How to "add" about twice as many hairstyles:

[WhiteArchmage]

So people here, I suggest something ! Why don't we all ask Naoki Yoshida for that in the next Live letter Or propose something when a new Hairstyle creation contest come ?

I'd like to suggest that future hairstyle contest entries use the Viera/Hroth head as a base. At least the Viera head isn't too different from the other races and the main problem seems to be fitting the ears, so removing the ears for the regular head models seems more feasible than adding them (I acknowledge it's STILL a lot of work, but perhaps less than the other way around).

[Fredco191]

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i like this idea!

[MidnightS]

I'd love it if we could get some "up" versions of existing styles.

[hynaku]

I would really love to use some of hair styles on my lalafell that female auras have. Like the long Asian straight hair style one.

[Kuroka]

At least add a pony or non pony version for all styles, id use at least 3 others besides mine, but its just too "naked" on the forehead...

[Gemina]

They could probably save space by having a single hairstyle have sub options with the variations. These could be invert options, going short, mid, long length, bangs/no bangs etc. As it stands now even the slightest mod counts a whole other hairstyle.

The customization options are obviously crazy outdated and would probably need to be rebuilt from the ground up. Not sure if that will happen in the lifetime of FFXIV but they definitely can release more hairstyles to accommodate, and slight mods are very easy to implement.

[Alacran]

They could probably save space by having a single hairstyle have sub options with the variations. These could be invert options, going short, mid, long length, bangs/no bangs etc. As it stands now even the slightest mod counts a whole other hairstyle.

The customization options are obviously crazy outdated and would probably need to be rebuilt from the ground up. Not sure if that will happen in the lifetime of FFXIV but they definitely can release more hairstyles to accommodate, and slight mods are very easy to implement.

This. We would need only for the slightest alterations to existing hairstyles to make some really great options for all characters and genders. As much as i dislike the idea of unlocking all races hair options, it is far past time to do so.

[Iscah]

Perhaps they think it's an issue that the hairstyle list would end up very "messy" if they did that, and they wouldn't be able to file the variations next to the originals. I assume they can't re-order things without affecting the hairstyles currently equipped to characters, including NPCs.

But yes, I would love to see more variations and especially flipped versions of hairstyles. I try to keep my characters looking consistent, and there are a few things that would make good alternate hairstyles except they're parted on the wrong side and it looks strange. Also the hairline makes a big difference and varies a lot across styles.

[Hyperia]

I believe Yoshi said that the lack of additional character options is due to the data transfer limitations on the servers due to the legacy code from the 1.x series. Yes they can fix it but it takes a ton of resources, time and money.

[Shougun]

I believe Yoshi said that the lack of additional character options is due to the data transfer limitations on the servers due to the legacy code from the 1.x series. Yes they can fix it but it takes a ton of resources, time and money.

Not sure about the 1.x part since I thought they also said recently they've left all that behind now, buuuut I also feel the recall that the issue is not designing hair styles or things like that- no issue of creativity but one born from technical limitations. Issues in general with handling that many options, similarly we've these issues with other data problems- think being unable to make all mog shop items account bound, hyur facial hair, eyebrows, viera and hrothgar hair/face limits, tackle box, difficulty with houses, glamour log limits, and general stuff like that.

I assume these issues are buried deeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeep into the core of the game and are complex, expensive, and terrifying parts to modify (as it could cause loads of things to break), but it seems to be in general an issue FFXIV struggles with a lot. I mean to be fair if you were going to have an issue it makes sense it'd be this one lol, massively complex and evolving jumble that has tendrils deep into everything. One of those things that is like "sounds scary.. and hard to deal with, but... please deal with it anyways". If it's so deeply buried into the code of FFXIV that it can't be properly excised then I actually hope FFXIV has a shorter life span than FFXI (time between FFXI and FFXIV's release), such that the next mmorpg is released sooner and with better support of big ideas (for example if they announced a FF MMO with better housing I'd leave immediately- or play both at the same time to finish this game's MSQ XD, and yes I'd give someone all my gil lol).