Would own skin-able vanity clothing be a good idea?

It would be cool to be able to make your own vanity clothing. I know there is alot of frames, but devoted people could have a great time being creative.
And before you say that it would be usable to be, well, 'immature' in their vanity clothing, it could just be a server option to disable them.

 

This has been discussed multiple times, and yes it'd be nice. However, it would also be quite a bit of work.

 

If it is disabled on servers what would be the point in making them? For single player where only you will see?
Although I would love to customise skins and what-not, I think that these ideas in this game will not really work...

 

I am aware its going to be alot of work to make vanity clothing

It would be an option set by the admin of the server

 

Better idea: Have a type of NPC meant to color and patternize clothing, so you could have someone with like a black striped hat and someone else with a red filled hat.

 

A way to change clothing/armor colors have been rumored already.

 

while i would really love to see this feature implemented, i just don't think it will be in the game.
also, i think this thread belongs into the suggestions-subforum, rather than the general discussion.

 

Isent it a discussion about wether or not this would be a good idea? i remember a Developer early on the irc saying "He would try and bring up player drawn hats" and later stating that maybe also clothing.

 

I like this idea I like the idea of having my character "transparent" giving her a ghostly feel that would be nifty. But you also have to take into consideration, someone might sprite "the best armor" and have that as their vanity skin just for show.


Edit: Oh, my 500th post

 

There is no best armor i think, it is all randomly generated.
And if a server fears abuse of this system: They can disable it.

 

Yeah, i don't see why not. If you don't like it then don't make any, or disable it on your server.

 

Happy 500th post

But to be more serious, with procedural generation of armours and weapons (as far as we have been told) would it be possible to have a "best armour"?

 

well, i would suppose so, but it really depends on what role you want to play in the game or on a team. so it would be an opinion based "best armor".

 

Not really, most people would just end up creating the same things because "they saw it on someone else and thought it was cool". Besides, with the randomly generated armors everyone will look unique enough.

 

Its not that much about being unique, its about letting people have their very own avatar, allowing creativity and roleplaying.

 

I think this idea is awesome!
But it would cause a lot of problems also, so I don't think it will be implemented.

 

How about something like the Steam Workshop is set up and people can submit vanity items there. Moderators can be appointed and vanity items can be tagged, filtered and then acquired by players. Servers download the player's vanity items on their connection.

Good idea Y/N?
Refinement required.

 

I think you should be able to, but not by spriting it yourself.
I would love to see some gadget or doohicky that lets you change the random parts on an item
Example:
Go to store, choose shoulders, pay 100 gold/credit/whatever, new shoulders!

 

A good example of skin and things like that is a MMO that i play, GetAmped2, players can do all kind of skins, but still its very little abused on the server, rarely you see some kind of "Imature" content

BTW: post number 111

 

I'm not convinced that this would have a real use; people dedicated enough to make anything that would look good would just retexture a vanity item that already exists. In multiplayer you would get a lot of people running around in their custom made vanity sets; of which, let's be honest, only a few would look good at all. Most servers would just disable them, so allotting time to designing a system for this could be spent better elsewhere, like making a new weapon or plant or generation trait.