Lupin - make it a playable race!

[Averax]

I have seen this possible outcome in the myriad time streams, and it looks like this



We are fortunate that it has not come to pass.

[Fredco191]

I'd laugh if I saw a bunch of Lupins doing this with a Magitek Armor.

[Evergrey]

I'd laugh if I saw a bunch of Lupins doing this with a Magitek Armor.

I never thought about that, and you're right, I would laugh aswell.

[Cidel]

Believe me when I say I'd rather see this race, or anything else over Viera; but from a design perspective, I'd fully understand why the devs wouldn't/couldn't upgrade them to playable. And no, I'm not talking about their legs; the Lupin NPCs I've seen so far have very "normal" looking legs (and a cat-boy/Au'ra run), albeit armored-covered.

For one, from what I can tell so far, they all pretty much have the same face. And not just face, like same model, clothes (there are exceptions), eyes, etc. The kind of thing you see on most beast tribes save for special NPCs. Which leads me to believe that the devs really have no intention of giving them to players to customize if none of them is set apart from the rest so far.

Which leads me to my 2nd issue: I don't think they'd customize well. I mean I could be proved wrong, but clearly this race wouldn't have as much customization options as the current ones. Well, I suppose they could, but I don't know how much out of their way the devs would go for a single race. I do fear if they gave color options for their fur like current races' hair, there'd be a rainbow of wolves running around...


tldr: while I wouldn't mind, I don't find it remotely likely or plausible.