Male Viera as a playable character! show your support

[Halivel]

Can you give me some examples of this happening in SB or SHB? Genuinely just curious as I do play as a catboy sometimes and don't recall seeing maybe more than 1 or 2 hats made with Miqo ears in mind.

I'll go for ShB:

Eden Gate: Tank, Dragoon, Rangers
Eden Verse: Tank, Gragoon
Ronkan set: Tank, Dragoon, Ninja,
Shadowkeeper Tomestones set: Tank, Dragoon
80 lvl 450 craftable set: Healer, Ninja, Rangers, Casters
76 lvl white set: Healer, Monk/Samurai, Rangers, Casters
74 level white set: Tank, Healer, Monk/Samurai, Dragoon
72 level white set: Dragoon
70 level white ShB set: Tank, Healer, Casters

That's what I found like... in 10 minutes, and didn't deeply check what Dungeons or DoH/DoL have, and also didn't sink into Stormblood. Also some of those are probably recolors of HW/SB sets, but not all of them anyway.

[Tabbs]

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Ah, ear socks. I can't find them all on garland tools, but I assume they're all helmets with metal ears on them? Correct me if I'm wrong o: While I'll give you that its something done with ears in mind, I was thinking more along the lines of ear holes. I don't count ear socks because it wouldn't really work for large Viera ears and isn't, I imagine, what most Viera players are asking for when they ask for hats.

EDIT: And thank you for going out of your way to find so many btw!

[Halivel]

Ah, ear socks. I can't find them all on garland tools, but I assume they're all helmets with metal ears on them? Correct me if I'm wrong o: While I'll give you that its something done with ears in mind, I was thinking more along the lines of ear holes. I don't count ear socks because it wouldn't really work for large Viera ears and isn't, I imagine, what most Viera players are asking for when they ask for hats.

Oh welp, holes. There is a hat with ear holes in that list I wrote, but I can't say which one exactly now. You didn't specify that you talk exactly about them, so I checked just everything what doesn't remove them completely XD And if it's about this, then yes, "socks" are much more common for Miqo'te than holes, but I can't say that it's just about SH and ShB. It was like this for earlier expansions too, more or less.

On a more bright note, almost every hat I checked (including those that cover Miqo'te ears completely) has failry simple design on upper part, so making there holes for Viera ears shouldn't damage the overal design. The main type of design that I can see as a potential pain are long hats, but on the other hand they're probably pretty much the type of a helmet where you could cover Viera ears... in case if we imply that they're soft and that there is a toggle for "hide ears" in code (since they're a changable part of body, such toggle will be necessary, unlike with Miqo'te).

At any rate, adjusting helmets for bunny girls isn't really impossible, despite the fact there are few flashy hats that can cause troubles. Honestly, Hrothgars heads are more tricky - they need a complete remodelling, not just for ears. The main issue at this point is the amount of them (considering there are 1800+ of them) and the schedule that the team has, with also the fact that they still need to make armors for umpcoming patches as well. If they ever plan to adjust hats for them, they probably should make a separate team for that tbh so they would be focused just on this and nothing more for a while.

[zeylos]

Oh welp, holes. There is a hat with ear holes in that list I wrote, but I can't say which one exactly now. You didn't specify that you talk exactly about them, so I checked just everything what doesn't remove them completely XD And if it's about this, then yes, "socks" are much more common for Miqo'te than holes, but I can't say that it's just about SH and ShB. It was like this for earlier expansions too, more or less.

On a more bright note, almost every hat I checked (including those that cover Miqo'te ears completely) has failry simple design on upper part, so making there holes for Viera ears shouldn't damage the overal design. The main type of design that I can see as a potential pain are long hats, but on the other hand they're probably pretty much the type of a helmet where you could cover Viera ears... in case if we imply that they're soft and that there is a toggle for "hide ears" in code (since they're a changable part of body, such toggle will be necessary, unlike with Miqo'te).

At any rate, adjusting helmets for bunny girls isn't really impossible, despite the fact there are few flashy hats that can cause troubles. Honestly, Hrothgars heads are more tricky - they need a complete remodelling, not just for ears. The main issue at this point is the amount of them (considering there are 1800+ of them) and the schedule that the team has, with also the fact that they still need to make armors for umpcoming patches as well. If they ever plan to adjust hats for them, they probably should make a separate team for that tbh so they would be focused just on this and nothing more for a while.

I think male hrotgar and female viera will get some hats (jobs and events mostly) at 6.0, which will be the same as male viera and female hrotgar

[Valorak]

I'm sure that this has come up at some point in the 1100 pages so far, but I'd prefer that they put in something like Bangaa over male Viera.

Not that I expect them to do either after their comments about this likely being the last time that they add new races.

[Tabbs]

I'm sure that this has come up at some point in the 1100 pages so far, but I'd prefer that they put in something like Bangaa over male Viera.

Not that I expect them to do either after their comments about this likely being the last time that they add new races.

Hasn't come up once afaik, and is also very unlikely. Bangaa would take 3 times the work that male Viera would when you consider that their bodies and heads don't match any of the current races.

[Valorak]

Hasn't come up once afaik, and is also very unlikely. Bangaa would take 3 times the work that male Viera would when you consider that their bodies and heads don't match any of the current races.

Well that's one of the reasons why I would prefer them! They're a lot different from most of our current race options.

Plus they're already prominent in the Ivalice story and the previous FF games set in Ivalice.

[grinkdaboy]

Hasn't come up once afaik, and is also very unlikely. Bangaa would take 3 times the work that male Viera would when you consider that their bodies and heads don't match any of the current races.

no harm in them taking some liberties with them. they could just make playable bangaa a subspecies of bangaa that are conveniently shaped/built like au ra

[SturmChurro]

Playable Bangaa... Yeah, right! For one they look dumb, but also hrothgar are our beast race. They couldn't even finish viera/hrothgar and people want bangaa too! Viera still don't have any new hairs!

[Tabbs]

no harm in them taking some liberties with them. they could just make playable bangaa a subspecies of bangaa that are conveniently shaped/built like au ra

They could, in theory, do whatever they wanted to; but they won't. If we got another heavily limited race (which it would be, look at the head) before getting fem Ronsos and male Viera or hats, people would be angrier than they already are. This thread would shoot up to 2000 or 3000 pages in a week, lol.