Smuggler Archive
Thread: Has this been thought of?
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fishbrains
Wed Sep 01, 2004 6:31 pm
#2
VilaEblan wrote:
Just a
LOL, 5 stars! great idea! this will chance smuggling as we know it! 
VilaEblan
Wed Sep 01, 2004 6:33 pm
#3
OK so I will try this again and hope the board doesnt go screwy on me.
If a weapon has a DOT or a Power up or something,the caption on the item shows up yellow.
Any chance we could have weapons or armour that has been sliced show up blue or green or some colour? I get incidences every day where I am handed an item (perhaps as a bulk job) that has already been sliced (hooray! after a dozen tries and my patient explanations, we have managed a successful trade and ...ooops..already sliced).
OR now autopull is knackered I am finding that with all the extra items in my inv - 10 more clamps and 10 WUK to slice 10 rifles, the inventory moves a lot as items are consumed andI find it can be tricky on the eye to remember where I got to as all the items shuffle round and re-arrange themselves.
Just a thought
VilaEblan
Wed Sep 01, 2004 6:39 pm
#4
So I managed a typo, it being almost 3am, hit back space a couple of times and the forum software - being crap - thought I meant "post".
<shrug>
hooray
WesBelden
Wed Sep 01, 2004 6:56 pm
#6
Don't mind these cretins, they've been around for far to long to have any resemblence of sanity left... but then so have I, ah-hueh.
Anyways, just reply with your idea, don't feel shamed into not posting 
/emote eyes the clock, notes it's gone 2:50am and shakes his fist at his PC, "Curse you programming, curse yoooou!!!"
dorsai78664
Wed Sep 01, 2004 9:10 pm
#7
Found your other post...
Message Edited by dorsai78664 on 09-01-2004 11:13 PM
dorsai78664
Wed Sep 01, 2004 9:12 pm
#8
I like the idea of a visual cue. The "altered by a smuggler" message was supposed to accomplish that but I would imagine a lot of people don't examine their gear befoe tracking down a smuggler.
Nicolas_Frost
Wed Sep 01, 2004 9:35 pm
#9
You actually expect people to inspect thier gear, Draevyn? 
Paweh
Wed Sep 01, 2004 10:40 pm
#10
Well, in theory, people should be checking items before they buy them... since it's really easy to change item names.
Then again, some people are too lazy (coughstupidcough) to check.
Then again, some people are too lazy (coughstupidcough) to check.
Chemistrius
Wed Sep 01, 2004 11:38 pm
#11
About 1 in 5 items people bring to me to slice are already sliced.
The sliced tag has had very little impact on item awareness.
The sliced tag has had very little impact on item awareness.
WesBelden
Thu Sep 02, 2004 3:07 am
#12
fishbrains wrote:
WesBelden wrote:
Don't mind these cretins, they've been around for far to long to have any resemblence of sanity left... but then so have I, ah-hueh.
Anyways, just reply with your idea, don't feel shamed into not posting
/emote eyes the clock, notes it's gone 2:50am and shakes his fist at his PC, "Curse you programming, curse yoooou!!!"
Awww, Wes I was just having some funNow I'm a sad panda
Only joking!
/emote hands fishbrains a bag of milk, bottle of whiskey and a bunch of bamboo sticks
VilaEblan
Thu Sep 02, 2004 5:38 am
#13
While you can examine items in the trade window - it can be hard enough keeping that window open without spending more time going thru the person's items...and then explaining to them WHY you cancelled trade etc etc etc. It would be so much easier to say "dont hand me any items with a green caption" for example.
If the adding of a powerup changes a white caption to yellow. Then the slicing of a weapon turning it green (for example) should be easy enough. The mechanism must be in place - improve stats=change colour.
<<shrug>>
i wont hold my breath.
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