Image Designer Archive

I'm only playing with image design briefly, but a thought occured to me and i'm not sure if you've discussed this before.

With a normal transaction you need to have your client accept the changes you make.

However, what would be more insulting than having someone how is incapped be forced into taking changes?

-Walk away from the battle with an ugly hairdo or weird colors, etc

Now this seems kind of funny, but what's more insulting than losing battles and looking ugly too?

Just a thought for discussion i thought was funny, but had promise.

I can't imagine this would be popular with the victims, because Image Design is an elite profession with certain changes ranked in difficulty. What's more, we are permanent. A wound? Any novice medic can cure it. Damage? Ditto. Poison? Well, a doctor can cure it, but if he doesn't, the poison runs its course eventually. Disease? Same. Fire? It's true there's no cure, other than constant wound-tending, but it too goes away with time. Image design does not have an expiration date.

In order to have this be possible -- and it's a stretch -- then three things have to happen. One, our changes must be made temporary so that they will wear off if unrefreshed. Two, our changes can be UNdone by any novice entertainer. Right now this is not true: novice entertainers can replace that goofy comb-over with another newbie hairstyle, but they can't put back the master-level style you had before. Novice entertainers can fix makeup and, with a few points, eye color and freckles, but they can't make you tall again, make you thin, give you your muscles back, fix your skin color, or anything else even moderately advanced. And the third thing that has to happen is permit us to change more than one thing at a time. Otherwise, we're out there for a long time clicking buttons just to change hair style and color.

Even if that were somehow solved, I can't imagine any IDer wanting to run out into the field of battle just to give someone a funny hairstyle. Most IDs I know have almost zero health, and tons of action and mind. (Most IDs I know are ID-tailor, ID-dancer, ID-musician, or ID-doctor.) We don't belong in your PvP conflict, for the most part, because without health we're easy targets for the armies of pistoleers.

Okay, suppose that IDs were able to change people's status to covert quickly. Or maybe we had the ability to reduce the duration of a TEF. I don't want that ability either! It would only make me a target for heavily armed overts with hand cannons, and I don't have the skills or the stats to compete with that. I enjoy being an ID because I can go from Theed to Moenia, from Anchorhead to Bestine, from the Rebel outpost on Rori to the Imperial Oasis on Tatooine, and work with anybody. Make me some faction's enemyand you take away most of my customer base.

No thank you. There are already plenty of people who find ways to use ID to humiliate their foes. They assure them, "Oh, I'm just going to practice, I won't change anything." And then while their victim is dancing in the cantina, obligingly clicking buttons, the IDer gives the person a stupid hairstyle, makes the victim fat, short, and so on. Been there, seen it, don't want to have to fix it. (That particular avenue of grief might be closed off now that /imagedesignsetvalue has been fixed.)

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