(07-13-2017, 05:43 PM)Momo Wrote: Love this idea, but would you consider opening ranks a little more and allowing for characters that relate to the group too, rather than just those strict races and types?
I edited the OP the previous evening to allow for those unaffiliated with the Sekiseigumi who are interested in regular general or antagonistic interactions in the small addendum (second paragraph). I am unsure if the wording is unclear or not, so if you know a better way to phrase it, please inform me.
In regards to the race restriction, I also edited in my reasoning for the decision not long before this reply to your post. I simply wish to avoid a situation like the one Dragoon RPers had to deal with, wherein SE stated that Ishgard only had like, ten active capital-D Dragoons, so all the Ishgard-affiliated Dragoon RPers had to scramble for a reason as to why they were suddenly not an active Dragoon and such.
So I'm just going off the races represented through Sekiseigumi NPCs, which use Midlander (majority) and Hellsguard (relative minority) character models. I scoured Kugane for Raen, but they only appeared as sailors and merchants unless I missed someone, which is not impossible. So unless there's a levequest or other source that mentions Raen Sekiseigumi, then there's no representation of that race in the organisation at this time.
To be frank, I think the lack of representation is laziness on SE's part. In the 60-70 SAM questline, they reuse the same three male Midlander models in various cutscenes, so my personal opinion is that they just didn't care to add more variety to the models. Or maybe they forgot about Raen. Or maybe Raen are now all fish lizards of some kind instead of mountain people since the folks in Sui-no-Sato talk like they're representative of the Raen population and all the other Raen outside of the village in-game have mostly been involved with maritime occupations. I dunno. But until further information is released, I, again, would prefer to err on the side of caution. Easier to ease up on restriction than to clamp down on it.
