Change Male and Female Glamour Restrictions

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Originally Posted by Rokke

You can't make a 100% flat toon unless you go Lala. Wish we could, at least then we could make androgynous characters :c

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I'm all for more unisex outfits. My Auri guy looks better in croptops and skirts than female toons lmao

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It's because male Aura have them sexy hips

More gender-locked sets please. I'm so tired of the effeminate unisex style (i.e. AST 3.0 AF/majority of dungeon sets) making most gear for masculine casters/healers unwearable.

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Originally Posted by Naunet

Try to think outside your narrow mindset.

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I'm trying but it's hard to keep a straight face... now I'm thinking of the /smooch emote.. buhaha!

I think sometimes it's a case of 'the grass is always greener.' I look at some of the sets and prefer the male version, even though I want my character to stay female. For example, I think most of the male Garo sets are much better than the female.

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Originally Posted by Draven

How about, NO! You wanna be a girl, roll a girl ya fairy! xD

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this is why these topics go to hell with posts like this.

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Originally Posted by Mikhaill

this is why these topics go to hell with posts like this.

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just like the forums go to hell with threads like these. \o/

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Originally Posted by Fawkes

I think they exist because the gear has to be made to work for different body types, I don't think it's quite like flipping a switch, there's some non-trivial amount of work someone has to do to make female gear meshes be the right shape for male bodies. And they probably think that time would be better spent on something else because the number of guys who want to wear dresses is relatively small.

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Almost correct.

The artists clearly have to make separate male and female versions of everything already, allowing them to switch isn't possible except with the lalafells since the body shapes are identical. However this overlooks the need to make animations work with those gear types. In case you haven't noticed there is some jiggle animation in the cloth gear that doesn't exist in the rigid gear. I'm sure the walk/run cycles and emote control points is probably baked into each gear as well.

For the amount of time spent wearing any specific gear, I'm going to say that the developers likely don't see any point in doing this for anything but costume gear, hence why some of it is gender locked. It's locked because they didn't create a version for the other gender. Likewise with race-locked clothing, other than starter clothes I haven't seen anything else that is race locked.

Likely every piece of gear in the game has 12 "versions" of which the Hyur/Miqo'te/Au Ra are aliased over each other. So to allow "cross-dressing" per se would require 24 versions of every piece of gear, and that just isn't going to happen for every piece of gear because most gear other than costume gear is thrown away once you out-level it.