I am thinking about pushing for a serious change to these two features, but I need community opinions to back this up and make sure I am not in my own echo chamber when others tell me they dislike these features. Very simple, two polls:
Players donāt like intrusive āimmersionā mechanics that ruin their vanity. The irony with such mechanics is that they soil the experience, effectively ruining immersion.
The tanning is a bit useless, I get what itās trying to do but if someone wants a tanned character they can just change it themself if they wanted to.
With the dirt mechanic players without brigs have no good way of actually getting rid of it unless they dip themself 5000 times in water which is not ideal, I do kinda like the feature but I feel like itās way too much sometimes. Would be nice if there were baths other places than just the brigā¦ also would be nice if you had to use it only once to completely clean yourself
After playing again for a while I constantly had the same thought in my head: The dirt accumulation is WAY TOO MUCH. It would be nice if there was significantly less of it, it would make the feature a lot more manageable.
As for tanning, Iām pretty neutral about it because my main is black so I barely notice it but Iād say probably the same as I did about dirt, except that tan should be even slower. If I had to pick between the two tan is definitely the worst feature.
i like the features overall but should be easier to wash off the dirt at least
i have never noticed tanning so i donāt really have much of an opinion on it
i donāt know how credible this is but thisād be my main concern regarding dirt/tan
i dont like tanning. i like dirt, tho, shows that ur charcater has been doing some hard work. should come off if you enter water for a bit in my opinion
im fine with em existing just make removing dirt easier. tanning is kinda easy to remove but removing dirt is hard bc swimming doesnt completely clear it for some reason.
Am completely fine with tanning as it doesnāt exactly standout too much and if does goes away quite quickly whereas for dirt, you just accumulate just too much from a simple fight, for a boss it would make sense but when fighting a low lvl criminal just makes no sense, I would like it if the dirt accumulation was lowered and make it easier to clean off when youāre in the water as you have to do multiple dips to be completely clean. But that my opinion.
What I donāt like the most about these features is that they are shoved into playerās face without the option to turn them off.
Generally I am fine with this immersion stuff existing, but they can be annoying. For example, dirt is mostly annoying to me. Specifically because of how easy you get dirty and how you need to dip yourself into an ocean a few times for it to come off. I donāt want to see my character getting dirty just by existing. Maybe I donāt want to see the dirt at all, no matter how āimmersion breakingā it would be. Having the option to turn it off fully would be very nice. And some nerf to the dirt would be nice too so it wonāt be so annoying.
Canāt say anything about tanning. My main got sunburnt on Dark Sea release, then nerfs happened and I havenāt been noticing it since then at all lol.
I personally like tanning and how it looks on my player, though I can definitely understand why itād be overly intrusive to some peopleās designs. Would be great if there were easier ways to have it removed.
Iām pretty neutral about dirt accumulation since it only takes a couple seconds to dip into the sea a few times and remove it. Nothing of value would be lost if it didnāt exist though
No matter what I do every single time I join the game Iām always BLASTED instead of my intended skin color (manageable, but completely clearing tan with sun protection 5 needs a bit of a fix since itās not instant) and on top of that I look like I fell in a pile of shit that takes an eternity to remove after fighting ONCE (PLEAAAAAASEEEEEEEE REMOVE TS )
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