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

[Krotoan]

As you can clearly see: these differ and for me, what Ifalna wears when she is out and about is as much about how she is perceived by others as by me. No fake empathy will make any kind of censorship compatible with what I want, currently have and do not want to let go.

Then clearly I will stop trying to convince you as you are not willing to discuss, as is your right as a person.

You are free to glamor your char as you wish. I do not have control over how stuff is displayed on your client, not do I want such a thing. I merely want everyone to see the same thing, as it should be.

You want to enforce what you consider "normal" which is the guarantee that where you put your character and what you put ON your character are guaranteed to be at least represented on others screens. This is not a particularly solid rule in every MMORPG, many have instances you can run away to or allow modding. "as it should be" being your own personal value.

Because it is still an RPG. How I dress Ifalna does not only reflect what I find pretty, it also reflects her character, her likes and dislikes, mirrors some of the behavior I attribute to her. Someone arbitrarily seeing her differently or not at all undermines all that.

I do not expect you to understand, most people don't roleplay in this game.

Does it? You can control the physical representation but you cannot control what people think when they see it. No matter how carefully you craft, everyones actual perception is out of your control. Thus why does it matter if someone removes you from their experience if all you represent to them is an annoyance? You shouldn't force people to be a part of your story.

I do roleplay, quite a bit and walking by someone in patchwork insanity is difficult to reconcile in my particular narrative. One of the main reasons I would like this feature realized.

Until it infringes onto the experience of others, as proven by this very thread.
It IS a multiplayer game and no fancy reasoning will eliminate social dynamics and expectations. In that regard, the game is quite similar to our real lives.

The only "experience" it's infringing upon that I cannot seem to find a solution for is that people cannot seem to stand the fact that someone else might not HAVE to see them.
Social expectations based on real world rules are ridiculous when considered within the framework of a video game. We already have systems in place to outright silence people if they annoy us or remove them from our presence if they don't particularly satisfy us in an instance with next to no questions asked.

Well. Since this is a thing. Let’s point out the obvious.

Game code and server load are actual things. This system wouldn’t just be client side it would be server side as well because the game has to know what to render for each player. Making it a server issue.
So lets go with about 1.1 million active subs. That’s 1.1 million decisions in a game, that effects tons of other decisions the game code has to make and transmit data from server to client and client to server.

The server currently sends the positional data, job, race/gender/customization, and glamour data to your client for it to render along with skills being used if in battle. This is all done with simple number values that are then processed and rendered by the clients computer. If you were to say tell the client to ignore the glamour data and show a default skin or gear or character, it wouldn't increase server traffic one bit.

I'm not going to pretend I know this for certain. I am not on the dev team nor am I privy to the actual game code, but this is how most game clients work. Server sends data points, your client processes those into graphical representations and sends back control inputs.

Given that I like my current connection and load times, i pay for the game as it is not how i want it to be. Do I have desires and everything else that I wish would happen? Absolutely. Id like mch not to be so ping reliant. Id like instance based housing, id like roulettes with more than 2 dungeons, etc etc etc.. but just because i pay my sub does not give me the right to demand these things.

Demand being a strong word.. request is more like. You have every right to ASK for things you'd like to see, just not to expect them to be implemented. I don't think I've seen one person supporting this option DEMANDING that it be put in. But hey, it's 140 pages, maybe I missed one.

I made an agreement as did all of you to pay for this game for what it offers not what you can demand from it. If you dont like it. Guess what you have the option to stop playing.

And yes you are free to express opinions and make suggestions but this “suggestion” just from a technical standpoint is ludicrous and pointless. Dont like someone’s glam. Dont pay attention to it. Ffs, between this and the ryne sexualization crap im starting to think yall need a break from the net.

Your technical points don't particularly hold water and the "deal with things the way they are or leave" argument is never helpful.