(05-11-2017, 10:06 AM)Siha Wrote: The only other thing I can toss in is that I sort of agree with ExAtomos, making your own tribe keeps you from having preexisting relationships with other tribes, not to say that you can't make some! It just means more work for you and agreement from other players. Which you might not always get. It's hit or miss. On the other hand, because there's less possibility of offshoots it almost limits you in some things to do a preexisting tribe, you can't lay out what a tribe was like if you have to share it with a bunch of other RPers now can you? That's my only small gripe. I'm sure people can say there are offshoots of course. So it's probably a moot point of mine, but it sounded like there weren't any or many at the very least.
EDIT: Oyuu totally beat me in posting about the original tribes. XD
Just wanted to chime in on this. As someone who plays a less popular tribe (I think it's like me and three others? I haven't checked in a while there's 23 according to lodestone, oops) it is quite nice to have the free reign to just make headcanons without too much worry about stepping on other people's toes. With your own tribe, you have full control. You can decide whether they were hostile, isolationist, nomadic, traders, etc. etc. I can still have interactions with other tribal Xaela, my character likes to compare the different yet similar lifestyles he had with them (and sometimes he likes making out some tribes are bad but he's a bitter old man.)
Building an actual RP tribe with other players might be a little difficult if you take that route, but if it's just your sole character, I wouldn't worry too much about it at all. It seems you're doing the appropriate research and asking the right questions to try and make it believable in the FFXIV setting, so go for it! Embrace the freedom to create something a little special to you and your character.
