Hello there,
I'm sorry in advance for my english, and I'm not sure if this is the right place to post this (in that case please tell me
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ZOS really let us to customize greatly the appearence of ours characters: Costumes, Skins, Motifs are all good features to me.
What really i would love (and maybe it had been already suggested), is a Costume Creator system, a really simple one. Here is how it could work:
1) Equip what you want, dye it if needed to create your desired look.
2) Go in "collection panel" and select the new voice "My Custom Costumes".
3) There you'll find "Custom Costume Slots" only available for the ESO plus users. I'm telling this because ZOS sells costumes and I dont want this feature to go against their income. The first Slot is already unlocked, and you maybe need to pay 500-1000 crowns to unlock more slots.
4) Click on "Create Custom Costume": the game take in account the actual appearence of your character and save everything in the slot, maybe using the picture of your char in the inventory as a photo for this custom costume slot.
a simple picture, nothing fancy and very raw.
In this way your appearence will be stored in the Slot as a custom Costume (just like already existing one from Crown Store) in the Collection Panel.
Also remember that you actually have to own the armor you are saving as costume to save it in the Slots, so Motif from the crownstore do not become obsolete.
I can se me for example buying a Buoyant Armiger Motif, craft my full armor, and then Save it in my free Slot to use its appearence anytime I want.
Why?
Because many people spend weeks finding Motif chapters, Craft a fullset of let's say "Hlaalu" or "Ancent Orc", and than switch to a dungeon set or something else because of progression.
For me it happens often. I buy a Daedric motif, make the armor, and after some LV up i change it for a stronger armor or a Set (like warrior poet) for the bonuses, losing my design.
Actually for me and other players I know my appearence is important at any level, even at early ones.
Making it available only for ESO Plus users wont break the income for ZOS, and making extra Slots purchasable with Crowns is another bonus for them.
EDIT: ZOS can continue making costume doing the very special ones, like all the pirates costume and long dress already on the store.
Also I don't think this go against their costume selling because obviously their costume are already sculpted to be perfect on their own, while crafted armors (light, medium and heavy) are designed keeping in mind that all the parts need to be compatible each other, and this is a huge design limit when you are doing the 3d model itself (i'm telling this as a character designer and 3d model).
That said, their unique costumer will Always be unmatched on design and uniqueness, while we can simply register what we ALREADY have. If we want to register a Buoyant Armiger costume in a Slot, we still have to buy that motif from the store. (no way to obtain it ingame lol...)
What do you think about it guys?
Cheers, and good gaming
Some of my sculpts (the ones i'm allowed to share, not under copyright)
andreatarabella.blogspot.com.es/