Tailor Archive

Five months. Day after launch to Oct 11. No macros. And at least half of that before there was a practice mode. Before holos. And I had no factories. And... having to stop and make money to buy resources and personal harvesters to get more resources, to make more money to buy more resources to make a few clothes to sell on bazaar, and grinding artisan missions to make more money to pay maintenance fees and having to buy all my training from NPCs because it was impossible to find a tailor who would train "the competition" back then... no guild to help out with expenses or stuff... and... yeah. It took me a while.

I think it was more fun that way.

I started artisan like in July, got to novice tailor in august, cause I was doing armorsmith and then I realized I needed panels, and then made master at the end of september, I made A LOT of clothing, I used to help Taria the master tailor. She would just hand me stuff and say "make it happen". That was extremely fun. I felt like a true apprentice making black and white items, some with color (she made me get color), I had the best times in her shop.

The first time: 1.5 months. At that point I was making actual clothes and selling them on the bazaar and at my shop. My production was limited to the amount I could make based on the resources I could gather from my 3 small harvesters (BER 2's). I had no idea why it was going so slowly - but now I realize that it was the bug that made you get general crafting xp instead of tailoring crafting xp for tailored items, so my most popular sellers were giving me no xp. I started grinding out of sheer frustration after hitting field wear 4 and getting stalled there (because of the aforementioned xp bug. I was amazed, of course, at just how fast grinding was compared to making (bugged) items. It took me less than a week to finish tailor after that.

The second time: 2-3 weeks. I had started over on Test Center so I had to mine all my own resources, and run survey missions for the money to pay harvester maintenence (which took more time than just buying and grinding). I discovered, as most of you have, that it's really hard to sell ANYTHING as a non-master, so I ended up just plain grinding instead of taking my time with it. That and I was really frustrated at what I couldn't yet make, considering I had been a master tailor as a primary profession for almost 9 months by then. Right around when I had 4 boxes left, the devs made me correspondent, at which point I gleefully used the correspondent terminal for the remaining boxes. Yeah, I know, it's sorta cheating, but I had stuff to test!