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They shoudl give merchants the ability to have a ordering terminal. In this ordering terminal the owner of it could upload all the schematics he can currently make. This would be extremely useful for Tailors. Someone could come in and go on the ordering terminal and browse what the builder can make. Say they want a Small shirt. They select that. Then they go through process can choose color so forth. Then the builder can put like estimate prices in the terminal for each item for exact so say a Simple Shirt to order will be like 150 Credits. Then when the tailor comes online they can chcek order terminal and Make all the orders in there or choose not to. When finished the builder puts it back in order terminal or maybe contacts the person who ordered it and they can arange trade or the person can come back and order it. Not sure how would work it out so that they would pay or so someone wouldn't come in and order 50 things they don't want. Maybe make them pay 25% or 50% Upfront maybe all. Then if the builder doesn't make it say it is refunded after 5 Days.There is alot to discuss with this but some sort of ordering terminal would be nice.

Yet another good idea. Lets hope it gets read by a dev sometime this year

good idea, tag

I would LOVE a feature like this. Sounds like it would also be a way to keep people's special ordered items separate from all the items on our public vendors, so people couldn't come in and buy the stuff you just made for someone else.

Very cool idea!!!

i agree it gets very tedeas to have to ask my costomers 5 times what kind of modules they would like in there droid.

Awesome idea, but you gotta face the fact that something like that would require a ton of work. Thats a whole can a worms, and they gotta lot on there plate already. Now naming the actual colors and makeing a color palete available for everyone to use as a reference would be easier to implement, even if it only helped tailors, it'd be something. Just a thought

Actually, on second thought if it wasn't specific to the owners actual skills,an ordering terminal might work. If it allowed the user to "craft" what they wanted and then made the object, but kept it tied to the terminal so it couldn't be removed, but you could see exactly what they wanted. Then the merchant could delete it, when it was no longer needed. You would have to make some sort of "magic" hopper that had all available components, at least a generic version of them, and make sure that it refilled with each use. As long as no one had access to a hopper, it might be able to work like a crafting tool every one can use, and everyone could look in, but no one can access. I take what I said back, Its still an awsome idea and it may not be the amount of work I thought it would be. The programming components may already be in place, and a little creativity on the dev teams part might make it work. And if only merchants could place them then we would have a deffinate advantage. Great idea dang it. I completely withdraw my previous comments. Well not completely, I would like color names and a viewable color pallete in options or something.

Bang up idea!

Well just wanted to bump it up really would like this in game. Another thing I would like to add though is that maybe the person ordering can choose what they would like to have the builder experiment in? Or if they have no prefrence leave to the builder. Because unless the builder has a sample there is no way to tell what it looks like or what it will do. But even if they do you can have more control when u customize it yourself.

Great idea. (Boy am I behind in this forum)

Well, instead of actually ordering the shirt on the terminal just make it like a practice tool. They can go through the motions of making the item, but it never makes it, however it simply sends an in-game email to the owner of the vendor who then can follow up on the sale.

I like the idea of going to a 'place' and selecting exactly what I want. Great idea. Especially for tailors. If you don't make clothes, you have know idea of the colors/styles available.

Some good ideas on how to prevent this form being exploited too

Good post, thanks Alienmistro

Otiamo

Great idea... How about adding this to it though:

Order Terminal -

Reverse auction. Crafters will bid on how cheap they could make it. All transactions are done on that Vendor. Now to make it profitable to the merchant's... All the Reverse Auction Vendor's are linked (They are required to be either a Terminal or Droid)... the Vendor pays a fixed Maintance fee. But the vendor can also charge for use of the Vendor. Now how do we make it so more people will use wide spread of these vendors... We could always give it a Crafter Admin list. Meaning only these crafters can bid on a project. But then that could cut down on alot of business... So that probably isn't a good idea... How would we make it so people will use differant vendor Reverse Auction Vendors... not sure yet... maybe someone can help with that idea..