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Perceptive Mind

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If possible, it would help lots.

 



Femme Fatale

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Look ugly, or look naked SMILEY



Jacked Out

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They have this option in GW, where a warrior can have his helm equipped, hide it from view but still get the same benefits from it. I little unrealistic, but thats GW for you...

Mind you, I hate having to wear a bandana to fight and would love to have something other than masks, silly hats or bandanas.

This subject has been covered many times and will, no doubt, be covered a whole lot more...


Systemic Anomaly

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It wouldn't matter much to the PvPers but any RPers out there especially on vector, as you well know you can get attacked there at a moments notice it would be extremely useful, although I think it should be limited to outerwear, hats, glasses, gloves and shirts, pants and shoes should be kept on at all times so we don't get high res. naked people running around.

if this is all possible, but I wouldnt say it was particularly difficult since you could just have an option which replaces the textures with transparency but I don't know much about how the clothing system works anyway.



MC Photographer

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LOTRO has this option as well. There are several clothing/armour slots that can be checked off as hidden. It's a great option to have, and I would love to see this in MxO. It wouldn't beat out clothing "costumes" (or shells, as I believe they were more commonly called), but it would be a step in the right direction.



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Meh, I tend to prefer realism - you wear what you wear, but I can see how this would be a problem on Vector. 
Isn't there some kind of launcher/gloves item available there for a purpose like this?  It's not really a solution but maybe we can build on it towards one...



Perceptive Mind

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The most common comment about clothing is how the good buffed stuff looks ugly. I don't think it matters what server you are on. The ability to show or hide these three slots would open up a whole new set of options for players trying to create a good look with good buffs.

Dresses, Gi's, Roccawear, Masks and Hats all override other clothing or visual elements of the avatar. You've got hair style, facial hair, facial markings and tattoos. There's Shirts, Coats and Pants that get overridden by Dresses, Gi's or Roccawear. There's female coats that have a custom look with no shirt showing. Considering all the ways the clothes interact with the avatar and other clothing, if a show/hide option is possible for these three slots, it would help lots. Glasses too. Nothing wrong with being able to hide a code launcher or glasses to show eye color.

Alot of people don't like the Roccawear or masks or bandanas or hats. Not having to show it makes it all useable for the buffs without having to accept the look you don't like. I happen to like seeing player's hair. It's so much more varied and individual than the available hats.

The only complaint I could see is not being able to guage a player's clothing buffs so easily since it wouldn't always be showing. On the other hand if I'm wearing a GI, you don't see other stuff so it's not completely different than the way it is now just more stuff could be not seen. But no one's mentioned that yet so there I go arguing with myself.

The real question is if it's doable and whether enough players see the value in it for style flexibility to want it to happen.

 



Systemic Anomaly

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It would add a lot of variety into rsi appearence, reagrdless of any other changes it would be well worthwhile, I dont always want to wear a hat, I dont always want to wear a coat, or glasses...but, being on vector, I do always want the buffs...surely this a relatively easy change, lets do it.


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say no to this



Perceptive Mind

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Darkhorse wrote:
say no to this

Why?


Veteran Hacker

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Hiding trousers..dunno why u would want 2 lol
but I WANT TO HIDE MY TOP AND HATS! 



Perceptive Mind

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bulletfury wrote:
Hiding trousers..dunno why u would want 2 lol
but I WANT TO HIDE MY TOP AND HATS! 
Huh? Check the title again. Maybe include glasses. Not talking about trousers. 


Systemic Anomaly

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If only applied to glasses and hats, this would be great.

It allows us to take advantage of the buffs as well as our RSI appearances. Nobody in the Matrix films wore a bandana over their face to get leet buffs. Come to think of it, nobody wore a fedora either... Feh.

 I want a male ninja mask.


Message edited by Zerotolerance on 06/01/2007 15:40:32.



Perceptive Mind

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Zerotolerance wrote:

If only applied to glasses and hats, this would be great.

It allows us to take advantage of the buffs as well as our RSI appearances. Nobody in the Matrix films wore a bandana over their face to get leet buffs. Come to think of it, nobody wore a fedora either... Feh.

 I want a male ninja mask.

Why only glasses and hats? Dresses, Gi's and Roccawear all override other clothing and plenty of people don't want to show the distinct look of these pieces either. Who wore a moon dress in movies? What's the Roccawear all about? Gi's fit an MA theme but that's only a portion of loads used.

IMO options are what it's all about. It would be nice to add a male ninja mask but practically speaking nothing has ever been added to the clothing database and stylewise adding one piece is either not going to have an impact or everyone will wear it and there's no diversity in that. Given what we have to work with, being able to hide headgear, shirts/dresses, outerwear and glasses would open up an abundance of possibliities that simply couldn't be produced by introducing one or two new pieces of clothing.



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woops...lol
my point is I think shirt, outwear, and hat should be able to be hidden, maybe shades, but I think the shades look cool anyway

 
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