Architect Archive

The Devs are currently looking for ideas on Inspirations that will be useful, but not *absolutely* necessary.

Some of the ideas for Architect that have been mentioned are:

being able to reskin furniture or staues in new colors
creating more colors of street & other lights

So the question is, what are some benefits you can see as useful to you, but would not detract from you being a "whole Architect" if you didn't have the Inspiration?

Thanks!

Here's the original thread if you wish to post there too.

Well I'm just starting out, but I'd say color color color. If I was just building like crazy I would color everything the way it is, but if I get a burst of Inspiration I would maybe color my houses, the furniture, the lights, heck I might just put a design on my harvesters. I would really love to be able to paint the inside and outside walls of houses. The home shows would never be the same.

1) Different facades for buildings.... I get tired of the same old color of houses everywhere. (just a texture change I'd assume - should be easy to do) This could even be scaled-down to changing either Corellian or Generic so that they are noticably different.

2) Furniture colorization...we've been asking for this for ages.

3) There are still a lot of furniture items in-game that are not craftable, some of them would be very nice to have.

4) How about a nice new buildable moon in the Kashyyyk system with a new line of buildings/furniture to match...I know, that's a pipe-dream, but it never hurts to throw it out there.

5) New master-class structures (like the cantina/theater/med center) for the other master class professions - BE lab, Crafters workshops, Ranger stations, Smuggler Den, etc. - yeah, yeah, yeah...wishful thinking...w/e.

6) New city decorations such as high-rise buildings and other non-functional eye-candy. (something was mentioned about this in the FanFest report)

Message Edited by SmokingFrog on 07-06-2005 07:46 PM

Arghhh! Inspirations that are USEFUL but not ESSENTIAL!

There are several things mentioned in this thread that I would consider essential, meaning if they were available only through inspiration, it would become necessary to get inspirations to do. Basic furniture colorization is at the top of the architect list, and building colorization and texturization is probably close behind, but inspiration should provide enhancement such as extra choices, rather than the basic ability.

Saego, Wanderhome.

WALLPAPER, PAINT KITS & CARPET KITS ...let us customize the colors of our walls and floors

FURNITURE COLORIZATION

NEW PLANTS

at least if I got these I would feel like we were getting some love

some new structures would be nice too

I really want the furniture color thing.

Possibly a dimmer for lights in a house?

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Scornd wrote:

WALLPAPER, PAINT KITS & CARPET KITS ...let us customize the colors of our walls and floors

FURNITURE COLORIZATION

NEW PLANTS

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Light bulbs - Can get crates of 'em to replace already existing lights but can select color on the bulb to effect color change or to keep same color, just 'recharge' existing lights. Add dimmer as suggested above and a timer pattern (any selection is good from simple to complex patterns) to let players toy w/ them for some great ambience. Particularly great for inventive decorating or themed areas.

Maybe add blacklights and fog machines, jukeboxes w/ player made 'cassettes' of tracks of music. More on the ambience.

If nothing else, changing colors of a structures' interior would add a nice dynamic for something seemingly so simple a request, kinda like adding items already in game that aren't craftable and making them craftable. Even doing the simple, comparitively, can invoke a graciousness in playerbase. Crating Ore Mining Units was enough to make me cry for joy I tell ya!

Changing colors/lights of objects (furniture/lights) would provide enourmous leaps of the imagination for decrating and making our 'homes' unique in our 'universe'. Think of the leap made when we could finally move objects up/down!

Some good suggestions in here! Thanks for doing this. I've started compiling all the data I've gotten from these threads, but I'll keep checking back for more ideas if you have them!

first and formost new and different buildings and structures.. the generic and corellian houses are lame, with all the new weapons in the game why not new structures?

So many essential ideas already mentioned but I'll sign my name down to:

- Complete control over internal lighting. Get rid of the wretched 'natural' lighting in the buildings as they are. Allow colored internal lighting that goes beyond streetlamps cunningly placed and only able to give the desired effect during part of the time cycle.

- Color control over everything - just like tailors.

- Floors and flooring. It's rediculous that if people want to cover their floors they have spend millions of creds doing it right now - with so few choices. Every society of man from the dawn of time have covered his cave floor and home floor with things.

- Patio/Deck furniture or placement. Right now anything like that on the houses is a complete waste and shouldn't have been bothered to be drawn into the buildings.

- "If its in the game it can be made." Great artists took the time to render all the cool potted plants (and other furnitures) that we see all over the game yet architects can't make.

- The /tiltfurniture XX XX (XX- degrees) is my number one desire! Let us have free motion of spinning. I know it can be done. We've all seen it evident in other buildings created by you Devs.

Keep in mind architects... this post was put up to request feedback of what inspiration buffs you would like to benefit from after listening/watching an entertainer. Thus, these abilities you are asking for would only be possible with the buff active andthe buff would be required to do those things.