I was playing Foundation 19 and saw this really neat feature that I feel could be applied in some capacity to CM.
They have a feature under the IC tab called ‘tie hair’ that allowed you to reselect your hair style at anytime using said button.
Pretty cool for RP and would have minimal impact overall, but would nonetheless be a cool RP feature. Plus, it would allow people using long hair styles to logically tie it back when going into combat as would be seen realistically in the military.
Vanilla SS13 mirrors exist.
It would be strange for marines to use their mind powers to change their hairstyle multiple times in a span of a minute.
Logically they shouldn’t have long hairstyles, but we are a borderline penal batalion so whatever.
What we need is a button to “hide hair” when wearing a headgear, because my cool as heck CIA hairstyle is ruined when I want to wear a baseball cap, or something like that, because it shows around the cap like I have big afro and hat is placed inside.
it’s not changing the hair fundamentally, it’s just tying the hair
This is awesome! I want this soulful feature ingame.
More cosmetic depth sounds good to me.
It would obviously be properly RPed out or at least logical. You can obviously tie your hair back or I guess you could RP out cutting it down. If someone is just spam switching from an afro to bald back and forth its something very noticeable that can be moderated easily. Especially when compared to a LOT of other mechanics we have (think set pose, friendly fire and such). Thats more of an issue with upholding RP standards rather than the feature idea itself.
This exists for helmet (right click hide hair) but it would be cool to see it on other headgear options.
Just have a select few ‘tied up long hair’ sprites. We even have a picker window for hair implemented just recently and could have 4-5 options to choose from on a whim.
I think this would function ok, although not as intuitive as I’d like - putting stuff in those verb panels is something that should be avoided imo - but I don’t see a better way of implementing it.
This would absolutely be amazing and would circumvent really anything disruptive someone could do with it. Just give it like a 15 second cool down and I think it’d be a golden feature to have.