[Rambus]

Greetings adventurers!

As always, we thank you for your thoughtful and enthusiastic feedback.

We would like nothing more than to implement a feature to personalize wyvern color. Unfortunately, while technically possible, this would require considerably more work than it might appear at first glance. It is not just a matter of changing color values, but rather would require new textures to be created for each color scheme. This means that, sadly, a feature similar to the linkshell hue selection is simply not feasible.

With a full plate of updates on the way—a milestone list for forthcoming version updates will be released in the near future—cosmetic updates will have to be given lower priority. Still, we understand dragoons' strong feelings about this issue, so we’d like to revisit it should the opportunity present itself somewhere down the line.

Thank you for your understanding!

all due respect and all but going along with this comment:

I don't mean to get into the legal/illegal realm, but I think you guys should let the commuminity design some dats for the game. I know there are several people that are damn good at it. Personally I wouldn't mind doing more than a handful of reskins for the game for free for both armor and mobs.

I appreciate the response though, and I'm glad you guys are focusing on major updates over aesthetics.

I may be stepping on red lines with this following comment but what about people that make their own dats and change the wyvern be a taru or fafnir or change the color them self ( i saw a vid where someone dat changed kirin into one of those child girl taru)

[CrystalWeapon]

I may be stepping on red lines with this following comment but what about people that make their own dats and change the wyvern be a taru or fafnir or change the color them self ( i saw a vid where someone dat changed kirin into one of those child girl taru)

I'll put it to you this way, if I had a confirmation that this was in fact not illegal. If I knew for sure I wouldn't get banned for it, I would be more than happy to take the time over the week to reskin 30+ wyvern .dats and post them here. I would gladly do what I could to help them out, but I would not risk my character over something they may ban me for dispite trying to help them for free.