[Suggestion] Ability to change race.

[Disguise]

Hello guys, Disguise here and I wanted to share a suggestion that I always talk about to LS friends about, it's the ability to change your characters race.

Now, before people start complaining, this can easily be implemented into the game without the whole idea being abused by people constantly changing there race. How you say? Simple, introducing the same system we have for the 'World transfer service'.

I personally, have become fed up with seeing my hume every day when I log on, I've been this hume race for over 2years now and I'm sure people can agree it gets old, very quick. Allowing users to change there race, either it be every 3 months or X months, would give players the chance to feel 'New' again, if you wish to put it in that context.

For a payment of around £5-10 I'd pay to have my character's race changed from a Hume to a Elvaan in a split second without hesitation, I believe if this was introduced, would you not only make people who have been playing 2+ years happy to be able to experience a different race, you'll have a good form of in-come to help with either server costs or introducing new features into the game.

[Brolic]

for the 90th time cant be done\wont be done. you might get a sex\face change

[Disguise]

for the 90th time cant be done\wont be done. you might get a sex\face change

May I ask why it couldn't be done? Honestly, I don't see why they wouldn't attempt to add this into the game, people have played for 6 years and are probably fed up with looking at the same character every day and want to be something different for once.

The whole 'Make a new character, level to 30 and leech to 99' junk is pure stupid when you have a main character that's done pretty much everything, has R/EX gear that's not transferable between characters.

Having a sex/face change is pointless, when do you honestly look at your face while in game?

[Yambo99]

for the 90th time cant be done\wont be done. you might get a sex\face change

Your stupid if you think you cannot do it. All it takes is them to change what Dat is linked with your account. it's more the case as they don't want to. Get it right prz!

[Brolic]

they've made a point of saying it wont ever happen.

it wont ever happen

[Disguise]

they've made a point of saying it wont ever happen.

it wont ever happen

I don't see why they wouldn't allow this to happen, I don't see the big deal with people allowed to change there race every few months.

[Alhanelem]

I don't see why they wouldn't allow this to happen, I don't see the big deal with people allowed to change there race every few months.

Make a new character if you want to play a different race. Next time, give more throught to the name and appearance of your character when you create a character in an MMO.

gain the stat bonus they have ect.

The "stat bonuses" more like stat differences, are trivial. They've been further trivialized by events like Abyssea. They purposely made these differences small so that there wouldn't be any reason to feel a need to change later. Enable this and you'll have people tactically changing their race whenever they decide they need more of a stat. Even with a long cooldown, it would still be a problem. I'm against changing names and races. People should give more care and attention to these things when they create their character. So you created a Mithra named Peepeeman? Well, sucks to be you. Next time, don't be silly when you create your character.

[Economizer]

The "stat bonuses" more like stat differences, are trivial.

Not entirely true, there is one nontrivial stat difference in this game, but just one. Hit Points.

While you can get methods to restore MP enough and decent convert HP->MP gear to make a lower MP pool not be as big a deal, the reverse isn't exactly true.

Tarutaru HP is the only stat that is different enough that it would actively affect performance. Short of SE giving Tarutaru an RSE equip in a dump slot that gave like +X% HP to make them match a Hume or Mithra at least, Tarutaru lag behind a bit in the damage taking department a bit more then the trivial stats have affect on. I somewhat doubt that a Tarutaru's higher INT is going to influence magic resists often enough to save the day when a lower HP pool doesn't.

For a game that has pretty decent racial balance in terms of gameplay power - where any player despite past character selection choices can pick up just about job and play well enough that there is little question about whether they should be playing the job, this is slightly disappointing. It isn't an urgent matter though (and certainly not a reason to say we should be able to change races, although there may be other reasons for that), just disappointing.

[Atomic_Skull]

I don't see why they wouldn't allow this to happen, I don't see the big deal with people allowed to change there race every few months.

If they won't even allow same sex marriages in FFXI then they certainly aren't going to allow transsexual mithras and galkas.

[Camiie]

If they won't even allow same sex marriages in FFXI then they certainly aren't going to allow transsexual mithras and galkas.

Then they should probably force us all to play characters of our real life gender.