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Thread: Suggestion for pust-CU house signs

Rehavam
Sun May 01, 2005 11:40 am
#1
Well, with the CU the house signs - e.g. the text with the name of your house resp. your shop no longer shows up automaticly.


That might be OK for normal houses that are used for storage or as homes. However, it is very bad for merchants and shop owners. Thus I would like to suggest to fix this problem and at the same time add some value to the merchant profession.


As of now we have 4 addtional types of house signs that we can choose from in the merchant profession. They don't do nothing except change the appearance of the house sign.


My idea would be to load the house names of houses with the special merchant signsautomaticly into the world like they did before the CU.


Also, ifpossible the font size could increase with each sign level.



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Rehavam
Sat May 07, 2005 3:20 pm
#2
So.... there is no other merchant that is concerned aboutthe house signs not displaying automaticly after the CU? Hard to believe....?!



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faarsider
Sat May 07, 2005 3:40 pm
#3

In fairness I don't much look at house signs and don't think I have for a longtime think most peeps tend to use wp's when heading to a vendor so when they see the wp over the building in they go



I may on occasion look and think "ohhh nice use of colour hex's" on a particularly imaginative sign but thats about my limit


Ani_cul
Sat May 07, 2005 4:17 pm
#4
Text size is controlled by personal settings in options

as is the veiwing of house signs


The bug that places 'show signs' under 'show all object names' needs to be fixed

{it is this which is not allowing signs to be seen}

but thereis nothing in the features of signs that need changing

except the size of the allowed veiwable text.

{which is what was drastically changed with the CU}




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Akkori
Sat May 07, 2005 5:30 pm
#5
I wish they would let us make Merchant-specific buildings...... /grrr



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Atan
Sat May 07, 2005 6:12 pm
#6




Akkori wrote:
I wish they would let us make Merchant-specific buildings...... /grrr




What, like merchant tents?



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Jutewr
Sat May 07, 2005 8:39 pm
#7




Atan wrote:




Akkori wrote:
I wish they would let us make Merchant-specific buildings...... /grrr




What, like merchant tents?




lol You made me laugh.

Akkori probably means large, house-like structures. A mall, perhaps, rather than a tent.

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Parody
Sun May 08, 2005 8:22 am
#8
I just wish they'd stop messing with the font; they looked much better before the CU. Or did I miss a setting change?



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Pappi
Sun May 08, 2005 12:34 pm
#9

Jutewr wrote:

Atan wrote:

Akkori wrote:
I wish they would let us make Merchant-specific buildings...... /grrr


What, like merchant tents?


lol You made me laugh.
Akkori probably means large, house-like structures. A mall, perhaps, rather than a tent.


I like those salons, I would love one of those for a shop



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Akkori
Sun May 08, 2005 6:34 pm
#10
Well, I never think of a tent as a structure. I think of it as... well... a tent, heheheh. I'd like a real store, with a large glass front wall to display stuff, built in display cases (a dozen "models" made by Architects with different layout interiors), and so on. And while we're wishing, I'd like a larger, "strip-mall" type, with multiple rooms with independantly set admin lists.


I find it incredible that almost 2 years after SWG launched that not one single new droid chassis or non-civic structure has been added.



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Andymantium
Mon May 09, 2005 6:59 am
#11
They've been "upgrading" combat. I'm sure it'll be our turn any day now.





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Seilyn_Nox
Mon May 09, 2005 8:08 am
#12

Actually I do like the idea of "shop specific" signs added for merchants. I'm picturing something similar to thedefault sign that is attached directly to the structure however with a more vibrant look - along the lines of large vertical neon looking signs, or more traditional hanging style (that hang from a horizontal bar sticking out from the house). Something, even if players have the Show Sign text disabled (like I do), will instantly scream out "Merchant Here!".


And I agree that it is pretty sad that a) we've had no new, non-civicstructure styles added (I'd love to see shop specific ones for the merchants and warehouses and/orworkshopsfor the crafters) and b) no new shop/display specific furniture added for the Archi's to build (display cases, mannequins, racks and for the love of jeebus give us the counters that are in every NPC building! Gah!).







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