We know ships will show wear, tear and damage. What about clothes? If I get shot or stabbed while doing shady business, will that damage show? Will the damage persist? Do I have to buy a new shirt? Because I really liked that one...asked by Lothar

So, we have a new character shader tech that we've been working on, Okka who's our Senior Graphics Engineer here in LA has actually been working on that. It's very cool and it has a whole bunch of layering which includes the same sort of wear and tear systems that we have for the ships and the buildings so we will definitely have wear and tear on the clothes. So, over time they will become a bit older and then you will either have to buy some new ones. I don't know if you'll necessarily have to take them to a tailor and fix them up kinda thing, the ships will definitely have that, not sure about clothes. On the damage side of it, we haven't finalized how we're exactly handling the external damage. Long term we want to have something that is not too dissimilar to what we're doing for ships, for character damage for where you get shot on your arm and stuff like that. If we get that working, it would persist the same way we do for ships. For right now, you definitely have wear and tear on clothes longer term when the new shader's in. It's not in the social module yet but it'll probably be in multicrew when we release it.