Tailor Archive
Thread: What is the worst question you've ever been asked?
my best was really this one :
- are you doing buffed cloth ?
- yes
- so you work with a BE ?
- err yes
- who is him ?
- it's a friend of mine : *name*
- can you ask him to make me some tissues crate ?
- err you are a tailor ?
- yes , can you ask him plz ?
- why don't you ask him yourself ?
- he's not online !
- anyway he only work with me, but d'ont you know this thing called mail ?
- only with you ? err you're a *censured* , i will find another one now, tell him he loose big deal because of you .
-mouahahaha
then : /ignore
haha Maratisil, gotta love those holo-tailors.
I've had the same conversation many times, with the exception that I don't tell them who my BE supplier is because I am the BE supplier. And I'm sure as heck not going to make crates of tissue for my competition.
lol some of these stories are way too close with what I have encountered as a tailor so far.
Just before I hit master I was in Moenia next to the tailor trainer grinding out some xp. A girl with no title walks up..and I think okay must be a noob..sure enough the first thing out of her mouth was "what do you do?" I'm thinking maybe she just wants to know if I'm a master yet or something..so I reply "I'm working on becoming a master tailor. She then says "what do tailors do? Can they make things?" I say "um yeah, clothes" She says "Oh what can you make me?"
/slapself
I say.."what did you have in mind" She replies "I don't know, maybe what you have on" At the time i had a purple sports bustier on and a matching pleated skirt. So I ask her what colors she would like and she said "I don't know just something that looks good, maybe blue" So I open the crafting tool and start to crank out the order..as I finish the matching dress slippers I look up and she has vanished. No where to be seen. Grrr.
My worse nightmare is those immortal words....
"Can you make me something I will look good in"
After much coaxing maybe you can get a color out of them but jeez it brings me out in a cold sweat!
Ossireo
Master Tailor with a bit of Pistoleer thrown in!
HaVoC - Tatooine - Wanderhome
"Can you make me a droid?" (DUH)
"Can you make me some clothes with weaponsmith experimentation?" and then trying to explain that those are dropped items... /sigh
Ossireo wrote:
My worse nightmare is those immortal words....
"Can you make me something I will look good in"
After much coaxing maybe you can get a color out of them but jeez it brings me out in a cold sweat!
Ossireo
Master Tailor with a bit of Pistoleer thrown in!
HaVoC - Tatooine - Wanderhome
I'm trying a new experiment—I just bought a copy of Color Wheel Expert, and I've been taking some friends' skin tones and crafting them outfits using the split complementary colors. So far, so good…it can be a little limiting trying to match the colors exactly, but it's a good starting point when they have no idea whatsoever what they want. As for styles…ugh, that can be tough. Usually I try to determine a general look—daring-do swashbuckler, shifty smuggler, et cetera—and work from there. At least it narrows the choices somewhat
These are the reasons I travel with my gunfighter tags on, the stupid questions. When I made Master Tailor, it was right after you got a badge for mastering professions. So after I train in master tailor, I put the tag up. Not two days laterI get this tell:
"Are you still a Tailor?"
Urge to kill............Rising
Syzygy-Gorath wrote:
I'm trying a new experiment—I just bought a copy of Color Wheel Expert, and I've been taking some friends' skin tones and crafting them outfits using the split complementary colors. So far, so good…it can be a little limiting trying to match the colors exactly, but it's a good starting point when they have no idea whatsoever what they want. As for styles…ugh, that can be tough. Usually I try to determine a general look—daring-do swashbuckler, shifty smuggler, et cetera—and work from there. At least it narrows the choices somewhat
What is Color Wheel Expert? Is this a book, or some sort of software? Anyway, I bought a monitor calibrator which I hope comes in soon! I got it mostly for photography, but it should be nice to see what the SWG colors are really supposed to be!
Gyopi wrote:
Syzygy-Gorath wrote:
I'm trying a new experiment—I just bought a copy of Color Wheel Expert, and I've been taking some friends' skin tones and crafting them outfits using the split complementary colors. So far, so good…it can be a little limiting trying to match the colors exactly, but it's a good starting point when they have no idea whatsoever what they want. As for styles…ugh, that can be tough. Usually I try to determine a general look—daring-do swashbuckler, shifty smuggler, et cetera—and work from there. At least it narrows the choices somewhat
What is Color Wheel Expert? Is this a book, or some sort of software? Anyway, I bought a monitor calibrator which I hope comes in soon! I got it mostly for photography, but it should be nice to see what the SWG colors are really supposed to be!
Syzygy-Gorath wrote:
It's software…originally I was just looking for a picture of a color wheel on the web so I could get an idea of what the complement would look like, but I stumbled on this software. Kind of fun, actually…bring up the ID interface, find their skin color, eyedropper it into Color Wheel Expert, then yank the resulting complements into Photoshop and try to match it with a screenshot of the full tailoring palette. Ah, the fusion of professions.
If it was expensive, I wouldn't have gotten it—already spent more than enough money for new things because of this game (another 512MB RAM, a new graphics card…) It's $25, and is available from Abitom.
Gyopi wrote:
Syzygy-Gorath wrote:
It's software…originally I was just looking for a picture of a color wheel on the web so I could get an idea of what the complement would look like, but I stumbled on this software. Kind of fun, actually…bring up the ID interface, find their skin color, eyedropper it into Color Wheel Expert, then yank the resulting complements into Photoshop and try to match it with a screenshot of the full tailoring palette. Ah, the fusion of professions.
Wow! That sounds nice! Is it expensive? I doubt I can afford anything else this month (after the monitor calibrator and replacing a RL sewing machine), but it does sound like an interesting program.