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Originally Posted by jameseoakes

This is getting to much into gender politics which I'm not going to touch. I was just making the point that sexual dimorphism in mammals is most of the time to have the males be larger (and given how common this is there must be good evolutionary reasons for it) and a race doing it the other way would be a fairly extreme oddity.

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My bad, sorry.

Males aren't always the larger in nature when it comes to sexual dimorphism, and after the extreme we have with the Au Ra, there are a significant number of players who would like the inverse to be an option. Granted why Square didn't just alternate the differences with the two tribes is beyond me. One could've had hulking males and tiny females, and the other could have had hulking females and tiny males. Or one could have had hulking males and females, and the other could've had tiny males and females. Heaven forbid the hyur ever have to share noticeable difference with two clans.

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Originally Posted by Vexander

My bad, sorry.

Males aren't always the larger in nature when it comes to sexual dimorphism, and after the extreme we have with the Au Ra, there are a significant number of players who would like the inverse to be an option. Granted why Square didn't just alternate the differences with the two tribes is beyond me. One could've had hulking males and tiny females, and the other could have had hulking females and tiny males. Or one could have had hulking males and females, and the other could've had tiny males and females. Heaven forbid the hyur ever have to share noticeable difference with two clans.

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I think that would have been too much work as it would have basically been adding 2 races in one expansion as they would have needed there own emotes and animations racial gear. As I understand it Highlanders weren't fully finished and the playable female only came with ARR (please correct me if I mistaken) so they took there time on them which may explain why they got more attention than the other clans.

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Originally Posted by jameseoakes

I think that would have been too much work as it would have basically been adding 2 races in one expansion as they would have needed there own emotes and animations racial gear. As I understand it Highlanders weren't fully finished and the playable female only came with ARR (please correct me if I mistaken) so they took there time on them which may explain why they got more attention than the other clans.

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I don't know what goes into making the races, so I couldn't say for sure personally. I imagine you'd just need minor tweaks and all. Just use the same skeletons.

I could be wrong, but I read somewhere that female rabbits tend to be bigger than male rabbits of the same breed.

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Originally Posted by Vexander

I don't know what goes into making the races, so I couldn't say for sure personally. I imagine you'd just need minor tweaks and all. Just use the same skeletons.

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Minor tweaks yes, but each individual armor piece would need to be fitted and tested to this skeleton, which is a massive undertaking in this game. WoW gets away with it because blizzard doesn't care about warping and stretching textures, whereas 14 handles graphics very differently.

Remember back to when Yoshi P talked about butts, he was even against texture stretching on that issue, let alone a new race. The resources required are pretty damn high, and IMO really not worth it when we could have new, fun content instead

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Originally Posted by Lambdafish

The resources required are pretty damn high, and IMO really not worth it when we could have new, fun content instead

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I'd like viera, more customization, and fun content.

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Originally Posted by Senn

I'd like viera, more customization, and fun content.

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and I'd like 1.0 graphics and animations, but I also don't want to pay a $50 sub to maintain the server and development costs.

/hyperboleover

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Originally Posted by Senn

I'd like viera, more customization, and fun content.

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I would love more customization

In for viera support & I'd love to see more of an avain type race :)

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Originally Posted by RYT

In for viera support & I'd love to see more of an avain type race :)

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Sorry, avian* my mistake. Winged type race will be more interesting.
Viera is lovely and elegant.