Tailor Archive

The Big Wishlist:

Experimentation and Decay Ideas & Wishes:

•Color fade Rate
•The high end 255 colors only available depending on quality percentage
•Rare colors, effects beyond the current ones unlocked depending on quality percentage.
•Add some minimal defense bonuses or resistances. Such as Cold Weather Jacket actually protects from cold damage say 1-5%
•Durability returned

Color and Texture Wishes:

•Broader secondary color pallets, the full 255 color pallet - if not that for god's sakes at least let us combine the small leather pallet and the large leather pallet into one.
•Better color choices for Wookiee outfits.
•Metallic Fabric color choices and/or shiny vinyl textures.
•Numbered or Named color pallets (like popup info on mouseover) for easier swatch identification.

Merchant Crossover Wishes:

•Word Search functionality on the Bazaar and Vendor.
•Display Cases.
•Mannequins.
•Holographic 'Dressing Room' tool.
•Bundle outfits together as one 'set' on Vendors. Allow the set to be viewed when clicked on.
•The ability to sell items through vendors exclusivly for specific players.

Container Wishes:

Other wearable storage besides backpacks. Purses, sling pouches, fanny packs. Some of the Pocketed slacks actually having storage. E.g.: 5 slots for pants, 10 slots for a small purse, 20 slots for fanny pack- You get the idea.

Schematic and Loot Wishes:

•Collapsible categories in the crafting tools that stay collapsed between uses.
•Schematics that are Profession Restricted. Specialty Uniforms for various professions to wear.
•Rare Schematics as rewards for quests or rare loot drops

The Big Schematic Want List (Taken from Kwee's Thread):

Schematics wish list

• Hats – Beret; Cowboy; Military (from the movies); Wide-brimmed sunhat; Indiana Jones; Rebel flight helmets; Tiaras; Fishing; Chef; Desert (w/ flap covering back of neck); Beanie; Derbie; Bonnet; Feathered; w/ Flower; Hoth furry hat; Flower wreaths
  
• Jackets - Formal jacket w/ open front; Lab Coat; Biker Jackets (Long-sleeve, sleeveless, open, zippered, buttoned, studs, spikes); Overcoat
  
• More wookiee clothes – Hide pants; Primitive jewelry (including rings so they can get married); Gladiator style boots with straps wrapping up the leg; Footwraps/Sandals; Leather toga; Leg wraps; Foot wraps; Female Wookiees: Long leather dress tied up the front with leather ribbons and leather fringes at the bottom; Long flared hide skirt with leather fringes; Color: Very few colors to choose from (some items are not even available in pink – the only color female wookiees can currently use to show they are females)
  
• Skirts – Mini-skirts; Tight just above knee; Mid-thigh; Sarong; Long & filmy; Filmy wrapped around the waist with beads; Long with slits up the sides to thighs; Floor-length and mid-thigh with material missing all down the sides (two leather rectangles held w/ straps); Short pleated; Hoop skirts; Long warrior skirt men can also wear; Kilt; Leia’s slave bikini skirt
  
• Shorts – Mid-thigh; Just above knee; Upper thigh
  
• Pants – With satin laces up the sides that show skin; Flared; Very low waist to show midriff; “Pantaloons” that are ankle length
  
• Filmy clothing – To lay over skin-tight items like the infiltrator’s suit or a leotard - Mini-skirt; Knee-length skirt; Floor length skirt; Dress; All in sheer transluscent fabric for layering.
  
• Female dancer clothing – Leotards like ballerinas wear (w/ no, short, and long sleeves); Metal bikini bottom Leia wore; Bellydancer clothing and accessories; Bellydancer lower half of face veils; Zippered Catsuit; Jeweled belt
  
• Male dancer clothes – Open shirts, tight pants, partially sequined shirts, bottom half of exotic leotard, bikini bottoms for guys with solid fabric, clothes that coordinate with female dancer clothes (for paired dancing)
  
• Boots – Thigh high boots (w/ and w/out laces); Army style lace-up & buckle-up boots (http://www.stompersboots.com/fots_carolina/Tank1.jpg); Very fitted knee-high boots (w/ and w/out stiletto heels); Hiking boots
  
• Shoes - Females: Strappy sandals with leather band around ankle; With straps winding up and around calf up to knee for ballerina look; High heels; Platform shoes; Clogs; Mary Janes; Open-toed sandals, Moccasins; See shoes at www.famousfootwear.com for ideas
  
• Cloaks/capes – Hooded capes (w/ and w/out sleeves - Lando); Cloaks (w/ and /wout hoods); Leia’s poncho (Endor); Fitted feminine hooded cloak (www.planetlara.com/angelina/pics/lara4.jpg); Ability to raise and lower hoods; Mantle (Held up by rope across chest), Crushed velvet hooded cape; Trenchcoat w/ high collar held together by straps and buckles; Wrap to wear over dresses (ties in the front)
  
