[Critical] Male Viera height slider; tall option. Show your support.

[BunniEclair]

It would have to exist as an outlier.

In what established viera lore we have... The females and males live entirely separate until it's mating time, and then they part ways again. When males reach adulthood, they are taken as wards by the older males.

Yeah. Outlier is kind of the name of the game for OCs, is what I’m saying.

Even so, I could think of situations in which “my father taught me to hunt” could be true for a viera OC while keeping with lore. It could be an adoptive situation in which the viera in question was raised by a different race entirely and learned it from them. How long does mating time last? Do the male viera in question not speak to anyone, mate, grab the boys, and rush off into the night? Do they mate with the same people every time, or just whoever? A mix? Do they not know who their children are? Do they not spend time with them when they do come back for mating season? Are viera children completely barred from knowing or ever seeing their fathers? Could the OC be trans?

This is getting off topic, but like if you’re gonna take a pot shot at someone’s OC as an example of “cba to learn lore” , it’s probably important to understand the nature of OCs and that the lore is intentionally vague to allow for outliers.

[Amnmaat]

1. They should've not made the decision to add male Viera and female Hrothgar, because someone will always complain.
2. They wouldn't add new hair styles, because someone will always complain
3. They shouldn't rework, Summoner because someone will always complain
4. They shouldn't have reworked Machinist, because someone will always complain
5. They shouldn't have listened to the fans about the specific problems with FFXIV 1.0, because someone will always complain

If they were paralyzed to listen to the community this game would be in a really bad situation.

Every character height slider in the game has the same spread of about 5 inches of height. The problem when you go more extreme is that it can break other parts of the work developers have to do with modeling gear and emotes to avoid clipping as well as would have to adjust other things more dramatically such as the size of equipped weapons and mounts. Additionally the height slider, as we currently have it, doesn't just stretch the model up or down, but also makes the full character model wider or more narrow as the character gets taller or shorter, which could result in some very unnatural looking proportions as you go to further extremes.

The idea of just make the slider go further in both directions is overly simplistic, and likely not possible.

But then also this entire thread is pretty much pointless if anyone thinks they're going to rework the sex now, after the reveal, to appeal to one side or the other. They've likely already done a large amount of work, and if we're unlikely to convince them to do it all over again because some people want them to be taller or shorter than they think they'll be based on the trailer.

Female Roegadyn height slider breaks the game, breaks the code, it's hard to implement and makes their bodies look wrong (sarcasm)

[Fukuro]

Do they not spend time with them when they do come back for mating season? Are viera children completely barred from knowing or ever seeing their fathers? Could the OC be trans?

they tell their kids they go to the store to buy cigs and milk

[Adrameliya]

They just want moon miqotes with bunny ears

I'm not gonna lie, that's kind of what I'm looking for x)

[BunniEclair]

they tell the kids they go to the store to buy cigs and milk

Obscenely powerful deadbeats? Classic anime dads.

[SturmChurro]

I'm sorry, but when I imagine a 7' foot tall male viera, it just seems kind of comically large.

i don‘t care either way, i would love them to be around the same height, would be a bummer if they are miqo male tall or even smaller. would i play them anyways? probably yes, i‘ve just waited way too long for them would probably waste a ton of money buying phantasias switching back and forth - because yeah... headgear and hairstyles.

You don't wanna go down that road, trust me.

[Fourbestintoner]

You're crazy if you think they are going to allowed to be as tall or taller, one of the face literally look the face of a 10 years old, there won't even be an old man face, enjoy your ss/fujo race.

[Amnmaat]

So they're making teenagers?
Exactly what YoshiP put out a statement saying he did not want to create because of ethical, legal, how people use them on social media, and societal reasons.

10? Hold on, that's even worse than the statement he gave about teenagers; you're telling us to enjoy a short race with 10 year old faces?

[SturmChurro]

They look exactly as described: about 20 yo. - when they start "aging dramatically slowly" or whatever. I don't see why we can't have one slightly older looking face, or further customization options though.

[BunniEclair]

You're crazy if you think they are going to allowed to be as tall or taller, one of the face literally look the face of a 10 years old, there won't even be an old man face, enjoy your ss/fujo race.

Careful not to cut yourself on all that edge.