Tailor Archive

... and I can't give you any real details. So here's what I have to say.

Things are going to change, because that's what balancing is about. There may be some things you like, and others that you're not happy with (as tailors or as players). Please believe that these balance changes will be necessary for the health of the game. Overall, my impressions are positive. The changes will be made public soon.

I'm fighting for you, and for what you want. To be honest most things talked about were combat-related, and not tailor-related. I did speak up (loudly!) when it was relevant. The devs were overall very responsive to correspondent feedback.

There were real hawtpants involved. I got 2 pairs. Pairs were also given to... Calculus, TK (droid guy) and Vortexala (bwahahahhahahah!). Jester actually wore his.

I'm constrained about what I can say, but if you have any questions, feel free to put them in this thread.

public...as in first thing monday morning?

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Omegabetazeta01 wrote:

Can you tell us if we're at least going to get more clothing? =)

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That wasn't part of the combat balance discussion.

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Kirranas wrote:

I understand you cant say much about the details and future plans, but did you have chance to talk about Bio Clothes with the combat correspondents are they happy with the current system ?

Can you say if their are any plans for the Bio items and Skill tapes to be reviewed in the combat balance ?

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I can say that I took the opportunity to (informally) talk to the other correspondents in person - because it's better than on the forums - but outside the official dev CB talks, about these pressing tailor issues.

*zips mouth after that*

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Gyopi wrote:

The only things that I really want to know (and know you can't answer) are

1) Are tailors about to have a complete change in the nature of the profession like what happened to image designers?

2) Will we still be relavant at all after the combat rebalance?

It always makes me nervous when they make sweeping changes in the game. I know that they mean well, but so far they are true experts in giving examples the law of unintended consequences.

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1) I heard nothing about a complete change for tailors. Remember this is the combat rebalance, not the crafting rebalance, and there are no plans that I've heard of to do a full revamp on tailor. (That doesn't mean it won't happen, it just means that wasn't discussed because we discussed combaty stuff.)

2) I don't think our role is going to be changing much (if at all) in the CB. Again, this summmit was primarily about combat balancing, and very little about tailors (though I did run my mouth anyway). I could be wrong, because things are still up in the air.

I can't really give details - but I feel like the devs are listening and we are continuing the CB dialogue behind the scenes, to iron out the issues and give additional feedback. I'll be loud and rabid if I see any red-flag tailor issues.

Message Edited by NJ62 on 08-29-2004 09:56 PM

We expect that level of rabidity (if that's a word) from our Correspondant, and her spirited defense of the Hawtpant cause here has shown us just how passionate she can become in our name. Go NJ! Be RABID!

1) Are there any intentions of making changes to the tailoring profession within the next 2 months?

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NJ62 wrote:

1) I heard nothing about a complete change for tailors. Remember this is the combat rebalance, not the crafting rebalance, and there are no plans that I've heard of to do a full revamp on tailor. (That doesn't mean it won't happen, it just means that wasn't discussed because we discussed combaty stuff.)

2) I don't think our role is going to be changing much (if at all) in the CB. Again, this summmit was primarily about combat balancing, and very little about tailors (though I did run my mouth anyway). I could be wrong, because things are still up in the air.

I can't really give details - but I feel like the devs are listening and we are continuing the CB dialogue behind the scenes, to iron out the issues and give additional feedback. I'll be loud and rabid if I see any red-flag tailor issues.

Message Edited by NJ62 on 08-29-2004 09:56 PM

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