Image Designer Archive

Thread: Idea from a smuggler, no flaming please

Moonkat
Thu Apr 29, 2004 3:18 am
#1
Yeah, that is something very interesting that might be around in a couple years.



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Syzygy-Gorath
Thu Apr 29, 2004 6:20 am
#2
It's a suggestion that's come up before, and it is certainly an interesting one. I think the pros are pretty obvious with this, so let me give you some of the cons/challenges we'd come up with and see what you can do with them:


  • Abuse: TEFs are incurred for a reason, removing them early would more easily allow for griefing

  • Abuse: Allowing players to return to covert status from overt status would more easily allow for griefing

  • Reticense: Many image designers fear a service like this would open us up to TEFs ourselves, and attacks which we are ilprepared to deal with

  • Demand: Many image designers feel that such an ability would become like doctor's buffs and we would be swamped with clients wanting our services for "the wrong reasons"

  • Resentment: Many image designers would rather opt out of providing a service such as this, and fear the reprisals of players wishing to make use of it

  • Aesthetics: Many image designers have no wish to have any part in the GCW, we only wish to make with the pretty

Those are just the down-sides I can remember offhand—I'm interested to see what you can come up with in terms of mitigations/work-arounds for them. Good luck, and thanks for taking the time to stop by!




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mh307
Thu Apr 29, 2004 8:11 am
#3

well for tef's i say its a no-no just for the fact they are there for a reason and only last 5mins anyway so by the time an image design session is finished your tef is gone anyway



for overt maybe


but timed and if they attack it drops



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obijkenob1
Thu Apr 29, 2004 12:20 pm
#4
For some reason the board wouldn't let me post my longer post, so if some of this doesn't make sense sorry about that. Basically, I was hoping for more interaction between IDers and smugglers. Maybe working together we could conceal someone's TEF's or the fact they are overt. I was thinking maybe you guys change someone's "appearance" (giving them a partial bonus to not be noticed by people from the opposite faction NPCs and PCs) while smugglers make "forged papers" (to complete the max bonus a player can get for this). Like I said, my other post had better ideas and came across better in general, but I don't feel like retyping it. Ideas? Thoughts?
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