A way to get white/alpha outfits (3 ideas)

[Reichhardt]

There's a particular outfit that caught my eye earlier today, but found that the color scheme I found it in is only alpha and white tier, while the prime has completely different colors. I don't want to bother getting the prime or legendary and the dyes to make them the same colors, I don't care about the stats and don't have the gold to spare either.

Isn't she cute in that <Gold Record Pop Star Gown> hint hint nudge nudge?

So I'd like to suggest a way to get white or alpha outfits. And I have about three ideas on how it could be done.

1. Something similar to Gem Altar
A system where you'd buy an item from an NPC for about 10-50g a piece, and use it to roll on an altar that rotates every once in a while (maybe once per week instead of thrice?) and includes white and alpha outfits, either random or player-suggested. This does however require some upkeep, as the altar would need to be changed, not to mention it'd be a new altar. So that's where my other two ideas come in.

2. Something similar to Alpaca Coins
Or perhaps a straight up new tier of them. You could throw in a platinum tier and have the capsules drop some regular white or alpha outfits instead of Lost City ones. Though I'm aware of the amount of alpha and white outfits there are, and sticking all of those in a single capsule might be a bit much, and making multiple capsules might turn out to be confusing. Perhaps my last idea might be the easiest to implement long-term..?

3. EP Capsules
You know how the Fashion tab of the Loyalty Shop is literally empty? Why not stick some capsules in there? You could stick all versions of a single outfit (for example, all maids outfits, perhaps butler too if not separated by gender) up to prime rarity, and charge about 20-60EP for a capsule. That way people who want a specific outfit, but don't have the gold for legendaries/dyes or don't care about the stats, could try their luck with the capsules.

Thank you for your time.
Reichhardt, AKA any of the dozen Hartleys you might've seen around
If all three are impossible for whichever reasons, could I somehow pay gold to a GM or the system for the outfits? Would I have to send a ticket?

[MrDoudou]

Hello,

Well, right now, I don't see the point of wasting Gold on White/Alphas.

And even if we do some kind of Coin, I don't see the point, because nobody will care about it, except 2 -3 players nobody is looking for Alphas unfortunately. It is not as if the Alpha was necessary to make something useful, yes perhaps that we could have made something.

And especially that it would take us some time to realize one of the suggestions and at the moment our time is focused on other projects that already require us a lot of time.

Here is a short opinion, I doubt that Jordan has a favorable opinion to your request. But thank you for your suggestions.

[Reichhardt]

I could say something about the 1000AP primes in Item Mall but, on the off-chance Jordan does show interest, I don't wanna be shot down because of that. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I just thought it might be convenient for people who want to have a certain outfit but don't wanna lay down 10k or more per legendary plus dyes, especially if they don't care about stats. It doesn't always have to be about "being necessary to make something useful".

[Jordan]

It's just a lot of unnecessary effort. You couldn't just do it for some as people would complain so the only way you could do it is one big RNG box for all alphas. Then you'd have to hunt them all down test you can get every one and in the end there would be maybe 5-10 people at most who actually care about this.

Prime costumes are cheap and we have 156 dyes in the Cash Shop that I'm sure if it isn't on altar then I'm sure someone who has some leftover you can likely buy from if you don't donate yourself. Not to mention they use the same system to dye Alphas as costumes are dyed so my guess is that the dye that this costume is using is available.

I'm sorry if this isn't the solution you're looking for but there is far more better uses of time than adding this to game when my list is already stacked with QOL changes that people would like.

 

On 1/17/2022 at 7:19 PM, Reichhardt said:

I just thought it might be convenient for people who want to have a certain outfit but don't wanna lay down 10k or more per legendary plus dyes, especially if they don't care about stats. It doesn't always have to be about "being necessary to make something useful".

You can earn 10k easily in doing your daily dungeons. I don't thinking asking people to spend some of their game time to play dress up on a free 2 play game is too much to ask. I mean tbh with your suggestions the amount of time spent on Alpaca Coins or farming EP for EP Capsules you could have just earned the 10k bought the costume and been done with your day.

[Reichhardt]

13 hours ago, Jordan said:

Not to mention they use the same system to dye Alphas as costumes are dyed so my guess is that the dye that this costume is using is available.

Would it then be possible to get the names of the dyes used on the white/alpha I mentioned in my first post? My largest issue is honestly not knowing which exact dyes are used on any given costume by just looking at it (refer to image below), and the color swatches don't appear when hovering over the item in archive. If I knew with certainty I could get the dyes to make a prime or legendary look exactly like the white/alpha palettes, I wouldn't mind grinding out the gold. 

<White Ash Clothing Color> on <Mysterious Lavish Swordsman Garb (Legendary)>, note how none of the parts have the same brightness