Just a thought from a returning player

[Shay]

I know this has probably been brought up a ton in the past but, seeing as how FFXI is 11 years old and for instance ive had my character since 2004 it would be nice if we could receive in the mail a bottle a fantasia like players in FFXIV have.

It could breathe at least a little breath of fresh air into people whom have grown bored with looking at the same toon all of this years....*mainly when they wish they picked the blonde one* and save for swapping the .dat file.

just a thought while I download the 28,368 update files....

[Shayala]

Good idea. I just resubbed and am waiting for the update to complete. I would love to re-roll my main character whilst keeping levels etc. or even just change hairstyle.

[Anjou]

Just changing the hairstyle would be marvelous, I support this, even if it was a pay to use system

[Stompa]

Hairstyle changes make sense, you could even have an NPC hairdressing-shop where you go and get it, as a once per character / per year option.

I do not agree with what some people have said over the years about race-change options though. I feel that would harm the RPG integrity of the game, where you are a living person who was born a certain race and goes through life in the normal way after that. But hairstyle changes make sense 100%.

[Demonjustin]

I do not agree with what some people have said over the years about race-change options though. I feel that would harm the RPG integrity of the game, where you are a living person who was born a certain race and goes through life in the normal way after that.

Well, so far as I understand Monstrosity is basically us removing our souls from our bodies and inhabiting monsters, if that's accurate then a race change option really wouldn't be that outlandish.

[Rwolf]

If the dev team is discussing this on a moral scale, I assume it's possible to add system wise then. The only abuse factor I see is that someone can get married in FFXI (dunno who still does that) and change to same sex which is something SE specifically doesn't want. Don't want to start that downhill snowball and get this thread locked debating on the justification of such. If that is a concern, have them forfeit their rings. I like being hume myself, but I wouldn't want something so small to affect the whole community from being able to switch races/genders if they want. Monitize it and lock it out for a period of time like server swaps if they are concerned about constant changing. Not that I see the harm in it, but I can see the annoyance to some.

Well its interesting, on Earth, witchcraft and shamanism have for thousands of years also had masters who would go to sleep and their soul would take control of animals. In witchcraft it was called 'borrowing'. They claimed to have so much affinity with the natural world, they could take over minds of birds and fly through the sky seeing the world from the birds points of view, all while their body is sleeping at home on the bed.
So that sounds more like your monstrosity there. Or beastmaster, taking control of a wild animal and making it attack far stronger mobs, which is suicidal and the pet only does it because you control its heart. So we already have affinity-magics in the game, in Bst and Mon.
But in none of those cases does your own physical body go through a permanent change. When you exit the Mon system you are the same person. You have only used some affinity magics.
It is not the same as you changing your own race, DNA, whole entire skeleton, brain size etc. which you would do if you permanently changed from galka to tarutaru overnight. Its totally absurd to me. And has nothing to do with affinity-magics, which millions of people on Earth have claimed to use since the dawn of time.

Honestly, if we want to get literal to Earth, body augmentation, transplanting and sex change is a very real thing so it really isn't that absurd. Compared to witchcraft and shamanism, which isn't a commonly believed in and proven thing. A world filled in magic, filled with avatars, an elvaan who can shapeshift into a dragon which is her real form, gods, traveling in time and alternate dimensions. There's a way to get around anything. Visit one of the 5 mothercrystals of another race and the power of that crystal changes you permanently altering your form or tons of other story-related outs.

[Spellcaster]

Its kinda weird that a 11 years old game game don't have those basic features yet, no new races as well.

[Shay]

I would also be fine with just changing my hair as others have suggested.....which is a service in FFXIV.......cant be that hard to place an npc in town that will do this

oh and another idea.....give me a search feature for my inventory ;_;......stop the endless where the heck did I put this searches