Tailor Archive
Thread: Brainstorming: How to make tailoring advancement better
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Akaara
Mon Mar 29, 2004 5:52 am
#27
Missmaul wrote:
My name's Missmaul, and I'm a casual grinder.
Oxymoron? Not really. At first I didn't want to grind, but all those pretty clothes just seemed sooo appealing I couldn't wait anymore.
So I pulled out 7 clothing crafting tools and went to work. Ribbed shirt after ribbed shirt after ribbed shirt...yick! I ground my way into Formal Wear I- yay! Rejoicing time! At that point I'd run out of Fiberplast. Time to run 50 missions to fund my harvester for a few more units of Fiberplast. It then occured to me I could get more from the bazaar. So I spent up all of the 30,000 credits on me in Fiberplast. Yup, 30,000 credits. Count em. I'm SOOOO RICH!
Grind grind grind grind and I'm finally to Field Wear I and Casual Wear I. I was STILL lusting after Casual Wear II. And I had all of 930 credits to my name and 12 Fiberplast left.
It was at that point I said 'Well boy howdy, this sure takes a LOT of work.'
Not all of us have a stack of 100k Fiberplast and Steel to grind out of. I work my butt off killing plasma thief after plasma thief (I have -4000 plasma thief faction now) just to buy a few more units of 'plast to grind off of, using whatever I can spare to design outfits.
So uh, after that ADD-fueled rant, what I'm really trying to say is...what I'm really trying to say here is...uh..
I...HATE...SAURKRAUT!!
...Ok, not really. But I do hate grinding. We hates it, we wantss the preciouss clothesss. It's tricksssy and falsssse. So I guess what I'm actually trying to say is we need clothing usage xp. Perhaps it starts at 1 xp an hour per item of clothing being worn at Novice Tailor. Then maybe when you've got, say, 1-1-1-1 across the board (encourages not grinding to field wear IV! yay!), you get 2 xp an hour per item worn. It raises like that until Master Tailor and you've got 6 xp an hour. Wheee! Ok, that's probably a terrible idea. Feel free to flame me.
So in cunkluzhun, we need usage xp in some shape or form. Thanks! ^_^
-Krystine Landgher, Theed/Naboo, Radiant.
Drinking ritalin since a long, long time ago for your amusement!
Did you ever think about selling the clothes you were grinding out? Have a special ribbed shirt special or anything like that? Sell your products, get to know your clothes before grinding the next box. I was broke too when the game started, I sold items on the bazaar everyday back when I was working my way up. You can still sell non-master tailors items, people will buy them.
Just a suggestion.
DrakeWindwalker
Mon Mar 29, 2004 6:30 am
#28
You guys DONT want usage exp(I know i use to be a chef, i wished i would have got more for grinding then having the usage exp), it will drop your exp per resource and will only help the poeple who get poeple to stand around all day puting on clothing.
Missmaul
Mon Mar 29, 2004 12:57 pm
#29
Actually, yes, Akaara, I'm selling quite a lot. 
I also put together a bunch of outfits I think look really neat in my house (for when I can get a larger house and some vendors), and my friend gets crazy outfit after crazy outfit from me (which she refuses to accept free, for some reason). So it's not like I'm solid grinding through the whole thing...just if I really can't stand it anymore until the flex-form shirt. I actually very much prefer to save my resources for selling clothes and inventing new outfits... but casual advancement is pretty slow. I'm cutting back on the grinding a lot because I figure, well, this isn't fun, and it's a game, so I'll do what makes me happy.
Saurkraut is...um...uhh...well, Weird Al said that line in a song. So um, yeah.
I also put together a bunch of outfits I think look really neat in my house (for when I can get a larger house and some vendors), and my friend gets crazy outfit after crazy outfit from me (which she refuses to accept free, for some reason). So it's not like I'm solid grinding through the whole thing...just if I really can't stand it anymore until the flex-form shirt. I actually very much prefer to save my resources for selling clothes and inventing new outfits... but casual advancement is pretty slow. I'm cutting back on the grinding a lot because I figure, well, this isn't fun, and it's a game, so I'll do what makes me happy.Saurkraut is...um...uhh...well, Weird Al said that line in a song. So um, yeah.
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