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Kwee

Wed May 26, 2004 2:59 pm

I came to post the Image Designer one, which is a Merchant hybrid but I don't see the Merchant one posted yet so here they both are

Thunderheart said:

Image Designer

Recently the Image Designer community was informed that the ability for Image Designers to makeover Merchant NPC vendors (who are often created and deleted by the dozens as players attempt to find one suiting their aesthetic requirements) was being pursued. Both the Image Designer and Merchant communities have been anxiously awaiting word on whether or not this ability will be granted, and if so when we might expect to see it in the game.

We do want to grant these abilities in the future. Players won’t be able to select any image the way a player can because it takes up database space to store all of those individual variables, but we want to add a series of pre-selected choices that an Image Designer could choose from. This would definitely be after the Jump to Lightspeed.

Merchant

The current system for categorizing items is in serious need of revamping. There are categories with no items in them, there are items that have no category. There have been major additions to the game (Vehicles) which have no proper category. When can we expect to see a revamp of the categories?

We also want to update the bazaar and vendor interfaces. Currently, we are at the tail end of a back-end re-write of the commodities system to improve functionality and reliability. That work has to be completed before we can think about the front end of the commodities system.

Kwee Glitterwing of Starsider
Ex Image Designer Correspondent ~ Elder Tailor
& Kwee-kwee ~ Master Image Designer
Gamer Girl Columnist ~ swg.warcry.com
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Songe

Wed May 26, 2004 3:07 pm

#2

/shrug, doesn't make a big difference, it will take forever in both cases anyway. I guess that the fact that they are thinking about it is encouraging though.

I'm just really hoping that they will fix the interface so that it's sorted alphabetically on all pages and not per page...

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GoCanes

Wed May 26, 2004 3:16 pm

#3

Good info in both, but I expect it will be two months or so before we see them in action...

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DocSavag

Wed May 26, 2004 3:47 pm

#4

I'm a bit disapointed that we won't see ID'ing of vendors until after JTL (which mean until at least late this year maybe early next year). I'm optimistic that we will see a vendor interface revamp in the next three months...I don't know about the categories.

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LonelyGhost

Wed May 26, 2004 4:04 pm

#5

Why optimistic? Has there been talk on the secret Boards about it? Are you thinking a major overhaul (all new screens and sorting) or just some columns moved, added, or deleted?

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DocSavag

Wed May 26, 2004 4:08 pm

#6

LonelyGhost wrote:

Why optimistic? Has there been talk on the secret Boards about it? Are you thinking a major overhaul (all new screens and sorting) or just some columns moved, added, or deleted?

That optimism is based on there being a slot in JustG's State of the Game post for Merchant Vendor Revamp in publish 11. Now I don't know the status of that becasue since then they pushed smuggler to 11 I think and that may affect things.

I am hoping that means taking some of our suggestions (especally some of the batch processing ones and a better searching system) and going with that. I don't KNOW what they intend to do and that is two full publishes away and they are still working on 9.. sooooo they probably don't know either yet.

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Chataka Windae
Rifleman/Combat Medic
CEO, Windae Enterprises
Mesric Sanctuary Founder

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