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Costumes: What Bugs Me the Most!

SystemSystem Member, NoReporting Posts: 178,019 Arc User
edited June 2011 in The Art of Star Trek Online
Though I know there are many many costume issues the devs need to work on there are a few existing pieces that just keep hounding me. I would like to see these fixed ASAP, regardless of any other additions or expansions.
  1. The Jupiter Veteran Belt only has two color choices. These allow you to set the belt color and the star field color. But the circle and olive branches and the belt hoops cannot be changed. They are both silver and there is nothing you can do about it. This to me makes the belt unusable on most uniforms. These should both be made adjustable so that players can choose the color. The circle and olive branches could be limited to the Badge pallet if necessary but the belt loops should use the Standard pallet so that they can be made to match the uniform they are being worn with.

  2. The Orion Harnesses (for Males) were previously only available in the Bare Chest section, under a special selection called Chest Gear. Since the addition of the Klingon and Nausicaan Chest Armors these Harnesses have been limited to the same selection, but is only available with Armored uniforms. This needs to be separated so that the Orions can once again wear their Harnesses properly. In canon and even in-game (Stranded in Space and various other missions) Orion males wear these Harnesses on their Bare Skin, not with Armored uniforms with which they clip horribly. In some cases they can hardly be seen, they clip so badly. Please remove them from the Armored section and move them to their own selection in the Orion Bare Chest options.

  3. The WoK belt buckle. Seriously, I simply cannot get myself to use this belt any longer now that the Jupiter belt is an option. The buckle looks so cheap and flimsy that I cannot force myself to use it. I even have an entire crew that wears the pre-change WoK uniform. I cannot change them because I know the belt will be ruined if I do. Please fix this problem so that I can.

There are more I'm sure and if anyone has anything to add feel free, but these are the things that hinder me most in my choices of uniforms. I would like to see them fixed before anything else.

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  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited June 2011
    The Blackavaar speaketh, the masses do listen.

    I'd like to see some clipping issues resolved with Klingon sashes and the veteran shoulder pads, both types. And hair, my Orion's hair phases through her vet pads.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited June 2011
    I haven't got the 500 Vet rewards, but being unable to change the belt loop color would likely prevent me from using it. Curiously, is it possible to "fake" the system the way you can on some other items, say, where you wear the regular Jupiter belt, change it's loops to the color you want, then go to the UFP belt and it will inherit the other color?

    When I get mine (in ~20 days), if I can't change the color, I'll submit a bug ticket.

    I agree, the "new" WoK Belt looks terrible. Frankly, it reminds me of a cheap $1 Store Plastic Toy. I too have officers that have the old costume for fear of losing the old, better, belt. I wish the WoK unis would get some much needed love. Not only is the belt bad, but the rank pips are locked (at Captain, I think), and looks like it's half-torn off.

    My biggest personal uniform beefs are:
    • The rank pips on the male Jupiter 04 jacket (06/25 Fixed on Tribble).
    • The rank pips on the male All Good Things uniform have terrible clipping, at least while in the Thoughtful stance that my main character uses.

    06/25 Edit:
    I just checked Tribble and they have fixed the Jupiter 04 rank pips, so that's great!
    However, the AGT Rank Pips are not fixed yet. I posted a thread and bug report, Tribble-side, and will open on Holodeck if not fixed when S4 goes live:
    http://forums.startrekonline.com/showthread.php?p=3610901#post3610901
    Tribble Ticket #13,509.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited June 2011
    Hi Blackavaar!

    I have similar feelings regarding the uniforms we have, but what bugs me most are these things.

    Colors:
    I really cannot comprehend why there have to be different color palettes on one and the same uniform.
    (Why not just use one and the same color palette for all uniforms?!?)
    For example the Jupiter 5 Uniform, there is a really black stripe on the upper back of that uniform, or the Jupiter 3 Uniform:
    Yreodred wrote:
    First:
    I find it really annoying, not being able to choose what color i want to use, especially the Jupiter 3 uniform is too chaotic IMHO.
    Please take a look at the male variant:
    http://i1100.photobucket.com/albums/g420/Yreodred/Star%20Trek%20Online/jupiter3male.jpg

    As you can see (A) should be the same color, but they aren't, so that stripe looks almost pink, regardless how dark the red is. (Especially if one uses the TNG color code where the captain wears red.)
    C, D,E,F,G shows the darkest black there is availlable, why are they different shades of grey?
    The same with D and H, they are supposed to be the same color but they are not....
    If it would conceren only one or two uniforms i wouldn't mention it, but there are so many unnecessary color restrictions, it's just annoying and aggravating, because there is no reason at all to use different color palettes in the first place.


    Fragmentation:
    Many of cryptics uniforms have some weird stripes which i just find plain ugly, please take a look here:
    http://i1100.photobucket.com/albums/g420/Yreodred/Star%20Trek%20Online/Veteranuniform001.jpg
    Especially the 200 (?) day Veteran uniform has many of them, why is that?
    Is it suppsed to look good?
    Why can't we even change the metal color on that Uniform?
    I don't get it, i mean other uniforms, like the TMP uniform are simple and plain and look great that way IMHO.
    Why is it so hard to make other uniforms just like them?



