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Toggle for female armour to use male armour look

I’m a member of a GW2 Girls facebook group, and one issue that comes up pretty regularly is the female armour. Fairly frequently a piece of armour that looks powerful and kitten on a male character will look sexy/girlish and often exposing on a female. Several of the women in the group who like to play female characters prefer sexy, but the majority of them enjoy playing a more practically dressed character.

It is already possible to play a completely unsexualised female humanoid but requires hunting around for skins and armour sets, particularly for light armoured classes. The default light armour at character creation is a miniskirt, garter and crop-top, which can be offputting for a new player.

Guild Wars 2 is already incredibly welcoming to female players; the charr and asura are brilliant, and the female NPCs are whole people with their own motives. It’s this incredibly positive experience I’ve had that makes me hungry for more.

I think a great solution to this issue would be to have a toggle (maybe on the bottom right of the armour piece, like the show/hide toggle) that allows you to switch between the default ‘female’ armour, and the ‘male’ armour. This could be added gradually, focusing on the armour sets with the biggest differences between male and female.

Alternatively/ in addition a similar toggle on character creation might help a new female player feel more welcome and catered for.

While this isn’t part of my suggestion it would be nice to eventually see such a toggle on the male humanoids too, so that they can wear the cute girl skirts too if they want. That would be crazy-progressive.

Edit: To be clear I mean showing the skin of the male armour on the female frame.

Edit: To narrow the suggestion down the toggle should (initially) only be available to females of the following species:

• Sylvari
• Norn
• Human

And applied to the following armour (initially):

• Light starter armour
• Tier 3 racial armour (where large differences exist between male and female)

The toggle option when hovered over could be called ‘Alternate design’ and be a simple checkbox

See attached image for an idea of how it could look (it was hacked together in kitten in like five minutes so isn’t perfect, but shows the legs of the light male human armour, and the torso of the light female human armour, plus checkboxes).

Edit: A good suggestion from Starfish about showing how different the male and female light armour sets are:

…Some people still seem confused as to what the issue is here, so perhaps put a line-up of all the skins from the light starter to show the difference.

Defualt Male: http://gw2armorgallery.com/armour/human/human-light-stand-start-male.jpg
Default Female: http://gw2armorgallery.com/armour/human/human-light-stand-start-female.jpg
New Female after editing: https://dviw3bl0enbyw.cloudfront.net/uploads/forum_attachment/file/144945/alternateDesign.png

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GW2Community proposes a few things. Laid out below are our proposals in order of descending preference :

1. Decrease the cost of activating a world event
We feel this is the most elegant solution to our problem of being tied to the one Natural Spawn in primetime. The current cost of activating these events is too high for smaller guilds. It is a barrier to entry that discourages them from even trying as the cost of failure is too high. NíP is currently a no representation required guild but holds a large part of the player-base that makes up the ‘community’ of GW2Community. Even with our pooled resources from all the guilds in our community , we are feeling it is going to be unsustainable to pop these events when we want to. A return on the merit and influence investment could also be given for successful completions of these Guild procced events based on the difficulty of the event. For example, Wurm gives %150 of the Merit and influence investment back, Tequatl gives %80 back and Karka gives %50 back.

2. Two fixed ‘primetime’ spawns per night
This doesn’t have to be on all the ‘Mega-Organised’ events but will help with the Three-Headed Wurm at least. This will enable newer WorldBoss guilds and communities an extra chance at the Three-headed Wurm and will allow them to gain real-world experience at killing it at a faster rate. It will also appease established communities as even we don’t complete this hard content with %100 success-rate. However, popping our own event because we failed the initial spawn may be a reasonable ‘cost of failure’.

Ideal spawn times that fit better into the primetime spawn schedule for GW2community would go thusly. Two opportunities for each boss during primetime, with slots for future events and 2 hour ‘stagger’ between the same events.

First round of spawns <— These are only workable if we have a second round of spawns, 2 hours later.
Future MegaBoss #1 ( 3x harder than Wurm please) @ 18:00 CEST
Three Headed Wurm @ 19:00 CEST
Tequatl @ 20:00 CEST
Karka Queen @ 21:00 CEST
Future MegaBoss #2 @ 22:00 CEST

Second round of spawns <—- The ‘primetime’ spawns
Future MegaBoss #1 ( 3x harder than Wurm please) @ 20:00 CEST
Three Headed Wurm @ 21:00 CEST
Tequatl @ 22:00 CEST
Karka Queen @ 23:00 CEST
Future MegaBoss #2 @ 00:00 CEST


3. Logically separate ‘Mega-Organised’ events from the other World Boss events in the table schedule
The current table schedule is too restrictive and there are no good slots to put in future ‘Mega-Organised’ Events. We shouldn’t try to put them there just to ‘fit them in’ and allow them to have their own little unique slot in the table. They should spawn regardless of what else might be going on in Tyria and could even overlap each other. A 2 hour ‘stagger’ of events seems reasonable.

4. Advance the current megaboss spawn-times by 1 hour
This will push them more firmly into ‘primetime’ for a greater number of our players. For people in the UK, BST (British Summer Time) is currently in effect but with the current spawn schedule, our ‘primetime’ Wurm Spawn will be 18:00 GMT in winter. Most over-worked Brits are not even home from work by this point. If we are to keep the singular primetime spawn, we need to make the spawns later to fall into primetime. These are our ideal spawns for this solution.

Future MegaBoss #1 ( 3x harder than Wurm please) @ 20:00 CEST
Three Headed Wurm @ 21:00 CEST
Tequatl @ 22:00 CEST
Karka Queen @ 23:00 CEST
Future MegaBoss #2 @ 00:00 CEST

BONUS: Have Tequatl and Karka come after the Three-headed Wurm.
This is a personal preference for GW2community but was always the natural progression of our World Boss killing. Have other communities always done this too?

We are obviously only just one community and our wants and needs are going to differ from others. Some requests here could be considered ‘selfish’ but that is the point. We want our gaming to be convenient for us and not tied down to a ‘schedule’. Or at least, we want to be able to spawn these events with a sustainable cost to our guild Influence and Merit income.

What are your opinions and thoughts on the new system? How does this affect your community or guild? How do these times affect your own play schedule as an individual player? We have also made a strawpoll which you can visit here to tell us what you think of our proposals.

We would also like to echo the feeling of TxS and their community. We empathize with their own concerns regarding the new spawn schedule and restrictions fully.