I need to change my glamour plate.. whenever

[ADarklore]

SE made a statement at one point in the past about why you can only change plates in city states/the reach. It has something to do with getting killed in a PvE area and that messing with the glamour code. Because you cant "die" in a city state and they are considered safe zones, it just made more sense to limit it to there. Id be interested to see if a BLU can self destruct and then apply a glamour while dead inside a main city.

Well this doesn't make a whole lot of sense because we can manually glamour individual pieces anywhere... so the only difference is a one-shot mass glamour with the glamour plate versus doing them one at a time manually. If you can manually glamour in a location, I don't see why you wouldn't be able to utilize a glamour plate.

[Iscah]

Well this doesn't make a whole lot of sense because we can manually glamour individual pieces anywhere... so the only difference is a one-shot mass glamour with the glamour plate versus doing them one at a time manually. If you can manually glamour in a location, I don't see why you wouldn't be able to utilize a glamour plate.

It could make sense actually, at least in limited circumstances. If you're applying a single glamour, the game can do a check "yes, you're alive, let's process that glamour instruction" - but perhaps it would do strange things in the small but not impossible window if you die after setting the "apply these glamours" macro (essentially what the plate is) but before it finishes processing. The possibility of a one-shot death would mean that not even blocking plate usage during combat would be enough to fully prevent the possibility.

So if something like that is a risk, then it might be easier to just prevent the situation outright, by not allowing plates to work anywhere that death is a possibility. (Blue mage actions would be a safe exception, since you can't cast spells and apply plates simultaneously.