[Suggestion] Paid Race Change Program.

[Zehira]

There's a private server already does that and it's far from the perfection. Your character must be unequipped fully (because of RSE gears) and exit the game before you can change your race and appearance.

I don't know if you could change your name. A lot of players would want to change their names.

[Pixela]

I forgot about that, no doubt that's part of the reason it's been difficult to add.

They could add an npc, that when you talk to it it send you to a goal type area with one room and when inside it performs a remove all gear action as happens in old Salvage. Then tell you to logoff before it performs the account change.

[Zehira]

Yeah, it has to be done on the website.

[Tidemaker]

I'd pay for a name change as well.

You can sorta do this already via world transfer, if you transfer your char to another world then create another with the same name in the server you left, wait 3 days time before you can transfer back and it will force you to change your name as a character with the same name “your mule” already exist in that server. It’s the same concept when we were all force into a new server and had to change our names cause someone there already had it. Costly but if you wait until discount then it’s not so bad for a whole new name then just delete the mule and done

[Pixela]

I really wish they would tell us if they plan to do things in advance, as it always works they decide to do something and say nothing until a few days before adding it. I get why they do it this way it's still annoying.

[Cesil]

When they said in the AMA they would add it if there was enough "want" for it (paraphrasing, mind you) how do they determine the desire for this? Like others have mentioned, a quick google search can show you private servers do this, while it may not be simple and easy, it's possible.

I wish they would add this feature already, I've wanted to be a mithra for so long now and would easily pay the same price or whatever for a fantasia type item

There's a private server that already does that and it's far from the perfection. Your character must be unequipped fully (because of RSE gears) and exit the game before you can change your race and appearance.

I don't know if you could change your name. A lot of players would want to change their names.

In FFXIV we also have to remove every piece of equipment, log out, then relog in and wait to be promoted to change our race. Forgive me if I am missing something, but that sounds exactly like how FFXIV does it, is there anything different between the two?

[Zehira]

When they said in the AMA they would add it if there was enough "want" for it (paraphrasing, mind you) how do they determine the desire for this? Like others have mentioned, a quick google search can show you private servers do this, while it may not be simple and easy, it's possible.

I wish they would add this feature already, I've wanted to be a mithra for so long now and would easily pay the same price or whatever for a fantasia type item



In FFXIV we also have to remove every piece of equipment, log out, then relog in and wait to be promoted to change our race. Forgive me if I am missing something, but that sounds exactly like how FFXIV does it, is there anything different between the two?

Both basically the same thing. I am a 3D modder of XIV. I don't publish my stuff, I just do it for fun. But if you have your RSE equipped before you change your race then your account can be damaged forever. I remember a Lamia in Besieged magically removed all of your equipment. Maybe SE can use that feature for changing the character's appearance depending on the development costs.

[Alhanelem]

They wouldn't do something juryrigged like that. If they can't do it properly, they aren't going to do it.

[Zehira]

They wouldn't do something juryrigged like that. If they can't do it properly, they aren't going to do it.

Never say never, Mr. Naysayer.

Cheapness is do it to let players change through webpages. Since we can't look into a closed source software to figure out what, SQL isn't hard to learn. You are right, they shouldn't make the same mistake as the lottery system for buying a house in XIV.

If SE isn't going to do it, then maybe they need to stop crawling into my account to see what alts I have and say "Oh I know what Zehira likes most so I am gonna change my character."

[Pixela]

Also needs to be kept in mind that people do this more than once, people like to have changes of hairstyles of body size or whatever.

I know the developers think this won't really be worth the cost but if done correctly it would be a profitable thing.