I think that if a player could buy one vanity shield, but change the color to look like every other vanity shield, this kills that sales mechanic for them.
Yeah, this would essentially kill any reason for vanity shields. Not gonna happen.
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I think that if a player could buy one vanity shield, but change the color to look like every other vanity shield, this kills that sales mechanic for them.
IOW, not gonna happen
Unless they made only the colour customisable. Then players could still have a reason to buy more than one vanity shield if they want a different pattern, material (texture-wise) and so on.
[4:46] [Combat {self}] Your Haymaker deals 23337 (9049) Physical Damage(Critical) to Spawnmother
Unless they made only the colour customisable. Then players could still have a reason to buy more than one vanity shield if they want a different pattern, material (texture-wise) and so on.
Yah, of course I mean JUST Colors, nothing else.
I see no reason to customize patterns or textures.
I don't see customizable vanity shields being possible. If it was like an outfit box that unlocked costume parts maybe. But not the actual item itself.
Honestly only a few vanity shields are "color neutral" in terms of what they're trying to depict, a Romulan shield in neon yellow and pink would no longer be a Romulan shield (as Romulans never used those colors in their ship designs and neither did the Remans, which is where the Romulan rep vanity is based).
And that's assuming you could make that color customizable without rewriting significant parts of the game code, after all the vanity shields are a piece of gear that overrides the current customization options you have on your ship. Where uniforms are the customization option (same is true for hull patterns), so depending how the game is coded those could be very different things indeed.
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I think that if a player could buy one vanity shield, but change the color to look like every other vanity shield, this kills that sales mechanic for them.
IOW, not gonna happen
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Unless they made only the colour customisable. Then players could still have a reason to buy more than one vanity shield if they want a different pattern, material (texture-wise) and so on.
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Yah, of course I mean JUST Colors, nothing else.
I see no reason to customize patterns or textures.
Yah, good idea, why not...
And that's assuming you could make that color customizable without rewriting significant parts of the game code, after all the vanity shields are a piece of gear that overrides the current customization options you have on your ship. Where uniforms are the customization option (same is true for hull patterns), so depending how the game is coded those could be very different things indeed.