Quote Originally Posted by reivaxe View Post
It's an interesting yet misguided idea imo.
Like, yeah ... Lions have manes. Manes are not a thing they can control, it's a ton of fur on them meant to protect their neck/ intimidate other males/ attract mates and display their vigor to all. It's condition can reflect how often they come out on top in fights. It's a thing that reflects their qualities that they can't really do anything about. So yeah, it's a neat idea to have that reflected in the Lion men cause that's very much how it works. Tis why the females seem to simply not have manes, Lions are 1 of the first iconic examples you think about when it comes to sexual dimorphism in mammals.


Problem is that in the way it was implemented it greatly decreases the amount of freedom and options they have for player customization. You can't make your character skinny or thick when it comes to the body, you can just change the height and skin color and boobs mostly (tails for races with tails). Other than glams a massive part of making your character in this game look unique is changing the shape of your head. Be it through hair styles or hats or helms, changing the shape of your head is important for not looking like a clone and every other race has a high amount of options for that. So when you can't wear a huge amount of hats/ helms and have very limited hair you objectively have few options. Even worse when the only other option for your hair is a cash shop potion

It's like how "make a REAL Fran Viera" sounds good on paper until you run into the hat problem and realize most people woulda been happy with a Bunny race with modded Miqote ears and fluffy tails so long as they're cute/ pretty and could wear hats/ hairs. Now you have a popular race with very full options to look unique, where most people look like clones cause they have like 8 hair styles and zero hats.

TBH I'd prefer Viera and Hrothgar had heads that worked in the system but limited FOOTGEAR so that they could have digitigrade feet but that's just me.
Well we are talking about Intelligent Bi-pedal Lions here, so said Manes can be controlled to at least an extent.
The only limitation is anybody thinking that SE or a dev is gonna be 100% realistic to the IRL counterpart that not even a shred of fantasy will be applied. There is no problem that the hair is basically their fur, if this concept is in fact what they are going for, then there are already a few 'hairstyls' that show its not as limiting as people may think it is.

If your real grievance here is the Gear Options for the head, nobody disagrees that it sucks, but the hair isn't the issue, its the shape of the head. Simple things like glasses and circlets dont require much (Although some things need placement adjustments) but hats and helms will be an issue because up till now all gear was designed for Humanoid faces, not a beast face. So they would need to design gear twice over now and redesign alot of old gear (some hats they could just scale) if they are gonna make it fit the Hrothgar head.

Fantasia to change the hair im sure is a design oversight and probably not intended originally. I do believe and have hopes this will be addressed and changed next Expansion along with many other things.