Add Gear Costume Options to Customization

drreverend

Right now in game with a lot of the rep sets and similar, the rep gear gives special options for engine contrails, ship skins, etc when equipped. Equip Omega Engines, get a nifty flaming contrail, so on. Pesky thing is that if if I like the visual effect of Omega engines on my cruiser but like the stats given by, say, MACO engines, well, I'm out of luck. Same with shields and similar.

Would it be possible for the engine, deflector and ship costume skins associated with gear to be changed to be more like a costume unlock? Like if you get all three parts of the Omega set, you unlock in the Ship Customizer dropdown menus options for the engines, deflectors and materials (I assume that all that the Shield costume effect does is change your ship material from, say, Material 5 to Dyson or whatever). But it's an unlock the way that the ground sets unlock the costume for your character once you get the full ground set.

Also would it be possible to add these costumization effects to the ship designer in Foundry?

tiekosora

I think this idea has come up before, several months back. I don't recall any of the discussion in that thread, but the idea certainly has merit.