Glamour option to remove tails

[Rekedi]

That said I am confused why someone would choose a race that has a prominent physical feature they dislike.

Because it's tall, big but not as big as a Roe and has bigger head than Elezen. I dislike the other races more than the one I picked. Would've picked Hyur if they were as tall.

What I don't understand is why would anyone be against this.. if you don't want to use it then it doesn't affect you. It's not like it's unrealistic either...when you wear something you can tuck the tail under the garment.

[LaylaTsarra]

What I don't understand is why would anyone be against this..

The development team designed a race with a certain look in mind. I would venture to say they aren't about to change it just because some would prefer that race without tails. You can ask but it's not going to happen. That's like asking them to remove ears from Viera or scales from Au-ra or ears from Cats.

[Rekedi]

The development team designed a race with a certain look in mind.

That doesn't answer my question. You are not development team. Are you?

[LaylaTsarra]

That doesn't answer my question. You are not development team. Are you?

I gave my opinion about the option to have tails removed. You might not like my reply but it is what it is. They aren't going to remove tails from Aura nor should they. There are races without tails, horns or scales use them.

[Rekedi]

I gave my opinion about the option to have tails removed. You might not like my reply but it is what it is. They aren't going to remove tails from Aura nor should they.

You didn't give your personal opinion. You gave an opinion of what you think the opinion of developers would be. (which you obviously can't know if you aren't a developer)
Oh and yea ground mounts weren't supposed to fly. Now they do.
Developers are people. Not robots. They can change their mind as you can see.

[Rongway]

What I don't understand is why would anyone be against this.. if you don't want to use it then it doesn't affect you.

Every feature addition affects everyone, even if it's an optional feature that people can turn off, because (1) they program everything to be able to handle it as if everyone's using it, and (2) because it affects what other decisions they're willing or even able to make regarding the engine, memory structure, and volume of data access and transfer.

[ItMe]

(2) because it affects what other decisions they're willing or even able to make regarding the engine, memory structure, and volume of data access and transfer.

Ah yes, and additional character customization is something we've been... vehemently against?

[Iscah]

Ah yes, and additional character customization is something we've been... vehemently against?

It's not about what players want, but what the devs can give them - and in the matter of extra switches and settings for our characters, that so far has been nothing. (And to the direct detriment of Hrothgar designs in particular, or they might have been able to just add in an extra setting for hairstyle.)

Maybe they can't add anything without also rewriting every bit of the game code that needs to handle that data. Or maybe they could theoretically add one or two things but it comes at an exponential cost of how much additional data needs to be sent between players in a busy area.

If it is possible to add just one more thing, I feel like they would pick something that affects every race.

[ItMe]

It's not about what players want, but what the devs can give them - and in the matter of extra switches and settings for our characters, that so far has been nothing. (And to the direct detriment of Hrothgar designs in particular, or they might have been able to just add in an extra setting for hairstyle.)

Maybe they can't add anything without also rewriting every bit of the game code that needs to handle that data. Or maybe they could theoretically add one or two things but it comes at an exponential cost of how much additional data needs to be sent between players in a busy area.

If it is possible to add just one more thing, I feel like they would pick something that affects every race.

Yeah, probably, and considering how many races have tails I can understand why a tail switch would be considered.

Either way, if they're unable to add any switches that's understandable.
If they start adding switches I imagine it would open the floodgates to people requesting many MANY switches because dang are there a lot of possibilities.

No switch will please everyone, but that's no reason to shoot down the idea (this last sentence is not directed at the person I'm quoting above, but is more in response to the person from last time. This convo is kind of hop scorching around).

[Rongway]

Ah yes, and additional character customization is something we've been... vehemently against?

Memory constraints and increased volume of data access and transfer are the two things Yoshi-P cites quite often as the reason we can't have nice things. The devs are very conservative with these two resources, far more so than western developers.