Legends of the Jedi

Here is the general basis for my idea.

Take other graphical MMOs. You get all this badass armor for your character, but you look like an idiot with all the color variations and armor not matching up. Enter Lord of the Rings Online fixing this and bringing to us the outfit system. In one tab you have all the armor you wear that actually provides stat bonus etc, and then another tab that you can place pieces or armor and/or clothing and then dye said pieces to the color that you desire and walk around actually looking like a badass.

Now, I feel we come to a similar problem here in LotJ. Combatants or anyone interested in increased stats, run around looking for all these sexy pieces of equipment and put it all on, and then sometimes they’re limited to how varied people can look. Sure you can buy a piece of armor that covers you completely and then restring it, but most of the time those re-strings aren’t really an accurate description on how you look.

For instance, you see someone running around thusly: A Figure in Katarn Class Armor. Okay, what does that describe? He/she has katarn class armor on. That’s in. Not very descriptive is it? Enter clothing descriptions, (maybe cdesc for ingame if ever conceived).

So now, you take the same person: A Figure in Katarn Class Armor. You take a look at them. NOW you see a fully fleshed out description of how there armor looks, from the way the helmet is design, to the cut of the armor down to the kind of boots he/she may wear.

But wait Falcon, hasn’t this been suggest before? You would be correct, but not only do I suggest this for people in restrung armor, but for people not in re-strung armor. People without re-strings, would allow people to see two types of descriptions. First, the physical description describing the features, body type, etc that is mandatory with all characters.

I propose a second description that could be seen in lieu of equipment. IE pertaining only to said outfit and clothing being worn that does NOT have to match what they are actually wearing that gives stat bonuses and what have you. The only things that may need to be mentioned would be backpacks, holsters and weapons.

A new command of course, would need to be enter, maybe look <name of character> eq that bypasses the description and looks at the equipment, allowing people to see just the mandatory description and the normal layout of equipment a character is wearing that you see today.

This new description system would be completely optional, though if done correctly, a very nice RP tool. Or at least I like to think so.

Rip apart, dissect, and blow up to your hearts content fellow MUDers.