I was really hoping shifties would at least count ...
Almost all my villagers are shifty, haha.
Oh well no costumes for me still.

Yeah, I think I'd like some clarification about the rare species costumes too, @Admin-Deinmaar . The way I've read the reply(s) is that there is no intention on adding costumes for rare species EVER , not just currently. Which is very... I guess unsettling to me because I'd love to put costumes on the rare species I have (eventually - I do understand that it takes time to come out with art) and it's part of the only reason I'm keeping a few of them around?
Especially since I plan on turning one of my villagers into a Gembound here soon and if they can't EVER wear a costume, I wont even bother with getting one.

How about an option to apply a costume to a villager that has imagery for that costume, *without* applying the imagery?

I bought a costume for my grey fox villager and it turned her into a red fox. If I wanted a red fox, I would have made her a red fox in the first place. Thank you very much for adding the option to remove costumes so I could turn her back to her original species.

Now that you're talking about letting people add costume buffs to other species without applying the costume imagery and thus changing them to the base color, will that capability be added to the original six?

@Admin-Deinmaar I hope this doesn't come off as rude, I really don't mean it to be. I'm just trying to be factual so it's easy to follow, but I fear that may come off as a harsh tone. I truly don't mean it to be.

I really don't think I was reading anything into their statement that wasn't already there. There was a question "Will the costumes eventually be applicable to the rare species, as well?", to which the response was "We have no plans to add them to rares at this time." The question wasn't "can we put costumes on rare species right now" (which is what you just answered), it was inquiring about the future ("eventually"). Which is where my concern came from. The answer could be taken one of two ways, both of which I listed in my post, which was simply asking for clarification on which reply was intended. The first is cause for concern, and I state why, just in case. The second is not, and if that is indeed the case, then there's nothing to be concerned about.

I admit I'm still unsure which is the intended answer: "Current plans are to not give rare species costumes" or "Currently we don't plan to apply this particular solution to rare species". If you look at the person who posted right before I did, it seems I'm not the only one confused by this. I would be most appreciative if you would be able to give some insight into the matter? If not, thank you anyway for taking the time to reply and read through this overly long post. And sorry for any trouble.

The changes made in this announcement are really a great thing and very much welcomed. I'm just trying to get clarification on the site's intentions so I know if I need to submit a suggestion or not. Sorry again

Hawkfeather
I think you may be reading a little too far into what Mat said. It's simply "at this time" we havn't made any plans for rare costumes. That's not to say that it would NEVER happen. There's always possibilities in the future, Just, as of right now, costumes cannot be applied to Rare Species.

@Admin-Mateusz Wait, by "no plans to add them to rares at this time" do you mean "the current plan which may or may not change is to never add rare costumes" or "Rares will get costumes sometime just not anytime in the near future and not as part of this change"? Because if you really plan to always exclude rare species from costumes I think that's a huge mistake. That basically makes what's supposed to be the most desirable species on site, and makes them worse than any old common since they have no access to buffs. They're already worse off because you can't really adjust their poses (If I want a completely differently posed cat, I can put it on a shifty. If I want a completely differently posed gembound, I'm out of luck).

wait, never any gembound costumes?? :( that's kinda sad, especially since they're sorta like furvilla's signature species i feel like.

I'm so excited that I can finally put a costume on my main AH villager! Thanks bunches admins, devs, and coders! <3 Now if there were an options to use/not use the costume image, and/or use the grayscale costume image instead of the full color when applying a costume, we'd be golden! <3

@Admin-Mateusz awesome! thanks for the speedy reply!