Appearance
Its an all encompassing rubber suit, head to toe, with optional very long ponytails. Can have up to three tails coming form your head, or none at all. These tails are also how you access the menu. It also has built in ballet boots.. It might be because of where they are located, but they seem lower quality than the rest, but that may just be the lighting not reaching them.
In terms of customization, you have a few options. The three hair styles mentioned above, the option to switch between gloves and mitts, and 11 colours options for the body and hair. For the most part the shine isn't too strong, but it is not adjustable, so your mileage will heavily vary depending on your lighting settings. Function
To begin.. Be careful. If you lock this on yourself, anyone else in the world can still lock it as well. And if someone claims you, then leaves? Well you're screwed and have to do a hard reset. (Log without RLV, reset scripts). So yeah. best not to go out in this without an owner you trust. Also when its locked, you get a randomly assigned drone name to replace your normal.
As the wearer, when you first click it, you can choose to lock it, or leave it be. The first thing that happens when you lock is you get a HUD that limits you to the center of your screen for vision. The KaS hood uses a similar system. I've included an extra pic of this at the bottom of the review.
A massive black mark - It blocks IM by default. This should ALWAYS be an option, and off to begin with. The second black mark? Emote blocking, with NO way to turn it off. Any long messages simply become something like "A-660 squeals"Now then.. Menus. RLV is first, in which you'll find two pages worth of various RLV restrictions. Nothing out of the ordinary in here. Release is next, and is fairly obvious in what it does. Self Lock
Done is next, which closes the menu for other people to use without interference. IM follows that, with all of the IM restriction options inside it. As mentioned before, this should be off by default, but isn't, so this may be the first stop for many if you buy it. Outfit follows, which is another RLV restriction menu, which lets you adjust whether you can attach or remove clothes and attachments.
Gag is next. It has only one level open to the wearer, which means everything you try to say come out in Mms and mmphs, with Mute following that, which stops you talking at all. Lastly is Appearance, where you can adjust the options mentioned above.
When locked by someone else, you'll just get a message saying "You're locked by <name>, Be a good drone". If locked, but no one has claimed you, it states "You are free but locked. You have to wait for an owner that claims you." Thoughts
I have to be honest, I got a really bad first impression of this item. When I put something on, and instantly find my IMs not working? I get annoyed. Even more so when I can't emote properly.
Been objective. Its not badly built, though I did notice some odd lines showing up under some lighting, uncertain if that was intended or not. I also would of liked adjustable shine.The impact that setting has depending on your actual graphical settings should not be understated, and always adjustable.
I did like the gag and mittens at least, and the colour options weren't bad. But would I buy it for 800 linden..? Thats a tough one. In its current state, especially with that permanent emote blocker? I'd not buy it. Emotes are too important to RP to allow for such a thing.
You can pick this up from Tai Yong Labs on the Doll Works sim
S & S thoughts below
S one
"It doesn't really do anything better than what you could do before, and for people who like interaction and emoting rather than public restrictions, does things worse"
S two
"This item seems to be targeted for those who get their enjoyment from RLV enabled toys rather than the interaction and roleplay with others. "
