Suggestion: Unlock Race Starter Gear

I was originally going to add this to my More Facial Feature Options, Please thread but thought it didn't fit.

I suggest that SE unlock the race lock on the starter gear.
Why?
Well...Why not?!
We live in a world where everyone can equip any piece of armor they find in the middle of a cave/ruin/haunted mansion/Elezen Fort/etc., even after they magically change their race and biological gender. Not to mention, each piece is unique yet simple, easily able to go with almost any glamour.

Yet I still don't know the lore of those starter gear from.

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Originally Posted by Mimilu

I was originally going to add this to my More Facial Feature Options, Please thread but thought it didn't fit.

I suggest that SE unlock the race lock on the starter gear.
Why?
Well...Why not?!
We live in a world where everyone can equip any piece of armor they find in the middle of a cave/ruin/haunted mansion/Elezen Fort/etc., even after they magically change their race and biological gender. Not to mention, each piece is unique yet simple, easily able to go with almost any glamour.

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Better yet!. Let us dye it please!.

Eh, please don't. I think it's nice to have SOMETHING be race-specific, since practically nothing is.

I loved the elezen starter and hempen gear when I was elezen, but I gave that up when I changed. I hate the au ra hempen gear, but I still don't want to demand other races'.

Some uniqueness is nice, let's keep it.

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Originally Posted by Eul

Yet I still don't know the lore of those starter gear from.

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They never say.
It's weird considering each City-State has at least one vender that sells them.

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Originally Posted by Onikimaru

Better yet!. Let us dye it please!.

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I had thought of adding that but didn't want to push it. >w>

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Originally Posted by seida

I loved the elezen starter and hempen gear when I was elezen, but I gave that up when I changed. I hate the au ra hempen gear, but I still don't want to demand other races'.

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But think about how nice it would be if you could wear that Elezen Starter outfit.
Now think about how nice it would be if you got bored of the Elezen Starter outfit and decided Lalafell was where it's truly at. Or Roegadyn. Miqo'te? Maybe Hyur?
Not to mention all the lovely pieces, individually.

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Originally Posted by Mimilu

But think about how nice it would be if you could wear that Elezen Starter outfit.
Now think about how nice it would be if you got bored of the Elezen Starter outfit and decided Lalafell was where it's truly at. Or Roegadyn. Miqo'te? Maybe Hyur?
Not to mention all the lovely pieces, individually.

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I think it's nicer that races get something unique, even if it's only a couple of outfits.

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Originally Posted by seida

Eh, please don't. I think it's nice to have SOMETHING be race-specific, since practically nothing is.

I loved the elezen starter and hempen gear when I was elezen, but I gave that up when I changed. I hate the au ra hempen gear, but I still don't want to demand other races'.

Some uniqueness is nice, let's keep it.

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Uniqueness is in the character you make. Clothes of all things shouldn't be locked. More options is never bad as far as purely aesthetic concerns go.

Fine with me tbh.

Ummmmmmm....no. Unlock the gender restrictions? Yes. Make them dyeable? Yes. Heck, make the different-for-each-race-but-only-one-actual-item underpants and undershirt designs separately buyable and not race-restricted. But the actual racial starter outfit? No. Even if we don't know their stories yet, they are racial for reasons. That and the job AFs are the two things that make sense to be restricted. All the rest though - yeah, just remove the locks altogether.

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Originally Posted by seida

Some uniqueness is nice, let's keep it.

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I agree with Seida. I apprciate it when our choices have some meaning. I wish our races, jobs, and grand companies had even more that was unique to them.

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Originally Posted by WellFooled

I agree with Seida. I apprciate it when our choices have some meaning. I wish our races, jobs, and grand companies had even more that was unique to them.

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Why not appreciate the uniqueness of just how they look? I mean, people don't stay in their race outfits for long, and none of them seem too indicative of their culture, otherwise Miqo'te would have two heavily difference outfits.

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Originally Posted by RyuRoots

Uniqueness is in the character you make. Clothes of all things shouldn't be locked. More options is never bad as far as purely aesthetic concerns go.

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This is an mmorpg, 'uniqueness' is unattainable. Make a cute character, someone will copy it. Or someone will have made the same on their own, maybe even randomly.

Same goes for costumes, colours, voice, etcetera. It's one of those pet peeves I have maybe... Play something you like I say, and let that be the end of it! If you want to be truly unique then dye all your clothing banana yellow, with a green wizard cap or something.

Why not just give everyone all the same emotes then? The races are already samey, why take away one of the last things that gives them differences? Racial gear is a "perk" of choosing a certain race, if you will.

Literally, it's only the starter gear and hempen gear that's different. Not EVERYTHING needs to be shared.

I can see why people want it, I just think it defeats the point of it... why have racial gear at all.

Also, it would all need to have different versions made for every race because the proportions are all wrong. It would take a fair amount of effort on SE's part.

I've questioned the lore behind the starter gear. I don't think there really is any. But I think there needs to be some uniqueness. As jealous as I am of some of the other clothing options the other races get, I don't want to lose what we have that's unique to us. In fact, I'd like to have more race specific clothing in the future and hopefully in its design be able to give ideas lore wise as to what the races are like.

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Originally Posted by seida

Why not just give everyone all the same emotes then? The races are already samey, why take away one of the last things that gives them differences? Racial gear is a "perk" of choosing a certain race, if you will.

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Seida, you're brilliant! :D
Think of it, all the emotes having different versions that you can change with /changepose.
Think of the variety! Think of the character! Think of the RP potential! :D
And don't worry about making different versions, I'm sure they used the same ridding and just resized it for the different races, so it shouldn't be too hard to translated it for the other races. :D

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Originally Posted by Mimilu

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Haha, I actually agree with you TBH. I think uniqueness comes from choice. If everyone can choose which emotes they want, and have the racial gear (and various forms of hempen underwear) unlocked, then people can mix and match even more styles to look more unique. Maybe ALL of the emotes would be a tad too far, but since the races stole one of the highlander emotes, I think it's fair to at least have some shared between all the races. Or at least maybe /changepose stances. I know a lot of female miqo'te who would KILL to sit like their male counterparts.

I like that the starter gear is restricted.
but if we were allowed to dye it id be superhappy

"Uniqueness" is a nonsensical concept made up purely by those who take joy in the fact that they have something that others cannot get.

Aesthetic restrictions add absolutely nothing to any game ever. They should be phased out just like FFXIV phased out race "restrictions" on jobs.

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Originally Posted by basketofseals

"Uniqueness" is a nonsensical concept made up purely by those who take joy in the fact that they have something that others cannot get.

Aesthetic restrictions add absolutely nothing to any game ever. They should be phased out just like FFXIV phased out race "restrictions" on jobs.

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Or uniqueness is something people appreciate in games, instead of having everything palette swapped because people "want it all now" I am quite happy with race unque outfits, and i think they should stay that way. there are quite a few race exclusive outfits i'd like to wear, but i don't go around crying about them cause i can't use them. if i wanted it bad enough, i'd just change to that race.

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Originally Posted by Blood-Aki

if i wanted it bad enough, i'd just change to that race.

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At $10 a pop?! D:
You shouldn't have to pay $10 just to wear an ingame-not-cash-shop-outfit-you-get-at-the-beginning-of-the-game.