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    Dragemons sounds ok to me.

    The difference in Au Ra body mass is mentioned in their lore. It's a part of their race. SE isn't going to change all of that just so you can be an over-bloated disproportionate Au Ra female.

    And as someone else has already pointed out, save for Au Ra, it's possible to have the genders fairly equal in height.

    It isn't going to happen with Au Ra. It shouldn't, it doesn't need to, and it wont.

    If you want to be a big husky female with horns, buy Ultima Horns and use them on a female Roe or highlander. I mean any race can have horns as a glamor now.
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    Last edited by Ditto; 08-06-2015 at 11:16 AM.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Kaedan94 View Post
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    Okay, please, seeing as how you're experienced in modeling to know all that ~*jargon*~, go do your model magic and show exactly how different it'd be, I can wait, I want to be proven wrong here. The models literally just upscale, so upscaling a screenshot would functionally be no different. Go ahead, take a screenshot of a Roegadyn woman at 1, then take one of of a 100, upscale that Roe at 1 to the 1 at 100 and you know what's different? Weirdly enough, it looks exactly the same, go figure that scaling a two dimensional image looks no different than scaling the in game model (Which, because we see it through a computer screen, it also a two dimensional image!), almost like the term scaling things up doesn't mean two entirely different things dependent.

    Okay, let's go over this though. There is one hit box, somehow an upscaled Auri woman would put its parameters outside of it, but Roegadyn dudes, who will always be the biggest in overall size, don't. The models literally just upscale when you make their height number higher, but for some reason scaling a screenshot isn't the same thing. I've asked you to present proof before and you've yet to provide, sorry if I'm entirely skeptical about your claims.

    It was a literally a design choice to invoke a similar feeling to the Mithra and Galka from FFXI, it's why the races look so similar too. It was reinforced with lore by there being just a heavy girl skewed ratio in the birthrate of girl:boy Miqo'te. It's not like SE is infallable with designing a new race, heck apparently they wanted something "less human" with the new race and they gave us Auri women, which seems pretty opposite to that goal. That's the thing, SE has ultimate decision on what they want the height of the girls to be, hence the appeal on my behalf to make the changes to allow itf. It's not that SE never changes their minds about things, and the Auri women being a max of 5'2 would be no exception.

    Besides, you never addressed the question of "if this is strictly an optional addition, why do you care so much to oppose it". Seriously, if this is suggestion occurs, you might have to look at the occasional odd looking tall Auri woman at worse, not like you'd have to make an one yourself. There is nothing bad about SE putting in a bit of effort to make it possible.

    Quote Originally Posted by Ditto View Post
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    Here's the thing about lore, SE always can change it or make minor additions. For all we know one of those "hidden tribes" they've mentioned in the naming convention post found some weird way to make the women tall and another one found a way to keep their men short. I mean heck, they've got Xaela tribes with 1/3 birthrates of twins and the ability to hold their breath for 15 minutes, you're telling me they can't squeeze in one tribe and do this? I mean, heck, you gonna hound every Xaela that's not named a traditional 14th century Mongolian name? Because lore wise that's how their naming conventions go. Obviously SE should keep players from naming themselves and only use randomly generated names, it's apart of their lore after all.

    None of this "fairly equal" crap, the other races can easily be made to be equal in height and they should.

    Sure as heck isn't going to happen with the opposition acting like it's impossible and a horrible idea. In my honest opinion It's a dull and boring overused racial motif (I can rarely think of a fantasy race where the men are the short and cuter ones and the girls are massive and tough), it makes absolutely no sense to restrict players to only being small Auri women and tall Auri men, especially whenever the additional option to have a tall or short Auru woman/man wouldn't affect those who want the status quo very much at all.


    Quote Originally Posted by Ditto View Post
    If you want to be a big husky female with horns, buy Ultima Horns and use them on a female Roe or highlander. I mean any race can have horns as a glamor now.
    "If you want cutesy girls with horns, buy the Ultima Horns and use them on a Miqo'te. I mean any race can have horns as glamour now" See how ridiculous that suggestion is? I want the Au Ra to change because I like the aesthetic and cultural lore of the Xaela. I don't want "Roegadyn + horns" I want "Tall Auri women"
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    Last edited by Samcaesar; 08-06-2015 at 02:54 PM.