Steampunk Booster Costume Ideas

Used pack to make a magical girl. Want this pack so bad right now D:

Big pics below, so text to follow in a subsequent post:

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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 have two topics to discuss:

1. The above pics:

The top one - guy in white suit with red hair - is William Worthington. His entire shtick is that he's a suave, well-dressed immortal villain who has turned to evil out of sheer boredom. The left-most is his original look, a sort of contemporary business suit that he manages to fight while keeping clean. The second is the Steampunk take on his more elaborate complex gentleman's suit, with the third being its original form he's using now.

The bottom one - butler - is Charles Ludlow, a bred and brainwashed servant who is skilled in combat, technology and cleaning up other people's messes. One of his greatest strengths is to assist his master while remaining in the background. The left-most suit is his classic butler's getup. The middle one is the Victorian take on his "outdoor" suit. The right-most suit is what I got out of a fairly long thread on classic clothing and my take on several suggestions a poster made to me, which is what he has now.

I bring up original, old and new as comparison. In all cases, I see little meaningful improvement to be had with the Victorian jacket vs. the Baron jacket, with the upside that I can use a tie of my choosing with Baron and I don't have to contend with the awful, inappropriate golden seams. Furthermore, neither of the Steampunk facial hairs looked superior on either of those two characters. William needs a more contemporary mop of a beard and Ludlow needs an old man's moustache rather than a Kaiser one.

2. "This is what Steampunk is like"

That is a weak and disingenuous argument. Yes, the pieces are accurate to both Steampunk fiction and Victorian fashion as far as I know, but then the pieces could have contained Starfleet uniforms and they'd have been accurate to Steampunk and Victorian clothes as far as I know. My point is that there's no convincing reason other than cutting corners for these costume pieces to be unable to represent ANYTHING else.

I see no convincing reason why the Victorian jacket has to come with a built-in black tie that I cannot remove, replace or recolour. That alone means I can't use the jacket for William, because the bright red tie is central to his person. Furthermore, he is supposed to have an iconic colour scheme of white clothes, red tie, red hair. Yellow and black do not enter into it, yet I can remove neither the yellow nor the black from the Victorian jacket, and I'm not even counting the buttons.

If the Victorian jacket came without a tie, and that scarf was instead included as a chest detail for the jacket category, then I could have the exact same jacket with the exact same black scarf if I picked that for my chest detail and then picked black for it. As it stands, I'm denied this choice, and for what? So I can have my ties clipping through my other tie that I can't remove?

And then I go back to the brass pieces. If I were allowed to colour these myself, then I could pick brass, or I could NOT pick brass, but the choice would be mine. I could have a brass boiler, I could have a wrought iron boiler, I could have a steel boiler, I could have it covered in copper patina, something which should be just as natural to a Steampunk theme. But I can't. I can only pick from a colour in the dirt spectrum, because the base texture for the thing is brown with a little more brown on the side.

We've had costume sets added before that don't really work well with other costume pieces, but we've never before had one that aggressively interfered with other pieces by clashing in terms of colour and clipping with them. This is a "Steampunk AND NOTHING MORE!!!" booster, and it really didn't have to be one.

Look at the Praetorian Clockwork chest piece. Everybody's using this for a whole wide range of purposes beyond aping the clockwork and indeed beyond representing robotic or even Tech characters. It's because it works so well with so many other pieces. The female Victorian pieces somewhat do, but the male ones are total fail in terms of character customization. What men get is one step removed from a Halloween costume code.

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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.

Holy crap..............
How in the living name of whoever did this turn into a DEBATE topic. This was SUPPOSED to be for people to SHOW OFF THEIR IDEAS!!!!!! If you're not happy about it then discuss it in the News and Anouncements DISCUSSION thread. I have noticed that when it comes to standard members posts the dev's don't really look in on them, but in the "official" posts (made by such people as Zwilinger) the dev's do look in on it.

Ok so that's my rant, and I close with this. CAN WE PLEASE GET BACK TO WHAT THE ORIGINAL PURPOSE OF THIS WAS FOR?

Let it go guys.

well, it's just that wedding dresses, and martial arts and cyborgs can be all different colours, whereas steampunk is very much defined by that brass metal, brown leather look. imo, if it's not a brassy/brown valve and gauge fest, then it's not steampunk, it's just... tech. Just imo

then don't use the steampunk pack for that character. Same as i wouldn't use the animal head pack if i was making a human character. I'm just saying steampunk is a very definable look, for it to be a steampunk pack it has to look steampunky, to then change it to look like something else, it stops being a steampunk pack. I'm the last person to argue against using costume pieces in every different way, shape or form, but to moan that a steampunk pack is disappointing because it's all steampunky seems a little silly.