Next expansion will more au ra NPCs?

[sarehptar]

This is why I feel the Au Ra shouldn't even have been made playable yet. If they don't fit in at any of the city states, and they are just recently coming from their home continent, then I feel that allowing the players to have them and filling the game with PC AuRa was very premature. I haven't really gotten into the DRK quests yet. Hopefully the next race will not be introduced so suddenly. I tend to count the PC population as part of the world population like NPCs...I mean, we see them right? So instead of welcoming them into this world I share with them, it has caused me to see them as more of a pest. Othard would have been a much better time to make the AuRa playable.

I think the Au Ra were somewhat relevant to the situation in Ishgard, and they wanted to introduce them as being connected to the Ninja too, so I can see why they introduced them when they did. I agree that it's a little weird to see so many Au Ra suddenly appear, but I guess if you count them like NPCs, you can say that the sudden influx does match the story of a ton of refugees showing up pretty much over night. The PCs just have to fill the places of the NPCs for now.

Personally, I just think it was time for a new race. Variety is the spice of life! It sounds like you don't like Miqo'te much either, so I'm surprised you would not welcome a race that would decrease the number of Miqo'te. XDD

[odie]

It sounds like you don't like Miqo'te much either, so I'm surprised you would not welcome a race that would decrease the number of Miqo'te. XDD

I started as a moonkitty and switched to Roegadyn when I moved from Lamia to Balmung. Balmung was like..99 percent Miqo at the time so yes...I was hoping the Au Ra would cut down on that population. I just wasn't expecting that they'd become the new Miqo'te. It didn't end up being THAT bad and though the census may not reflect it, I typically notice the players out and about are split pretty evenly between Miqo and AuRa.

[Crescents]

I mean it's kind of ridiculous to release a race with an expansion and focus 0% on them except have like 2-3 cameos of random npcs that don't really delve into the background of the race at all, here's hoping maybe when we move away from the dragonsong war into the other aspects of heavensward they might play a bigger role and we might figure out more than just the basic stuff about each tribe.

[Lukha]

While I understand wanting to see more of your own race in the game (I'm certainly pleased every time I run into a male Miqo'te), lore-wise it might be iffy to see too many of them running around just yet. Give it some time, I'm sure they'll be the majority once we eventually expand into Doma.

[Theodric]

I think they shouldn't bother adding any new races and instead focus on expanding the options for the existing playable races. Fix the issues that exist with clipping and offer a larger variety of facial features and I think most people will happy.

[Belhi]

Au Ra introduced in Heavensward are mainly either refugees, adventurers or merchants. Considering they aren't native to the continent its not surprising there hasn't been much focus on them. Apart from maybe a small refugee settlement hidden away somewhere there wouldn't even be any Au Ra settlements on Eorzea.

That said they have been included a reasonable amount. It was a group of Au Ra that were behind the Enigma Codex that formed the basis for ideas the Illuminati formed around and lead to the summoning of Alexander. The DRK quests involve the an Au Ra and touch on his history. We have had a few Au Ra traders and the NIN quests involved a Au Ra princess tracking stolen treasures from her homeland.

[Dualblade]

This is why I feel the Au Ra shouldn't even have been made playable yet. If they don't fit in at any of the city states, and they are just recently coming from their home continent, then I feel that allowing the players to have them and filling the game with PC AuRa was very premature. I haven't really gotten into the DRK quests yet. Hopefully the next race will not be introduced so suddenly. I tend to count the PC population as part of the world population like NPCs...I mean, we see them right? So instead of welcoming them into this world I share with them, it has caused me to see them as more of a pest. Othard would have been a much better time to make the AuRa playable.

You're in for a bad time then, since the male Mi'qote PCs probably outnumber the amount of actually living male Mi'qote period. Both Sunseeker and Moonkeeper males are supposed to be of a much smaller number similar to the Mithra, and they only ever had ONE Mithra male NPC ever show up in the story. As for the Au Ra, much like the Adventurers supposedly are they come from outside the city-states, and its not like the cities have been exactly that welcoming to outsiders for one reason or another. The fact that Sidurgu even made it into Ishgard is a feat in and of itself, though he probably wasn't able to walk out in the open alot till recently.

My point here is that counting the PC population as part of the world's overall population is never a good idea because of cases like the male Mi'qotes and Au Ra.

[odie]

My point here is that counting the PC population as part of the world's overall population is never a good idea because of cases like the male Mi'qotes and Au Ra.

We actually don't have alot of male miqo'te running around that I've seen. Mainly female.

I know what you're trying to say but its hard to NOT count PC characters as part of the population

A.) Because I see them there if I want to or not.
B.) They also RP and therefore make themselves more part of the world than someone afk and idle in the street.