Petition - For a text command to switch between alt versions of armor

[kyuven]

This is never, ever going to happen. The only thing that could POSSIBLY happen is the option to turn off glows, since those actually do toggle already.
They won't do this for the same reason they're not going to allow glamours by item saved sets: There's just too many resources both in the development (art teams, test teams, coding) and client side (memory, PS3 limitations) to justify it.
To do this for just female/male style variants, they would need to have twice as many individual assets that they currently have.
For example, the difference between dragoon male and female armor is more than that one silly panel. They have completely different dimensions, with the shoulders being especially noticeable on some races. The amount of work required would be absolutely absurd and serve no real practical purpose.
So yeah...not gonna happen. And if it does happen, I actually DO hope it's a cash shop item.

...though as i said, glow toggling would be a decent idea.

[Vorpal_Spork]

Letting the 5 or 6 drag queens in the game do their thing isn't worth all the model work that would require.

[Fyrebrand]

100% behind this. It would be a great feature and would bring a lot more customization to gear choices, even if all it did was Display/Hide certain sections of gear. They don't even have to make separate armor models or animate moving parts like /visor -- just have a toggle to have bits show or not show (essentially make parts of the texture invisible). I mean, we can already display/hide our helmets. Is it that much more work to display/hide parts of gear? We can dye armor different colors -- what if one of those colors was "clear," and it applied to specific sections?

If they wanted to get more elaborate with the system later, with things like glowing gems that change color, or whatever, that would just be another cool perk. I think it would be really neat -- but of course, like others, I don't realistically see SE caring about this or implementing it.