Viera and Hrothgar Megathread

[Yencat]

Well damn there goes my plan to get close to Fandaniel so he can teach me how to style my hair like his.

Well, I think it was a 'not right now' rather than a 'never', so there is hope for you and Fandaniel yet.

So are we going to preemptively talk about how viera can't use this? Before a few threads are made?

Another item that's supposed to be an incentive to run something that isn't actually an incentive to a group of people.

I just saw that this is another one of those hairstyle contest styles, and while looking at the quality of it I find it hard to believe they made it very long ago and have been sitting on it all this time, this has been par for the course with those styles.

I really like this one but I'm not going to Fantasia because I want it on Viera, not anything else.

I'm annoyed, but I'm even more annoyed at seeing people go "at least you'll get male Viera hairstyles" as if that's a given or would even be a good thing in general to pawn off male hairstyles because you cba.

[SturmChurro]

Well, I think it was a 'not right now' rather than a 'never', so there is hope for you and Fandaniel yet.



Another item that's supposed to be an incentive to run something that isn't actually an incentive to a group of people.

I just saw that this is another one of those hairstyle contest styles, and while looking at the quality of it I find it hard to believe they made it very long ago and have been sitting on it all this time, this has been par for the course with those styles.

I really like this one but I'm not going to Fantasia because I want it on Viera, not anything else.

I'm annoyed, but I'm even more annoyed at seeing people go "at least you'll get male Viera hairstyles" as if that's a given or would even be a good thing in general to pawn off male hairstyles because you cba.

Well, the incentive is making gil I guess, since it can still be sold, like others have said... but as an actual reward.. yeah literally worthless. It cannot be used, with no viera alternative unique style. Really it should have just been made for viera too.. I don't see anything limiting them from actually making these hairs work other than more time to adjust them - and if the hair was made a long time prior, they should have had the time to adjust them!

I actually have a fantasia sitting in my mail, but I don't really want to switch off viera, and even if I succumbed and switched this hair looks awful on miqo'te, in my opinion.

Yeah, nah. I don't want male viera styles, or at least I don't want them in place of styles that could have been. I am sick and tired of unisex styles, even on the other races, and for viera to join them... AT LEAST before if they had to be viera unique I thought we would get some nice styles when we got them.. Like stuff that actually looks good on female viera.

[Halivel]

I'm annoyed, but I'm even more annoyed at seeing people go "at least you'll get male Viera hairstyles" as if that's a given or would even be a good thing in general to pawn off male hairstyles because you cba.

I wonder where people even get this from honestly. There's absolutely no a single word on male haircuts being available for girls. And honestly, even if it's the case - I still think that they should adjust at least unlockable hairstyles from Mog Station and in-game content.

I'm personally a patient person and can wait as long as its needed, even if it's another two years, because I do respet the devteam and don't want them to overwork too much for the sake of couple of haircuts, but it doesn't make the fact that two races are locked from a solid chunk of glamour any more pleasant.

[Yencat]

I wonder where people even get this from honestly. There's absolutely no a single word on male haircuts being available for girls. And honestly, even if it's the case - I still think that they should adjust at least unlockable hairstyles from Mog Station and in-game content.

I don't know either, but I see it frequently enough that it stood out. It'd be better than nothing for sure, and some look quite nice, but it would be pretty disappointing if that's all it is.

I'm personally a patient person and can wait as long as its needed, even if it's another two years, because I do respet the devteam and don't want them to overwork too much for the sake of couple of haircuts, but it doesn't make the fact that two races are locked from a solid chunk of glamour any more pleasant.

Yeah there's not much else for it but to wait (and raise a stink every now and then ), but I really hope it's not another two years. I don't want anyone to overwork themselves either but if they're not going to include us in releases then maybe they could not release 10/11 hairstyles for everyone else and none for us, and instead split the amount so everyone gets something?

Sudden thought: Hrothgar are the only race that can alter their hairstyle through the 'facial features', meaning that separating face and hair may already be impossible, and likely the only option would be to add different face/hair combos to their face tab.

I know nothing of coding so I can only assume the CC isn't designed for that many face options, but since Hroths technically have no hair tab, their CC should have a lot of ...extra space? so perhaps theirs can be set up differently - that would indirectly also mean that unless the aesthetician is also overhauled for them, the whole "Fantasia to change hair" is probably here to stay even if we had as many hairstyles as the other races.

The only place they ever seem to add things in the CC is the hair tab, which would be the fur pattern tab for Hrothgar. Every race generally has the same amount of tabs, just shuffled around or repurposed slightly. Though you do have "8 faces" vs. everyone else's 4 (or 6 if you're a midlander) so we don't actually know the cap on that, but yeah it wouldn't solve the Fantasia issue.