I know it doesn't REALLY matter, but I wish you could change your "City-State"

[Terin]

At the end of the day, it's ALMOST never referenced, but I still wish it were possible somehow to change your "City-State". That is determined (and permanently recorded on your character sheet) based on the class you first started out as. It essentially doesn't matter, but I deal with OCD, and it's just something I spend an awful lot of time thinking about.

Moreover, it would be cool if you could also unlock cutscenes for the other "starting areas" to boot. Especially when taking the boat to Old Sharlayan for the first time, it kind of felt like you were "meant" to start in Limsa. Plus, Limsa Lominsa is ALWAYS listed first, even on the teleporting menu.

Maybe it could be tied to "New Game+" in some capacity?

[Lihtleita]

Weird how we can change our patron god with fantasia, but not starting zone.

[Syln]

Weird how we can change our patron god with fantasia, but not starting zone.

Well it's easier to change your religion than your birth certificate

[Lihtleita]

Well it's easier to change your religion than your birth certificate

But you can do it.

[Enkidoh]

Especially when taking the boat to Old Sharlayan for the first time, it kind of felt like you were "meant" to start in Limsa. Plus, Limsa Lominsa is ALWAYS listed first, even on the teleporting menu.

The boat scene travelling to Old Sharlayan early in EW's story was actually referencing 1.0 in that it actually reconstructed the starting scene for a player starting in Limsa Lominsa in 1.0, right down to using the same camera views and hearing Hydaelyn's voice through the Echo, at least, up to climbing the stairs (if you can track down a copy of the old 1.0 Benchmark program, it actually includes this scene more or less in it's entirety).

Limsa Lominsa was the first city revealed in 1.0's development and also was the city used in the Alpha and Beta tests in 1.0 and so also figured in a lot of the early promotional material to the game (contrasting with ARR where Gridania was the early focus instead).

It was simply a callback to FFXIV's early history and not representative of any one city being the 'canon' story, as all three stories combine anyway fairly early on, and your starting city choice is rarely if ever mentioned again.

I think the reason SE never bothered with allowing you to change city state alliegance was not just because of this reason, they probably believe that as it's only important for a very short time early on, that if a player wanted to experience "the other city stories", then they probably assumed it was easier just to create an alt and play through those alternate city storylines then with another character rather than allowing you to get the "full experience" on one character only.

Of course this is not the same thing, but as SE has never stated any opinion on this subject I think they probably don't consider it a problem or necessary to change I'm afraid.

[Vencio]

I am with you,

Choose gladiator but never had intention nor am I attracted to Ul’Dah at all.

Felt more Gridanian inclined & would love to switch grand company’s title without a second though

[Valfreyja]

I am with you,

Choose gladiator but never had intention nor am I attracted to Ul’Dah at all.

Felt more Gridanian inclined & would love to switch grand company’s title without a second though

You aren't locked to the Grand Company of whatever city you start in. I started in Gridania as an Archer, and when the time came I chose Maelstrom because I like it better. You're given the choice of all three when the time comes. The only time you are ever locked into the same GC as your starting city, is when you use a Story Skip, because it makes your decisions for you. Meaning you do the next step.

Once you reach a certain rank, you can swap to any GC. Your old rank is retained from your first GC, you start at the bottom of your new one. Ultimately you can rank them all up to Captain if you want. You can only have one active at a time, however.

[SturmChurro]

Same thing here. Gridania is my starting city state. It's actually literally the only reason I am in Twin Adder. I like everything to match, I even try to make the patron diety match.

[Feronar]

Probably technical reasons it can't be changed, as it's linked to your quests, and changing it would probably break a bunch of stuff. Even if they could allow changing it, the benefit would be far too small to justify the expense and the opportunity cost.