Architect Archive
Thread: Current Top 5 Issues ....as of 10.27.04 .... rough draft....
Dvnce wrote:
It would be nice to have quests that would give architects limited use schematics for different furnitures. this should not be too hard to implement since there are many unobtainable/uncraftable furnitures ingame already.
The thing I point at, those are things weshould NOT NEED to do a quest..Tailors did not do quests to get those items already. Because preparing background of a quest, may take long time for a few number of things. And we all saw what happened with entertainer quests and village quests. Bugs, errors and stuff. It is so much easier for devs to put requirements on those schematics and add them to our list in just one shot.
Thanks...
Message Edited by gera on 10-28-2004 12:09 AM
Elyssa wrote:
I'm still concerned that furniture color during crafting (without the ability to re-color post-craft) will put an end to factory production of furniture.
I don't envy tailors that have to produce 6 billion of everything by hand just to offer a variety of colors.
I agree with this completely.
Maybe we could have two options. The Architect can color furniture when crafting it, and the customer can (re-)paint it with Furniture Paint. With the first option, the customer saves cash on Paint, but (s)he has to wait until the Architect has time to craft the item. With the second option, the customer has to spend cash on Paint, but can paint and re-paint his/her furniture at his/her convenience. Painting furniture works the same way as painting your vehicle.
So not only do we (probably) get more revenue with new colored furniture, we also get a steady revenue from the sale of Furniture Paint.
Elyssa wrote:
A "Furniture Customization Kit" would fit the bill nicely.
Not really ... the idea of having it color crafting.. is that people change tastes all the time... and we wan t them coming back to us for morefurniture not kits.. ( vehicle customization kits dont work well at making money for the crafter.. )
also with the crafting involved and making it something that the crafter has to do while the make it opens the door for further emersion for those that enjoy playing the ture Interior Decorator Role...
Elyssa wrote:
My biggest concern is not being able to make furniture in crates anymore.
To me, that would be a bigger game killer than non-colorable furniture.
As it is, I can make 100 couches.
I have no interest in making 100 red couches, 100 blue couches, 100 green couches, 100 yellow couches, etc, etc, etc... just to have a decent stock of what people want to buy.
That doesn't even take the trim color into account.
well... you can just offer one color.. that would be no different than what you have now.. the key is there are many people that can and would like to make a vialbe income on JUST furniture.. however.. furniture has no decay.. so once people have their furniture no need to buy again.. the biggest reason people change their clothes ( in game ) is to change color scheme.. thus the tailor market does decent because they have to go buy new clothes instead of a color kit.. also when they go look for a certain peice of clothing in a color they want.. most people end up buying more than what they were going after... something that if they only had to buy a dye kit they would not be inclined to do..
Elyssa wrote:My biggest concern is not being able to make furniture in crates anymore.To me, that would be a bigger game killer than non-colorable furniture.As it is, I can make 100 couches.I have no interest in making 100 red couches, 100 blue couches, 100 green couches, 100 yellow couches, etc, etc, etc... just to have a decent stock of what people want to buy.That doesn't even take the trim color into account.
/agree
If we were to have colored furniture we would have to give up on the idea of a funrniture vendor with every possible piece of crafted furniture. On the other hand, this is what tailors have to deal with and I think armorsmiths as well. We wold then have to sell color corridnated sets of furniture....
We just can't put up a sign for master architect selling everything if/when color hits us.
Suggest:
*refer to "missing schematics" directly
*add Archy product to the maintanance process of structures.
*issue 4 Can we craft/repair turrets for the bases. Or make components for them...
That's all I got.
Sleepy on the east coast.
/wave
Message Edited by Anthemion on 10-28-2004 12:01 AM
I am aware of that.
Pawlin wrote:
But we voted on this for 8 months collecting 19 pages of votes and apparently the majority of us wanted it in the crafting process.
I'm just trying to make a last ditch effort to save ourselves from a potentially short-sighted decision.
I will sit quietly now.