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    Faolan Aodhfin
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    Paladin Lv 70

    Quality of Life Suggestion - Hair & Face Feature Glamour Plate Piece

    Introduction
    Hello! I've recently thought of an idea regarding an extension to the glamour plate system (and I guess glamour in general but my keen is on the plates).

    The new glamour plate system is quite nice, I can't argue with that. With it's trait of convenience to switchcaroo your style on the fly in certain areas without individually glamouring, it has allowed many of us to express what we think our classes are or characters at the given time. Yet, I came across the thought of hair and facial features (that are allowed to be changed via the Aesthetician) being a factor in this as well. I realize not everyone changes their hair constantly to fit the ensemble of the outfit (and again this can amount to a few reasons.)

    Idea
    So what I was thinking, is that a new small addition to the plate system, where you have a sort of snapshot if you will, of chosen hair, facial tattoos, facial hair and color that can be identified as a single glamour item to be tacked on to preset and switched to at any given time alongside your apparel. tl;dr you can change your hair and face features (allowed by Aesthetician) along with your clothes.

    While that may be a neat idea, I realize there may be some problems that come alongside it. One such being that this may trivialize Aesthetician visits in the long run. I mean, once you have some palettes to work with you may never go back again besides new haircuts right? I'm also unsure of how many people even use the Aesthetician on a regular basis. I myself have only maybe used him less than 10 times in my span of playing the game because I really like my normal hairstyle. I cannot give too much of a statement on this as I have little knowledge for those numbers.

    Additionally, this would be extra work on SE's/FFXIV's team's part as they'd have to figure out a thing (forgive my lack of a better word) that can be added without unreasonable difficulty to both the Aesthetician mechanic and the plate mechanic, as well as even Inventory by some ideas. I also have to state that I have no idea how hard or even easy this may be, as I do not nor are learning how to code or program. I just assume so as I have heard some stories regarding such fields.

    Yet as part of having this idea have some favor, I guess a way to make the additional feature work is by making the price higher for the Hair & Face item as opposed to the 2'000 gil price for changing features. Maybe 10'000? 25'000? Make it have more gil weight. Then again I don't know if that'd even be relevant as many people at level 70 content can make that money willy-nilly. Hell, even earlier than that. A more recent idea is to make the Hair & Face piece have a certain number of uses, but then again that's not something I'd see fitting into the ideas of the game.

    Conclusion
    That was my idea, I apologize if this is a bit long but I wanted to be sure in my words and explanation. I totally understand if this may be deemed unnecessary by both the community and of course the developers, but sometimes these little ideas can go a long way. Of course, nothing is exempt from criticism so I respect any opinions! Discussion on the matter is fantastic. Thank you for your time!
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    Last edited by FaolanAodhfin; 06-03-2018 at 07:18 PM. Reason: Had to add more due to limit in initial posting, part 2 is typo