Dev Discussion #35 - Character Inspection

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Those shit guilds will still boot you even if there isn't an inspection in the game. They'll always find a way. But inspection would show you their shittiness way sooner and it'll be easier for you to find a better guild.

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The only reason I want this is cause I'm an older mmo player who remembers the fun in having 0 transmog in the game. If I saw someone who wore better gear than me - that's a challenge I wanna try. If I see a dude in super low gear - I ain't touching him cause I don't want corruption. With transmogs all of this decision making goes out the window.

Yes, there's the risk and the reward in a system with no inspection, but the risk outweighs most of the rewards for everyone. A hardcore pvper might PK someone by mistake just cause he did a warning attack and killed his target with it. And a casual player might finally try to stand up for himself when he's getting attacked out in the field, but choose the wrong time and get absolutely demolished by a high-lvl player with a low-lvl gear transmog. Both of those player will feel like shit.

By having even just a gear set indicator you can solve that problem. The hardcore pvper will choose better targets to have more fun in his pvp, while the casuals can better judge their surroundings by checking other people's estimated strength. And people who couldn't care less about their opponent's gear won't even pay attention to the info icon. So I really don't see any downsides to having it.