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You can put it under support for your claim yes, but it still suffers from the same short-fall as the other claims. Just not enough evidence to say with certainty.

We do know that we only have four face options because of "memory limitations" (read: PS3 limitations). Occam's Razor applies here. Female miqo'te are built around the "catgirl" fantasy. There is a general perception among narrow-minded individuals that "older" faces are "ugly". An old miqo'te face would sully their precious catgirl fantasy, and we all know that it's a cardinal sin to make an ugly woman in fantasy fiction (especially video games). Therefore, our four options are restricted to only degrees of young beautiful. Occam's Razor applies to both arguments because they are both equal in their simplicity. You are misunderstanding me, I am not claiming to know, I am simply saying that your supposition of limitations is not enough for a conclusion. I noticed that your main Antimony is a Miqo'te who you portray as looking middle-aged, thus you have a vested interest in your interpretation. I understand that you would want the situation to support your characters vision, but as it stands we have too much evidence for both arguments to discard either. Edit: Find me a Miqo'te who appears to have aged as Hyur or Elezen do and I will discard my ideas immediately, This is not a personal crusade I am interested in waging, I'm just not seeing the evidence to conclude either way - this is why I've removed the issue from my own character by playing a young Miqo'te.

That's a fine - and not unlikely - interpretation of how things are portrayed. Unfortunately when making evidence based conclusions we can only go on what we know as certain and not what we believe should be valid or invalid. We can't know if these portrayals of older Miqo'te are by choice or forced due to PS3 limitations unless SE comes out and states it explicitly. Which they have not. After all, there are older Hyur and Elezen models, so why did they leave out Miqo'te, Lalafell, and Roegadyn? Could it be that Miqo'te, Lalafell, and Roegadyn just don't age much when it comes to appearance? Right now there's more evidence in game that they don't change much at all. Asserting that those portrayals are invalid due to your feelings about limitations is a supposition at best. Of course, SE could come out and depict older looking Miqo'te any moment, which would change the evidence supporting my current conclusions. That's the great thing about making conclusions based on evidence, the conclusion can change based on new evidence.

I think others have covered the why of it adequately, so I won't reiterate. What I will add is that being less than epic can also be very compelling from an RP standpoint. My own main is a talented, yet green, Conjurer who had never even heard of something called a White Mage before he met another roleplayer who claimed to be one. He's poor, uneducated, has never seen a primal or fought Garleans face to face, doesn't possess the echo, and has only heard of the Scions in passing. Yet he's still fun to roleplay and is often sought out by others /for/ roleplay. Edit: Some of that will change, of course, I'm just listing it to drive home the point that he's really nobody special. Point is, you don't have to be on top of the world to find that world and your character compelling.

I don't know where the hypothesis that Miqo'te are short lived came from, as I can't find anything that suggests they might have a short life span compared to other races. It seems like reasoned speculation that somehow entered RP fanon around here. You could deduce that perhaps many of them die young because of their lifestyle, but that isn't indicative of their natural longevity.

To be fair, when YoshiP was talking about a house costing as much as what three fresh 50 characters would have combined he was talking about personal housing, not FC housing. My pet theory is that the ridiculous initial prices of the FC housing is in part meant to remove a lot of RMT gil from the server economies. There is a red colored font blurb in the patch notes about how FC housing purchased with RMT gil will be confiscated and I suspect a lot of innocent players who happen to be in the same FC as cheaters who RMT are going to suffer for it.

Disappointing, but you make a lot of sense here.

You can always change your Grand Company, get the skill, then change back. Assuming it works the same way as gear does now.

Missed it the first time around but... Is the Aesthetician half-Elezen? He has smaller pointed ears with Hyur proportions.

Oh, nice. Good catch Edgar. The FFIII boss music when Acheron emerged was a nice touch too.

I hope so. If not at least they could package a lot of them together in the first expansion. I think that was actually mentioned in passing a while back.

It's definitely a person using a gun, but I don't think it's a player. You can clearly see the Roegaedyn Dragoon attacking it as the Blackmage moves to dodge some line/laser AoE, the Lalafell Paladin shield lobs it a second later. We're very likely to get some form of musketeer class eventually, but here I think we are just seeing a boss that uses guns.

I'd be surprised if we didn't get Musketeer eventually, but it really does look like that the adventurers are attacking a mob that uses guns.

R_aliYN8hNk Edit: Link to information page: http://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/pr/special/2_1_A_Realm_Awoken/

The only problem with roleplaying it is that it is supposed to be the only copy in existence. It's the same with Thyrus for WHM, etc. Roleplaying your character as in possession of it is a little on the poor side of RP etiquette.

