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hahahaha this is so fucking typical. SE is in love with Minfilia (a terrible and shitty character poorly written as a MacGuffin Girl and a constant useless distressed damsel) almost as much as they are with Lightning.

I get instant queues into Alexander as NIN all the time, and I usually have to wait no matter what as SCH.

The non-combat NPCs are only around for a little bit of time.

I would have put that one on Aeri in a millisecond, even over the adorableness that is the pixie cut.

Sure, there are a bunch of hairstyles. But how many don't distractingly clip through armor? Very few, and those are the only ones I'll use. The runner-up I linked would have been a nice clipping-free hairstyle. Unfortunately the winner will undoubtedly clip through nigh everything and probably won't have proper physics, so the ponytail will basically be rock-hard. I really wish SE would let hair move and sway to the same degree Wildstar does.

This is probably one of my all-time favorite screenshots I've ever taken. Got this shot while waiting for AFK people between Bismarck EX attempts.

I like the short styles best because SE can't seem to give the long hair realistic physics and keep it from clipping into armor. It's why Aeri has had the pixie cut since I came back for Heavensward. Also because pixie cuts are adorable and super hot.

D: guys noooooo I hope you find what you're looking for. Sadly, Aeriyn is not a guy. But she is gay!

you can't really roll a new character on Balmung, the character creation lock is hardly ever lifted. You'd be better off just transferring your existing character here.

I'm not concerned about having nothing to do, I can always Wildstar or play Trails SC or any number of the giant pile of crap I bought on Steam sales and never actually played. It just seemed like an excessive amount of time. But if they're doing infrastructure upgrades, then I'm all for it.

We don't know what else they may be doing at the same time. Perhaps they have 50 windows updates pending at the same time. Perhaps they need to defrag drives or do other disk maintenance. Maybe they have UPS batteries to replace. There are any number of things that can go wrong with hardware that has near 100% up-time and consistent resource usage. If they have 50 windows updates I'd expect the downtime to be more like a week!

Why the shit does it take 24 hours to apply this patch? It's not even adding that much stuff. The 2.x patches were usually larger than this and they never took a whole damn day...

I don't like it. I liked the other one, the one that didn't win. This one: http://www.finalfantasyxiv.com/hairdesign_2015/F_08.jpg I'm really sad it didn't win.

Thanks for your kind words! And yeah, that's exactly the sort of place I'm wanting to build. Not to mention some good RP plots! *solidarity high-five*

Hi there! I'm Aeriyn, and I'm a trans MMO player. In pretty much every game I've played, I've been othered, set aside from the rest of the player base due to being trans, either through fear of harassment from other players or simply by being the only trans person in the guild or community. Socializing was always scary, especially in guilds where voice chat was mandatory for participating in events. Radiant Stars is a new Free Company on Balmung that seeks to become a supportive and safe community for queer and trans* players of Final Fantasy XIV. While there are plenty of LGBTQIA-friendly Free Companies and linkshells already in the wild, I have not found any that exist specifically to provide a supportive and comforting play environment for trans players. My goal with Radiant Stars is to alleviate those fears by building and maintaining a community that encourages transgender, nonbinary and otherwise queer members to work and play together and enjoy all that FFXIV has to offer. As we build a stable and close-knit group, we'll be able to host regular scheduled events in the three major areas of the game: middle-game PvE (leveling, FATEs, questing and glamour farming), end-game PvE (Alexander: Gordias and the upcoming Void Ark, possible Savage/EX Trial statics) and roleplaying. Radiant Stars is a "midcore" FC in every aspect, ranging from roleplaying to PvE content. We're a little more than casual, but not quite "hardcore." Radiant Stars falls somewhere in the middle. Those looking for a dedicated pure-RP company or a serious raids-four-days-a-week endgame FC, Radiant Stars will likely not be a good fit. However, if you're a queer or trans player, whether you're into roleplaying or PvE content or both, and you'd like to be a part of a safe community that places respect and kindness above all, you'd likely be very much at home in Radiant Stars. Thanks for reading and I hope to see you in-game! --- (FC forum page is currently under construction; link will be updated once it's ready to use.)