Skeleton Curse Cosmetics. Customization Mechanics Issues

Totally agree, while I feel there are alot of cosmetics and the grind is very long to obtain them, the WAY you can customize it all is very limited.

Yeah, there's not a single issue I can see with this considering the skeleton model is see through, any jacket already has the inside model to use

Phenomenal post! Completely agree with everything shown, we need a lot more individual customisation to truly make our own skeletons and avoid everyone looking the exact same.

This would be pretty flippin' cool.

Totally agree with everything here, this would be amazing! Then we can also hopefully get more variants of default pirate cosmetics as skeleton cosmetics or vice versa too, since they'd be on slightly closer systems!

This definitely needs to be added in at some point, this is 🔥

Amazing suggestions, I fully support this! The skeleton curse has always felt a bit limited in it's current state to me, so I'd love a change like this!

Every single individual I’ve ever met that loves the skeleton curse couldn’t agree more! Rare, PLEASE! No one would look down on you for making this change. The amount of people I’ve met that were disappointed at seeing the restrictions on the skelly curse was disheartening. So, please PLEASE, Rare, make this change, then go on to add more cosmetics that NPC skeletons already have. Basic things like bandanas, jackets, hats, eyepatches, pants, and the bags the Shores of Gold skellies have. So many missed opportunities for us skellies out there.

This post was good enough to actually make me comment on it. I never comment on the forums. Well done!

This would add more uniqueness for the skelly curse and more personalization options and I’m 100% here for it 👍

I would suggest one more category.

Eyeballs.

The ability to select different eyes to go into the skeleton curse skull's eye sockets.

This would let you pick gemstones of various colours, like Rathbone's green gem eyes, or the Ruby eyes on the Spinal costume , to an innumerable number of other gemstone colours. Or glowing eyes like what Flameheart or the ashen lords possess. Even more "funny" ideas could be done like one of scattershot balls, or a glass eyes that looks like human eyes. Large pearls could also be used too.

I of course want to see all pirate clothing sets be made available for the skeleton curse players, but that aside skeleton pirates getting all these unique categories like your suggested "Jaw" or "Skull Shape" categories, would help balance out the fact there are some pirate categories that simply can't ever be used by skeletons, like Scar sets, tattoos, hairstyles or beards.
And for both human and skeleton pirates I hope to someday see Left and Right hand categories for legs and hands, so that we can choose going double hook or double pegleg, or simply would prefer our hook and/or pegleg being on the other side.

But like any change, especially significant ones that require alot of work, like your suggested new categories, or the much requested idea of making regular pirate clothing work on skeletons, the idea requires an investment that will return a profit for Rare. New Categories that are exclusive high level content of skeleton curse users would theoretically require something that can be purchased in the pirate emporium within these new categories. And the only way that can happen is Rare makes a change to the emporium where there are items which can only be purchased after a player has made progress in specific areas of the game like unlocking the skeleton curse. I for one would love to see an ancient skeleton curse unlock, being that the ancient skeleton is themed for ancient coins, and thus the pirate emporium, I would like to see Rare "Achievement Wall" (As opposed to Paywall) certain areas of the pirate emporium to enable the funding of production of fancy new things like this for skeleton curse pirates.

@odin299
But mask's and eyes are not the same thing. Putting them into the same category means they become inherently incompatible because you cannot equip more then one item per category.
Now, if all masks covered both eyes, then this wouldn't be an issue. But they don't, even in your very own listed mask category examples you have shown masks that only cover one eye, which goes against your goal here of making more cosmetic categories to allow for us to make more unique combinations, combinations that logically shouldn't be incompatible.

masks and eyepatches being incompatible makes sense though, they are both objects that go on your face, and therefore will in many cases occupy the same space.
But no mask is going inside your eye socket is there? Of course not, which is why an eyeball category can function alongside a mask category.

I’m all for this. Completely agree.

10000% Agree, this is a phenomenal suggestion, and very well thought-out! I hope Rare sees this, and gives us more freedom with our calcium costumes.

we need something like this, it would be really cool if they added something like this to the game

@odin299

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I can never made such a detailed and beautiful suggestion such as this!

I've always wanted this kind of customization to be implemented, but unfortunately there are a certain group people who are vehemently against this because they don't like the player character to look like NPCs, which is just foolish.

Totally agree with this suggestion, and I am sure as hell will make sure that this suggestion never gets buried like the others!

PS: Also, just as an extra suggestion, some of the skeleton head cosmetics actually turns your skeleton head into one of the premade NPC skeleton heads. Two of those examples are:

Reaper's Bones Skull

Obsidian Branded Skull

And so, I suggest that we can also toggle an option to wear these pre-made skulls instead of our own modified skulls.

Also, another extra suggestion:

Skeleton structure/effects

Not many people know this, but the new Obsidian NPC Skeleton actually has a different bone structure than the playable ones. They have sharp protruding edges on their bones while player owned ones do not.

NPC Skeleton:

Player Skeleton:

So I suggest having an extra option for called bone effects that lets you apply this new body types as well as other effects such as shadow skeleton's shadowy effects, or gold skeleton's clinking sound effects.

This is the most beautiful, constructive and well-designed proposal that I have seen in this section of the forum!

A slight change that makes a significant difference! Love it

A little follow up to my previous post - I hope there could be a phantom skeleton effect, like what can be shown when a skeleton is in the Ferry of the Damned.

Woah this is very detailed.

I'd +1'd this but I wish the Skeleton customization aren't too demanding on levels...

If they reduced the level requirement or add level 1-99 rewards that would be nice.