    I don't want to mention things like bugs or clipping errors, or oversized TNG (series) combadges, because it would just be too much, and to be honest i am really tired now.

    Live long and prosper.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited June 2011
    Blackavaar wrote: »
    [*]The WoK belt buckle. Seriously, I simply cannot get myself to use this belt any longer now that the Jupiter belt is an option. The buckle looks so cheap and flimsy that I cannot force myself to use it. I even have an entire crew that wears the pre-change WoK uniform. I cannot change them because I know the belt will be ruined if I do. Please fix this problem so that I can.
    [/LIST]

    can you provide a screenshot how they looked before the change?
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited June 2011
    AAAARGH, i just received my Jupiter Veteran uniform...

    Just look for yourself:
    http://i1100.photobucket.com/albums/g420/Yreodred/Star%20Trek%20Online/JupiterVeteranUniform002.jpg

    Are they doing that deliberately, just to make me mad?

    Especially that bright nearly pink stripe is unacceptable.

    Why do they keep on making uniforms that are useless when coloring them red?
    NOT EVERYONE WANTS ALL BLACK UNIFORMS!!!
    (Sorry but i am really annoyed and angry right now.)


    Live long and prosper.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited June 2011
    Z3R0B4NG wrote: »
    can you provide a screenshot how they looked before the change?

    WoK Original version:
    http://i.imgur.com/2pQQm.jpg

    New version:
    http://i.imgur.com/OsjDp.jpg

    It's funny that they changed the costume, but never bothered to fix the old'n'busted rank pips that still look all jacked-up on either version. :rolleyes:
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited June 2011
    Now, do you have those links backwards? Because what you say is the new version looks like the one I used before.

    (I haven't logged in since last month, been taking a gaming sabbatical.)
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited June 2011
    I really hate how on many of the Federation uniforms, the combadges are partially on the yoke of the uniform. It looks terrible.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited June 2011
    Shaun555 wrote: »
    Now, do you have those links backwards? ...
    Nope, that's the correct order.
    Chase Quinnell wrote:
    I really hate how on many of the Federation uniforms, the combadges are partially on the yoke of the uniform. It looks terrible.
    I agree. That bothers me as well.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited June 2011
    - moved to correct thread -
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited June 2011
    What bugs me most is that we have practically no matching loose long pant options. If you look at the standard pants, they look like leather. Compare that texture to any uniform top in existence, and with the possible exceptions of the new Jupiter uniforms, there are no uniform tops that match those pants. I currently use the All Good Things pants with my B-01 top because it's the closest match, but it's still not good enough.

    To make matters bittersweet, the compressed texture upgrade in season 4 only makes the mismatches more apparent. I find it honestly appalling that we don't have matching pants for every single uniform top there is - it IS supposed to be a uniform, after all.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited June 2011
    TantalusOmega wrote:
    What bugs me most is that we have practically no matching loose long pant options. If you look at the standard pants, they look like leather. Compare that texture to any uniform top in existence, and with the possible exceptions of the new Jupiter uniforms, there are no uniform tops that match those pants. I currently use the All Good Things pants with my B-01 top because it's the closest match, but it's still not good enough.

    To make matters bittersweet, the compressed texture upgrade in season 4 only makes the mismatches more apparent. I find it honestly appalling that we don't have matching pants for every single uniform top there is - it IS supposed to be a uniform, after all.

    We need to be able to choose a cloth or leather texture on EACH piece of clothing like in CO.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited June 2011
    My biggest annoyance, and applys equily to both Fed and Kling faction..........Why cant aliens wear bikinis? just cos i wana have blue skin instead of green i cant wear an orion bikinis
    And to make the annoyence worse there is a trill on risa wearing a bikini, but u cant even have a player/boff trill wearing one
    I mainly care about female as all my chars are alien females but im sure plenty of people with male chars think the same with orion male outfits
    This is needed more then anything on kling side where outfits are slim pickings but i think it would only be fair for feds to have it too if people on risa wear em

    I also wish they'd open it up so Klings can use 7/9 borg implant on face/hands.........and her shoes too as best in game and i dont think thats too insane and this is biggest thing that puts me off playing kling cos i cant make my kling alien look like my fed alien (i think people exaggerate the lack of gameplay too much)


    The last think id love to see, but i wount hold my breath, is just for players with liberated borg playable or boff unlocked, just to let you use the other borg implants they can use all all your players/boffs or at least alien types.........and for that mater generaly any c-store unlocked playable unlocking relivent parts for aliens

    The first 2 points are the things id most like to see updated in this game even more then gameplay updates and would be soooo easy to fix, i realy hope somebody takes notice of this gives it some thought
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