Change your wyvern color!

[Wenceslao]

Really SE what is happening with you guys?, 6~9 years ago FFXI was the best MMORPG, you opened this forum to receive feedbacks from the players and to looks what we are wanting, and what we receive? Dynamis-Reborn? (a thread in which the majority of the players are against) New Trigger Conditions to pop Fafnir, Nidhogg, Behemoth and King Behemoth (another thread in which, player are against of implement it). I know you have lot of work to do and I am not against it, but you should take a closer look on what the players really want, as stated by many DRGs on this thread, this is not something new, we have been asking this for years, in the end we are the ones who are playing and this past months has been a wth? is happening with FFXI, many changes are expected to take action, but please do it properly, the general feeling of the players is not good, you have been focusing in add-ons scenarios and not in the expansions, you have been focusing on add more stuffs to do (when we already have many stuffs to do, but many players just don't do it because the rewards are gimped now) why not take a closer look on what we really want and not in what you think we want?.

I know you are working hard but please there are some content we would like to take effect in the short run (like this thread) than other stuffs, if you could delay the world merge, you can delay other stuffs in favor of what your customers wants more, anyway hope you read this, and thank you for taking the time to give us an explanation.

[Twille]

This is the 2nd or 3rd response from SE stating something along the lines of player requested changes being a "low-priority" to other things.
What other things? Things like [dex1012]? What a waste of time. SE did the same thing with the promyvions, what good did that do? Things like [dev1011]? Treasure caskets...seriously? I've soloed 3 or 4 jobs to level 50 and roughly a dozen to level 30 and I've rarely ever had the need for the items found in these random chests.

I would consider things such as this (wyvern color customization) one of the highest priorities. What separates a good game from a great game is the little things. FFXI already has the makings of a really good game, a VAST and complex story, lots of areas to explore and quests to do, tons of jobs to play, etc. FFXI is pretty late into it's life cycle and is obviously not getting nearly as much attention as FFXIV, why not take the time to make lots of the smaller tweaks that people have been wanting for so long?
Just my 2 gil.

[noodles355]

As they state, they couldn't use a system like the linkshell colour selection. They would have to make individually recoloured .dat models for each wyvern colour. However they also play up how long it would take. It wouldn't be an obscene amount of time or manpower required. Recolouring .dats is a fairly simple process.

That aside, there are already three different wyvern dats in the game. Kindred Wyvern, Wynav and Wyvern (Pet). Even the option to choose between one of these would be a start, and would hardly be a difficult idea. Concidering Dynamis and Sea are sort of other dimensions already (Well, Lumoria is in Space and Dynamis is a Dream), and that abyssea is completely based on another dimension, it would not be out of cannon for an abyssea NPC to be able to change your blue wyvern into his Sea Wynav or Dynamis Kindred Wyvern for you.

Now would it be hard to implement either. Choose one of 3 wyvern choices > personal wyvern dat changed from rom/###/###.dat to rom/###/###.dat.

[slakyak]

That aside, there are already three different wyvern dats in the game. Kindred Wyvern, Wynav and Wyvern (Pet). Even the option to choose between one of these would be a start, and would hardly be a difficult idea. Concidering Dynamis and Sea are sort of other dimensions already (Well, Lumoria is in Space and Dynamis is a Dream), and that abyssea is completely based on another dimension, it would not be out of cannon for an abyssea NPC to be able to change your blue wyvern into his Sea Wynav or Dynamis Kindred Wyvern for you.

Nice idea... Choosing between existing in game wyverns would be a good compromise. Not that it's a major issue but would this effect the Emotes??

[Reiterpallasch]

That aside, there are already three different wyvern dats in the game. Kindred Wyvern, Wynav and Wyvern (Pet).

There are actually 4. Ark Angel GK has a unique black wyvern that is similar to the dynamis wyverns, only it has a faint avatar type glow to it.

[tcharleyd]

Yeah, I'd love my wyvern to look like the Dynamis wyverns. LET US CHOOSE THE WYVERN COLOR!!!

[Mizuharu]

Give the devs a break ~.~ They told you why they couldn't do that AT THIS TIME. So they'll either TRY to input this feature in the future, or they'll give you something else that'll distract you from this.

[Doomtrigger]

or they change at certain points as they lvl.

[Mookie]

I would love for new wyvern colors. It's a really nice way to customize your drg. Doesn't need to be crazy like stripes or poka-dots but your basic colors would be great. Black/White/Red/Yellow/Orange/Blue/Green/Indigo/Purple. I mean come on, the lizards and reptiles of nature come in different colors ^^.

[JackDaniels]

YES PLZ!!! AMEN