Tailor Archive

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mirah wrote:

I am so frustrated tonight. I spent 3 1/2 hours making clothing trying to get 4 sockets in items. I made a total of 250 items and got only 7 items that ended up w/4 sockets. Grrrr. Does anyone else have this problem? I know this is all chance and all that but it just irritates me so much that I can't get a better ratio than that. Atm w/o being able to do factory crates..(w/o them going back to default color) this just is almost not worth it.

Thanks for letting me complain.

Dolly

Master Tailor

Master Arch

Sexiest Mayor on Wanderhome..Proud mayor of Ocean View, Corellia.

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I feel your pain! You must be making the striped slacks too?

the other day I was having a super bad day..... 40 tries, yes 40 tries to get a pair of 4 socket Paramilitary Camo's...I was getting so mad.. lol then he wanted BE clothes and I was like.. uh.. you may wanna wait until tomorrow.. but I popped out 2 4 socket items like no problem.. The randomness of it is insane.

One reason I do no do 4sox

I do not run factory crates of items either, it is all done by hand, so what sockets are there is it.

And I do not even blink when turning them down for BE with 4sox {even with the 'but I'll pay so much'}

Two yrs as a Tailor...BE and sockets are not what makes my creds.

Clothing itself does that.

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Ani_cul wrote:

One reason I do no do 4sox

I do not run factory crates of items either, it is all done by hand, so what sockets are there is it.

And I do not even blink when turning them down for BE with 4sox {even with the 'but I'll pay so much'}

Two yrs as a Tailor...BE and sockets are not what makes my creds.

Clothing itself does that.

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I do offer folks who want a small BE 4 sockets order but will pay the option to pay me per try. The price is half of what the item would've sold for per try, and I keep the trials. I make sure they know that it's completely random, and some folks will say "could you try x times or until you get 3 sockets?" I'll agree if they're nice after all I can just throw the spare items into my regular BE vendor

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Pappi wrote:

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Ani_cul wrote:

One reason I do no do 4sox

I do not run factory crates of items either, it is all done by hand, so what sockets are there is it.

And I do not even blink when turning them down for BE with 4sox {even with the 'but I'll pay so much'}

Two yrs as a Tailor...BE and sockets are not what makes my creds.

Clothing itself does that.

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I do offer folks who want a small BE 4 sockets order but will pay the option to pay me per try. The price is half of what the item would've sold for per try, and I keep the trials. I make sure they know that it's completely random, and some folks will say "could you try x times or until you get 3 sockets?" I'll agree if they're nice after all I can just throw the spare items into my regular BE vendor

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for a very very very small # of people I do this, but these are folks who have known me as their Tailor for well two yrs

they are the folks who send tell 'ani I need such and such look HELP!' and as I respond to tell them meet at complex they are porting in

I only offer it for nice people, most of the time I just turn the order down. I also have some ready-made 4 socket BE items in my four sockets vendor for 1.5x regular price (meaning I throw the 4 socket ones there, and 0-3 sockets in my regular BE vendor )

Message Edited by FloridianJen on 08-16-2005 01:11 AM

I never worry about sockets and tell my customers the same - its random - unless thay want to offer me huge amounts of cash they get the items with the sockets they are crafted with. It's one less worry for me and makes my life a little easier too

I completely agree with this one. With any normal clothing I make, I don't really care about sockets and neither do my customers, but with all the BE items that you can have, it seems that they ONLY want those with 4 sockets. With the factory crate bug, it's just not worth doing something that isn't the default coloring...so I end up doing it all one by one. The other day I did an order and started with 25 in the crate...and ended up with 7 left in the crate before I got even 1.

I hate the fact that it is a random thing, and that even with crafter buffs, it does nothing to anything involving our craft. I wish there was a way that those buffs would help with sockets...that might give the entertainers more involvement as well.

As long as they don't start adding experimentation to clothing crafting so that we can increase our chances of getting sockets i'm happy as it is really. Still it would be nice if buffs and the rather useless crafters apron mods actually did something to increase the chance of getting 4 sockets - i still think that as a master tailor though we should be hitting 4 socets at over 75% of the time.