Costumes

[temnix]

Costumes are made in the launcher, they are only updated later through NPC, so this is where my suggestions belong.

 

1) An Undo button.

 

This is the most obvious: costume creation needs an Undo button. Currently there are buttons all over the screen for resetting parts of costumes - certainly to be avoided, because if you have been matching patterns and colors on the upper torso for the last six hours, you won't want to reset it to Tight. The reset button for reverting to the previous random costume is even more dangerous, because there is no button for moving to the NEXT costume in queue. Hit that by accident, and all your work evaporates in a cloud of smoke. As a result the screen is a minefield, and I have to be much too careful clicking around it.

 

2) Pattern and fashion choices in alphabetical order.

 

It doesn't take cutting cloth for long in the costume editor to learn what the different options stand for: what the Overguard pieces are, what the Imperial Dynasty, what the Psych, Magic, Alpha patterns look like. But it takes a hell of a memory to remember in what order they stand. The patterns are always the same, thank goodness, and it's alphabetical, but the elements are either in the order of appearing in different game updates and expansion or simply at random. I remember I liked Goldbricker, where is it? The old sequence doesn't matter: all of the options are available to all players now, nothing is locked away or premium. So arrange this in a simple manner.

 

3) Looking at gloves makes flickers appear.

 

When I scroll through glove options and maybe some of the other smaller body pieces, often glowing balls float up from the bottom, as if an aura were on. But it's off. They obscure the view.

 

4) Costume edting at login for existing characters.

 

When I select a character to proceed to the server, show a button for customization here by the by. Rearranging a costume is free in-game, all it takes is talking to the right NPC. Why not show a shortcut here?

[GM Tock]

The HC Launcher actually doesn't handle costumes at all.  Everything that happens after that "LOADING..." rectangle appears is the in-game client.

 

Moved the post to Suggestions & Feedback.

[Rudra]

18 hours ago, temnix said:

Rearranging a costume is free in-game, all it takes is talking to the right NPC.

Once you reach level 10, unless you have a saved free tailor coupon, no, it isn't free.

 

18 hours ago, temnix said:

3) Looking at gloves makes flickers appear.

 

When I scroll through glove options and maybe some of the other smaller body pieces, often glowing balls float up from the bottom, as if an aura were on. But it's off. They obscure the view.

I've never had that problem. Maybe it is your setting, graphics card, or graphics driver?

[Oubliette_Red]

On 2/17/2024 at 5:05 AM, temnix said:

Costumes are made in the launcher, they are only updated later through NPC, so this is where my suggestions belong.

 

1) An Undo button.

 

2) Pattern and fashion choices in alphabetical order.

 

It doesn't take cutting cloth for long in the costume editor to learn what the different options stand for: what the Overguard pieces are, what the Imperial Dynasty, what the Psych, Magic, Alpha patterns look like. But it takes a hell of a memory to remember in what order they stand. The patterns are always the same, thank goodness, and it's alphabetical, but the elements are either in the order of appearing in different game updates and expansion or simply at random. I remember I liked Goldbricker, where is it? The old sequence doesn't matter: all of the options are available to all players now, nothing is locked away or premium. So arrange this in a simple manner.

 

3) Looking at gloves makes flickers appear.

 

4) Costume edting at login for existing characters.

 

When I select a character to proceed to the server, show a button for customization here by the by. Rearranging a costume is free in-game, all it takes is talking to the right NPC. Why not show a shortcut here?

 

1. I've had several occasions where an 'Undo' for my last action would have been nice.

2. This was asked of the Legacy Dev s as well and I do not recall the exact explanation but the character's appearance and chosen costume pieces all have a connection to each individual piece's location within the list, rearranging the this would break everyone's costume as the piece would no longer be in the order the it's expected to be. It's why costume pieces tend to be added to the bottom of the list.

3. Can't say that I've ever had that happen, no idea what would cause this.

4. On quite a few occasions I would have liked to have been able to drag-n-drop my costumes to rearrange their order, especially once all slots were unlocked. I blame my CDO.