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[Jatoi]

Welcome to every MMO in the past 10 years.



Please point out where tanning-bed were available in the pre-renaissance era which the game is based on.

They made do by using something called "the sun".

That huge glowing orb in the sky that comes up and goes down! You know, that thing!

[Laerune]

They made do by using something called "the sun".

That huge glowing orb in the sky that comes up and goes down! You know, that thing!

I know you are joking around, but I would love to see a FFXIV, where doing certain things will affect the player.

- If the player eats too much food and their avatar does not move around alot, they will gain weight.
- If the player is very active, you see more muscle definition. You see the characters more ripped (like how Highlanders and Roes have more muscle definition).
- If the player spends more time in warmer zones, they get a tan and if they are in cold ones like Ishgard, they keep their skin colour or become a little bit more pale.
- Movement, if you are fit, you can sprint alot longer and if you arent fit, you can only sprint only for few seconds.

This will never happen, but one can dream.

[Jatoi]

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Kind of reminds me of the Sims games.

But to implement that sort of thing you'd definitely need a balance and not everyone would be comfortable with whatever speed it set. I'm saying that because I've played Sims games for a long time, that players of those games have modded these aspects because often they felt these changes either went too fast or too slow when it came to these bodily alterations. I've played characters that after two sim-days of doing a workout routine for a few sim-minutes a day, that the change was noticeable. So I modded.

It's an interesting idea to propose but yeah, it's never going to happen.

[Zojha]

- If the player is very active, you see more muscle definition. You see the characters more ripped (like how Highlanders and Roes have more muscle definition).

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I'd actively be inactive to avoid muscle definition >.<

[Bixillarla]

I know you are joking around, but I would love to see a FFXIV, where doing certain things will affect the player.

- If the player eats too much food and their avatar does not move around alot, they will gain weight.
- If the player is very active, you see more muscle definition. You see the characters more ripped (like how Highlanders and Roes have more muscle definition).
- If the player spends more time in warmer zones, they get a tan and if they are in cold ones like Ishgard, they keep their skin colour or become a little bit more pale.
- Movement, if you are fit, you can sprint alot longer and if you arent fit, you can only sprint only for few seconds.

This will never happen, but one can dream.

No thank you. I spend hours making my character the way I like them, I don't need it to change by doing things in game.

[Makeda]

I know you are joking around, but I would love to see a FFXIV, where doing certain things will affect the player.
- If the player spends more time in warmer zones, they get a tan and if they are in cold ones like Ishgard, they keep their skin colour or become a little bit more pale.

Yeah that would be seriously no.

If they made any of my 4 characters even on drop paler than where I set them, I'd be all over that. MMOs have enough racial bias white privilege BS as it is... I don't need that in my Japanese MMO too (it already has more than most American MMOs).

I'm pretty sure a whole lot of white people would freak out if their toons got changed too - even if they have a wide variety of tones to choose from as it is, there'd be a point in this where folks would start not recognizing their character.

[Reinha]

I know you are joking around, but I would love to see a FFXIV, where doing certain things will affect the player.

- If the player eats too much food and their avatar does not move around alot, they will gain weight.
- If the player is very active, you see more muscle definition. You see the characters more ripped (like how Highlanders and Roes have more muscle definition).
- If the player spends more time in warmer zones, they get a tan and if they are in coldones like Ishgard, they keep their skin colour or become a little bit more pale.
- Movement, if you are fit, you can sprint alot longer and if you arent fit, you can only sprint only for few seconds.

This will never happen, but one can dream.

Nooo, I don't want to become darker or more toned. If it were an option in the barber shop that would be great, but I don't want my character to be restricted from doing things and from going places with the threat of becoming less pretty (in my eyes).

I'd like skin colour, horns, eye colour, muscle and limbal rings to be available in the barber shop. They are pretty easy to change IRL.

[Niwashi]

I know you are joking around, but I would love to see a FFXIV, where doing certain things will affect the player.

- If the player eats too much food and their avatar does not move around alot, they will gain weight.
- If the player is very active, you see more muscle definition. You see the characters more ripped (like how Highlanders and Roes have more muscle definition).
- If the player spends more time in warmer zones, they get a tan and if they are in cold ones like Ishgard, they keep their skin colour or become a little bit more pale.
- Movement, if you are fit, you can sprint alot longer and if you arent fit, you can only sprint only for few seconds.

This will never happen, but one can dream.

I played one of my nephew's games for a while which did that, and which was pretty thoroughly ruined by it. (I think it was one of the games from the Fable series, though I forget which number.) The problem was that the weight gain system was scaled really badly.

If you were going to do any combat related content, then you needed food in order to heal yourself, and limited availability meant that you had to eat whatever sort of food you could find. Most of that food was stuff that would then make you fat (and which very quickly got to really really fat) and there was virtually no way to get thin again. (In theory, eating healthy food like vegetables would make you thinner, but when it took something like a thousand carrots to make up for a single piece of bread, and you could only occasionally get a carrot or two available to buy, that didn't actually work.)

So the only real choices were to skip 90% of the content to avoid combat, or to have a really ugly character. A lot of the game also focused on collecting cosmetc outfits and such, but since playing the main content forced you to have a hideously ugly character, finding a nice outfit was sort of wasted.

It's an interesting concept, though. It might have worked if the system had simply been scaled better, so that it either took a lot more to get fat, or that some means of getting thin again was readily accessible.