So, can we make noise about Miqote ears and hats?

[Iscah]

It's just wild speculation fueled by frustration on my part, but I don't think having the new races has done any favors for the old ones and in order to increase productivity and complete the expanded roster of armor sets/resizes, shortcuts were made and that's what leads us to Miqo'te hats missing ears in the present day.

I agree that's the likely reason why we don't get hats altered for Miqo'te ears – adding neatly edged earholes and such – but that still isn't a good reason why they've gone for "no ears at all" over "visible ears just apparently sticking through rough holes in the hat".

It makes sense for complicated hats if the ears will clip in funny ways, but for simpler close-fitting things like the baseball cap and the straw hat from the summer set a couple of years ago, it just feels like a massive oversight when similar hats already exist and let the ears show through.

It feels like a lack of imagination or something. Have the current modellers not been told it's an option? Have they decided on a blanket rule that if they can't do it for every hat then they won't do it on any hats even if it could work?

[RobynDaBank]

I agree that's the likely reason why we don't get hats altered for Miqo'te ears – adding neatly edged earholes and such – but that still isn't a good reason why they've gone for "no ears at all" over "visible ears just apparently sticking through rough holes in the hat".

It makes sense for complicated hats if the ears will clip in funny ways, but for simpler close-fitting things like the baseball cap and the straw hat from the summer set a couple of years ago, it just feels like a massive oversight when similar hats already exist and let the ears show through.

It feels like a lack of imagination or something. Have the current modellers not been told it's an option? Have they decided on a blanket rule that if they can't do it for every hat then they won't do it on any hats even if it could work?

It's probably just basing designs on Hyur, more than ever before.