I agree with Wildy, lets get back to always having to see your weapon. I wish for christmas I could have put on my santa costume and not have had to see my sword. I wish that if there was an event we could dress like an easter bunny... I wouldn't have to wear my bloody axe. I wish if I put on my swimsuit, I don't have to be careful not to poke myself with my arrows and die from their poison. I don't think this is too much to ask, at least before the next big event. At the moment, it can wait, but I think it should be implemented by the time there is another event with costumes... like haloween... assuming we will have a haloween event.

2 ways of doing this:

1) have a command similar to the command that lets us equip/unequip our headgear... and if we have our weapon unequipped and want to fight, just have it automatically switch to be equipped... so it is like we had our weapon hidden but had to bring it out for combat. After combat we have to hide it again (type the command again) or it will be shown. That last part I think is vital. It won't hurt people who want to be in "civilian" class as mentioned in the beginning of the thread, but at the same time it will prevent the unreality of having weapons randomly appearing everywhere. If have recently been fighting it makes sense to be able to see the weapon.

2) This idea seems to me to be easier to implement but I think it is not as good as the first idea. For certain pieces of BODY equipment (such as the swimsuit top, the santa coat, etc) they could make it so that when that body piece is equipped it will make your weapon invisible (unless you are in combat). Chances are you won't be fighting in something like that anyway, so there won't be TOO much of a problem with weapons just randomly appearing. Also, I say only the body piece should affect it because I see no point of the weapon disappearing if you put on some dream boots. If you are dressing up with the costume, the body is the most important piece, and would naturally be put on, so I think it is a good indicator of if the weapon should be shown or not. The bad part about this is that you can only hide your weapon with select equipment. I, for one, would like to be able to hide it regardless of what outfit I am wearing.

In general, I think this feature would be really nice and help the game a lot. I know the RP community will love it at least. So will a lot of the players who enjoy the aesthetics of the game.