Architect Archive

Okay, as an architect I'm pretty peeved at furniture.

When I first started this game and decided "gee I'm gonna be an architect since that's the hard one and nobody else is gonna want to do it - everybody else seems to just want to shoot things", I was surprised to find once I got to novice that there were a number of Master Architects running around when just a week prior I hadn't seen any architects at all.

Anticipating that my meager housemaking skills were going to be a bit useless in the coming times, I created for myself a little shop near anchorhead that sold only furniture (Westco Home Furnishings, if you've ever been that direction) and enjoyed a month or two of absolute success in my business as new houses created by all those other architects popped up around my little store.

I know furniture - it was sole business for quite a long time. Now here's the sucky thing (and finally getting to my point):

You CAN'T COLOR FURNITURE like you can clothing (and now armor)! What's up with that? So every house you go to ends up looking pretty similar when it comes to decoration. Those ugly orange couches - *THINK* people! What if you could make 'em dark blue, or grey? Or those crescent shaped couches - imagine being able to make one in dark brown so it looks like leather - or imagine being able to color everything in bright primaries to make adisco room!

If the devs would just implement THAT, they could open up so many avenues of home customization - sure people could make the most horrific designs humanly possible, but then again we wouldn't be so restricted when it comes to decorating. In fact, I'd suspect a furniture salesman like my character used to be could get lots of gigs doing interiordesign or party decoration...

[Marek West ingame]