Image Designer Archive
Thread: ID Missions (aka, Getting Out Of The Tent)
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Rrowann
Sat Jul 17, 2004 8:23 am
#1
Morning. I was slurking about through some of the forums today when I got frustrated at the "Entertainer, Musician, and Dancer" thread lines. We are in the Entertainer skill set, and though I know we've gotten Dev attention, I began to wonder why no one was even considering missions for ID's the way they've got a whole In-Concept thread for missions for All Entertainers Except ID's.
I can see where people might just want the PC interaction for the profession, but I figured it wouldn't hurt to make suggestions, especially on an Open Discussion thread. 
Cross-posted from In-Concept:
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It always makes me sort of sad that any time there's discussion of Entertainer Quests from official-type folks, it's "Entertainer, Dancer, and Musician". Image Designer is put in Entertainer too!
I really try to converse and amuse and show options to folks and talk about where they're from and where they're going when I'm working on them. It doesn't heal their battle fatigue, sure, but it's social interaction in an MMORPG. To me that's entertaining.
Anyway, I'm going to suggest ID mission ideas in here, too, so there. 
#1 - Escaping the heat. Faction mission or non-factioned, an NPC in hiding is wanted by the Hutts, has an Imperial bounty on him, whatever. The PC must find the NPC and rearrange his or her features to be sufficiently different from his current features, possibly even with the requisite that he has to remain subtle -- ie, no taking someone who looks like Luke and giving him an orange mohawk and green beard. Loud will only look like a disguise. It's up to the ID to sort it out. Albino Wookiees are not subtle.
#2 - Infiltration. An NPC needs to sneak into an opposing faction group and needs the help of someone to disguise them. Unlike the previous mission, a screen shot would be given of what the NPC needs to ultimately look like and the ID would have to match it up, keeping in mind there's 200 Zabrak horn colors and 100 shades of brown for Wookiees, this could be decently challenging.
#3 - No Really, We're Cousins.I remember reading a while back some ID who'd really enjoyed taking two different species and trying to make them look like they were related to one another. Maybe some NPC has a photo of some hawthuman and she wants to look just like her ... except she's Zabrak. (How often have we ID's gotten something like that?)
#3 might be impossible because of the ways different species' features are rated, but I figure it can't hurt to suggest.
From discussions on IDing Vendors, I remember reading that the space needed to utterly customize vendors would bork the databases or something similar, but I'm wondering if these are actual mission spawns full range of changes could be gotten away with. If not, and actually graphically changing even temporaryNPC's would give a server a seizure, maybe you could offer a range of templates instead, and you have to pick a disguise based on the nature of the threat? If you have to pass as a senior human senator, you would have to pick one of the disguises that sets the age bar relatively high, and one that doesn't look too wide-eyed.
Message Edited by Rrowann on 07-17-2004 11:24 AM
TechnoCan
Sun Jul 18, 2004 6:04 am
#2
I was thinking about ID-missions for some time myself and came up with very similar ideas. I really like your ideas, too.
May the Force be with you all!
TechnoCan
Kwee
Mon Jul 19, 2004 7:30 pm
#4
I would love to see ID missions one day Unfortunately it seems missions are very difficult to implement. Reinforced by the fact that new ones seem to be accompanied by so many problems. Save your ideas, if I ever get wind of the devs considering such a thing please do share them again
Unfortunately it seems missions are very difficult to implement. Reinforced by the fact that new ones seem to be accompanied by so many problems. Save your ideas, if I ever get wind of the devs considering such a thing please do share them again
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