Image Designer Archive
Thread: Some ideas I had for IDs from a Non-ID
Design Artist - This profession is mostly useless. There is nothing here necessary nor needed by anyone in the game. I disagree. People who trained in this profession knew what they were getting into. This is more a 'fun' profession than a profession for achievers. What more can we do to the Image Designer profession to make it useful?
Well, Image Designer is not really a "fun profession." As of right now, it is just another profession that occasionally pops up for the Holo Grinders.
What can we do to make it better? Well Image Designers should be the ones to make some of the more contemporary Furniture types, Paintings, perhaps some specialized clothing. Think of this profession as the artsy type.
Perhaps be able to mesh badges onto clothing. Badges like a Guild Badge, custom designed by the guild leader, which then produces a schematic that only an Image Designer can use. Then the guild members can go to to an Image Designer and have him/her create the patches & mesh them on your chest, back or shoulders of your clothing/armor. They could also have the actual badges for professions be able to beadded to your clothing. Badges for master elite professions. Architect, Commando, TKA, etc...
Image Designers could be able to paint the interior of your house, dye clothing/armor to change its color, dye furniture to change its color (minus the metal based furniture). They could have floorplans for each type of building and use an in-game program to layout furniture from a pulldown menu. (this would be used for decorating) Then create blueprints from that layout. Then they can sell the blueprints to customers. The customer gets the blueprint and a list of all the furniture on it. When the customer has all or some of the furniture in their inventory, they can "Use" the blueprint and it automatically places the items from their inventory into the house at the predetermined locations taken from the blueprint. This blueprint would only be able to be used 3 times so that people could not sell them to everyone else and in turn, remove the market for them from the Image Designers.
Image Designers could build specialized gardens for cities. They would use that same creation screen for laying out furiture for this, but it would rather be able to place different items that you find in gardens. I.E. Benches, flowers, trees, etc... Then it creates a blueprint that Architects can buy and useto make 3 actual deeds from each.
There are tons of things that Image Designers could take part in. Some of this may cross a bit into Artisan, but so what. Give them something to do. I think these ideas are awesome. I know that furniture IS NOT designed by architects. LOL, but nevertheless, they do in this game.
I have never taken up Image designer or even any real part in any of the entertaining professions. But, I do see much potential for some of these current seemingly useless professions.
I hope this brings you all some help. I would also like to see what you think of this.
Message Edited by Barfalomue on 04-07-2004 09:36 AM
Barfalomue wrote:
Well, Image Designer is not really a "fun profession." As of right now, it is just another profession that occasionally pops up for the Holo Grinders.
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I have never taken up Image designer or even any real part in any of the entertaining professions. But, I do see much potential for some of these current seemingly useless professions.
LOL. No offense to the original poster... but, maybe you should TRY a profession before you determine whether or not it's fun. Also, you might want to do your research a bit more thoroughly before you come barging intoany profession's official forum declaring that they're essentially useless. I love being an Image Designer, and my huge client base would all protest vehemently against us being called useless.
Also, the idea of us encompassing interior design, art, etc. as well as changing people's avatars have come up NUMEROUS times. It's generally met with 'meh' responses. We have FAR greater priorities in terms of what we'd like to see added to our profession than being able to paint pictures.
Barfalomue wrote:
I will hence forth take my comments to a more appreciative group of players.
we will see, but at the moment i am happy as can be
Miyca wrote:
Your certainly didn't earn any brownie points by starting off calling us "useless". All of us (if I may be so bold) love what we do. We don't do it because it does or does not play a vital part in the game style. We do it because it's fun, occasionally profitable, and is something that needs to be done. People come to us because they WANT to not because they have to. And we like it that way. Much easier to deal with a person who is there by choice than a person who is there by force.
"Heck, I'm a guy and I love image designer. Just hit 4-2-4-1 today after some grinding, and I love the hairstyles"
Hrm, I'm a guy and I have enjoyed it for probably two months now. You say it like being a guy and an ID is a bad thing. I just simply offset this with a combat profession heh 
Anyways, I don't do this for a profit. If I wanted to makelargeamounts of cash I would make a crafter of sorts. I do it because I enjoy doing it and (thanks to Holocrons) not many people take time to enjoy there professions anymore which has essentially ruined the game in my opinion. But, that is another entire post in itself soI will leave it at that.
i love image design also
and i think that it is far from useless
we give you uber pvpers style
also even paintings would step on someones toes, the archetects
-Biana
ps im 1 staring ya also
mh307 wrote:
also even paintings would step on someones toes, the archetects
-Biana
ps im 1 staring ya also