Image Designer Archive

I had The Classic Line last night...

I logged on and noticed I'd received an email from a friend asking if I could help him reach Master ID tonight. Except he'd sent it the previous day, so I'd missed him. I replied and said I'd see him in the Cantina in 10 mins if he was around and I'd help him out.

So I head into the Cantina, wait 10 minutes or so and there's no sign of him (he hadn't logged on in the meantime.) I had things to do with my alt, so I sat down to log out when a Wookie sends me a tell saying, "I like your new hair. It's funny. It makes you look like a clown j/k." (I'd recently gone to a fiery natural red colour.)

Anyway, I replied with some comment and he says, "Can you change my fur colour?"

I replied I was just about to log out.

"Please..."

"Okay, as long as you know what colour you want and you're quick with it. I charge 1000c per change you're happy with."

"I don't have any money."

"Then I can't help you."

"Why?"

"Because it cost me a lot of time and effort to learn my skills."

"You should take up a combat role if you want money. That's what everybody else does."

I thought to myself, well, this is the combat-class character who can't afford to pay for ID work giving me - a fairly affluent Image Designer - lessons in how to make money, then saying I shouldn't charge for my services...? [boggle]

I logged off at that point...

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Syzygy-Gorath wrote:

Had a really fun one last night. A friend recently started a new account and asked that I take a look at his new toon. He wanted an icy clam, condescending businessman look for his Bothan. One near-full change later (didn't adjust weight or muscle, changed everything else) he left a happy…er…man? Anyway, the interesting part comes in during the hair color change. He had the whitest fur possible, and asked for black hair. I went to look at it and told him "Oh god, you look like a Gothan…see?" *offers black hair* (Gothan = Goth Bothan) He checks it out, breaks up laughing, and rejects, going with my suggestion of silver-grey.

Now comes the fun part: he asked if it would be okay if he brought his other toon, a Bothan BH, around because the idea of a Gothan really made him laugh. I said sure, and a few minutes later I'm turning his BH toon into a Gothan. Fur color to whitish with yellow undertones, hair to the medium-length slicked-back style, hair color black, eye color red (he had been previously ID'd to resemble a bulldog…think the sarge's dog from Beetle Bailey.) Next I gave him black thermal boots, black formfitting undershirt, black gunman's duster, and a silver pendant in silver and red (he already had black leather work gloves and black paramilitary camos from a previous outfit I made him.) He sets /mood to cynical and starts sneering, spouting off about corporate shills…I nearly fell out of my chair I was laughing so hard. Most fun I've had with a client in a looong time.

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Update: Spoke with my friend recently and found out that he's gotten nothing but compliments on the Gothan look. Woo! Now I just need a few more customers with a theme and a good sense of humor…

I've had some fun experiences with ID work.

First...a gal sent me a tell and asked if I would work on her boyfriend's character. I went to the waypoint and we worked for about 30 minutes getting him just right. Another couple comes in and joins the group and wants something similar. I finish with the first group and they thank me, and tip me 100K. Work on second group, and they do the same!!! 200K for an hour's work! Boy did I get spoiled after that!

Second...I'm working on a guy who asks me if I would work on his "friend". I said "of course", and he disappears and his "friend" pops in. We work on changing him to be very spooky and evil looking. He finally loves all the changes and tips me and thanks profusely. Then he says "I feel like I can trust you. Can I show you something?" And I'm thinking "oh god, please tell me there's not a bug that makes his underpants *missing*!!! LOL! But then he changes his title to reveal that he's a Jedi and I freaked!! I was so excited! It's the only one I've ever met, and it was very cool!

Lastly...I was just in Theed and a guy asks me for a "full body makeover". I tell him to see my profile for prices and the retainer clause. He comes back with the typical "but i'm new and I don't have any money, can't you do it for free? pppplllllleeeeaaaassssseee???". I politely refuse and tell him he should run some missions and earn some money before he worries about ID work. He proceeds to follow me around for 10 minutes begging me, even though I've said over and over that ID is a profession too, and we don't work for free.

That's the most frustrating part to me....folks that think our work isn't worth anything. But I love ID so much that the icky ones will never stop me!!!

My second char on chimera has been sitting around as a lot holder waiting for a job. Last night I made up my mind and levelled to Expert ID (4/4/4/4 - correct? ) and ( proudly wearing the tag ) left Talus for Corolag to try to drum up some Ap XP to get to master. Didn't train a single person but did have my first two customers. (well 3 but first didn't ask how much I charge and didn't tip but it was a minor change and IIRC he wanted skin tone which I didn't realise I couldn't do, so no worries there)

All customers where great and very patient ( especially as I got hit by tell hell and forgot to reply to one - ironically the best of them ) and must say I enjoyed myself. First one was a twilek who went away with a pattern colour change and eye colour change ( tricky one that as I found it difficult to match his skin, new pattern colour and eyes well - but end result was nice enough and customer was happy ).

