Tailor Archive

Hi n'Jessi,

First off, great list! Thank you for all the hard work you put into compiling it. I'm not sure that I have anything much to add to the top 5. I think I pretty much agree with all the most important issues. I would like to add a few more ideas to the mix however.

Color palette:

In addition to the color changes you already suggested, I would like to see some deep greens, blues (like navy blue) and browns. possibly even some deep purples. I think there are some great colors in the robe palette (palette F?), and I would love to see more of them in our standard full palette (ummm palette D?). (In fact I might rather have palette F instead of palette D, but that might just be me. ) Also I wish had had a better gold color in our metallic palette. When I'm asked to do a gold chain or ring, there just isn't any available color that I think makes a very good gold. I usually end up with kind of a light bronze (i.e. more brownish than yellowish).

Color blending:

I started a post on this (I'd link it here, but I don't know how), and this would take a back seat to other issues, but some items just don't have good color blending or shouldn't have it at all. Specific examples would be the swoop helm, dress uniform jacket (on the shoulders), robe of honor, patterned slip skirt (the color of the pattern probably shouldn't blend into the bottom of the skirt), and possibly some others. I think at least one other was mentioned in a reply to my original post. Perhaps the solution here would be optional blending? If others like some of these blending patterns I wouldn't want to take them away, but I would like to make these items with separate color regions.

Body forms on preview:

As a female tailor, I am often asked to make something that will look good on a male, but I see all the shirt previews in a feminine body form. I often find myself guessing what they will look like on a male, as well as what the overall look will be. We need some kind of switch so that we can toggle our previews to male/female form. Also there's the dress shirt which has a completely different collar area for both sexes - kind of a double collar with a criss-cross pattern for females and a straight tie on males if I'm not mistaken.

Wish List Items - lower priority, but I'd like to see these in the game

Preview:

It's been mentioned by others too, but I wish there was some way to allow customers to preview their clothes before ordering them. I like the idea of a droid or datapad link that could allow a customer to perhaps view all clothing options that I have to offer and even color them virtually, and try them on. This preview should work at least for the tailor, and preferable also the customer - perhaps a two way interface where either side could suggest options. Minimally for the tailor side it would be nice to have a paper doll kind of interface where I could try different clothes or colors on the customer to see what looks best before I even make anything. I also think there should be a default modesty outfit on such an interface i.e. default pants for a male, and default top and skirt/pants/dress for a female.

Patterns:

A further customization that I would really like to see would be the addition of alternate patterns or perhaps even different fabrics on existing (and new?) schematics. The muscle shirt and flex-form shirt are basically the same shirt with different patterns. What if that were just one shirt with different pattern options - or different patterns on other clothing items? Or the intricate dress with some different lace patterns? That could open up a lot of customization options without even adding new schematics.

Jewelry repair kits

This would admittedly not be a tailor item as much as a Master Artisan item perhaps, but as far as I know there are no jewelry repair kits, so all those wedding rings, necklaces and special jewelry loot items aren't going to get any second chances. I think jewelry repair kits would be a fair addition. The Master Artisan could make them and the Tailor could have the best chance of operating them.


Ok, I think that includes most of the major items on my little wish list.

Shi'ann
Twi'lek of Mystery

• necklaces


• clipping [make clothes fit on toons properly]


• deterioration vs. still able to equip


• bandolier vs. backpack


• new non-limited, 'non-tailor-component' schematics

its a good list

This is the final version that I sent.

Hi n'Jessi,

I really should have pointed this out sooner, because I noticed it before, but I kept forgetting to say anything. A couple of times in your post with regard to the color palettes you make reference to a chart, "In order to facilitate the discussion, I will be referring to the palettes by letter as they appear on this chart. ", but there seems to be no actual link or reference in your post that I can tell. I do remember a previous post or discussion thread which did contain a link, but it doesn't seem to be there now. Just FYI, or maybe it's just that my browser is bad.Otherwise a great and diplomatic summation of many of our concerns (no mention of the patterns that I had wanted, but maybe next time). Thanks for all your effort, and I hope that the devs take it to heart and implement most of these changes.

Shi'ann
Twi'lek of Mystery

In the word document that I sent in the links are all there (including the chart reference). I added that in to the master copy, but didn't update the board when I did, because the links don't play nice here anyway without writing the document in html (ummm no thanks).