Trans..mogrifi..ca..shun?? or The Art Of Wearing Clothes You Like With Stats You Like

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I don't support this, how is a cloth armor going to have the same defense as plated armor. Sorry but no. Also there is materia, just stick the materia on it.

Wait, you can do every fight naked, why do you care about stats? Just wear what you want right now anyways.

And who's to say that there would be no restrictions on what can be used as a visual substitute for each class/job? With the proper restrictions, are you still against this being implemented? If so, why?

The best way to go about this, would in my opinion be what has been previously suggested, "vanity slots". A separate set of slots where you can equip what should be visually shown to yourself and other players. These slots should still bound to the same rules as anything else is, so if your current class/job can't wear said item, then you can't use it as a visual substitute. There are of course a few items in the game that All Classes can wear, but these could either be excluded, or it could be further narrowed down to the type of equipment it is—Cloth like the Yukata's? Then only White Mage, Conjurer, Black Mage and Thaumaturge can equip it.

There's a number of ways this can be implemented without ruining visual class distinctions completely. And besides, I don't think it should necessarily be doable on our weapons, meaning at the very least, you can tell a players class based on the weapon they carry. All the game would do is take the stats out of one file, ignoring the visual data, and then the visuals are taken out of another, if an item is placed in the "vanity slot".

PS: Pretty much any online game, has rules about tampering with the local files, and doing file-swaps is likely just going to get you into trouble if they care enough. So no, I would not recommend anyone to do this. If I missed the memo where they state clearly that they allow this, by all means, point those interested in that, in the right direction. But I doubt it's not frowned upon by those in charge of the game. (http://support.na.square-enix.com/ru...seragreement_e)

2.7 Modifying or Creating Derivative Software. You may not modify or cause to be modified any files that are a part of the Game or Service in any way not expressly authorized by SQUARE ENIX, and may not make any derivative works of the Game.

Before you defend it by saying it's likely not to be detected, which may be perfectly true, that doesn't mean it's potentially not allowed, and that I don't think that you should go around suggesting for other players to "risk" their accounts. At least back it up with a link to someone with the authority to state that it's allowed, stating so. It wouldn't be out of the question that the game (if not now, at some point) does a checksum on the files to see if they've been tampered with. Plenty of online games do this.