Second was what I think was close to the perfect customer. Came to me ( in the Cantina ) for a tat change ( I made sure she was Zab ). She asked how much, I said 1K per change to which she said ok I only want one. One changed into 2 as her tat colour ( she had no tat at this point ) was pink. She knew which tat she wanted but described it as spidery so I offered the 'web' one which she refused ( no surpise ) so I sent her to Kari's site ( loverly site I must say ) giving her the full URL to female zab faces to save time. 10 mins later she told me the number she wanted. Offered, accepted, 2 colour offers ( wanted to match her near black hair and horns - which was tricky ) - accepted.

Asked how much, I said 2K and got paid 3K. Great customer .

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NJ62 wrote:

I hadn't been back to Scylla for a while and thought I would attend a party. So I was immediately met with a tell of "r u still an id". /sigh. Ok sure.

So I met the person and she said "make me beautiful. You look beautiful. Make me like you." /sigh. The thing I absolutely hate is that someone sees a skin color/pattern on me and immediately wants the same, not realizing that it works only with the specific color I'm wearing, and the person requesting a change is 1) usually wearing clothes that look nasty with his/her skin color and 2) usually wearing clothes that would look nasty with my skin color. On a personal level though, I don't want a bunch of me-clones running around.

So I tweaked just about everything, skin color (ha ha, not mine), eyebrows, lekku marking color, nose length, lip color, eyebrow color twice, jaw, cheeks, lekku marking color again...

This session was with someone who would walk off to buff someone, causing me to have to chase, or be rather uncommunicative "is there anything else you want??" and force me to wait a good couple of minutes for an answer.

No tip. Nada. Barely a thank-you.

I feel sour

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I'm taking up TKA for people like that.

This is my bad customer story.

I had a customer send me a tell for an ID.
I went there and he and 2 other people were there.
I grouped the first one that sent me a tell and then one of the other 2 extra people asked me for an invite also.
While I was ID'ing the first person the other was spamming groupchat with nonsense and it was hard for me to communicate with my customer. I simply said shh. He apologized and. Well it will be beter if i just post a screenshot.

Screenshot

Oimbacca was my good customer
I was natalie
and Da'cheat was my bad customer.
He waited untill after I finished to be nasty to me.

That was my only main bad customer.
I reported him but the csr reply was "Sorry theres nothing i can do"

Well last night I got hit with another smacktard. This is a customer I've had before, who was most polite the first time. He seemed out of sorts and pretty rude the second time, but I chalked it up to him having a bad day or whatnot, and the fact that he was 17 IRL, so sometimes teenagers don't realize that their turns of speech are rude, and he paid well.

Well this time I get a tell from him saying "do you not like me, you never talk to me anymore." I responded "Are you complaining that I don't send you random tells? Dude you need to chill out?" So with that he proceeds to tell me how many customers are lined up at the Theed tent (which I now suspect was a lie to make me come to him) but I told him that I was busy stocking my vendor. After a few unsuccessful attempts to get me to come to the tent, he said he was coming to my shop.

On the way we had a chat, where I found out that he was at the same EH xp party that I was at a few weeks ago, and it seemed that he was of the opinion (as was I) that members of a certain guild were behaving inappropriately for a family game in spatial. But then he started berating me for not leaving that party immediately (things are always more complicated than they seem, I was friends with certain people at the party, etc). "Hello, do you have a brain?" he said, which I basically ignored. He said, "well I think you liked it." I said "think what you want." By this time I was plenty annoyed.

He got to the shop (with his in-game wife), and said something else, I don't remember what, which was also rude, so I asked him in tells "seriously, why are you being so rude?" thinking it might be a RP thing or by calling it to his attention, he would correct his behavior. He sent back "because I am an a--hole" (not omitting any s's in there). "excuse me?" I said. "because, I, am, an, a--hole." he sent back. "I can't help it."

"That's really too bad," I said, and banned him from my shop. When he figured out what had happened, he started cursing, accusing me of being a female canine, and that I was "another one" on that time of the month. I apologized profusely in spatial to his wife that she had to make the trip out to my shop for nothing, but that her husband was too rude for service. After he shouted a few more insults from outside, I said "Might I suggest a divorce?" "Don't tempt me" she said.

Suffice to say, this smacktard has now been banned from the city where my shop is, and multiple other cities.