Thread: Petition for Vanity Slots to be released in 2.1 Patch!

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Originally Posted by Blaize

Cheers for response however can you then please ask the Dev team to stop adding in more and more Vanity fluff (TGS Earrings for example) and start fixing things?!

Many thanks!

This x1000. I'll take the actual vanity slots over a Lightning event any day. Push back the fluff and give the community what it wants! Anything short of that is just inviting the ire of the players.

with all due respect to the devs, most gear looks like crap and the fact that up until end game most people wear the exact same looking gear is just appaling! i care for stats of my gear not looks but when im a blm wearing pink gloves and an olive hood i look like a gimp....rpg, role playing game best parts of rpg being able to make a character my own, looking like every other blm is not me making my character my own

add my signature please

Originally Posted by Okipuit

Greetings,

We realize that there is a huge demand for vanity slots and the development team would like to implement this as soon as possible. However, implementation will not make it in time for patch 2.1.

We'll be sure to keep you updated on the status, but rest assured that it is on the way!

Pardon my ignorance as I have no experience in such things, however from what I understand, wouldn't it be as simple as creating an npc that can allow you to change the .dat? or graphic file? of a selected item to a different items /dat/graphic file?

Maybe a feature where the items have to be for the same class, and you have to have acquired the vanity file you wish to use and have in hand the item whose graphic you want to change. For example, getting the mages battlerobe (lvl 30?) would give you the ability to apply that graphic file to a militia robe. Getting rid of the item does not get rid of the abilitiy to use that graphic file on an item. It would be like collecting vanity files instead of minions, and having to go to an npc to change the graphic.

Is this possible/easily implementable?

Originally Posted by Blaize

Sadly like the previous poster youve missed one major detail...WHO ADDS IT INTO THE GAME?! Seriously the Artist/Model Team do their work but without it being coded into the game by the Dev's(Hell surely the Dev team request this stuff from them as a start) or placed into Content as Rewards etc, whats it doing? Oh yea, Sitting there in the Animators files awaiting to be coded into the game.
Sure there are all the departments, Sounds, Battle, Art, etc etc...but without it being coded or even ASKED for by the Devs I doubt each team goes off their own backs and does what they want and adds it to the game themself, is that really how you (And the other person) think it works?!

And yet I explained why you can't just toss stray coders on your staff at a problem and expect faster results. Its like fixing a car, you can only put so many mechanics under one hood before they get in each other's way. The others you put to work on another car.

Though the person you're responding too is incorrect. There is very little art involved in a task like this. Outside interface setup the vanity system is a pure coding task. So the coders on the Quality of Life aspects of the game know where to work on next.

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