What can we expect for clothing options in the first implementation and will they have an effect on us (e.g. bullet protection)?asked by Christopher1006

So, at the beginning we're going to have some social items like clothes – jackets, trousers, t-shirts plus you'll be able to buy some flight suit or armour sets and these will be our very early stuff – it's actually our legacy armour that you already know and run around on so a lot of time everyone's running around in a light marine suit and then occasionally you're going to get a medium marine suit if you kill a level five outlaw so those armour suits will actually not be in the final- they're not going to be in Squadron 42 ultimately or the final game because we've got a whole new character pipeline and tech pipeline with new shaders and all the rest stuff.So we're working on those assets and it's whole step above where the old stuff is but it's not all ready for everyone to use just yet so the old stuff is still pretty cool so we'll be selling some of that for Alpha UEC in shops down on ArcCorp and also actually, we'll have a couple smaller shops sitting in Port Olisar at the very beginning with the very first implementation of persistence and shopping.And the armour ones will give you a bit of protection – the new Item System 2.0 which I've talked about quite a few times will have a more sophisticated armour- personal armour and helmet implementation with life support and all the rest stuff. And that is actually in progress right now, it won't be in the very first iteration of persistence and shopping but probably a couple of releases later we'll switching over all the personal items to the new 2.0 system and that will enable us to have things that potentially keep you warm or help absorb damage which is what armour does so a- long-term expect to see more of that.In the beginning it'll be very basic rudimentary stuff but it's going to be exciting because it's the first time that you'll be able to customize your- what flight suit you're wearing, what social clothes you're running around in and it'll persist and- you earn some money killing some AI pirates and you can use that to get whatever in Port Olisar or down on ArcCorp so that'll be cool.