Image Designer Archive

Yes I must agree, brighter hair colors and bald are the requests i get for hair. Skin colors are also big, darker skin colors, and unusual colors are also asked for a lot.

Gribardson, Tarquinas

1. I to be able to register in a planetary location with Image Design the same way i register as a Dancer in a cantina. I should be able regsiter anywhere on the map. To be honest, no one has trouble doing a search for Image Desgners to find me, but it would still be nice to not have to give a waypoint all the time. Let me register and wait for customers to come to me.


2. Im not sure what suggestions we've given have meshed... im not sure than any of our suggestions have even made it. Suggestion: fix the slider bug and the hair color bug then ill be happy. Until then i feel like we're being ignored. These are flaws in our prfoession that limit our ability to do our job.


3. You know, i like the fact that im not dependant on another profession to do my image design work. I dont havea set price for ID work and i like the fact that i can just do it. If you were to add disguises and stuff i might not mind having to get supplies from an artisan for the disguise purpose, but NEVER to do my normal Image Designing.


4. Im already a Master Artisan and do plenty of crafting with that thanks. I dont want to craft with ID as well as Artisan. News Flash, crafting isnt that fun. I understand why some ID'ers want to have SOMETHING to craft but really i dont see that its needed.


5. Do more than pursue it Thunderheart, fall in love with the idea of Image Designers working on vendors... have a baby with that idea, raise that idea to adulthood and release it on the world of SWG.


6. A part in the war.... eh, i dont really want a part in the world. I cant see how an Image Designer would have time to mess with all the combat people coming for buffs or whatever on top of their normal ID work. If i have my Master Image Designer tag on, im busy working. Ill get a tell within 15 minutes when i log in and thats if the day is slow.


7. A better interface is needed for sure! We need lighting, the ability to lock a player in place. We need the player to have a window that they can see so they can move thier avatar around. Lock the ID'er and the customer into an Image Design Session. Also, number all the hairstyles already... its just a number. Hand me the code and ill learn how to put it in for you guys, it really cant be that hard.


8. I dont think an extensive redesign is needed other than interface and additional options. More hairstyles would be great (some of the female bothan styles would look so good on humans its sickening). Wild colors for hair and body... this is the kind of stuff we want TH, and its not a lot really.... just colors and hair.


9. I guess i can understand that the bugs are hard to diagnose.... BUT, this slider bug... lets talk about it. I start and ID session and then move to Nose Protrusion...POOF, the slider goes to zero and i have NO idea what it was before. Here is what i would like to see, give us a diagnosis box similar to what medics have with /diag, it would give us hard numbers on all body attributes when we begin the session. With this we could change someone back to the way they were no matter what because we have a little box that tells us exactly what the sliders were set to.


10. I dont understand how Hairstyles can be easier than colors, i just dont get it. Its color, give it to us! Seriously, give us the colors for hair that we have for lip color (while making sure the older hair colors are still available, i MUST have #20 blonde). This cant be that hard can it?

All in all im still hopeful. There arent many that play this profession for the sake of playing the profession. When the jedi system is changed, many people wont even bother to grind ID anymore so the Masters that are here will need all the content you can give us to keep our interest up.

A part in the war.... eh, i dont really want a part in the WAR. <-- typed world before, silly me

I think Kwee gave a very good summary of what is happening to the ID- community and our wishes. I think it says it all.

I really have the same feeling. IDing was my first "love". And now after months seeing nothing happens i am seriously considering to step over to Chef.I checked this board to see if any hard dates of a patch for IDing have come up. But sadly i see no dates. So i think my descision to drop ID is final.

I have, however some input for better IDing based on TH answers.

- Do IDers want to craft: YES if we get good items like disguisekits, make-up, wigs, petmake-up, buffsetc. Its the best and easiest way to introduce IDing into the rest of the community and making them dependent from it.

Part of vision is that IDing should be an elite after Artisan. Add certain craftables (such as make-up) in the line of artisan. IDers should be able to make money with missions for artisans this way in a very easy way (no development for idermissions needed. at least at first). The line in entertainer has to vanish (maybe add singing for entertainers?). Abilities in the entertainer line should either be added in artisan but preferably in novice ider.

Crafting of make-up/wigs/pet-make-up : same as clothes not depending on quality. Since it should be in the artisan line => no specific resources.

disquisekits should depend on quality. THe higher the quality the more options of certain specific disquise looks or the longer NPC-faction-disquise stays on(for more explenation see diquise kits). preferably no specific resources.

- Merchant vs ID with vendormake-over. IDers should be able to alter vendors with the same options as a character. Merchants however should be able to change the vendor (with hiring IV) with bought items, such as make-up. The same as with tailor. Tailor makes the clothes and the merchant can apply them.

Petmake-up - petmake-up (overall temporarycolorchange) should be made by iders and applied bya CH.The make-up should fade in a day or a week. Suggestion on colors: NEON, black, naturals.

- Disquise kit ...Like spices and food disquise should have a timelimit. "Second there should be a waiting time (like muon) for reapplying. First it blances the gameplay. Second to ensure grievers dont abuse disquise. Dosquise kits should be crafted in crates of 25 like most food or spices.

Types of disquise:

- NPC-faction disquise (maskscent-like) - this disquise doesnt need to visual (like maskscent)

- roleplay disquise (real look dsiquise) - choices from other races to imperial officers (sort of menu with premade chars that look like a certain profession or race etc).

Buffs : A few ideas of types of buffs thatare body or mentaltraining related. (preferably craftable)

Yoga buff - Concentrates the mind. So it gives mind reduce cost (50% less or so)and lets medics do better buffs or heals in combat or crafting increases.

Barbarian -buff (preferably craftable): this type of buff enhances the naturalphysique (Health+action)for a fighter like medic-buffs do. it enhances the damage done and weakens the defense a bit (more damage extra relatively then defense less).

Massage-buff: negative BF.

more colors : i amazes me to read that TH doesnt know anything about this. A few months back this was the only point devs were thinking about to change since it was the easiest thing to do. This reaction convinced me to stop.

Furthermore it amazes me that developers think that profession shifting is a thing done after a few weeks. Especially with roleplaying its not the case. (How often did they have a career change rl?) This has never been done in any game and the other games have the advantage of more toons per account.

3D facial hair: to be honest if it never comes..i couldnt care less...

Master-ID : extra option to put yourself or your shop on the planetary map.

Jasmijn (Master ID, Master Tailor, Master Artisan, Merchant) - Starsider

Idany (Master CH, Master TKA, Medic, Scout, Markswoman) - Starsider

Message Edited by Nouva on 02-06-2004 01:27 PM

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Thunderheart wrote:

Kwee, Runesabre and I have been working hard on addressing many of your issues

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