Image Designer Archive

Image Design: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

That's the title of my latest Gamer Girl column Iloved all of the customer stories (see the thread called Customer Stories: Please share) so much that I selected several of them to use in the column. If anyone changes their mind about having their story publicized please do let me know. A huge Thank you to everyone that contribued a story, I'm sorry I could not include them all. Especially many of the positive ones Please click on the Gamer Girl link in my signature to get there, there is a five paragraph intro by me followed by some selected stories in one of four categories.

Hey great stories! Reminds me of something that came after your thread asking for ideas...

Me and a few friends were out on a RP adventure, hopping cantinas on Tatooine in search of information. Someone was referred to me (We actually had 2 master IDs in the group) so I told them to come to Bestine where I currently was. Well in walks this very stately twi'lek followed by a mon cal. The mon cal starts to give me this sob story about how his gullet is so small and all the other mon cal make fun of him and how he wants his gullet to be the biggest there is. Soooo, I invite him to the group and usher him over to one of the side rooms of the cantina and start work. I of course add in comments like "Gee I've never done a gullet before, I hope I get this right" and "oops, is it supposed to look like that?" (He assured me it was). Finally I finish and he walks back into the main room of the cantina. The other members of my party get out the pressurized ego hose and start inflating his with comments like "Oh my what a gullet!" and "Have you evern seen a gullet so big?" He walked out the happiest customer I think I've ever had, and that was the most fun 15 minutes I ever had doing ID. (We still joke about gullet envy in our group now)

That was the most fun, the most profitable was a half hour I spent completely redesigning a wookie. About half way through the session he tipped me 50k credits. My jaw hit the floor at that. He said there would be more when I finished. So I figured another 25-50k more. I worked with him, got exactly what he wanted, and made him nice and happy. He tipped me, so I wasn't suprised to see 25k after what he said earlier. I walked out glowing happily at such generosity. About 5 minutes later I opened my inventory and did a double take when I caught a glimpse of my credits on hand. Completely stunned for a moment, I finally scrolled back up and realized I missed a 0 in the second tip. The total tip for the session was actually 50+250k, or 300k!

Thanks Tiaga, I threw those in, both incredible stories and they haven't newsed the column on the front page yet