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Originally Posted by Monmon
Is this a challenge, Ilu? 
cause i accept.
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No, not really....
But after spending time thinking about this, I feel that any mass recolor releases (for a year) of any item would be a bad idea. Mainly because if you had a item that you liked, but never liked the colors and then a recolor was made with the colors you wanted, you would sell you older item. Now take this to the masses, and a lot of people would be getting rid of items because they didn't like that item, that would effect the pricing and rarity of the item.
If you want to mass release recolors for a year, why not do something similar to what Solia Online does and sell recolor palettes. Essentially we have how many colors? If we narrow them down to whites, reds, blues, specials, ect. Then we can sell special paints that when used on one of your items (that can be recolored) it will change the existing item into a colored one.
There are only 2 problems and 2 considerations to put into this.
Problems:
1. Depending on what items your focusing on, that would be a lot of recolors/work (but none of it is pixeling, mainly changing the gradient's colors but it still requires time and effort.)
2. Making a system that can recolor items/replace the items temporarily. Which involves coding, I'm unsure how easy/hard that would be.
Considerations:
Because of the vast amount of color palettes you could use, one time items for a $1-$??? could be pretty steep yet profitable, but you could make the items connect or link to a item that you want recolored, but if you can still remove it to get the original colors back and reuse that paint item onto another item you wanted with that color, or if you want 2 items with the same color palette you could buy 2 of the same color and use them on each item. That would remove the fear or second thought of buying them, and there would be reasons to continue buying a certain color again.
And if this was used, how would you limit this? To do all monthlies, and yearlies would be a ton of work. Not impossible, but a lot of work. Would you guys continue doing recolors for future monthlies or other items? Just something to think about.
But overall, I don't like the idea of selling recolored yearlies/monthlies for a whole year. :/ But recoloring your current items is a much better idea in my opinion.
Edit: You could also continue selling the current yearlies while implementing this idea.
Edit edit: Also I don't think I've never expressed this yet, but I absolutely love the idea of selling seasonals for Aurum. Because they are RIGS, if people didn't get the item they wanted they'd spend more money hence it's a good way to get aurum out of the system. Especially if someone wants multiples.