Dye Suggestions

[Strika23]

I don't know why the dye system hasn't been updated yet. Give us a color palette like GW2 and stop stuffing up our inventory with dyes. If they decide to keep this dye system, at least give us better dye color selection.
The dye selection in this game is horrible. There is no bright red, neon pink, true Orange, etc.
Please SE- Invest your time and money into a better glamour system including dyes, not useless systems that go extinct after one patch.

Nothing infuriates me more than when I get a new piece of gear I can't dye, so I try to match it to existing gear that I CAN dye and no matter how hard I try I can't get the right shade (due to the limited palette) and the colors don't match and I realize how much time/effort I just wasted.

[Ursa_Vonfiebryd]

The dye UI looks like it was set up for using at least two different dyes (like main and accents-it has the second slot but putting one dye in fills both) but for whatever reason this has never been implemented. It confused the crap out of me when I first started because I assumed it would work a little more like Neverwinter's dye system. But alas it does not. I can only hope they allow us this feature someday.

[Mistyregions]

I understand we have pure white dye, but can we get rid of trailer trash white dye?

[RivinStormfang]

It would be awesome to get some more dye options, but the devs mentioned in a live letter last month that adding more dyes might be difficult since that's one of the variables the game has to carry around with you everywhere, so more dyes means increased server load (similar to glamour plates, although they did eventually cave and add more of those). So you probably shouldn't get your hopes up. :/

[JohnnyDevo]

Assuming that they use an 8-bit integer ID to communicate what dye a piece has, they still have room for quite a lot of new dyes. Based on the number of pages there are in the gamer escape wiki, there are 136 dyes. "undyed" makes 137. an 8-bit integer can count up to 256. So really they have room for a whopping 120 more dyes before they hit the limit on that 8-bit integer.

Granted, I don't actually know how their netcode works, or if it isn't bundled with other item properties somehow, but I feel there has to at least be some give before it actually increases server load even by a tiny bit.

I also don't know how it compares to increasing glamour plates. But if you take that one 8-bit integer and turn it into 3 8-bit integers, you suddenly have access to a full hexcode, and everyone would have access to all 16,777,216 hex color possibilities. It would triple the color data, but that's 1 byte per equipment turning into 3 bytes per equipment? I do understand that it adds up at the scale of millions of players preforming data transfers by changing zones all the time, though, so that might just be a pipe dream.