"Default Job Gear" option in Dungeons / Raids

[Makeda]

It would be nice if the names had an enforced naming scheme, but we would just run out of names pretty darn quick. Look how quickly the bots managed to do that with the RNG names.

Then there is also the problem of having actual "family names" that repeat but the players having no relation.

Well if you're a "Seeker of the Sun" Mi'qote that is easy.
Male: your name is Tia if you have been 'socially other otherwise castrated'. Nunh if not.
Female: your name is the first name of the male that is sleeping with you and all of his other sisters, whether or not you even like him, because you don't get to choose that.

There's a reason I'm a moonwalker. Those sunwalkers are messed up in the head freaks in the lore...

Now... do you really want them to enforce lore on us... can you imagine the weirdness of all of the male players on catboys in this game logging in to find themselves with the surname of '[a certain part]-less' ? Because they are ALL Tia's. Operating a harem of some 40-100 catgirls is a fulltime job... That's why you run across so few Nunhs among the NPC sunwalkers... you're there, servicing... and hoping nobody managed to sneak a boy out some 20 years back before the male you killed off managed to snip him...

And that's not to mention the new 'task' all the female 'Seeker of the Sun' characters would be stuck with... That Nunh of yours killed to get access, and he's not letting you run off anytime soon now...

Yeah... let's just keep lore where it belongs: something for the RPers and the Devs who watch too much of the anime sold in the back in the shop... and the rest of us will pretend the above lore doesn't actually exist...

I strongly suspect most people who want 'lore' more enforced have not read the actual lore... If they had, we cat-people would be the rarest race played, not the most common one. That, or you would all be Keepers of the Moon like me. It kind of reminds me of when I was in WoW, and all these blood elf players would talk about how they love lore, and then describe their toons as heroic and emo and so on... and I would point out that in lore; they survive by devouring the souls of captives, and live in an authoritarian regime that uses mind magic and 'forced disappearances' to deal with anyone who questions the regime.

Cat people in FFXIV have some seriously freaky lore... and it is even written into a strict naming convention the Keepers of the Sun live under - which hits DIRECTLY to your desire... and would in fact effect your very character.

[Naunet]

Female: your name is the first name of the male that is sleeping with you and all of his other sisters, whether or not you even like him, because you don't get to choose that.

As an aside... this isn't true. As per naming conventions post: "A female first name will always begin with the letter representing her tribe, followed by an apostrophe, and then her given name. Her last name is the first name of the tribe’s breeding male who sired her."

[Makeda]

As an aside... this isn't true. As per naming conventions post: "A female first name will always begin with the letter representing her tribe, followed by an apostrophe, and then her given name. Her last name is the first name of the tribe’s breeding male who sired her."

The remainder of my note stands. Just which Nunh gave her her surname is different. So it's the one her brother that is now 'breeding' with her managed to kill in order to take his place.

I'd double check this with my lore book (because online reference might be off), but it's packed away right now as I'm about to move. Either way... the naming conventions for keepers of the sun unmask some seriously perverted lore...

[Naunet]

The remainder of my note stands. Just which Nunh gave her her surname is different. So it's the one her brother that is now 'breeding' with her managed to kill in order to take his place.

I'm honestly not sure I understand what you're saying here. Female Seeker surnames are the name of their father. Not brother. xD No killing involved...