i wonder, do any suggestions from this forums ever reach the devs? most games have something like that, but rarely have i seen devs picking up things. in the tech of today, it would make sense to let an AI work through through the entire forum and compile focused summary of major player feedback.

included in this suggestion: https://forums.swtor.com/topic/936329-significant-qol-improvements-for-collections/?do=getNewComment the argument to have it in collections is to have one central place where we are able to view all available visual options - whereas hiding it in the crafting interface make is significantly less accessible for the majority of players and it makes it also very hard to find what you are looking for there. The latter is also a general concern for collections and it makes sense to have it significantly improved adding better browsing options (filtering, sorting, grouping) to an ever growing collection to easier find what we need. However, collections require you to assemble a whole set in order to unlock it, so that leaves it open for some ideas for crafters to get the missing pieces by other means that slaughtering through countless mobs.

That would also be nice. Note that as far as I know and as Riyar said, cost is usually determined by cartel market rarity/classification. special = 10 unlock cost (remnant sets, galactic season rewards) bronze = 60 silver = 240 gold = 400 platinum = ? That information is not directly available in the collections. It would help to have it there, such that we could either filter or sort by it, just as we can in the galactic market.

Indeed, you are right. It is specific to only some companions but for those it does work they way i would imagine. Yeah, for the current way companion gear is handles, a specialized vendor would make a lot of sense. But a general change to the system might require a different approach, so let's just keep the general suggestion that it must be easy to restore the original look of companions. I suppose many of my suggestion are just common sense - basic necessities when a collections grows too large. having companion gear in the collection is also a valid idea, though people might get confused if it gets mixed with regular armor. to top it off, for most companions the gear is redundant and there is an unrestricted cartel market version of it. that would have to be handled properly.

i have checked and unless i misunderstand you, it's not like that currently. You can strip Shae down to her underwear if you choose to.

Yeah, companion gear is restricted to those companions only and i understand the logic behind it. None of my suggestions would circumvent that. I have however played around with the idea that if a companion gear slot is left empty, the default gear is being displayed - similar how outfitter slots for the character work in that they show the actual equipped gear if a slot is empty. In that case, it would make sense that the companion customization choice would define the default character gear. This way, you could always most easily bring back the original companion gear simply by removing all gear that overrides it. So far the only issue i found with such system is that recoloring the default gear of a companion couldn't be done as easy as it is now.

I like how SWTOR over time changed and allowed us to freely customize the looks of our characters. However, i have been battling with the collections feature ever since, especially as i like to also modify the looks of my companions on each character. Note that unlike character outfitter slots, companions need the armor items equipped, so when i want to use armor not claimed from collections, buying it for 500'000 a piece (fleet cosmetic armor vendor) for so many companions is an expensive undertaking! So there is a lot of room for improvement: Companions gear slots should be treated the same as for the player character outfitter slots, rather then actual gear - that is you keep your armor items in the inventory when slotting them. That would be a lot more consistent, since gear stats have no effect on companions for quite a long time; these items have practically the same purpose as the character outfitter so why treat them differently? As of now, there is no one place to browse all armor set that are available in game. The collections feature is good, but a lot of armor cannot be found there: there are specialty goods and reputation vendors on each planet and the fleet. I suggest that all these sets are added to collections so buying all the pieces of one set actually makes sense - and i would definitively spend a lot more on various vendor sets, if that would be the case. Similarly, all regular gear found, dropped and crafted in the would should have visuals-only counterpart which should be also in the collections. Additionally, collections should include information how to acquire sets that are not unlocked via the cartel market. It would be best placed in the "show details" section for the corresponding items. All companion customizations should be added to collections. Furthermore, those should be changed into unlocks rather then actual items that need to be slotted. Lastly all companion customizations unlocked for the specific companion should be directly accessible/browsed via the companion tab. There is really no need to have to search from them all over the place. Furthermore, the collections could use some basic improvements to help finding what you search for: Searching a large collection is currently a very tedious task. We need ways to better be able to organize our collection: Tags. The most trivial kind of tag would a favorite checkmark for each item and an option to filter for it. But i would also like to have an option to filter for all gear for example for "Knight" esthetics. For that, i would like to be able to tag collections item with named labels - each items should be able to have multiple tags. Claiming a copy: often enough i just need a single piece of an whole set, the when i click on an item in collections and then "show items", it would be great if for each individual piece there would be a "claim" bottom next to the "preview" button. Otherwise i get a lot of item spam in my inventory and have to do a lot of mass destruction to clean it up later. It would be great, if there were an option to browse for a specific piece, e.g. a helmet individually. Such a search would only show that gear piece of each set instead and preferably even group up items that use the same mesh but differ only in their skin / colors.