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[Zen4]

The costume tab system arrives in iRO, with more costume gear to be added.


Meanwhile, would it be possible to use actual headgears as "costumes"? Besides the new fancy costumes, existing headgears can also be appealing to some people.

(ex: use the hot-blooded headband on a monk, wizard hat for mages, fun/goofy headgears, etc)

This calls for the "classic"/familiar looks, while still having effects of reduc/+stat/effect gear; basically anything that the player thinks looks the best on his/her character.

Also - a "costume placeholder" that makes it look like the character is not wearing headgears at all? =)


...Yes, the stuff above will probably never happen at all - but it is fun to see what this costume tab system could potentially become.

Edited by Zen4, 04 December 2011 - 04:54 AM.

[Ultimate]

You'd be stacking old headgears that potentially give stats - I think the costume tab is supposed to be no bonus stats. If they duplicated a bunch of old hats and removed their bonuses sure, but then again I don't know how costume tab items work yet. The script may be entirely different or very similar. I like the idea of keeping them separate though, but this is a good idea for several reasons:

1) it would increase the value of many old headgears like spore hat etc
2) anyone could obtain them and it's not cash based
3) the amount of costume items would go way up

so keep at it! good idea but needs more work and info from some people who know how the costume tab works on a technical level.

[Tigra]

Not sure if this has been said before, but the costume headgears are not tradeable. Even though it says everywhere on your website "The costume headgear will be purchasable from the Kafra Shop, and will come in tradeable boxes. Once they have been taken out of the box, they become account bound."

And it says on the individual gears:

The Box is trade and Vendable, but the Headgear inside is account bound only.

[iiNote]

If it could give the looks of old hats but just looks and not stats it'd be awesome.
Plus the new hats would still be cash shop, but can give players who cant buy cash a way to use this tool. Not to mention like Ultimate said... it'll make old hats useful again in sales.

I like the idea.

Edited by iiNote, 04 December 2011 - 11:06 AM.

[Wyntir]

It'd be nice if the "old" headgear that's now either useless or was only vanity to begin with was able to be put into the costume slots, I agree. Or maybe script it somehow so if you put it into the costume slot that's all you get is the sprite and no stats? I dunno, but I'd love to level with my kafra band on.

[LemnzestManatee]

Maybe they could have some kind of ticket item (kind of like the dye tickets) that allows you to turn one of your headgears into the costume version. The costume version is non-tradeable and has any stats and/or class restrictions removed from it. That would be really cool and would still allow them to make money from the Kafra Shop.

[Charon]

^This.
Any headgear
Costume ticket
NPC
=costume tab has purpose

[Mwrip]

I can't imagine it being at all difficult to code it such that you can throw any headgear in the appropriate costume slot, and the game will simply ignore its stats and use only its sprite. Isn't that the whole point of a costume function?

[Chrisalyd]

whats the use on costume... i see this like an useless thing, i dont think that worth to waste kp , wpp on buy things like that i mean dont have any bonus stat or skills to the char the only purpose its hide your current head gear when you have the choice of not showing your gears lol

[Fluffylovr]

Can't there be a way to take *any* headgear, drag it to the costume tab and wear it but it doesn't give its stat bonus so long as its in that tab. And then when you want to use it as a normal item mearly take it out from costume tab and put it in the normal tab? Or, an option that can cost say.. 25-100 KP to "shadow" your existing item of choice and creat a stat free costume version of it.

[Zen4]

If it could give the looks of old hats but just looks and not stats it'd be awesome.

This is what i actually meant in the beginning. Sorry for the misunderstanding, and thanks for clarifying this up.

Edited by Zen4, 04 December 2011 - 02:45 PM.

[Charon]

The obvious is so obvious its amazing that it doesnt work like everyone figures it should.
Kafra shop basis for it not working like that, is flawed, as turning normal to costume via kafra shop would get way more cash than this anyway.

[Myzery]

If you can't use anything you want, it's useless. I guess it's because they want more $$$$$ since this is simple coding and could be done in no time.

[LordVader]

Current costume tab is a gimmicky money grubbing limited troll update. It should be as stated above with a tradable ticket like the dyes so that you can just turn any hat you have into costume. Oddly enough the hat I want to use sums this whole situation up "Grief for Greed."