Anti-Robe Movement Needs You!!!:)

[Pixie_Dust]

Hi there folks i recently really took notice of the fact that Everyone now wears a robe.Yes they have great mods and some prefer that look-but not everyone.It takes all the individuality away from our chars if they all look the same.I think a wonderfull alternative would be an NPC that converts any robe we choose into a tattoo with the same mods.Shouldnt be to tough to pull off and would really allow people to get creative with their looks more without suffering the loss of the cool mods everyone wants...Even a lil quest to get the tattoo artist npc to work on me would be fine by me I just wondered what the other great folks of uo had to say on this subject.If interested the Anti Robe Movement could really use your help just speak up Come join the ARMy for individuality!--thx for your support!!-Keenan

I wear robes on most chars as the armor i wear on many while very high priced and high quality armor looks awful together and i prefer to cover it up .Sometimes i like to change my robe and i hate tattooes of all kinds so want none online or off .

 

[Evlar]

My favourite robe...

 

[KalVasTENKI]

Hi there folks i recently really took notice of the fact that Everyone now wears a robe.Yes they have great mods and some prefer that look-but not everyone.It takes all the individuality away from our chars if they all look the same.I think a wonderfull alternative would be an NPC that converts any robe we choose into a tattoo with the same mods.Shouldnt be to tough to pull off and would really allow people to get creative with their looks more without suffering the loss of the cool mods everyone wants...Even a lil quest to get the tattoo artist npc to work on me would be fine by me I just wondered what the other great folks of uo had to say on this subject.If interested the Anti Robe Movement could really use your help just speak up Come join the ARMy for individuality!--thx for your support!!-Keenan

Great Idea!

 

[gjohnson5]

.Yes they have great mods

It's an item based game hence people wear items with mods on it....

 

[BlissMarie]

I like the idea of having another option besides robes. I do wear robes now, most of the time, but I would prefer not to.

I haven't read every post in this thread. I don't have time to atm. If I copy an idea someone has already proposed, I apologize - it's not intentional.

How about having an option on the robe to equip it as an armband? I think armbands are cool. I wouldn't mind adding those or ooooh, maybe even epaulettes! I love the look of epaulettes! Make my shoulders look all fancy - yes! =)

BlissMarie

 

[Venus_AUPK]

Have an option like dare i say it WoW where you can choose to hide your cape or robe etc.
Maybe do it like open player context menu choose hide robe or xxx......... done

Or.......

New Vet reward: Invisible Dye Tub

Colors your robe in an invisible hue making it completely see thru.

 

[Roland Of Gilead]

Everyones Ideas are great and just show it could be really awsome.Keep up the great work folks!

 

[KalVasTENKI]

Where do we sign petitions? Haha.

 

[Jhym]

Instead of changing the item, how about having the option (through a skill or something you purchase) that you can "pull" the attributes from an item into a special token. Then you can "apply" the token to any appropriate item yourself.

That way you move the system into its own mechanism instead of adding it to the current modification systems.

 

[Lord Chaos]

Sorry, totally not for this.

Since 2003, I've watched as people around me become uglier and uglier; first different hues from enhanced armour as well as a totally nonsense mix of leather and bone armour, mixes of neon colours and black. AoS clothing, tokuno dyes, neon weapons..

For the love of the virtues NO! Keep that covered up! Robes keep those unsightly messes of neons and odd colours/armour looks covered up.

The problem you seem to have is with magic properties on robes. It is those same magical properties that makes armour sets so mismatched and ugly.

Thats why the idea is expanded later on to stop all those crappy looking suits.

 

[Jirel of Joiry]

Way to actually create cool looking armor without losing mods would be great... Aahh the days when armor really didn't matter that much and you could actually focus on the looks too.

I think they should make it so that armour progressively gets more pimped-out the more it's enhanced. So, store-bought leather is just the normal model, but as more mods are added, it gains engraved runes and jewelled sections and spiky bits, until finally it only has to be dyed some super-saturated colour or another and suddenly it's a work of modern art. Add half a dozen different pieces of this sort of armour together, dye each one a fabulous colour that clashes with all the rest, and you too can run around looking like a Final Fantasy villain.

Okay, it'd look terrible, but it would kick the game from mere clashing neon badness into spectacular hilarious Twilight-level awfulness. Then they could introduce pet dyes, announce a shard-wide event, and as they watched the parade of technicolour rainbow players with their psychedelic dragons, look upon the fruit of their labours and laugh.

Edit: btw, guy I quoted, I'm not mocking you with this reply. It's just... I've spent a little too long in Luna and oh god my eyes

*ROTFLMAO---wiping tears from eyes* Oh, jeez you really slay me!

Actually UO did have something like this, it was Origin BEFORE it was Origin...Test Shard.

There was this jungle landscaping in front of Brit Bank all in bright, eye-blinding colors. on top of one of the palm trees was a check for 1,000,000 or maybe it was 100,000,00.

