Armorsmith Archive
Thread: Petition to add Armor Color Kits
Sylow wrote:
You don't know how annoying, frustrating, and ultimately not fun taking custom orders are.
I know that my GF (talor, not armoursmith, i admit) almost only did custom orders. Two vendors, one of them right in front of Coronet, sold almost nothing. (Those people who buy from vendor want very colorful outfits, we had to learn. Black is a color, after all, so black cloak with black shirt, black trousers, combined with black boots and finished with black gloves surely have to be considered very colorful... the very innovative customers replace black with white, but that's it. Everybody who really wants to have good looking clothes makes a personal meeting with the tailor of choice...
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Learning this, i would say, for those who don't like custom orders, just fill your vendors with all-black equipment. (In case you want variety, also add a few red sets...black and red seem to be the prefered color schemes for composite armour for sure... ) People will buy in masses. If you want to sell colorful things, you have to meet with the customer and have to take the "trouble" of actually speaking with them.
As i know that armours take more and better ressources, the above mentioned case with customers wanting the color scheme otherwhise than first made, i assume you have a point, though. With tailoring, if something doesn't fit, you just create it in a better way, with armours, that would be expencive fun. (Though, when you go for bio-engineered things, such fuss also is getting expencive in tailor-wares.)
Anyways, i'd leave the coloring in the hands of the armoursmith, so it would look like this:
- an armoursmith might change the color only on armours he made himself
- an armoursmith might change color only on armours which were not used in battle already, so are not damaged.
If these conditions are met, i'd even say, the armoursmith can do that without even having to use any paint kit, just give the radial option like on composite stuff.
Would seem a fair compromise to me, colors can be changed, you'd not loose any ressources when the customer still wants colors changed, still the armoursmith would now have some customer interaction.
Message Edited by Sylow on 06-07-2005 05:54 PM
Message Edited by Capt_Obvious on 06-07-2005 12:27 PM
It seems that you missed the entire point here. Currently factory runs are bugged and no matter what color you set it for once you pull a piece out of a crate, whether it was made pre-pub17 or post it will revert to default colors. If we could load up our vendors with all black armor or all red or whatever color of the rainbow we would. But at this point we cannot! If we had the coloring kits than instantly this problem is solved, customers get their personalized armor, we get to make large runs without fear of wasting valuable resources.
I am aware of the issue and didn't "miss the entire point". But i dare to ask, what is the more clever step and less effort? Fixing the bug which apparently and clearly visibly is a bug and will be complained about forever, untill it will be fixed, or not fixing the bug first and implementing color kits?
I agree that the color kits or a similar functionality in some ways can have their uses. (I first didn't like the idea, but the argumentation with customers wanting very specific color schemes and armours using lots of ressources convinced me that such customisation would make sense, although i'd leave it in the hands of the armoursmith...) I disagree that they would be the fix of the bug, that factory runs produce one standard color.
Message Edited by Sylow on 06-08-2005 12:52 PM
/sign
whats the difference if u customize the armor or if the customer did. come on and get real. its easier for the customer and easier for us. there is no way u cant support this no matter how u argue it.
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and hears why....
*Armor that is made now and being made in factories has messed up colors, customers do not want that.