Rewarding Character Customization Mechanic

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Just find it to not be very immersive that people are all wearing the same clothes or style of clothes with different colors. People looking unique and different would really add to the realism.

I wouldn't want crazy character customization options in profile creation, I dunno why, just didn't seem like a good solution to me.

Finally thought up an idea that players can customize themselves through playing the game and feel very rewarded for it.

Have clothes and cosmetic items as loot, most practically in apartments. There couldn't be too many different equip slots for this though cause I think it would add some lag to the game if you could wear 10 different pieces of cosmetic clothing.

But, if you could at least have seperate head, torso, and leg clothing I don't think it would get too crazy. Although 3 diff items of clothing isn't a whole lot, if there is plenty of different styles of clothing to each of these 3 pieces...I think the odds of people looking the same can be very low.

The main element I am unsure about how to handle with this would be death. Do they lose their clothing or keep it? I lean more towards keeping it, I guess? Keeps them looking unique and no one is gonna actively really seek out clothing at all. They'll just be strolling around an apartment building and be like "Oh man, that's an awesome shirt, I hate the one I'm wearing" and put it on.

Reason I like this idea is it allows players to look diff from each other, adds a small but rewarding bonus to exploration, even if you had lots of options in profile creation, clothes wise people could still end up picking the same outfits and such, when this kind of forces variety (like 15+ different shirts can randomly spawn in the same pile of loot), and still allows the devs to have creative control to keep this content sensitive as well.

If this was something a lot of people like, and (I wish) rocket liked... I would still hope it would be on the backburner as a polish thing. But I would think it'd be great for something later in a beta stage, when everything that matters much more has been ironed out. Also, after release when rocket finds himself bored and feels the need to do something creative, he can make a shirt and pop it into the game easily in his downtime :P

Thoughts?