QoL request: Unlockable costume items to be account wide.

I think the Vanguard pieces are by far my biggest concern, because it is literally IMPOSSIBLE for me to get an entire set. The completion of all four arcs gives me enough Vanguard Merits for one, maybe two, at most three pieces, out of what looks like a dozen. There is no way I can get enough Merits by just running Rikti content, I have to grind my *** off (here's a cool mental image for you) to get enough merits for a full set. That, or run Mothership raids that I plain never see happening. I saw two last year, and I saw one a couple of months ago. Maybe I'm just missing them, but I'm not a fan of grinding repeatable Borea missions, so once I'm done with the arcs, there's no reason to hang out in the War Zone. AND they are level-locked, to boot.

The Roman gear is another major PITA. OK, the Romulus sword and shield I can kind of see needing to beat Romulus to get them, but basic Roman armour? And even the bloody Roman swords and axes need access to Cimerora to unlock. Instead, at character creation I have to make do with a Viking axe. Apparently, the Romans were cooler than the Vikings. Otherwise, why would their gear be higher level content?

I am in favour of making costume unlocks account-wise for two reasons. One is I get costume pieces at character creation, which is G-r-r-r-reat! Another reason is that this allows custom costume piece unlocks to be REALLY hard to get. For instance, I wouldn't bat an eye at the Vanguard costume unlocks if they were account-wise. Over the past year, I would simply have unlocked the whole set piece by piece by piece. And it would have MEANT something. Here is this long, hard trudge that took multiple characters and multiple run-throughs to complete, but it's WORTH IT! I now have the costume pieces unlocked, and this epic struggle came to something.

Or think about it in terms of Roman gear. I would not actually mind having each ITF unlock only a single piece, or unlock a few pieces at a time, if those pieces were unlocked account-wide. Then I would both have incentive to run it multiple times: I want the full set, but I would also feel I accomplished something meaningful each run. Oh, sure, my character may not be able to use that gaudy Roman helmet, but that's OK. I now have it unlocked at character creation and on all other characters, so the chances of at least one of them having use for it are quite great.

To me, this both serves to create a feeling of accomplishment and removes the trudge needed to get an item EVERY DAMN TIME.

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Originally Posted by Arcanaville Samuel_Tow is the only poster that makes me want to punch him in the head more often when I'm agreeing with him than when I'm disagreeing with him.

I'm more of thinking out loud on this but what if some of the unlockable costume pieces were changed to recipes? Unlocking account wide would be better technically but it's unknown if that would happen. With recipes, these could be traded to the character that needs them (using friends or SG) or they could be put on the market.

I don't mind some items like a weapon, a hat, a shield, etc being unlockable but others (Samurai armor, Roman armor) should be account wide. And for the record I never liked costume pieces as vet rewards.

I waited until Valentines day to make a Roman character so the character could at least have a toga, sandals, and headpiece when he was created.

Am I missing something? I can only think of 3 Level Restricted Costume Items Blue Side/2 Level Restricted Costume Items Red Side.


Both sides are restricted on Talasorian and Roman Gear.

Blueside is only level restricted for Raluu (sp?) weapons.

This is one of the reasons I'm not (personally) bothered by having to unlock the costume items per character.

Not that I'm oppossed to having the options open to all characters by just having one character unlock them.

I'm waiting for i16 to create my BS/Fire Scrapper, so I can get the Raluu Blade I've wanted for her.

My AR/MM Blaster had Nemesis Rifle at lvl 6 (would of been 1, but I ran a sewer team while I waited for a friend to log in to help me get them )

My DB/'s always get the Red Cap Daggers by at least lvl 6.

On that note, while not level restricted, it would probably be useful for the Redsiders to beable to unlock the Red Cap badge once, instead of waiting till Dec or Feb, or hoping they find someone with this missions still.

Now.. now we just need to get the devs to read this >.>

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I could get behind a claim system where an unlocked costume piece or what have you can be claimed once by any character on the account, but then has to be earned again after being claimed. It seems like a good compromise. You could explain it away by saying that character A earned this stuff, but he doesn't really need it so he gave it to character B, an up and coming hero or a long time friend.

But if they made them unlocked account wide wouldn't they also make them harder to get? For like balance reasons or something. I'm all for the idea, just throwing out a potential side effect.

This is so /signed.

I have a new shield scrapper and I wanted the Talsorian shield unlockable for him - only to discover I have to grind him all the way to 35 before I can even start to get merits to pay for it.

Sheesh ... I am not interested in bonus powers, extra salvage spaces etc etc it's just a cosmetic change. Account wide please!!!!

Even if not all get made account-wide, at the very least, the Pumpkin Head and the Rikti weapons need to be made so.

It's really just too much of a gamble. You don't manage to gather a large enough group to spawn EBs, and your entire plan goes down the drain. It's already bad with the Pumpkin Head, but at least you can still just get more Halloween salvage on the market and cause another Zombie Apocalypse for another try.

But to get the Rikti weapons, you first need to do the LGTF to cause a Rikti Invasion, meaning you either have to be at least level 45 to get a CHANCE at getting the weapons, and more than likely do that TF over and over and over until you're sick and tired of it, or you need to pester others into doing the LGTF for you, OR you just trust your luck and wait until one happens, and $deity help you if you're not currently busy with a difficult mission or committed to a TF when the invasion happens.

Or you just wait for a Rikti Invasion Weekend which happens like... twice a year at most, and then it turns out just on that weekend you're busy with work or somewhere without an internet connection or anything, really, which just serves as another eff you.


I am overreacting, yes, but some unlockable weapons are just too difficult to get that either you wait a year until you get another chance, or you try so hard you either just get tired of getting the badge, or get tired of the entire bloody game.

Just give the players some leeway. If the player unlocked the Watchman and Apocalypse Survivor badges, make them account-wide because the next shot at getting them might just be years away.

/signed

I don't see why they shouldn't be account wide. For one, you've still earned them. If your level 1 brute has Roman Armor, then that means that at some point you beat up Romulus. It doesn't cheapen it, it just makes it more convenient.

I mean, when you buy a superbooster, it unlocks the costume pieces account wide. Why shouldn't in game pieces work the same way?