• Gadgets – Gadgetry on front of rebel flightsuit; Gizmos for wrist (chronometer) and belt; Nightvision & heat-sensing goggles
  
• Glasses – Metal frame kind of glasses (colored & clear, diff lens shapes); Monocles
  
• Masks – Costume; Bandit; Zorro; Eye-patch; Ski mask; Visors; Ninja; Wedding veils
  
• Gloves – Lace; Up to ½ betw elbow & shoulder and up to wrist (satin look); True tipless gloves (have “tips” default to skin color)
  
• Male formal wear – Men have nothing to wear for weddings and other formal events; Tuxedos (standard, duster, medium split-tail); Ties; Bowties; Suits (see politicians in movies)
  
• Female formal wear - Female formal suit (Loose silky plain pants & loose silky suit jacket); Pinstriped suits (single & double breasted)
  
• Tank top – like the white male undershirt but in colors for males & females Camo clothing – As worn on Endor in movies; Especially a camo shirt
  
• Tights – In different colors; Fishnet stockings; Garter belts
  
• Socks – Knee-length, halfway up the thigh length, ankle length
  
• Shirts – Like “muscle shirt” but w/ low-cut oval & V-neck; One-shoulder-strap (tight & sleeveless); Halter top (held up by material around the neck only); Tube top (like sports bra but covering some tummy); Turtlenecks; Real sports bra; More corsets; Fuzzy tight sweater; Mesh shirts
  
• Dresses – Strapless (mid thigh, tight-fitting), Spaghetti straps (long, sequined), Short sleeveless (mid thigh), Corseted (mid thigh & long), Sari; Babydoll; Poofy ballgown; Oriental look; More with plunging backs; Plunging fronts; w/ layered skirts; Metallic mermaid dress (sleeveless and tight through body, flaring from knees to floor); Side slit gown; Empire waisted
  
• Pajamas – To roleplay getting ready for bed.
  
• Pet schematics – Collars (plain & studded); Little clothes for common small household pets (e.g. Bunny, Kittycat; My worrt Rolypoly isn’t common but he would look so cute in a little vest or t-shirt);
  
• Dyeable saddles and bridles for mounts.
  
• Grand Healer’s Robe – New schematic out of it removing material around neck and in front, and the swirl at the top of the hood
  
• Wrist wraps – As a separate unisex item (like the ones on sports wrap); Non-armor bracers
  
• Accessories – Decorative hairbands for those with ponytails; Apron; Feather boas; Scarves (hair & neck); Bandanas; Spiked/studded collars, belts, & bracers; Waist sashes; Flower poking out over ear; Stethoscope
  
• Bags – Doctor’s bag; Dyeable Indiana Jones type satchel; Dyeable satin/leather purses & handbags; Invisible pack for fashionably conscious; Briefcase; Tool box
  
• Holsters – To stash swords on back & waist, guns on leg & hip
  
• Themes – Natalie Portman’s wardrobe; Ninja; Politician; Luke’s Farmer Boy outfit (A New Hope); More clothing from the movies
  
• More jewelry – Earrings (hoops, dangly, round gem); Nose rings; Nose gem stud; Navel rings; Upper arm bands; Ankle bracelets; Eyebrow rings/studs; Ear cuffs (loop around upper ear), Toe rings, Diamond ring, Have all rings show on finger; Body jewelry (www.crystallinecurves.com) or belly chains for dancers, Jeweled chokers, Slave collars (plus matching anklets & bracelets); Dog tag necklace; Different colored gems for existing necklaces & decorative headdress; Hair combs & pins

Clothing from Movies:

• Episode I – Darth Maul’s outfit; Emperor’s hooded cloak; Captain Panaka’s uniform hat (theed palace); Aurra Sing’s half vest (pod race); Captain Typho’s eye patch
  
• Episode II – Amidala’s sun dress and cloth head band (lake retreat); Amidala’s blue and Nyrat’s red long sleeved half top (coruscant nightclub, lake retreat); Zam Wessel’s fabric veil (coruscant assasin); Taun We’s reinforced half top and skirt (tipoca city cloning facility); Ayy Vida’s metal headcrest (coruscant nightclub); Tas Kee’s pirate hat (coruscant nightclub); Achk Med-Beg’s black suspenders (coruscant nightclub); Dorme’s polkadot vest (amidala’s handmaiden); Lama Su’s reinforced padded robe (tipoca city cloning facility); Elan Sleazebaggano’s black cloth choker and patterned button up shirt (coruscant nightclub); Poggle the Lessor’s ornate royal robe (genosis); Anakin’s vest (battle of genosis); Boba Fett’s boots (battle of genosis); Aayla Secura’s one sleeved wrapped half top (battle of genosis); Onacanda Farr’s patterned jacket, poofy leather-print pants and turtle-neck with waist wrap (senate); Bail Organa’s royal robe; Sly Moore’s high collar cloak (senate); Lexi Dio’s ornate clasped double robe (senate)
  
