Tailor Archive

Vandessa's outstanding issue #7 can be solved by one programmer in an evening, by borrowing one concept that is already in use for nearly all crafters, and used at the sub-component level by tailors already: optional components.

My suggestion is simple. On every item of clothing that looks like a military uniform or a piece of armor, there should be an optional RFP component slot. As it stands, none of those pieces of clothing use RFPs, which means that if somebody is dressed like a soldier or a military officer, they have to be a healer or an entertainer. Adding an optional RFP slot wouldn't change the order in which the items could be created. It wouldn't change the base price of any item. And since the code to handle optional components already exists, and is already in use through the crafting professions, it would be trivially easy to implement.

As a rough draft, let me suggest adding an optional RFP component slot to the following items:

• Pants: Dress Slacks, Thin Striped Pants


• Shirts: Sidebuttoned Shirt


• Jackets: Belted Jacket, Cold Weather Jacket, Dress Uniform Jacket, Long Formal Jacket, Padded Jacket, Vested Jacket


• Vests: Simple Vest, the missing scout's vest


• Bodysuits: Tactical Skinsuit


• Headwear: Swoop Helm


• Wookiee: Crested Battle Padding, Weighted Waist Wrap, Weighted Wookiee Hood, Weighted Wookiee Pullover, Wookiee Battle Padding, Wookiee Strapped Gloves, Wookiee Traveler's Helm

I've been wondering lately why they don't do just that. It's really frustrating to some of my customers to have such a small selection to choose from if they want RFP mods.

Do youknowhow much someone would pay for a muscle shirt with medical enhancements AND a combat enhancement, that can of course be worn under armor? /drool

Brad,

Many of the items you list there would seem more appropriate at a wedding then on a battlefield, lol. Sorry, I couldn't resist How about stuff like cloaks, muscle shirts, desert crawlers, pilot's jackets, and gunman's dusters? There just seems something horribly wrong about putting RFP in formalwear, lol.