Racial Gear

[Absurdity]

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.

Unfortunately in this case it might not be that simple.
All current outfits need only 2 versions for current female characters, a Lalafell one and one for every other race. So female Roegadyn, Highlander, Elezen, Au Ra, Miqo'te and Viera all wear the female Midlander model and the visual difference is simply done through racial scaling.

The hempen gear on the other hand is the old 1.0 underwear and 1.0 gear had a unique model for every single race.

So it isn't a case of simply "unlocking" the hempen gear for all races. Depending on how they can implement it in the best case scenario they would have to make every hempen top for example fit female midlander first and then have every other race use that model, resulting in 6 models, one for every unique hempen top.

Worst case scenario they would have to make 6 unique versions, one for every race (excluding the original race and Viera because they just use the midlander model for some reason), and do this for every single hempen top, this means instead of 6 models they might end up having to make 42 unique models. Keep in mind these 42 models are only for female characters.


Like I said, it all depends on how they can implement it, it might be a very simple process or a process that takes more time than it is worth.