Machinist animations

[Darkpaw]

Well everyone is ignoring the simplest and most obvious reason why this can not be a thing. It's the same reason they give for a lot of things and it's extremely valid. Server strain. This would be a very serious problem with the suggested system. This isn't something as simple as egi glamours. Think of how often we press these buttons. Each time the server and the back end has to decide for each person playing machinist which animation set to display. That is going to stress the servers so badly that it's not even funny. Let alone any complications that would come out from the spaghetti code they are still working through.

Let's also just assume they only do this for Machinist. That's unique animation switch for Female and Male Hyur, Elezan, Lalafellin, Mi'qote, Au Ra, and Roegydaen; Male Hrothgar, Female Viera, in all level content, and then keeping that switch in mind for all future content. Then other Jobs feel left out of unique customizations, so this becomes exponentially more work as the game goes on. So the concern that the dev team will be biting off more then they can chew is very realistic.

The Blue Mage content is completely invalid here. Nearly half the game's population had been asking for Blue Mage since 2.0, Yoshi-P had to find a way to give the people what they wanted. Whether you agree with what they did or not is immaterial they did deliver something that the community asked for in Blue Mage and a large section of the community at that. This is something that as stated previously may be a few dozen or lets say 1-2 thousand people may want which really isn't all that much in terms of the game.

It's not worth the effort to implement a system like this if you actually think about the raw amount of work and the snowball effect it will have throughout the community vs the actual demand of it.

[Cetek14]

Well everyone is ignoring the simplest and most obvious reason why this can not be a thing. It's the same reason they give for a lot of things and it's extremely valid. Server strain. This would be a very serious problem with the suggested system. This isn't something as simple as egi glamours. Think of how often we press these buttons. Each time the server and the back end has to decide for each person playing machinist which animation set to display. That is going to stress the servers so badly that it's not even funny. Let alone any complications that would come out from the spaghetti code they are still working through.

Let's also just assume they only do this for Machinist. That's unique animation switch for Female and Male Hyur, Elezan, Lalafellin, Mi'qote, Au Ra, and Roegydaen; Male Hrothgar, Female Viera, in all level content, and then keeping that switch in mind for all future content. Then other Jobs feel left out of unique customizations, so this becomes exponentially more work as the game goes on. So the concern that the dev team will be biting off more then they can chew is very realistic.

The Blue Mage content is completely invalid here. Nearly half the game's population had been asking for Blue Mage since 2.0, Yoshi-P had to find a way to give the people what they wanted. Whether you agree with what they did or not is immaterial they did deliver something that the community asked for in Blue Mage and a large section of the community at that. This is something that as stated previously may be a few dozen or lets say 1-2 thousand people may want which really isn't all that much in terms of the game.

It's not worth the effort to implement a system like this if you actually think about the raw amount of work and the snowball effect it will have throughout the community vs the actual demand of it.

That's not the best argument. I'm certain server is not deciding which animation to play on the fly. It would be like a switch, and then it would work as it works always. And animations are the same for all races.
And again, this is the only job with such drastic animation changes. That's why i think it deserves option to disable heated animations.