It's time (Option to Hide other players Glamour)

[SilverObi]

I'm noticing a lot of people assuming a glamour toggle would inherently mean that you'd see the other PCs in their "mismatched clown outfits", but we already have an example of a game loading preset gear instead of the what's actually equipped/glamoured in FFXI as I previously mentioned. No you wouldn't see people in clashing gearsets but rather in racial gear or even better AF gear.

Another thing I'm noticing is the slippery slope fallacy or logical extreme argument being tossed around. Yes in theory having the option to view other PCs in preset gear may open the door to more extreme or unreasonable requests but that doesn't mean they'd be accepted or implemented. Changing gear is not on the same scope as removing races so stop saying it is, it comes off as fearmongering.

And I still don't see how what another player views affects you directly unless you were to ask and if they were to even respond, I know for a fact a lot of the popular glamour items have "alternate" looks thanks to the community but that doesn't stop me from wearing what I want cause it's not affecting me. I can't see the merit in worrying about what other people see when what matters is how my character looks to me and me only unless I'm RP'ing or something I guess.

[Fawkes]

we already have an example of a game loading preset gear instead of the what's actually equipped/glamoured in FFXI as I previously mentioned.

There was the setting for the PS2 version that didn't show armor, but that was because the PS2 couldn't handle loading all the gear. I think it only worked on PS2.

And that setting just showed everyone else in their underwear, it didn't replace the appearance of their gear with something else.

[SilverObi]

There was the setting for the PS2 version that didn't show armor, but that was because the PS2 couldn't handle loading all the gear. I think it only worked on PS2.

It definitely still works on PC as of when I played it last night. And the fact that the gear it loaded was just underwear doesn't mean it's not loading preset gear since like how it works in XIV, that's still a bit of the model being loaded and not actually clothing being added/removed so it was replacing it with something else.

[jon041065]

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Like the other poster said, there is an option in the PC version of XI that let's you toggle between dynamic/static appearance of player characters. This puts ALL PCs, including your own, into the appropriate starting race gear. You are right that's it does seem to be an option to boost performance of the game.

A similar option in this game would likely have a similar effect of increased or more stable fps.

I'd probably not use such an option but don't see the problem with it as well.

[Fawkes]

Like the other poster said, there is an option in the PC version of XI that let's you toggle between dynamic/static appearance of player characters. This puts ALL PCs, including your own, into the appropriate starting race gear. You are right that's it does seem to be an option to boost performance of the game.

A similar option in this game would likely have a similar effect of increased or more stable fps.

I'd probably not use such an option but don't see the problem with it as well.

Yes. My confusion was because it was originally a PS2-only command that displayed characters with no gear, but it was changed and now it displays characters in the starting gear on the PC version, and I didn't know that part. My bad.