SE believes that race and gender choice are important to a character's identity. I don't think this is something they would ever do.

Out of curiosity, why do you think a Viera shouldn't be a Gunbreaker or your tanks have to be male? There's nothing "thematically sound" in such restrictions when such restrictions aren't being imposed on NPCs in the game. Instead, you're creating stereotypes.

Thematically sound would be your character accepting their racial/gender identity regardless of what job(s) he/she chooses to pursue. How one looks shouldn't limit their opportunities.

Quote Originally Posted by Alkazar View Post
Yeah that was my first thought but as I said this game is particularly alt-unfriendly. I can't even mail gil or items to an alt, share mounts, glamour pieces, minions... nothing.
It's not that bad. I've got 6 characters, 4 at level cap and 2 I'm leveling.

Most items in the game aren't that hard to obtain on multiple characters. I focus on the ones I want that particular character to use and ignore the others, assuming I don't still end up with them through normal game play (which I frequently do).

With respect to glamour, so many of the better appearances are job locked that it wouldn't even help in your situation. I still hate that one beautiful full length skirt model is only available to tanks even though I would love to use it with other jobs.

Even before I got an active group of friends, I was using the MB to trade items and gil between my characters. It meant losing a little gil to the MB fees but so what? Gil is easy to earn.

Some players create their own FCs and add their alts to solve the mail problem. Others get friends to help them out - it's not unusual for someone to mail me stuff they want on their alt and I either forward it in the mail or trade it to the alt once online. It's not something that needs to be done so often that it feels like a significant inconvenience.