Please stop hiding miqo'te ears (and other races') from certain head gear

[CaptainLagbeard]

They haven't really done a good job making hats and helmets fit the Miqo'te ears since like HW launch...
So we mostly either get them being hidden or them doing a halfassed job of it at best. So unless they start actually caring about gear design again, I am fine with the ears getting hidden.

As for tails, I think it should be a toggle, if you don't mind all the clipping your tail has with a particular set of gear you can keep it showing.

[Aco505]

In the newest PLL, it's been said that the Cosmic Exploration suit will hide tails. If confirmed, this is yet another instance of them not trying to create something unique so as not to completely delete racial traits.

The suit does hide the tails. It's the pants specifically that do it, a first AFAIK, since tails in the past were mostly hidden by chest pieces or pieces that covered more than one equipment slot.

[Miohazuki]

Gear from Stormblood onward that covers the entire head tends to fully hide the ears of miqo'te.

In the past, this wasn't the case most of the time, as headpieces would often have holes for the ears to stick out or ear socks for them to stick in that sprouted out of the specific piece.

Headpieces such as the Calfskin Rider's Cap or the Street Cap, for example, are perfect candidates to get holes so that the ears can stick out but right now they entirely hide the ears of miqo'te instead, thus making it the only race that loses part of their racial features with this. Of course, viera and hrothgar can't even use them but would probably have similar issues if they could.

This is not a problem exclusive to miqo'te, viera or hrothgar however as some headpieces will also hide elezen and lalafell ears due to their size.

With the graphical update coming and eventually affecting all gear pieces, I would ask the developer team to please revise all the head pieces that could be suitable for the addition of ear holes and socks for the aforementioned races and especially miqo'te, viera and hrothgar.

If some people prefer getting their ears hidden in these cases, they could always add a toggle option to satisfy everyone, as it seems that the gear is initially designed for hyur, a race without these traits, and then adapted to the rest.

However, this trend of hiding the ears should not continue, as it limits the options for these races by removing their racial traits.

Another recent trend in EW has been to hide tails from specific pieces of armor (link), which I find problematic as well because of the further removal of racial features.

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Are there headpieces that you would like to wear but don't because they hide the ears? Which examples of headgear would you like to have with ear socks or holes? Which ones would you like staying as they are?

Pff ..who wears helmets in 21st century

[ConantSivrha]

The suit does hide the tails. It's the pants specifically that do it, a first AFAIK, since tails in the past were mostly hidden by chest pieces or pieces that covered more than one equipment slot.

God I wish we had a dumb little tail tube on the spacesuit. We need more gear that adds something to our tails, or even just has an opening designed for them.

[Kanehon]

God I wish we had a dumb little tail tube on the spacesuit. We need more gear that adds something to our tails, or even just has an opening designed for them.

Tail tubes would have been So Adorable, not gonna lie

[Iscah]

The suit does hide the tails. It's the pants specifically that do it, a first AFAIK, since tails in the past were mostly hidden by chest pieces or pieces that covered more than one equipment slot.

I noticed a group of NPCs on the moon (I think at one of the red alert FATEs) wearing spacesuits, and the female Miqo'te had tail visible but the male Au Ra did not. Is it inconsistent about showing tails or were they maybe using different pants to the full set?

(I agree with the other people saying that it should have had a tail tube on the spacesuit. It would make so much more sense.)

[Aco505]

I noticed a group of NPCs on the moon (I think at one of the red alert FATEs) wearing spacesuits, and the female Miqo'te had tail visible but the male Au Ra did not. Is it inconsistent about showing tails or were they maybe using different pants to the full set?

(I agree with the other people saying that it should have had a tail tube on the spacesuit. It would make so much more sense.)

Good question. I'll check later. For male miqo'te, the pants hide the tails specifically and I'm sure I've seen female miqo'te wearing it with no tail in sight as well.

And to be clear, it's the spacesuit that you get as a reward in form of a coffer from the fortune. The outfit you can buy with cosmocredits works just fine.

[CaptainLagbeard]

Tail tubes would have been So Adorable, not gonna lie

Only if the tail tubes actually use the tail's animations...

The one time they did a tail tube was the Evenstar Set in ARR (ilvl 110 caster set), and let that be the ultimate example of what not to do.

[Aco505]

I noticed a group of NPCs on the moon (I think at one of the red alert FATEs) wearing spacesuits, and the female Miqo'te had tail visible but the male Au Ra did not. Is it inconsistent about showing tails or were they maybe using different pants to the full set?

(I agree with the other people saying that it should have had a tail tube on the spacesuit. It would make so much more sense.)

I checked in one of the alerts: the female miqo'te was wearing different pants that would allow her tail to show. Additionally, those pants were neither the Cosmosuit Bottoms nor the Star Crew Trousers.

[Aco505]

The recently added Lix Chiton in the Occult Crescent is yet another sad example of tail removal (see the image below).



Additionally, some of the hats of the new sets -the ones with the admiral/pirate theme- also hide the ears of miqo'te. Viera and hrothgar cannot use any of the head pieces either, as far as I know.

Can the developers please put more effort when it comes to racial traits? We want our ears and tails to show. The tail situation is becoming particularly worrying as more and more pieces of gear that hide them are released with new patches.