Decrease cooldown between outfit changes?

[blitz]

As in title, how feasible would be decreasing the cooldown between outfit changes?

Currently it's at 15 seconds.

I understand there's a reason (or several) for why it wasn't decreased further from 30 as it was on live, but I was unable to find it.

[Zeraphia]

If it's possible, sure! However, I must caution that this may be a problem to implement due to the timeframe animations lagging the servers and areas with high volume activity (Eden/RWZ) so people could in theory "grief" the servers causing unintentional crashes. 

 

If that's not the case, then by all means. 

[srmalloy]

12 hours ago, Zeraphia said:

this may be a problem to implement due to the timeframe animations lagging the servers and areas with high volume activity (Eden/RWZ) so people could in theory "grief" the servers causing unintentional crashes.

Perhaps attach a check for 'safe' status, already used for the logout timer, so that if you're out in a 'combat' area you have the normal counter, but if you're in a safe area you get a much-reduced counter. This would prevent people from standing in the bowl during an MSR spamming costume changes, but allow them to switch quickly back inside the Vanguard base (i.e., at the tailor where you make a change to your power colors, save it, then quickly cycle through your other costumes loading the new .powercust file to update them).

[Oubliette_Red]

Less that 15 seconds?

 

Only if no costume change animation is being used. Can you imagine a dozen players spamming lightning every 5 seconds?

 

[dangeraaron10]

I'd love to have your costume change as you used or toggled certain powers.  Like turning on a toggle would swap to a costume of your choice and detoggling would swap you back.

 

Would also be cool on a per power use if possible.  Like using Laser Eye Beams would swap to a costume with an eye aura and swap back as the move finishes its animation.

 

This is possible with macros already but the timer does hinder it somewhat.

 

If it's possible and can't be used to grief I fully support it.

[srmalloy]

9 hours ago, Oubliette_Red said:

Less that 15 seconds?

 

Only if no costume change animation is being used. Can you imagine a dozen players spamming lightning every 5 seconds?

Different timers for the /cc and /cce commands? I can see why that could be necessary.