Then there were the pets...If you could catch a dev member on they would dye your pet for you usually some blinding color....I remember a glacial dragon and a blaze nightmare. (shudders) Btw, if its blaze doesn't that demote it to firesteed?

Then there were the "Garbage Eaters" these were giant Horde Minon in various TIE-DYED colors.

I guess one could say Origin shard has a VERY COLORFUL past, LMAO!

Anywat I'd love a tattoo for my char, facial markings would be awsome. The Maori of New Zealand practice a facial tattooing which is remarkable...BUT lets avoid copying their designs because that would be treading on touchy ground. I'd also love to convert my funky Cloak(robe) of death to a Kimono or something else.

anyway...that's my worthless 2 gps.

 

[maroite]

Easily fixed.

Presumably, tattoo designs would give different status benefits depending on the design (e.g., a dragon tattoo would give 10% fire resist, an eagle tattoo would give 10% air resist, and so on). The designs would be specialised and each would only be available as the reward for a certain quest from a single NPC.

However, a system would be introduced wherein if a human (or a monster, there's no reason social monsters like orcs and lizardmen couldn't have tribal tattoos or similar) was killed, their killer could then copy down their tattoo designs and use the designs themselves. Maybe looting like this could take, say, 80 Inscription.

They could then create tattoo deeds and sell them on vendors. So it would be a reason either for people to do the quest, or PvP.

I'm not saying I'm supporting this idea (although I have nothing against it) but too many ideas get rejected as unworkable when they're really not.

And how does this change robes into tattoos?

The problem still exists that how would you make it so people with tattoos can't wear robes? Not to mention if you have a tattoo, you armor would cover it up regardless of you wearing a robe or not.

The only thing this would do it A. Allow stacking of tattoos and robes if the Tattoos didn't actually take up a robe slot, and if it did take up a robe slot as an actual item it would be an item that you could never see.

Why not just go the route of other games and put in an option in the option menu to "hide" cloak/robe/helm items?

*ROTFLMAO---wiping tears from eyes* Oh, jeez you really slay me!

Actually UO did have something like this, it was Origin BEFORE it was Origin...Test Shard.

There was this jungle landscaping in front of Brit Bank all in bright, eye-blinding colors. on top of one of the palm trees was a check for 1,000,000 or maybe it was 100,000,00.

Then there were the pets...If you could catch a dev member on they would dye your pet for you usually some blinding color....I remember a glacial dragon and a blaze nightmare. (shudders) Btw, if its blaze doesn't that demote it to firesteed?

Then there were the "Garbage Eaters" these were giant Horde Minon in various TIE-DYED colors.

I guess one could say Origin shard has a VERY COLORFUL past, LMAO!

Anywat I'd love a tattoo for my char, facial markings would be awsome. The Maori of New Zealand practice a facial tattooing which is remarkable...BUT lets avoid copying their designs because that would be treading on touchy ground. I'd also love to convert my funky Cloak(robe) of death to a Kimono or something else.

anyway...that's my worthless 2 gps.

So thats why I am stuck with ugly red/brown dragons instead of something a little more interesting like... I donno, an old gold color, or silver, or black...


I think items should just stay as is. Especially artifacts because they are superior items with unique looks, the looks should stay the same. If you can just go around altering the looks of artifacts, then why not just make all artifacts craftable. On that note... If you want a bone helm with HOTM stats, imbue one similar.

 

[Evlar]

Just to send this debate in another direction...

Why not turn the beach at Vesper, into a nudist beach

De-robing indeed!

 

[Violence]

It's hard to say what's keeping EA/M from allowing us to customize our characters' appearance like this. It would do no harm.

 

[soulstoner]

That's funny.

I do dig the Garb and many of the other handy cover-ups with mods but do not like how my char appears on screen in a robe/cloak - lookin' all robed and hunched up like a moonie er something. My mod robe wearers generally swap into fav dress of the week or just pull the robe off when hanging out and chit-chatting in the streets or visits (though that doesn't work in many play styles with continuous battle). Specially with the new stain color selections and the nifty new vet dress colors it is a shame to cover up some outfits.

There are many other items on the wish list - I don't see this as a top 5 but IS a nifty notion.

I'd burn my bra before burning my robes though.

 

[Lord GOD(GOD)]

I think theres 2 ways to go, either conversion, make the alter button expand a menu. Or add visibility checkboxes to the item insurance menu for what you have equipped.

Though with item insurance bugs maybe we'd end up with impromptu flashing bugs!

 

[deadite]

Id prefer having an option to set robes/cloaks to invisible mode (at least on the avatar.)

I agree. Why complicate things? Just add a switch to make them invisible. Lots of other MMOs already do that, usually for cloaks & helms.

 

[Violence]

Right, but why hide the items? Ultima Online has a plethora of clothing items and armour parts that can be combined in interesting ways(when not resulting in something nauseating though that's the players' "fault"). Not to mention most wearable items aren't as exaggerated as their WOW/Aion/Lineage/Whatever counter-parts. In fact most seem somewhat realistic.

