Racial Gear

[ItMe]

I mean, a dog is not a cat, a rabbit is not a lion, a human is not a t-rex. Everything isn't the same.

Sure, but in this case a tailor would be able to have a Hyur top and take it in here or let it out there to make it fit a Miqo, Elezen, Ao Ra, etc.
People make clothes ​or pets, we can make an outfit for a Lala that looks like big people clothes.
Nothing is stopping a leather worker for seeing what an Elezen is wearing and sewing something similar for a Hrothgar.

[Duskane]

I mean, a dog is not a cat, a rabbit is not a lion, a human is not a t-rex. Everything isn't the same.

such a dumb comparison I'd rather a food analogy at this point.

[Duskane]

I don't care for racial sets but only Au ra,Viera and Hrothgar really have their own racial flare to them others are pretty much the same.

[StriderShinryu]

I'm not really sure where I stand on this one. For the hempen sets, I wouldn't mind seeing them available for everyone but there's something special and unique about the racial starter clothes that feels like it should stay as something specific to that race. In fact, I'd like to see more stuff released that feels specially designed for the races instead of the one size fits all we get now. That said, I like some of the racial styles enough that it would be nice to at least see something inspired by them for the other races.

[kaynide]

All for this. As a fairly conservative fem highlander, the bondage style hempen set is not something I would wear, especially the top.

The normal human/miquote/viera tanktop set, or the more lacy elven one however, would be fantastic.

[Lanadra]

such a dumb comparison I'd rather a food analogy at this point.

French frites are not spinach, fish isn't fruit, bread isn't cake. Happy now?

[ItMe]

French frites are not spinach, fish isn't fruit, bread isn't cake. Happy now?

No because you missed the point.

The issue is not: can these races wear each other's clothes, or make their own similarly styled clothes?
Because the unavoidably obvious answer is yes.

The issue is: should SQEX add such clothes to the game?

[kaynide]

The issue is not: can these races wear each other's clothes, or make their own similarly styled clothes?
Because the unavoidably obvious answer is yes.

The issue is: should SQEX add such clothes to the game?

I’m with you;

If wide lion men, tall bunny girls and tinyfolk can all wear the same Hawaiian shirt or leopard speedo, I really don’t see the issue with wearing each other’s unique clothes.

And while it is an issue of dev time, I would hazard to guess that it would take a similar amount of time as say a series of dungeon armor.

Whatever that translates to in actual man hours, I know it would be greatly appreciated, even if it was only 1 race’s set a patch.

...just boils down to if it’s worth it to the devs bang for buck-wise.

This and other ideas are why I wish there was an internal Kickstarter... but that’s for your other post.

[Bright-Flower]

Yeah. IMO it's not worth the dev time.

Sure, they already have the models working on one race so it's not quite the same as coming up with a new gear set from scratch.

But they have to take those models and fit them onto every OTHER playable race. and they can't just do it for ONE race's unique gear, they'd have to do it for ALL THE RACES.

There's a reason there was such a long gap between them deciding 'okay we'll allow male characters to wear gold saucer bunny outfits' and it actually making it into the game. Now imagine that but like, times seven.

[SenorPatty]

There's a reason there was such a long gap between them deciding 'okay we'll allow male characters to wear gold saucer bunny outfits' and it actually making it into the game. Now imagine that but like, times seven.

The other reason also being that they admitted their staff was not comfortable designing those bunny sets for males. So now, it's not manpower I doubt from the team but rather their feelings on it.