Body type suggestion

[Awha]

Fat Viera would be pretty funny to see.
My husband is portly irl, and he likes to make his in-game characters portly as well, so FF14 doesn't scratch that particular itch for him. The closest he can get is playing Lalafell.

Lala are the closest, it is part of their charm.

[GrumbleBeard]

I support it. Every race should have access to body builder physiques.

[MariaArvana]

If dev time was unlimited and costed no time, why not.

This game doesn't have an adjustable body to armour slider that a lot of other games use which effectively just stretch things out and hide the muscle or fat under a layer anyway. (which this game has to a minor extent)

To do as you suggest would require every piece of armour to re-made with different proportions in mind and would increase the costs and time of every new patch with an equippable item in it.

It's just not worth it.

^This is the reality of the situation. Our characters are effectively legos - when you equip a piece of armor, its not going over some hidden body, it BECOMES your body. You can easily see this in a) minfiliia's attire buffing up your chest size even if you're at 0 scale, or most armors making you effectively flat, even at 100 scale.

If they did add different body types, they'd effectively have to go back and re-model every single piece of armor in the game to fit such a new body, at which point they might as well design a new race if they're going to have to do that much work. It's the same reason why there's no butt sliders either - gear simply replaces your butt entirely, so you'd only ever see it if you were running around without bottoms, and is why the 2B bottoms give your character a grade-A rear. The alternative would be they could add emperor's new x stuff that would give the body type you want, but you'd be stuck running around without anything besides small clothes if you wanted to enjoy it.

You're better off wishing for a new race to have the body type you want, as that's a lot more realistic than asking for any race to have the proportions, which is basically impossible due to the gear system they've created.

[NealSnow]

^This is the reality of the situation. Our characters are effectively legos - when you equip a piece of armor, its not going over some hidden body, it BECOMES your body. You can easily see this in a) minfiliia's attire buffing up your chest size even if you're at 0 scale, or most armors making you effectively flat, even at 100 scale.

If they did add different body types, they'd effectively have to go back and re-model every single piece of armor in the game to fit such a new body, at which point they might as well design a new race if they're going to have to do that much work. It's the same reason why there's no butt sliders either - gear simply replaces your butt entirely, so you'd only ever see it if you were running around without bottoms, and is why the 2B bottoms give your character a grade-A rear. The alternative would be they could add emperor's new x stuff that would give the body type you want, but you'd be stuck running around without anything besides small clothes if you wanted to enjoy it.

You're better off wishing for a new race to have the body type you want, as that's a lot more realistic than asking for any race to have the proportions, which is basically impossible due to the gear system they've created.

That's a very very good point that sadly will fall on deaf ears for some. Mostly the folk who may say "Well then just hire more workers" but it really isn't that simple, office space for one and the increase in cost of having to pay for more folks. I'd be down for an ab slider tho or muscle slider for all races lol. Or hell a support type bra top for females that adds abes and a male version. If making sliders for all races is too much. We got booty gear, now gimme dat ab gear :P

[Gula]

I wish that the Au Ra went the Hyur route where each clan had different body types with Midlander vs Highlander.

As a tall girl enthusiast, yess. I'd probably not hate catgirls as much if they had a highlander like version as well. Not just sun prostitutes and stinky, tiny keeper savages.

[JisKing98]

I would love to have a big body type. Not fat but like those thicc humans in BFA WoW

[Roda]

As a tall girl enthusiast, yess. I'd probably not hate catgirls as much if they had a highlander like version as well. Not just sun prostitutes and stinky, tiny keeper savages.

Hey! I'm a stiny tiny keeper gremlin!