I'd go hermit the living shit out of slavers (normally I trap them(it's the same concept, but different armour)), and jan0s1k would have the ability to do so, him being the designer of the mudzyn plugin, in fact I guess that anyone who put their mind to it would be able to add a new .dat file that replaces the leather jacket, but not the combatative leather (or the other way around actually, "Armoured Robes" FTW).
Therefore the files could be optional if done like that, and it would be a user-side package, not a server side one, I for one can't find the necessary time to learn it, (partly insufficient time and partly laziness, fine, mostly laziness), I mean, it would be nice with more variation, while still retaining the purple robes, them (pulple nurple colour...) being the rare-limited-number-in-the-world items.
And on top of everything I don't wanna has wipe, it would mean my pretty HaPA (HaPA sounds more fluid than HPA...) will disappear, and I'm almost ready with my theoretical HaPA-tank build, just need to implement it, first on FO2, and then on FOnline (in ways, FOnline is way easier that FO2)...