[Request] Make a variant of the Managarm mount with proper size/scaling

[BaurusSeaborn]

After learning that the current behaviour of the Managarm mount is intentional, I want to at least suggest an improvement for all cases before I consign it to being unusable.

If you're not familiar with it, the current Managarm mount model looks like this:


For comparison, here's the Fenrir mount (same model, different texture and effects):


At this point I'm willing to be blunt: the Managarm mounts looks terrible. It looks more like the result of a sizing error than a deliberate design. Since first reporting this, I've found multiple instances of players reporting the same dissatisfaction with this mount; several of them on this forum. It's not a good user experience for a player's first impression after earning a new mount to be 'Is this a bug?'.

I don't want to suggest changing the existing mount since that would take away from the people who do like the current size (it does look cute if you're a Lalafell), but for everyone else, I think the right move is to make a separate variant of the Managarm mount that's the same size as the Fenrir mount. That way both user-groups can be happy; win/win.

You could call it the 'Adult Managarm/Elder Managarm', or something along those lines. The distribution method could be similar to - it could be added as a Gold Chocobo Feather reward like the current Managarm, or it could be added as an MGP reward like Fenrir.

I appreciate that this is mostly me shouting into the void at this point, but I was really disappointed by this experience and I'd like to both rectify it and make it so that nobody else has to go through that in the future. I'd like to think someone on the development team might care about this, even if it's a comparatively minor issue.

[Rongway]

You've posted this in the Localization forum, which is a place for textual errors, awkward translations, and other linguistic issues. You want the Items forum or the General forum.

[BaurusSeaborn]

You've posted this in the Localization forum, which is a place for textual errors, awkward translations, and other linguistic issues. You want the Items forum or the General forum.

FML. Maybe my first piece of feedback should've been "Make the structure of the feedback forums less obtuse".

[Rongway]

FML. Maybe my first piece of feedback should've been 'Make the structure of the feedback forums less obtuse'.

Lots of people do make the mistake of starting "feedback" threads in the localization forum, but I think the bigger problem is the name of the localization forum. Even if the the forums were reorganized so that Localization would not be a subforum of Feedback, or Feedback contained more subforums, it wouldn't fix the problem: "Localization" is the appropriate name for it, but unfortunately not everyone understands what "localization" means, and most people can't be bothered to read the sticky posts in each forum that tell you what the forum is for. Ultimately the only thing I can think of that would really help would be to embed the description of each forum's purpose above the thread list so that people don't have to view the sticky to read about the forum's purpose.

[BaurusSeaborn]

Alas, it's not just the name of the localisation forum that's an issue. There seems to be a wider problem with users not being sent to the right place for their feedback when they're sign-posted here from other platforms. This was certainly true in my case in my case.

I was sign-posted to the forums from a short-URL in a support ticket that sent me to the Website/Companion App Feedback & Suggestions sub-forum. It was only after posting that I realised it was the wrong place, but the sticky in that sub-forum goes on to state:

"With feedback and suggestions on localization and other English-related issues, please submit them by creating a post on the sub-forum “Localization” under the “FEEDBACK” section."

This signposts users elsewhere, but still isn't a complete or correct set of instructions. You only have to take a brief look at that Website Feedback area to realise it's a mess of people posting non-website feedback , but if the same thing happened them as happened to me, then of course that's going to happen.

Honestly, I don't even blame users for not reading the sticky threads. If you're given a URL by a member of the Support Team, it's entirely reasonable to think that they've given you the correct URL. You shouldn't have to second guess that when you're changing platform to something you wouldn't ordinarily use.