Quote Originally Posted by Yencat View Post
Do you hide Viera ears when they're wearing a top hat or "witch" hat? It would make sense to, but you'd be removing their most identifying race feature. Now let's take a cowboy-style hat, do you hide them or do you let them clip and on a shorter ear-type only the tips would be poking out the top? Do you let a hat that's lower in the back clip into a Hrothgar's hunched back, or do you make that one invisible for them and visible for Viera? etc. etc.
In addition to "saving the endless questioning over why some things work and others don't" (which already happens on a small scale over the few things that do get through) the thing about ears hiding or showing makes particular sense, and doubly in combination with the remark - which I can't find but I know it was in one of the common quotes regarding headgear - that it only would have worked if they had ears in the same position as Miqo'te.

Headgear evidently has a piece of data that instructs it to hide or show Miqo'te ears, but I assume you would want a different set of decisions for Viera, and they may not be able to attach that new rule to the hats.

I gather that modders just get to reach in and bypass the rules and turn all the switches on and off as it suits them, but the standard game system doesn't have that degree of control.