Still think being able to convert them would be great.

 

[Gilmour]

i brought up this topic in november and again in febuary or so, and fully agree and dont think it can be suggested enough to do something about the damn "best in slot" robes.

options are as far as i can see:

a: make robes exhangeable for something else in the same slot, this could be new item types as well, that may or may not cover the intire body, the more styles the better.

b: make the robe slot toogleable for invisibility. this the easy way out but not the ideal way.

c: make the robes exhangeable for something in another slot.. say cloak slot.. however in same breath introduce a unique equipped system that disallow players from taking advantage of wearing clothing with stats combinations that they would otherwise not be able to have... this option i can imagine is the harder of the 3 solutions.

 

[Roland Of Gilead]

Everyone ideas and feedback in here are great and very much appreciated-way to go uo community!*gives everyone a round of applesauce* yea i meant applesauce ...its yummy!-Keenan

 

[KalVasTENKI]

I agree. Why complicate things? Just add a switch to make them invisible. Lots of other MMOs already do that, usually for cloaks & helms.

Cloaks and robes should be the only thing that has a set option of visibility or invisibility.

 

[Phineas le Monge]

I've never tried it but isn't there some exchange for vet clothing rewards? It seems then that exchanging a mod robe for another clothing item is not-so-far-fetched a concept. I used to love a matching blue cape and sash over my gold plate armor. Add my golden broadsword and heater sheild and I looked like a WARRIOR!

The invisible toggle is a great idea too - unless it makes my robe impossible to find in my backpack after I die...ooOOoo oo?

 

[AtlanticVlad]

I'd prefer they just lose the mods all together I hate robes almost as much as I hate armor. But I'm not gonna go back to regs with out everyone else.

 

[Rubican]

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Thats it...other games do it. Nothing hides as much detail as the fricken robe.

 

[Nexus]

Easily fixed.

Presumably, tattoo designs would give different status benefits depending on the design (e.g., a dragon tattoo would give 10% fire resist, an eagle tattoo would give 10% air resist, and so on). The designs would be specialised and each would only be available as the reward for a certain quest from a single NPC.

However, a system would be introduced wherein if a human (or a monster, there's no reason social monsters like orcs and lizardmen couldn't have tribal tattoos or similar) was killed, their killer could then copy down their tattoo designs and use the designs themselves. Maybe looting like this could take, say, 80 Inscription.

They could then create tattoo deeds and sell them on vendors. So it would be a reason either for people to do the quest, or PvP.

I'm not saying I'm supporting this idea (although I have nothing against it) but too many ideas get rejected as unworkable when they're really not.

Make a new crafting skill "Tattooing" depending on the design color combination different skill levels are needed, we could add runic Tattooing Needles to the game! Tinkering would get more new tools to craft!

Honestly if you want Tattoos fine, but make them GRAPHICAL only, like Savage Paint. Why would anyone want to introduce a new method of applying mods to a character especially when it's an area that currently doesn't occupy an item slot. Jeeze give every 70/70/70/70/75 Skin with MR 8 and LRC 100% and call the game "Highlander Online" Everyone is required to wear a Kilt and a Body Sash (Tartan only!) and can only equip Long Swords which are now 2 handed.

 

[Morgana LeFay (PoV)]

I love tattoos.

I hate AoS properties.

 

[Konge]

Make a new crafting skill "Tattooing" depending on the design color combination different skill levels are needed, we could add runic Tattooing Needles to the game! Tinkering would get more new tools to craft!

Honestly if you want Tattoos fine, but make them GRAPHICAL only, like Savage Paint. Why would anyone want to introduce a new method of applying mods to a character especially when it's an area that currently doesn't occupy an item slot. Jeeze give every 70/70/70/70/75 Skin with MR 8 and LRC 100% and call the game "Highlander Online" Everyone is required to wear a Kilt and a Body Sash (Tartan only!) and can only equip Long Swords which are now 2 handed.

You forgot the part where we cut off each others head and absorb their power... There can only be one, after all.

 

[Vaen Swiftar]

Robe toggle would be preferable. Add a new visible equipment slot in 2d (3d already has one) for robes. Add the option to toggle the robe on/off on the robe itself (sort of like ethies have transparent/natural toggle). The robe would still show normally equipped in the equipment slot, but would not show on the paperdoll or the character

 

[Nexus]

You forgot the part where we cut off each others head and absorb their power... There can only be one, after all.

I figured that would be Self-explanatory. Just for the Mercy of Cthulhu if they go that rout, make sure no one uses the named "Connor" "Kurgan" and instantly ban Mario Van Peebles if he tries to create and account....

 

[Rivi]

I would be estatic to just be able to turn my robes into plain dresses, which is my preferred attire.

Rivi

 

[Gilmour]

yea i would be be happy about that too