Simple as the title. Most footwear should probably be able to be unlaced for long string / shoe laces that can be used in crafting. Likewise, since laces can be tied to things shoes could be carried by knotting them around suitable things (Beltloops, etc) now that nested containers are a consideration.
Iād say a shoe lace should be counted as a short string but otherwise I agree.
Guess Iām too used to wearing boots that I just imagine all laces as 3-foot long. Maybe short for low-tops and long for hiking / army boots and the like.
to cut back on clutter item-wise (having laced/unlaced versions of various shoes) iād suggest this being an item drop when you disassemble/cut up a shoe, rather than something you can just take offā¦ it makes sense to be able to easily remove a shoelace though.
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Iād agree with the disassembling/cutting idea, also because without laces many shoes become unusable.
That or a severe penalty to encumberance - maybe equal to it being unfitted - for not having laces.
Would it work to have laces be an item mod, or even something stored INSIDE a shoe the reduces encumbrance?
I personally donāt see how adding ālacesā (short or long strings) as an item to directly interact with instead of just acknowledging them in the crafting/disassembly system would contribute to better gameplay or realism.
I would accept ālacesā as an item mod if implemented, but I canāt think of any other clothing aspect right now that would benefit from this sort of modular representation.
i meanā¦ most, if not all shoes in game would HAVE shoelaces, so having it as an āitem modā would overcomplicate things, youād still have to differentiate between shoes that have laces and shoes that dont, and then take the laces and replace themā¦
easier to assume most if not all shoes have laces methinks.
imagine getting killed in cata because you didnt realize your shoes didnt have lacesā¦
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The ālaces as item modā tangent was just to address the oddity that you wouldnāt otherwise be able to remove laces and keep said shoes intact. If only allowed through disassembly. Still, so long as a player can get an appropriate ālace-likeā object such as sting, from shoes / boots, Iād be satisfied.