My only advice, don't listen to hardware fanboys. If you're building on a budget and the current best price/performance ratio for that budget is a product from AMD or Intel or Nvidia or whatever, then get what's best for your build and don't worry about some fool screaming "i7/Radeon/Nvidia only or forget about it."

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/threads/104526-armory-system-useless-Mythology-Cap?p=1578533&viewfull=1#post1578533

I don't have the time to find the post, but SE confirmed some time ago that there was some mixing between the clans, and that's why we would see some Seekers with Keeper features and vice versa.

If you're a Seeker you're in luck. There's a Seeker tribe at the Forgotten Springs in game that gives us a detailed look at Seeker tribal culture. It doesn't give us all the answers we'd like, but it's a lot more than nothing. Check it out when you can.

I've taken this test several times since I was 18 or so, and for many years my results pinpointed me as INTJ - with a very small inclination (something like 10%) towards judging over perceiving. Around a year and a half ago I took the test again and came up as INTP. Puzzled, I took the test at a couple of different places and came up INTP in all of them - with a slight inclination to perceiving over judging. I took the test again just now and the result was again INTP with a slight preference for perceiving over judging (22% with this last test). Funny enough, this INTP result came after a resolution I made in January of 2012 to be more honest about myself to myself and others, it leads me to believe that in the past I might have been answering the questions as if my personality were the way I believed it should be and not the way it actually /was/. At any rate, it's interesting stuff.

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OP, please consider that this game has gone through a number of changes since release, probably more than any other MMORPG on the market. A lot of decisions were made as things developed with no knowledge about how things might have changed in the future. There was a community vote way back before the launch of 1.0 for an unofficial RP server, Besaid was the victor. Unfortunately 1.0 was a mega-flop, and one of the consequences of that flop was Besaid merging into Balmung. Fast forward to the release of 2.0, when SE informed us that legacy players would not be allowed to transfer to new servers at all, that left us with pretty much one option - to continue supporting Balmung as a major unofficial RP server. Many newer players wanted a fresh start, which is totally understandable - a very small number of these new players even went so far as demanding that legacy players delete and re-roll their characters on the new server so that things would be "fair" to the new role-players. After some sound and fury, a vote was held for a non-legacy server, and Gilgamesh won the vote. At this point it's very unlikely that SE will ever declare an official RP server, and I sincerely hope they don't. Can you imagine the divide that would cause here? I'm sure as many players would feel the urge to stay as they would to go. As others have said, the aim to support Balmung and Gilgamesh is all about concentrating as many RPers in as few places as possible and is the result of decisions made under pressure by the community - and each of those decisions were only made after vigorous debate. It's not about snubbing roleplay on Faerie or any other server.

For me, you can only really be bad at RP when (as others here have said already) you don't respect common courtesy and RP etiquette. Really good RP though? In my opinion it's when RP is treated as a shared narrative rather than individual wish fulfillment.

I actually think that both genders among Keepers would have a tendency to promiscuity, not just the males. And I also think bisexuality among females would be so commonplace that they wouldn't even require a word to describe it as anything different from the norm as we do. This promiscuity doesn't mean they would go about trying to lay with as many people as possible, or be vulgar, shallow, or shy away from emotional connections. I just don't think they'd have the same ideas about exclusivity or marriage that more contemporary cultures do, at least not until those ideas were transmitted to them from other cultures. Simply from the fact that there are just not enough males to go around. If you'd rather call it them being polyamorous rather than promiscuous, that's fine, that word might have a more positive bend to it. Not following you when it comes to your claim that I'm applying modern western views of biological sex and gender to Miqo'te. I'm a poor fit when compared to those ideas myself, in fact there's pictures of me crossdressing - and not as a joke - in the real life picture thread on this board. As for how Miqo'te view gender and biological sex? It's anyone's guess really. SE gives us nothing on the issue. I'd wager that it's rather binary given that the game is developed by a Japanese company.

I think you're correct there, it doesn't seem likely that tribal ways will persist much longer, and it's entirely possible for modern Miqo'te to find themselves in a monogamous situation. I'm just saying traditionally it was likely a no go. But you mistake me again, I'm not saying that Miqo'te being promiscuous is a logical or correct way for them be, I'm saying that through logical reasoning we can conclude that it just didn't work that way for them traditionally. What's right or wrong or outdated or primitive is immaterial to that point.