Merchant Archive

Adding my name to yet another post protesting the loss of this ability. Crafting is boring enough WITH COLORS! Now it's even more mind numbing, since I know longer ponder cool names and colors for things like furniture and statues. Sad loss, not only to us, but to the entire galaxy that willnow have nothing but boring, bland and unimaginative wares to buy and dislay.

I, too, have been disheartened by this change. My sales were quite high thanks to my unique labels. And in the spice business where everyones crap is the same I now have no other edge short of the name on my spice. Has anyone actually HEARD a viable reason from a DEV regarding this change?

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JamesHighwest wrote:
Has anyone actually HEARD a viable reason from a DEV regarding this change?

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Socketed and enhanced items use colored names instead of some other sort of designation, so players coloring the names would interfere with the devs 'legit' use of name coloring.

/miss.. i want color.. i miss color.. have special equipment have a different font.. there simple fix .. now we can make everyone happy

An easy fix would be to use * as a special character to designate the "special" enhanced items in the game and not allow it to be used in naming items. Or make yellow a color that cannot be used in a name and leave the system as it was.

Poof! No scamming and colors are back

This is the most lame nerf I have ever seen of SWG! **edit** over? I really enjoyed spicing up the names of my products. It helped me keep track of them, it helped set them out from other products. All in all it was a very good thing.

Devs, there was really no reason to hit this walnut with a sludge hammer. You have taken away one of the funnest parts of the profession! TH please address this issue.

A Dev comment about the item colorization issue:

http://forums.station.sony.com/swg/board/message?board.id=Development&message.id=861868#M861868

OMG nerf colors! They're way overpowered. And besides the stupid can't use them.

/sarcasm off

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Makkari wrote:
I wouldn't have minded colors so much if 1) they didn't affect alphabetical sorting and 2) people didn't use some godawful colors!
Then again, I hate it when people modify the front of the item name instead of the back. "Gunman's Duster Black" is much easier to find than "Black Gunman's Duster"

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/agree

Especially point 2, when they pick a color that makes the text impossible to read against the bazaar background or the selected bazaar item background.

It did nothing but irritate me, even if it was legible! I sympathize with those who used it for sorting on vendors, but a couple of characters in front would do the same

I do hope they don't "fix" house signs though!

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Mousekin wrote:

Akamo, that's your right of course

For Chef's colouring foods is more than just marketing though, my foods correspond to the attributes they effect (red for health, blue for mind, green for action, just like your ham bar). I don't think anyone can deny the usefulness of such a simple scheme. It certainly makes perusing a vendor easier when all your items are "food" or "drink". Chefs already have a hard time I need every advantage I can get

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Yes exactly. My wife and I used coloring extensively. My wife is a Tailor generally with a great number of items on her vendor. She color codes the BE Enhanced clothing with a color code for each attribute...not only does it make it MUCH easier for customers to find the enhanced clothing but it also makes it easier for them to find specifically what they wanted (all blue colring is for medica enhanced, etc)

I used coloring extensively in my shop and not so much on my final items. As an Architect I generally have literally dozens of factory crates all over my shop. When I make a factory run I color code the schem and then I can easily discern components from teh same run without comparing serial numbers .... This was a REAL big help to me and I'm extremely sad to see it go =(