149079-suggestion-costume-unlockable-on-costume-pieces

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Mostly as it says on the tin.  When you look at normal gear, there is a line at the bottom that says "Costume Unlockable" if it has not been added to your Holo-Wardrobe.  If it has been added, that line disappears.  Even if you look on the Auction House (or as a link in the chatbox) at an item you already have in your Holo-Wardrobe, that line will be present if it has not been added or will not be present if it has been added.
 
However, for costume pieces, there is no such line.  You have to right click on the item in your inventory in order to see if the item has been added.  The last line, reading "Unlock Costume Item," will be blue if it hasn't been added and greyed out if it has.  Right-clicking on the item on the Auction House or in the chatbox will always have that line greyed out (for both gear and costumes), so it is impossible to tell if you have that item unless you open your Holo-Wardrobe and scroll through what could be over a hundred items to find it.  (Math time!  With a possibility of from 350 up to 850 costume pieces with the unlocks and 7 types of pieces [weapon, head, hands, etc.], if they were all even you'd have between 50 and ~121 items per type.  At 8 items per page, that's 7-16 pages each.  Luckily, they're alphabetical; but it's still very annoying.)
 
My suggestion is to add the "Costume Unlockable" line to the costume pieces as well as the normal gear.  This helps to identify what pieces you actually still need when scrolling through the Auction House or if someone is offering it around.  I wouldn't think it would be a complicated edit, as the code is already present on normal gear?  I could be mistaken on how that works, though!
 
((I'd sent this in originally as a suggestion ticket and was told to come here and post it, so...here you go!  >.>;  Thank you!))	
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One "fix" to this would be to create a "Style" for each piece. Once that "Style" is learned, then the "Unlockable" line changes to "Style Unlocked" no matter *what* piece the style came from (or where it's located, be it inventory, auction house or even a trade window).
 
In other words, say there are three pieces with the same style model. Once you learn ANY of those pieces, the other pieces with that style can't be added to your holo-wardrobe because that style is already unlocked.
 
That's basically the way DC Universe does it. Pick up a piece, learn the style, it goes into your wardrobe and you never have to worry about duplicates cluttering things up.	
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Oh yeah, that would be a lot more helpful definitely, but also a lot more work identifying all of the pieces that have the same style.  Even more difficult because of recolors (and since you can't dye weapons, I like having recolors in the same style), deprecated items, and identical-seeming items that have differing amounts of dye channels (I have at least two Hands items that are like that - same model, different base colors, one has two dye channels and the other has three).  And it would run the chance of messing up people's established outfits if something glitches or isn't grouped right, which could cost them several plat due to dyes.
 
I figure go for the easy fix first and then maybe work on something better for the long haul.  I've already been trying to compile some lists of identical-model items, but it's slow-going and sometimes I forget to write them down before deleting doubles from my Holo-Wardrobe.  >.>;
			
				
	Edited January 19, 2016 by Kira O'Hara	
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Yeah, as much as I love variety in costumes, I think all the pieces that look identical but have different dye-channels just need to be streamlined or denoted in such a way that it's obvious what the differences are.
 
Like (for a made-up example):
 
Torine Headband and Princess Headband use the same model with different dye and/or texture channels. The Styles could be named Torine Headband (Center Stripe) and Torine Headband (Reflective). That way, we can see very clearly from the name that both are "Torine Headband" style and the parenthetical expressions indicate which variety of the style we're dealing with.
 
That way, people like you can "Collect All the Styles!" and people like me can pick the one I like best and ignore the rest. ;)	
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