Image Designer Archive
Thread: Newsflash: ID Building (Tent) now on Test Center
we definitely deserve it. Thank you again Kwee you are a gem..I'm assuming we'll be able to hit accept on a zero amount if we want to, if not you could have the noob pay 1 credit
mirah wrote:
Well i am looking forward to the new changes but am rather disappointed that we aren't allowed to have this in a player city. As a master weaponsmith/master artisan/ and master image i spend 95% of my game time in front of my crafting stations in my town. This would be so much better if we were able to place them in our town. I mean imagine how much the towns would prosper with the shuttles and all...especially if you have a patient ider who is willing to help out a ton like that with noobs. I just hope that by the time it is uploaded to all servers the devs have decided to allow us to place in player cities.
Okay and i have one more question with this new interface...how will this work if you are helping out a noob and they have no money to pay for it which lol you aren't expecting them to because hehe they are a noob? I am curious about the entire interface thing....okay thank you for listening to me rant...and to the devs i am happy you all are paying attention to this profession of ours.
Dolly
Master Image designer
Master weaponsmith
Master artisan
Sassee----working on commando----crispy
Wanderhome-----lol yes i have two characters roflmao
I was really looking forward to the new Image Design things. Now I'm not. Restricting the new abilities to five static locations will just require more travel for us and our customers. Let me just say this is an awful idea andwon't be fun for anyone. And consider this... if what we can do is time limited, how fun will it be for people to have some of that time eaten up in travel every time they want the effect. It just makes no sense to me at all.
I've been an Image Designer from the beginning... but my hopes have been dashed.
My main is a master ID as well. /corr hat off
This feature has potential to be great, but it also has potential to turn out very icky.
First things first: There is no reason IDs shouldn't get their own player city building. After these NPC cityones are done, it should be a (relatively) simple matter of copying the model, tying it to a schematic, and dropping it in Architect. There are even 3 varieties for placement on different planets. After this project is done, no more excuses about there not being enough demand to justify the development time. Fair is fair.
The use of these tents: I can think of one feature that would be great. What if the player ID'd the terminal, and a "hologram" of the result appeared on the pad? When the client likes what he/she sees, a few mouse clicks could copy it to the client. That would be a perk to using the tent, but it wouldn't mean we had to trek across the galaxy to do something. As previously stated, I don't think tying down particle effects or any of the advanced abilities to these tents is a good idea. Perhaps making them last longer if they were done in a tent would be acceptable. They should be a perk or a convenience, but never mandatory.
EDIT: that all sounds too negative. I forgot to say how excited I am! 
Thank you! Seriously!
Message Edited by Randonb on 04-17-2004 09:04 PM
biwan:
Very much like the concept and I'm all in support of it in theory. I will add my vote/concern that these new goodies should in fact be placable within player cities.
Second point: Why just those five cities? If they are to to be tied to static cities why not a bit more accessability. The reason I raise this point is that I'm based out of Talus. If I were on Naboo, Corella, or Tatooine, it'd be a simple shuttle trip. Annoying and inconvenient yes, but livable. As it stands, I will need to make a shuttle as well as a starport trip. I'm sure I"m not the only one that's based out on one of the "outter" planets. I woudn't mind Nashal or Dearic having one. Perhaps each "capital" city should have one? Just a thought.
Kwee wrote:
The tent will not be placeable by us.
It is only located in five cities (just got that confirmed by our dev):
Theed
Moenia
Bestine
Coronet (good thing I logged there, I couldn't find it for anything last night)
Vreni Island
WOOHOO! Nice to see my longsuffering loyalty to the profession is finally paying off. /mood excited
I don't know what they do but I MUST HAVE ONE. I MUST HAVE my own ID tent to place in my Player City. If this feature is pushed back or overlooked, rest assured that these will be one more waste of time that no one will use. They MUST be placeable in towns, named by us, with decor by us. Otherwise it's just one more thing causing lag that gets ignored.
As far as look, I kind of like them but they are WAY too "girly". Lose the pink. Most players are male, including most ID customers, & many ID players themselves. An option for the pink frou frou look is fine. But there MUST be a version that's cool looking & fun but not FEMININE. NO male character (or character played by most males) will ever step foot in that tent. It looks like a Barbie playset. It's like an anti-customer barricade. Guys are as likely to go there (for any incentive) as they are to go to a beauty salon & sit next to women getting their nails done.