Artisan Archive
Thread: Vehicle Customization: Should it be for Master Artisans to perform or for anyone and everyone?
Post from TH:
neinnunb wrote:
Thunderheart wrote:
This decision keeps options open. If we test it for a month or so and it doesnt work well, then we switch it.
Can you reverse then the DE coloring tool? because allot of people hate to seek a droid engineer for that already.
Cant be taken out, but Im pushing to get the length of time extended
Kurt "Thunderheart" Stangl
Assistant Community Relations Manager
okay a little concerned here. You are asking us what we would prefer and you say that we can flip the switch at anytime if it doesn't work. This person asked if it can be taken out for DE and you say simply it can't with no explination why. If only artisans can do it then artisan will constantly have people sendingus /tell to have their bikes colored. If we do go with option #1 itwillonly allow master artisans to change the color. What happens if we decide that it is not working for us?Are we going to receive this same response? Please clarify your reasoning that the change cannot be made for DE, and how it will be different for the bikes.
Thanks,
I've been a Master Artisan since August... I vote for an expendable tool. Here is why:
I know of no one who is a Master Artisan and not a Master Elite profession, or at least working on one. Keeping up with Armorsmith is enough without having to tell people constantly "No I don't have time to color your vehicle". It makes me feel snobby and it just makes for a bad experience IMO. I would hate to loose an armor customer because I had to tell someone that I couldn't color their landspeeder. Plus you have to go through all the "this is what is available" spiel because almost no one knows what colors are available. Its a huge time sink.
Again, ALL items that can be colored should be done by the client. When I tell someone you can have "dark blue" composite, what I see and what they think are usually totally different. Without giving people the ability to SEE what they are getting, it turns a simple idea into something tedious.
PLEASE make coloring of vehicles, armor, clothes a client function. We all know it can be done because of what you did with the composite colors. That is an IDEAL solution.
As a master artisan I can say if only master artisans can customize speeders, I'll need to dig a hole and hide in it. Btw, we need a shovel to dig holes now.
The tool craftable by MA that lets anyone customize their vechiles seems to be the perfect balance.
If the interface is anything like coloring droids, I'm for #2.
As a Master DE and Master Artisan, coloring droids is really more trouble than it's worth. The person who owns the droid cannot see what colors are available, and trying to explain them is a royal pain in the backside. So you end up burning multiple charges from a customization tool, because they want to see what the colors look like.
I'd think you'd actually sell more tools under option 2, than if you were to haveoption 1, because then you have to search out a MA to get him/her to color the bike for you. And because it's more convenient, people will probably color their vehicles more. Right now, when the colors wear off droids, people just tend to leave them, and not bother recoloring.
#2
I think I'll have enough fun coloring my 3 vehicles the way I want them. I don't want to get stuck trying to guess what every other customer wantshis bike to look like.This will allow people to color theirvehicles as they like, when they like.
And thepaint kits aremost likely going to be under3k. (can't imagine paying more for a can of spraypaint) So the Mega vendor will not really be a worry, aspeople will most likely buy these kits on the bazaar.
So you need a crafted tool, a Master Artisan, and the color change is temporary?
Well, you'll certainly prevent some enterprising Master Artisans from cornering the market on painting vehicles. There won't BEa market.
And, using the same logic, a Smuggler should have to adminster spice to people. And a Chef should have to spoon-feed people themselves. Otherwise, market forces would dictate the price of consumables. God forbid. The explanation offered as to the rationale behind the decision is so flimsy and so inconsistent with other game mechanics that it forces my inherent paranoia to wonder about the real explanation.
I certainly am not going to repeatedly waste my time on a cosmetic variation on something that remains functionally equivalent without it. I might do it ONCE, but periodically?The clue phone is ringlng. Ok, I'll get it then.
Because there is no way for the player to see what colors are available and what it will look like youshould give it to the player. As a master artisan I do not want to spend an hour of my limited playtime going through every shade of blue til the customer gets what he was asking for, and then doing it again for the next player.
We already get to make the vehicles that no one else can make, plus having every droid engineer clamoring for parts that only we can make.And seeing as how people can have 3 of them in their datapads now I am quite happy to be getting nearly 100k from everyone 
. Having to customize every vehilce for every player is going to cut into the limited time that many of us have
There is always a chance that a small group of people will monopolize a product.
That said, as a consumer, I wouldn't mind going to an artisan to get him/her to customize it for me. It's more immersive, frankly, and not much of a bother anyway.