Wat about if you could reskin as one of your chapters successor chapters for example angels sanguine for the blood angels that way we have more customization options but can still tell at a glance Wat any given persons bonuses are
Some successor chapters are radically different from their parent-chapter. IF's are masters of siege warfare. The BT's are masters of melee combat. This is not exactly compatible. I like your idea, however, but it needs a bit of refinement.
Just to point out, it's nice to see a lot of criticism on these forums, I do appreciate some of it. But it'd be nice if people were a bit more constructive and others less negative. Not pointing any fingers of course. Well Duros, you make a good point. Though we've yet to discover what the devs plan on having faction traits defined as to begin with. So it's difficult to refine my idea much, at this point. I did suggest that buffs and equipment could be purchased along with skins, to help compensate the gap. Aside from the fact some people believe that would 'cheapify' the faction. I'm open to some suggestions on that point. It seems not many realize the potential for this.
Just saying, with all respect.. the fact that some people don't agree with an idea and they think it wouldn't be nice for the game, doesn't make it criticism, or rather technically it does but that doesn't mean it's a bad thing. It's all opinions and we are having a conversation =/
As you said, Vespasian, there are opinions being voiced in the form of criticisms. Arminius pointed out that he welcomes criticism as well as being open to suggestions at the same time. The purpose in quoting you specifically is to make an example of a post that qualifies as "spam". Vespasian, you are off topic from the Thread's title in that you did not "constructively" add to our discussion. My favorite idea placed on the first page of this thread by Fluxion referred to "Locking Out" classes that a successor Chapter would not naturally partake in. This is a great opinion that criticized the importance of doing more than "Reskinning" or changing the color of a Chapter's soldier. The conversational portion of his posting was adding a constructive, or means of moving forward, segment which was the aforementioned "Locking Out". I would go further to state that Locking inappropriate classes to the Chapter is a great idea. To improve on this suggestion, I believe that the usable Class have should have its own proper set of weapons to choose from that may or may not agree with its parent Chapter.
I really don't see how what i typed above is considered "spam" or "offtopic". My replies were clearly on the topic of DLC or skin changing or purchaseable buffs as it has been mentioned by Arminius and other users. At first i said that i agree with Phelan as to that it shouldn't be just some skin change. I think we basically all agreed to that. After that i said that i wasn't sure how Arminius had the whole DLC in his mind cause if the DLC came from the beginning of the game that would probably delay the game or if it came later but was "well made" and not just some skins, i'm assuming i'd be the same as releasing new chapters. Nothing criticizing about it.. just a genuine question. If my question is not "constructive" to you, that's not my issue. When someone is making a suggestion towards a community i think that it's obvious that there will be opinions pro that suggestion as well as against it for different reasons. Even an opinion against it is constructive the way i see it. To put it more clearly, i wouldn't mind to have DLC where people could download their own chapter customization, as long as it wouldn't be just a skin change. The thing is that this would probably delay the game further and it's something that'd i'd like to avoid since the 5 standard chapters are enough to begin with in my opinion and waiting for some extra chapters in the progress would be something to keep us insterested. IF there is some other way to do it without delaying the game further and without it being "cheap" like Phelan said, then yeah why not? I hope that was "constructive" enough or at least accepted as an opinion and not a spam.
That is an interesting idea that hasn't been put to light yet. Given that DLC is excellent to stimulate the community as well as revenue, I hope that they are an eventuality. To appease lore-critical 40k fans, of which there are many and I myself on the occasion would enjoy the option to, 'toggle ' DLC skins. While I do not know how easily this could be done (my personal opinion is that it would not be a feat of great effort to implement), I think the best way to go about adding this feature for immersion would be to revert the character to its original starting Chapter's color / symbol while keeping all other values the same. I don't think that characters should be deprived of the armor, (if placed into the game) purity seals, chains, halos, and other aesthetics they choose to put on display; however, if it is more trouble than (it's worth) reverting a character to its base values, then so be it. On a side note of toggling immersive features, I hope that the "Orkify" chat option made it past being an idea tossed around.
