Additional Costume Slots through Prismatic Aethers

[Awilix]

The title is as far as you have to read, seriously, but to expound:

I do not know where the conversation on additional costume slots was left off, whether or not it was simply unfollowed due to technical restraints, disinterest or some design idea, but recent developments in the game's mechanics made it come to mind.

I noticed that the prismatic aether character-bound costume system added another reason that single characters are important to maintain over just making an alt for new costumes and, explicitly relevant, it also designed a perfect player-facing system for gaining new costume slots. If it were possible to increase the number of costume slots in the costume selector, presumably accessed through some scrolling bar on the window, there is now a system in place for players to slowly gain special merits (and additional ones on Halloween through badges, fittingly!) from the tasks they do that could make a great currency for 'buying' costume slots. It would increase opinion and engagement of the aether system overnight if players could suddenly spend ten prismatic aethers on an extra slot, as well as increase engagement with other systems if players could actually gain costume slots from all the costume missions already in game, from VEAT missions to tailor missions to halloween salvage, without them quickly going over the maximum. Even just doubling the current maximum to 20 would be awe-worthy.

Obviously, this is a lot of putting the cart before the horse, but I can just see the entire system already in the UI aside from a scrolling bar and a 'buy costume' button. I don't know what technical issues are actually in place for extra costume slots; I assume we'd already have them if it was easy or cheap on resources. I am specifically curious about any feedback on that side of the issue.

[Rudra]

The game can't handle more costume slots as far as I have been informed. For instance, Soldiers of Arachnos and Widows of Arachnos technically have 11 costume slots to everyone else's 10 because they get an added costume slot that is their starter so they can have their requisite Arachnos appearance. However, their 11th costume slot is only accessible via slash command.

[biostem]

I think a more feasible option would be free costume change tokens purchasable with PAPs...