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It's time for Cryptic to create EV Suit Slots and EV Suit Vanity Slots
salazarraze
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First, I think it's time we had an EV Suit slot for our characters. That way we wouldn't have to swap our armor for EV suits and back again. Many players have asked for it and it would be a nice QoL improvement that would open the door for my 2nd suggestion that I feel would slightly improve profits for Cryptic.
When it comes to costume creation, many parts are interchangeable which allows us to create highly customized looks. But for obvious reasons this does not work with Environmental Suits. Since EV suit parts can probably never be broken up into smaller pieces that we can mix and match, it's high time that we had an EV Suit vanity slot added.
As things currently stand, There are a small number of EV suits that are insanely more powerful than others (Burnham's CQC, Shattering Harmonics etc.). They are so much more powerful that I can't imagine using anything else. However, Cryptic has done a great job making some really cool looking EV Suits that are unfortunately weaker in terms of performance.
So if I want to use some of the other nice looking EV Suits (Jem'Hadar, 23rd Century etc.) I wouldn't even consider spending my resources on them. But if we had an EV Suit Vanity slot, I'd be happy to spend lobi on an EV Suit just for it's visuals. Or zen on a Jem'hadar EV suit visual etc.
It's a win-win for everyone. The players get the visuals they want (increasing space barbie potential) and Cryptic slightly increases it's profitability and garners some good will with the players.
When it comes to costume creation, many parts are interchangeable which allows us to create highly customized looks. But for obvious reasons this does not work with Environmental Suits. Since EV suit parts can probably never be broken up into smaller pieces that we can mix and match, it's high time that we had an EV Suit vanity slot added.
As things currently stand, There are a small number of EV suits that are insanely more powerful than others (Burnham's CQC, Shattering Harmonics etc.). They are so much more powerful that I can't imagine using anything else. However, Cryptic has done a great job making some really cool looking EV Suits that are unfortunately weaker in terms of performance.
So if I want to use some of the other nice looking EV Suits (Jem'Hadar, 23rd Century etc.) I wouldn't even consider spending my resources on them. But if we had an EV Suit Vanity slot, I'd be happy to spend lobi on an EV Suit just for it's visuals. Or zen on a Jem'hadar EV suit visual etc.
It's a win-win for everyone. The players get the visuals they want (increasing space barbie potential) and Cryptic slightly increases it's profitability and garners some good will with the players.
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I believe I've read that the EV suit slots are already being considered, but I haven't seen anything about a vanity slot.
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That seems to be a pretty logical conclusion, i hope you are right, because we really need that ev suit slot
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Yea I agree with this!
I want to play that. Fighting Elachi walkers on the ground sounds like fun.
It would be nice not to need to break my set bonuses before I go into unbreathable hostile environments, heh...
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There was a time i specificaly used Holo-BOFFS to aviod equiping und unequiping EV-Suits für certain missions, but either this is buggy or they messed up, since now even Holo-Boffs seem to need EV-Suits on some of the missions (and if this is intended: why? it's not like they need to breath o_O). So a EV-Slot would be highly appreciated. Those missions would be so much more fun if it wasn't for the mandatory Inventory management
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You are correct in referencing profitability being a concern. Which I why I also mentioned the idea for an EV Suit Vanity slot. As we know, space barbie is one of the main drivers of profitability in this game. I really hope they do add an EV Suit Vanity slot at some point. I'm getting sick of looking at the same envirosuit over and over again.
it's easier to just throw out some no-specific complaint than actually say what is more important.
but yes, Pet Tab
Tbh I could be completely wrong about it being mentioned, idk. Don't really have time to check the VOD myself.
I thought I missed this, but it happened over a year ago.
I would like to have visual slots for EV suits. Or they could add EV suits to the tailor.
One of my characters owns the Discovery lobi suit and while it looks nice, it isn't that great for combat (i.e., for 99% of the game).
[3/25 10:41][Combat (Self)]Your Haymaker deals 26187 (10692) Physical Damage(Critical) to Orinoco.
My TOS characters would like to use the TOS suit visuals.
I don't think this is a workable idea. First, it would be a MASSIVE amount of work on the devs part. Second, customized EV Suits would look terrible as the EV suit parts were never designed to fit together neatly. This is why it's much easier to create an EV Suit Vanity Slot similar to what we have with ships for shields, deflectors and impulse engines.
Well... we do have one EV suit that can be customized in the Tailor, the Discovery Rep one unlocks costume parts. However even if you put the helmet on the suit in the Tailor, the second you turn on the suit you're actually wearing the customized suit is replaced with the functional suit, just like any uniform you're wearing.
Huh? This is needlessly complicated.
Adding EV suits to the tailor makes sense. Having the activation of a suit overrule that costume, does not. That would totally negate the point of adding them to the tailor. Not to mention that we can't actually delete uniforms or tailor slots, so it would also require changing that.
Just add EV suits to the tailor options, and let players show and hide EV suit visuals the way we toggle any other kind of uniform: by simply right-clicking your status bar and selecting the relevant costume that you've created in the tailor.
That way players can show EV suits on their characters regardless of what armour or suits they actually have equipped.
[3/25 10:41][Combat (Self)]Your Haymaker deals 26187 (10692) Physical Damage(Critical) to Orinoco.