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Well, it's certainly not a method I endorse but I know there are those out there who fully intend too, so it's worth mentioning.

Figured we could do another poll now that we have some Au Ra lore and the benchmark character creator.

This fits with my notion that while a huge amount of non-RPers will transfer to Au Ra the majority of RPers will just be making alts. EDIT: The poll that happened a while back here: http://ffxiv-roleplayers.com/showthread.php?tid=9372&highlight=poll We should do another one now that we know some lore + CC options.

Striking.

Haruspicy is just too weird for the modern mind to fixate on? Sheep liver divination!? What savagery!

I've been wanting to RP a precocious young genius archetype for a while, so I basically went in trying for the youngest looking I could get. How young I could pull off is actually shaping details about my new main. Exact specifics were totally on the fly though.

Rakka'li wouldn't have payed them much mind beyond finding some of the women beautiful, though the person he became towards the end of his life would not have acted on any desire.

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Yugiri felt the need to cover her face to avoid uproar. That says a lot. Waiting on having access to 3.0 and being able to talk to some Au Ra before we can say for sure though.

Ahahaha I suppose my hindsight reasoning why things are as they are is to blame! Damn my eyes and opinions!

Kind of wish they'd been more like this myself This is some speculative fan art that came out shortly after Yugiri was revealed to be a new race. More like this would've been my ideal, but I'm fine with what we got.

Based on Dragon Quest X which he was the principal designer for, and the reason he was given XIV to begin with. Heck we probably would have gotten another tiny race instead of just Lalafell. Here's the playable DQX races: More on topic. I can't get over this cute, tempted to just ditch the purple altogether and go full on creepy glowy red demon eyes.

I actually do kind of believe had YoshiP been in charge from the start we wouldn't have Roes or Highlanders at all.

We would've just ended up with another barely played race/sex combo (Roegadyn female anyone?) It would just mean that 90% of female Au Ra would be Raen. That's a lot of development on gear sets for a sex/race combo that relatively few would play. That's a very poor return on investment. (Hell, investing in RPers period is a poor return on investment, but that's a separate subject entirely.) To be entirely thorough here, I do think that bestial Au Ra females would have been more popular than Roegadyn ladies, but not by a wide margin. Not saying I like it or endorse it. But they're playing to their audience, and the vast majority of that audience likes their ladies petite and cute and their men tall and brawny. Beyond PS3 limitations, this is the big reason behind Au Ra design choice limitations. Sure, there's two "sides" but one of those sides is 90% of the player base or more. It's a smart business choice. Again, not endorsing it, this is just what I see as the harsh reality of the business world. MMOs are very expensive beasts. You play it safe and you do that safe well or you get hollowed out and become a cash shop disaster. Sure it's pandering, but pandering the right way gets you long term dollars.

A little bit of racism makes for the best RP.

Honestly I'd be content with XIV if it wasn't PS3 limited. I actually don't even recall if you could change the body type in Wildstar, I just remember not liking any of my choices.

After Aion I'm against having too much freedom with character creation sliders. More preset choices are never a bad thing, but if you give people total control, well... You've never had your RP trolled as badly as when one of these guys is /dance emoting in your face for ten minutes straight.

The red one, it's very striking.

Pretty much the youngest looking face/hair combo you can make. Suuuuper moe~

...we pretty much have the same plan Blue.

Maximum results or nothing.

May tweak it a bit but I think I stumbled on my new Raen.

Caught this gem of a screenshot while running the benchmark. Not my final design, just messing around.

980 only gets you 1000 more points paired with an i7. Ouch. Glad I went i5/970

So ready.