What's *with* the female armour kits?

[Tholar]

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Augh.

Ogre cheerleaders.

Thanks for making that image resurface, you jerk. D:

ogre cheerleaders? Like this?




if we have the distraction we would need a negative to balance. Random chance that any female character in your party will blind you by scratching your eyes out in jealousy.

[Alabore]

1 It is a game, not RL
2 Turn off the **** skin then and use your original armor
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5 Stop being so **** 1800 and live a little.

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Don't you love it when people basically call you a bigot because you think a bare midriff does not belong to full plate much?



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Yes, it is a game, but we'd like the option to customise our characters to our own vision, the way we envision them.

I have no problem with naked ladies.
Gods know I don't.

Problem is these kits don't even look sexy, they look like an awkward attempt at following the "internet is for p0rn" axiom.
Nakedness is not functional, it's just random - and arbitrary since only female suits become suddenly revealing for no good reason.
It does not make any sense: it defeats the suspension of disbelief.

You love those kits? By all means, feel free to spend your TP on them.
Don't expect everybody to agree to your own tastes.

[Irinis]

Agreed and I hope that in further armor kits we will see options for women to be classy and men to be wearing +5 skankplate.

I'd love a third spiral kit where the longsleeved top from the robe of spiral 1 gets combined with the bottom of the outfit, and the scantier top from the outfit gets put on the skirt of the robe. I think that'd be really pretty.

Looted an AMAZINGLY awesome +5 mith fp the other day. Dark, powerful looking, and sexy without looking skank. Might have to roll a character to use it and never go past level 15 so I don't have to cry when I have to go get a "better" armor and put the cool one into the bank.

Yeah I'm a girl. I know. Only been one all my life.

[TigrisMorte]

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(I've no objection to the occasional bit of risque armour. But the the message that the only point of women is to look sexy is not cool.)

Yes, Yes. We understand your a real person with a brain and ideas and everything.
Now get back in box with the rest of the toys...

[ViolentEnd]

I think the armor system is unfair for a different reason.
Look at all the attention the female toons are getting now!

How can my Half Orc compete in pageants and the eternal search for a mate if he cannot buy a chainmail banana-hammock to showcase his wares?

[donfilibuster]

You could always.... not purchace the armor kits, and continue for your female characters to wear "real" looking armor.

I personally don't see the point in armor cosmetic kits that are

• ugly
• expensive
• bound to THAT PARTICULAR ARMOR
• hooker-esque

There are much better places for me to go when I want to be titillated by clothing, or the lack thereof.


I would have loved to be able to apply the skin from one armor to the stats of another. I would even pay for it. Or copy the LOTRO idea with a "functional" armor slot and a "cosmetic" armor slot, as long as they were the same type of armor (heavy, medium, light or cloth) But these ugly armor kits mean I won't buy them.

Exactly, yet real armor was also deemed ugly, and you get stuck using it for its stats, hence a wanting cosmetic option.
But then someone tought hooker-esque would sell better to the pajama-esque armor users.

I am guessing the problem is a bit different here: people wanted robes/outfits to look anything but, because they wanted more variation in appearance.
This is exactly the opposite: some players wanted outfits to look like plate, and devs gave us plate that looks like spandex.

Well said, so we changed pajama chain for spandex chain.

[Elaril]

Problem is these kits don't even look sexy, they look like an awkward attempt at following the "internet is for p0rn" axiom.

Only if by "axiom" you mean "the reason that the internet was invented".

[Fishcatch22]

Turbine could always make it so that you could toggle between real plate and sexyplate regardless of the toons gender. Would make women who don't want sex object toons happy and would give the guys some chuckles seeing their male toons run around in drag.

[Azhanti]

Seeing as DDO full plate is as useful as a chainmail bikini..............

[lazylaz]

I'm more than happy with the armour cosmetics. I like to see boobs and flat bellies as well as warrior women in heavy plate so I'm catered for nicely.

[Alabore]

Only if by "axiom" you mean "the reason that the internet was invented".

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Stray musing: for some surfers, portfolio and p0rn actually overlap.

[OzmarDDO]

(I've no objection to the occasional bit of risque armour. But the the message that the only point of women is to look sexy is absolutely true.)

Fixed that for you!

-Ozmar the Sexist

[LordRavnos]

Agreed and I hope that in further armor kits we will see options for women to be classy and men to be wearing +5 skankplate.

I'd love a third spiral kit where the longsleeved top from the robe of spiral 1 gets combined with the bottom of the outfit, and the scantier top from the outfit gets put on the skirt of the robe. I think that'd be really pretty.

Looted an AMAZINGLY awesome +5 mith fp the other day. Dark, powerful looking, and sexy without looking skank. Might have to roll a character to use it and never go past level 15 so I don't have to cry when I have to go get a "better" armor and put the cool one into the bank.

Yeah I'm a girl. I know. Only been one all my life.

Wait you have been a girl your whole life? ****** something must be wrong with me, I am only a girl on the weekends

[Veileira]

Bah, scantily clad females are pretty useless…unless they are bringing me a sandwich.

This is why we need skank male armor kits. So my scantily-clad slaveboys can bring me the loots!

Why are you all looking at me like that?

[Alabore]

This is why we need skank male armor kits. So my scantily-clad slaveboys can bring me the loots!
Why are you all looking at me like that?

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Ah, quoted for truth, indeed.
Some males actually love playing a subservient role to a dominant lady.

[Irinis]

But then someone tought hooker-esque would sell better to the pajama-esque armor users.

Considering how ugly the pajamas are in this game, and there's no colour options to at least look different from everyone else wearing the same endgame armor... even these skank options ARE an improvement. We just want more options. Hopefully those are coming down the pipe and the delay in releasing the skins is to give the team a chance to create and test the next batch.

[Mavnas]

I really think they should have gone with an appearance slot like LotRO or EQ2. The problem with the kits is that I find myself upgrading armors way too often to be willing to stick an upgrade onto just one. This is doubly true since I intend to TR once I hit 20 and go through the process all over again.

[donfilibuster]

Speaking of the toons gender, try the kit on the starter rags on a male toon, it does keep the skirt.
There's definitely a difference between a kilt and a skirt regarding armor.

[cdbd3rd]

I think the armor system is unfair for a different reason.
Look at all the attention the female toons are getting now!

How can my Half Orc compete in pageants and the eternal search for a mate if he cannot buy a chainmail banana-hammock to showcase his wares?

Tis it true what we Horcs don't wear 'neath our Outfits?

Speaking of the toons gender, try the kit on the starter rags on a male toon, it does keep the skirt.
There's definitely a difference between a kilt and a skirt regarding armor.

Truly LOL'd. Reminds me of that ST:TNG episode where they visited the Matriarchal planet, and all the 'men' were running around in the short-skirted.... robes(?) whatever they'd be called. Little powder blue slavey looking outfits.



That all said, would it be terribly un-CD-like to agree that not all female armor skins should be scanty?
(Brings to mind: Scene from LOTR climactic battle where whazzerface pulls off her full helm and her blonde hair flows out, then whips out some serious Boss Mob whoop-tush. That was cool.)

[Alabore]

I really think they should have gone with an appearance slot like LotRO or EQ2. The problem with the kits is that I find myself upgrading armors way too often to be willing to stick an upgrade onto just one.

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Same here.