Miqo'te Character Creation (Viera Tribes)

[Altena]

TBH I don't know if the new race will be happening.. I mean the only people that would be able to take advantage of it are new characters.. It's already been said that after the initial reroll in 2.0 release you won't be able to reroll your character as a different race, and enough people will have a hissy fit if a new race is introduced later and they don't get the chance to reroll their existing characters as that race..

[Myono_Mhigo]

Paid character change...tons of "other" MMO's have been doing this for years. It would be a win/win for SE, they make money and player is happy-ish (some will QQ about price they always do). XI desperately needed this like oh 5 years AGO, lol.

[Felis]

Kinda like difference between Midlanders and Highlanders?

They are different tribes, not different races. They are both Hyurs.

ERM exactly how is an Elezen tall rabbit earred race supposed to also be a Lalafell sized child-like multi-animal race?

Cross-breed ^^

[Fantasia]

They are different tribes, not different races. They are both Hyurs.

That's the point she was trying to get across; I said that Viera and Miquote shouldn't be the same race because of their physical difference, and she was comparing the idea to the fact that Highlanders and Midlanders are pretty different, even though they're the same race.

[Reika]

No, they should add Viera as its own race if they do Viera, not make it a different miqo'te clan.

[Thebard]

Wabbits go in wabbit pie. Wabbits won't bring in new players or keep existing ones, its a waste of time. If they were ready for ARR launch so be it, but otherwise pointless.

[Myono_Mhigo]

Wabbits go in wabbit pie. Wabbits won't bring in new players or keep existing ones, its a waste of time. If they were ready for ARR launch so be it, but otherwise pointless.

I disagree. Not to throw "THAT" MMO's name out but, WoW has successfully introduced races and classes for years. That combined again with Paid Character Changes, I can only see happy FF'ers out with this. Then again just my little opinion.

[Thebard]

I disagree. Not to throw "THAT" MMO's name out but, WoW has successfully introduced races and classes for years. That combined again with Paid Character Changes, I can only see happy FF'ers out with this. Then again just my little opinion.

FFXIV = 1 char to do everything
WoW = 11 char to do everything
Work it out.

[IndigoDarkwolf]

Well, I do think the idea of a Miqo'te tribe with longer ears and a shorter tail sounds like an interesting option to provide a rabbit-like option for people who want it. I never really saw the difference between Seeker of the Sun character models and Seeker of the Moon ones, to be honest.

On the one hand, this sounds like it would be a straightforward variant of the race. It might be able to use the same animation skeletons as existing Miqo'te, minus any attachments to the tail bones. Something tells me the animators wouldn't let that happen, though, and would insist on a full set of animation variants to give the race a little more differentiation and "because we can make it look a little bit better, we promise". On the other hand, it would most likely require a new set of most headgear, as everything that tried to fully cover Miqo'te ears would either have to be modified to cover the longer ears of the new tribe or would have to forgo ear covering at all. New meshes would tempt the art team into making all-new variants, rather than trying to shortcut the process by chopping off pieces of existing helmets, filling the seams, and re-exporting the results.

As you might notice, I'm not at all cynical about an art team's capacity to take the long road in exchange for even the smallest differences in quality. But I do like the idea of a Miqo'te variant to fill the request for a Viera-like race.

[Myono_Mhigo]

FFXIV = 1 char to do everything
WoW = 11 char to do everything
Work it out.

True true, even still I know quite a few that had multiple 75s and 50s on separate characters.