personally i'd really love to see both viera and aegyl show up. both because i really want to be able to make one of them and because i'd genuinely be interested in seeing how their story lore would get integrated. plus the aegyl could give a really cool arc to later story updates in my opinion.

honestly i don't think the game really needs other clans. like. sure i guess it would be nice to be able to do a doman hyur or a new miqo'te clan or a garlean but. in a sense, i'm kind of "but they don't really add anything other than flavor and to a certain extent it doesn't make sense unless they're adding new possible starting locations, which also wouldn't make sense since that'd tweak so much of the resulting game." if they do that, i'd wanna see a new game plus style mechanic. like. you beat the main game and get to certain points and you have the option to roll all your levels and quest progression into a "new" character that starts in a different area and gives you a little questline to move back into the main eorzea.

... now that i say that, i really wish they would've given the option for that with the au ra because that sounds so cool omg, square you can take the idea for free as long as you do the thing and make it good.

Nov 12, 2018 16:00:56 GMT dsboywonder25 said:

Now you've said it - that does sound really interesting! Maybe as an interesting mechanic for an alternate start rather than your class dedicating where you start it'd be even more interesting to use your race - so for example my Miqo'te Ta'vren should have started in Gridania (Typo'd probably) over Ul'dah

i mean, i've always taken the starting area as more acknowledgement that you come from somewhere else (likely you were an adventurer before that point and had been for a long while) but. as far as the starting mechanic is concerned, i get why they have they have to do it that way since imo you need to progress your main class and do the level 10 quest for them before you can pick up other classes. so locking that content until you get introduced to the airships is a bit of a pain, especially for brand new players in limsa (since i actually ended up running from gridania to ul'dah fairly early on just so i could pick up the other classes and i use limsa as a starting place to try to force myself to progress the story instead of crafting forever).

the new game plus option would just work out since like. imo you'd be hooked up again really fast, they do have some ~spoilery~ reason to be able to make it work with some squinting for why you're still the hero of the scions (like it's not perfect and tbeh that's the biggest roadblock to it since imo you can't really make references to beating titan if the new game plus character hasn't - imo this is why you don't see the starting game quest content referenced once you get to the synced up part of the main story). and it's not gonna work out for them to long-term make a whole bunch of branching storylines just to have new species with new starting points.

essentially it's a mechanics vs story dilemma so. i've not looked super closely at the explanations for how the au ra are actually playable in-game so i might be talking out of my rear in that sense. but. idk i just think it would be cool for them to work in a mechanic to be able to explain the new species away in game rather than just hand-waving it a bit.