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Whilst there is a movement afoot to removehand and foot areas as damage vulnerable for Wookiees and Trandoshan, it seems to me that a form of armour for these areas is possible.

The greave,a form of armour that straps to the leg below the knee, would still leave the supposedly mis-shaped feet of the two races uncovered,[thus no problem in covering them] whilst giving the lower leg protection, not to mention another item of armour that can take an AA.

Similarly, a plate of armour that covers the back of the hand,[but not the didgits] would also afford protection for the hand , and again,free another AA slot.

Not being an armour smith, my question is,do you think that these options would work as armour pieces and would they be hard to produce? They could be schematic based,ie, require a species specific schematic to craft them and maybe even incorporated into a mini quest.

I would address this in a more direct form to the Dev's, but do not know where I would do that.

If this post is in the wrong forum, please forgive me.

They could just alter the glove/boot restrictions for these races and have trandoshan/wookiee-only boots and gloves. It'd be as simple as making any other custom armor. I hate to say "Wait and see", but...crap, I just did.

On Live currently, Ithorian armor boots don't actually graphically cover the feet, the are more just anklets, but for game purposes they provide as full protection of the feet as any other boots do. If I recall correctly, it's the same situation with the gloves. I've never understood why they didn't do something similar for Transdoshians. It wouldn't even have to be a separate craftable. Look at the Composite Helmets on Rodians or Mon Cals, it gets a different than standard graphic for those races. So why couldn't Transdoshians equip a normal pair of gloves from whatever armor type, and just have it displayed on the character as a bracelet or arm band, far enough up the arm that Lucasarts would approve of it, and they could still get full hand protection. They could equip a normal pair of boots from whatever armor type, and just have it displayed on the character as an anklet, far enough up the leg that Lucasarts would approve of it, and they could still get full foot protection. They have just altered the armor and hit tables for ever race in the game to deal with a problem specific to two races that could have been corrected so much more simply they had dome something similar to what I just suggested. I don't really expect many people with bother to wear these non-armor armor gloves that their current solution uses.

I find it funny that Lucas arts supposedly said that trandos cant wear boots at all... but ehh.. they approved SW: Commandoes. And gee. There's trandoshan in what practically ammounts to full suit powerarmor.

As for wookiees *shrug* Hell if I know. None of em ever wear armor in any of the games or books. but at least in the RPGs they have some major counters to make up for such things. (Like how even the weakest wookiee can generally rip your arms off)

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