TIL that you can get infected with a zombie strain even though you have the skin already unlocked. While that does make for cool avatars, it's also annoying if you're indecisive about which infection you get. It's currently a mess to keep track of everything, and it's only going to get messier as more zombie skins, zapper skins and special HA skins get added. :/ This is not considered a bug because of the way the system works, but the HA system has been getting some updates recently so I'm wondering if this can go hand in hand with it for next Survival. Sucks if you don't keep meticulous track of your virus strains and unlocked skins because you lose out on time that you could've otherwise put into a zombie skin you haven't unlocked.

I'm proposing one (or several!) of these: a) disable, or drastically lower the odds of getting duplicate infections via the current random option b) on the VIP page, somehow indicate which virus strains you already have unlocked as skins in your wardrobe c) being able to pay to get infected with a zombie skin that you don't own

The viruses in the VIP don't use the official names (you have "green" instead of Grosseries, etc.), and the wardrobe infection skins do. Possibly have the VIP list user-picked names for skins you already have unlocked? That would make it easier to tell what you have and don't have. So if you've unlocked the Buzzkill skin, the VIP page would properly list it as "Buzzkill" instead of "Yellow" b/c now you already know what you're infected with. Or add a warning that you've already gained immunity to this particular infection, but you can get re-infected again if you really want to?

Example of the (potentially) quickest VIP user-friendly page tweaks - viruses you've already unlocked as skins are simply highlighted with an asterisk/star, and there's a line of text explaining that.

TBH I thought this was going to be a slightly different topic. I would love to see a separate section for zapper skins and one for zombie skins. (title originally referenced zombie skin confusion)

People often get confused as to which is a zapper skin and which is a zombie skin, and separating them somehow I think would help, trying to search through which you have and which you don't.

As for the other suggestions....well, I mean, it's structured the way it is to maintain the element of surprise for folks who enjoy that. The fact that we have a VIP page at all where you can pick your virus at will is a pretty new thing which we didn't always have. In the past, it actually was random and reliant on who saw you in the kissing threads and chose to bite you.

I mean, we don't get to pick when we get the flu or when we get a cold, so in that sense, I think what we have now is a really nice gesture at allowing us to pick. I'm not sure there's a value-add by coding intricate percentages of re-infection rates when a person voluntarily picks "random/I'll take anything" instead of choosing their own virus?

Edit: I should clarify that if it's possible and easy to code a non-reinfection status for already gained infections, that would be totally cool. But I don't know enough about coding to know for sure.

Edit to the edit: I also think that having a section on site that shows the finished skins would help a lot of this, because while Subetalodge is an awesome resource it is offsite. That said it took literally years to get fricking pet colors listed on site instead of only listed offsite, so...this might be an uphill battle.

That said I agree the skins page is messy and confusing, and I'd really like it if there were a way to streamline that a bit.

Oh, I would really love for the skins page to be broken up a bit or to have toggles to view zombie/zapper/other/all skins or something. It's Kind Of A Lot to cross-reference what I have unlocked with a list of the skins (and tbh even if there were a list onsite, it would still be a bit of a chore to do that).

I don't know that the system/VIP page needs tweaking though. It sucks that you can get reinfected with something you already have, but I don't think that's necessarily a problem. I wouldn't object to it being changed. I personally just choose a skin every time because there are a handful I actively do not want and I won't take the risk of getting one of those. So I'd keep doing that regardless

idk, to me it just seems like a complete waste of time to get infected with something you already own. 😕 But I also understand that it needs to be balanced because it's a free option vs. all the specific ones that cost sP.

If you want a random missing skin, or you don't keep super close track of it after getting infected, the current random option just wasted ~4 of your days in a 14 day event. So that's a huge bummer.

I'll see if I can get a mockup of option B sometime this evening just to show what I mean. Brain's fuzzy and I think my words have failed to word properly. :'D

Would adore to have the HA skins organized in their own sections (zapper, prize, infection), but I think there's a topic about that already? Found the topic for skin categories! Last post was in Feb 2017, so it's a very old topic. Bumping it is a necro, but it's a very good suggestion that deserves to be brought up again in a new, fresh topic because of the wardrobe v4.

[edit]What about an option to specifically pay for a random infection you haven't unlocked yet? Double edit: tweaked the first post & topic title to better reflect the suggestion.