So there's a lot going on here. Obviously with the stripe effect the specific intent is to be lighter-colored in some areas, so that's expected and fine. But on the basic costume everything is just lighter and lower-quality for color to begin with. Like come on. That ain't black. The tier 2 costume dyes more richly, except, somehow, for Julianos white, which is now yellowish and grody I guess.

The second costume obviously takes dyes better overall than the first, but we're still seeing some familiar problems, like color shifting and vast undyeable areas like the arm bands, giant neck pieces, and sandal things. For the first point, I can't stress enough that if I wanted a dye color shifted I would just choose a dye which is that color to begin with. I don't like colors behaving weirdly, I don't like them taking on different tones when they get put on leather or different types of cloth, etc. Predictability is really important for me here. For the second point, I totally get it and I guess just hope that someday the dye system can get a "take two" and add a couple more dye slots where appropriate.

What is the deal with reds never actually being a true red?

I agree with what has been said already. Overall I love the styles of the costumes, and the colors I dyed mine suit how the dyes are taken by these particular costumes (silvenar green and hunding gold on the 500 crown version, and indoril blue and covenant fisher blue on the 700 crown version)

here are some other colors that I tested:


500 crown
LIGHT COLORS
Welkynd blue
Provisioner brown
Transliminal violet



DARK COLORS
Coldharbor ash black
Smuggler violet
Transliminal violet




700 crown
DARK/LIGHT
Provisioner brown (light)
Smuggler violet (dark/rare)
Transliminal violet



Indoril blue
Covenant fisher blue
Transliminal violet

Good looking kitties there

Someone had "one job" to do..... One job