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Thread: Health Enhanced Armor Worked Examples for Smiths and Customers
LeviticusD wrote:
Much better, and now that I acutally read it, I'm curious how much he got for making the rush Mando Helmet!
Lol, all of the examples I used are in fact based on actual crafts I have done over the past month. I chose a selection from the many I have done that showed the variety possible.
The last one is actually based on a BH helmet craft I did,it pretty much went as I described except the rush was actually to my loot storehouse to withdraw the necessarybits (I got the order while away from my crafting houses) and then onto Lok rather than to the bazaar.
I still havent managed to crafta Mando pieceyet,probably never will, have a pile of looted BH armor in the basement of my shopbut not the guild to help me out 
, burnt through too many guilds to face joining another one
QuarEstee wrote:
I hate to pick nits ... but I'm gonna do it anyway
Could you please use a font different than Times New Roman? Going for a different look than Verdana is great, but serif fonts like Times are designed for large blocks of text that are printed, not displayed on a screen. They can work well in small doses, like Pyke's sig, but until we get displays with atleast 300ppi resolution, monitors just can't display them well enough.
Anyone know any good sans-serif windows fonts? And please don't say Comic Sans MS! I'm more of a Mac person myself, so I don't really pay attention to the Dark Side.
[In non-technical terms for those who don't know, serif fonts have all the little feet and brackets and do-hickeys sticking off the letters. Actually makes them easier to read in large blocks of printed text. Letters also tend to get thin in some places, thick in others. Hard on monitors to display properly. Sans-serif means "without serifs" so these are the typefaces with simple letters ... no feet or brackets or do-hickeys. They also tend to have uniform thicknesses for their letters. Easier on the eye when looking at monitors or headlines.]
/nitpickOff
Good idea. For something as complex as this can be, having a variety of concrete examples lets n00bs like me get up to speed more easily!
Got anything against good ol' Arial?
Since we're being typography nerds:
I think the real weakness of using a serif font in this application is that it is reversed in this forum (light on black). That tends to make all the little tails on the letters even more indistinct. When we read, we recognize words by their shape as much as by the letters they contain. The little tails on the serif characters tend to link them together making it easier to discern the shape of the word.
Message Edited by pykescylla on 09-28-2005 03:19 PM
JediSpam wrote:
Guess what... I read the whole thing and found a few mistakes... LOL
Some typos like "will" should be "with" and mathematical errors when making segment crates.
I'll get back to you soon,
Gotta hit the sack.
Good, it is a bit wordy, got a bit carried away, ill check my math and look for spelling errors while I sort out the font
Turkina wrote:
WittyNewt wrote:
LeviticusD wrote:
Much better, and now that I acutally read it, I'm curious how much he got for making the rush Mando Helmet!
Lol, all of the examples I used are in fact based on actual crafts I have done over the past month. I chose a selection from the many I have done that showed the variety possible.
The last one is actually based on a BH helmet craft I did,it pretty much went as I described except the rush was actually to my loot storehouse to withdraw the necessarybits (I got the order while away from my crafting houses) and then onto Lok rather than to the bazaar.
I still havent managed to crafta Mando pieceyet,probably never will, have a pile of looted BH armor in the basement of my shopbut not the guild to help me out
Stop stealing all the GDK scales for sale damn you!
j/k
Hun, if you need some, contact me ingame, I have about 30 or so at present that I am planning on using on 4 health enhanced RIS suits, and can lend you some, if you promise to replace sometime
Turkina wrote:
Offer is much appreciated but I managed to get some from a guildie who went on a hunt. Just a joke anyways my friend
okdei, np
QJP wrote:hi there, just to confirm... to make 2 identical assault cores with health mods, you need a minimum of 3 stacks of 4 (x3 segment schematics totalling 12 segments. 3 are lost in the schematic process outputting 9 segments. Of these 9 segments, 3 are lost on the core schematic which will eave enopugh for two cores).or...1 stack of 10 (x1 segment schematic producing 9 segments. Three segments are lost to teh core schematic, leaving 6 segments. This outputs 2 cores (2x3).or...1 stack of 7 and 1 stack of 4 (totalling 6 identical and 3 identical segments... of the three, one is used in the core schematic; of the 6, 2 are used in the core schematic. This will leave a 2 stack and a 4 stack for the factory run resulting in 2 cores).God I love embedding schematics within schematics.... proton grenade factory runs are just as fun
Right.
thegreywolfe wrote:
Regardless of the font issues everyone was talking about, this is a great post man. I'm thinking about keeping a copy at my desk to use as reference material. Especially as a very good customer of mine read this (I think) and came to me with everything necessary to make a 350hp RIS suit. I must say it was a great deal of work and fun.
Thanks Grey. Making health enhanced suits can be quite rewarding in job satisfaction terms when the customer is delighted with the result and you see that health bar take a sizeable dent and then start to recharge as they equip it
Many folks added stuff to this, Pyke came up with a very succinct take away for the start that I borrowed from another post.
If you can think of addtional examples, add them and ill edit them into the starting post