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[BlindFireBarry]

So far I've only had one problem with the skin customization system. I'd been looking forward to getting my elite Fred/CR-T up to mech rank 5 because I love the little tuna can shaped torso but when I got it I found that I couldn't change any of the trim or the over all colors of the mech. I'd love to be able to actually use the camo pattern I unlocked at rank 6 on the little guy but as its set up I'm unable to do so. Something tells me I'm not the only one who'd appreciate this being rectified.

[IronClamp]

It's not a problem, so don't say rectified. And this also has been talked about many times, but the Elite Parts and the custom parts are there for only one reason: A specific look. The Elite parts are to show your prestige, though by how the system works, anyone can have that prestige. The custom parts are to just appeal to the user's desire for something other than colors and camos.

[bacon_avenger]

Actually, I brought up this point as well when they were introduced and asked for the ability to change the trim and apply camos as well.

For most of the parts, the elite skins are just that, colour and design changes, but the ones for fred are more, so...  

[Silk_Sk]

The problem with that is if they do it for the Fred, they have to do it for all the other mechs too. Only Fred's prestige has a whole new chassis. The rest are just reskins, not much different from paintjobs. Allowing that customization would undermine their purpose.

[EM1O]

Primarily, Elite Chassis was the only user customization "bling" option for all of the mechs (besides the stripes, & outside of CA and CB exclusive skins) for a long, long time after OB started, and was bound into the code likely as a body/chassis option only, as it still is now.
So, this places it in a completely different category on Fred, as it is for all Custom chassis mod selections, for some reason, and I am reasonable sure that's just where it'll stay: in the chassis customization area with the monkey, elephant (sorry, but you're NOT gonna get yer Pink Elephant.), nemesis, etc, and seperate from camos, colors & designs fer evah & evah widdout end.

Edited by EM1O, August 08 2014 - 06:24 PM.

[KOS_Baconman]

if you look closely, when you enable skins on elite parts, it slightly changes

[Infyrno]

Only thing i dislike about elite parts is aside from the colour change, barely anything else changes.  What I'm saying is, we need more elite chassis like fred where the entire look changes.

[BlindFireBarry]

@IronClamp: I'll admit you are right about my wording. Its not so much a problem as it is something I'd like to see changed.

@EM10: That was both enlightening and disappointing. Thank you.

@Infyrno: You my friend may be on to something. Still that'd likely mean a lot of work for the modeling guys that they may not have time for right now.

[Infyrno]

BlindFireBarry, on August 09 2014 - 10:02 AM, said:

@IronClamp: I'll admit you are right about my wording. Its not so much a problem as it is something I'd like to see changed.

@EM10: That was both enlightening and disappointing. Thank you.

@Infyrno: You my friend may be on to something. Still that'd likely mean a lot of work for the modeling guys that they may not have time for right now.

True, they do have to set their priorities.  Also, instead of saying "@username", on the bottom right of their post, there's a button that say "quote". Just press that next time instead

[IronClamp]

I'm sorry to be so terse in my original post, but I was rushed. Anyways, the alternate chasis were not mean't to be edited, they were just put in so that people would spend money to look cool while 1) they got stomped or 2) beat the living fuzzy bunny out of the enemy team.

[DM30]

I'm not sure about allowing full camos on elite parts since they have a specific look that they're each aiming for, but trim lines could be nice to add to them.

For camos, maybe just have smaller areas on the parts that the camos are applied to, not the whole thing. I think this could open up possibilities for some cool designs, but I know it wouldn't be a very high priority anyway, so meh.

[BlindFireBarry]

Infyrno, on August 09 2014 - 01:02 PM, said:

True, they do have to set their priorities.  Also, instead of saying "@username", on the bottom right of their post, there's a button that say "quote". Just press that next time instead

Thanks.

IronClamp, on August 10 2014 - 04:00 PM, said:

I'm sorry to be so terse in my original post, but I was rushed. Anyways, the alternate chassis were not meant to be edited, they were just put in so that people would spend money to look cool while 1) they got stomped or 2) beat the living fuzzy bunny out of the enemy team.

Its cool. I wasn't upset by it.

Also could someone please explain the whole "fuzzy bunny" thing. I think my n00bishness is showing.

[IronClamp]

Fuzzy bunny: everything and anything considered offensive by the forum censorship software (such as fuzzy bunny, fuzzy bunny, fuzzy bunny, but not ass).

[BlindFireBarry]

IronClamp, on August 11 2014 - 01:42 PM, said:

Fuzzy bunny: everything and anything considered offensive by the forum censorship software (such as fuzzy bunny, fuzzy bunny, fuzzy bunny, but not ass).

Ah, thank you. Now back to the matter at hand... Which we seem to have wrapped up rather well for the time being.