• Episode IV – Obiwan’s Jedi outfit; Luke’s farmboy outfit; Darth Vader’s cape; Garindan’s goggles (dockingbay 94)
  
• Episode V – Lando’s side shoulder cape (cloud city); Lobot’s closed vest (bestine)
  
• Episode VI – Leia’s bikini bottom (jabba’s palace); Oola’s slave collar; Rystall’s bustier bodysuit (jabba’s palace); Greeda’s fiberplast bikini (jabba’s palace); Umpass-stay’s arm strap (jabba’s palace)
  
• Extended Universe (www.starwars.com) - Komari Vosa’s layered leather top, leather bikini leggings, and thigh length boots

Graphics/UI wish list

• GUI - Add coloring number system – Issue: Very difficult to match clothing another tailor has made; Solution: In examine window for clothes, have it note using numbers which colors were used; Have number pop up when mouse is held over color palette
  
• Full 255 color palette for leather items - All wookiee clothes are leather; Very hard to match gloves, boots, dusters, cloaks, hats, belts & other hide-crafted accessories to cloth palettes; Two-strap bandolier only comes in shades of peach
  
• New Colors - Master tailors say they have no true yellow, teal, or pure red, and that many items cannot be made in pure black (see simple vest) or white (see muscle shirt); Tailors would like many of the dingy colors removed and more bright colors added, or just more bright colors added.
  
• More textures – Slick Darth Vader paten leather look; Satin; Crushed Velvet; Silk; Fur trimmed clothes (like scout jacket); Metallic; Glittery
  
• More patterns – Plaid; Polka dots; Pinstripes
  
• Holo-imager – For Tailors – Vendor would have an option to allow customer to see how they would look while wearing the selected item
  
• Ability to sell a group of clothing as an “outfit” on vendor/bazaar - Tailor would choose “outfit” option and be able to put an outfit’s worth of clothing for sale as an entity; Clothing could still count individually for bazaar count; Many tailors take great time and effort putting together outfits that get bought up separately or not noticed.
  
• Decals – Of SWG objects to be pasted on chest or back of clothing
  
• Special dyes - Rare drop glowing dyes, glittering dies, translucent fabric

For Schematics: the most common request I get is for the vest Han wore in A New Hope. We need a few varieties of plain vests, that come in many colors.

n'Jessi

belaro/spencer jacket

half shirts - from skin tight to loose, long and short sleeved, silky with asian style trim to thick cable knitted turtlnecks.

sleeves - just sleeves not attached to a shirt. starting at the upper or mid arm both loose and fitted. they can look tough if do tight and bulky or sexy if done gauzey and loose.

high collared vest - a sleeve-less high collared vest would be both very formal if paired with a jacket or very casual if worn alone.

As a master tailor (lowca) I only have a few 'problems' with how tailor is now:

1) The restricted colours. They need to just let tailors dye things what we can: the lack of colours for things like spec ops and normal dusters, ALL types of boots, most types of gloves, etc can kill an outfit.

2) I've always wanted a 'karate' style headband with extra fabric that hangs off the back of the head. Hell, i'd be happy with just a simple headband.

3) Finally, 'rare' dyes/textures. However these are going to work, either owning the dye or a one/several time use dye 'jar', that'd be awesome if they could be added.

I like the overall 'tailoring wishes, dreams, and screams' list. So below would be the things I don't like about it.

I don't like the "color fade rate" idea. I think the clothing decay that was implemented on this week's big patch already kind of covers the "color fade rate" idea. All the "Big Schematic Want List" wish list is great, but items like berets, fishnet stockings,or cowboy hats don't fit into the Star Wars galaxy. They would "modernize" Star Wars and would kind of turn the game into an online Sims. Ski masks, nightvision& heat-sensing gogglesseem too... earthly, and those items seem more Rainbox Six ish. Some things that are way too modern and un-StarWarzy are nose rings and navel rings.

This game takes place between Episode 4 and 5. None of these elegant stuff were in there. It was a time of war and hardship.

I agree with most of the list with this exception:

• Master 255 colors only available depending on quality percentage
  I want quality to count as much as the next person, but quality should give us new colors or textures. It should never take away a Master's current options. The last 255 colors are actually a bigger reward for hitting master than the schematics. I sell far more purple bustiers, red hotpants, and blue decorative vests than I sell fleshwraps.

I'd also add:

• Use based decay
  Just because they haven't done it yet and have given us the death decay instead, doesn't mean many of us don't still want useage based clothing decay. From the "death decay sux!!! If we have to make clothes decay make it work like armor or guns!!!!" posts, many of the combat characters agree.


• Expermentation for extra colors or textures
  Making them available with resource quality is great, but give us a few other options to experiment for as well! Maybe they could be categorized, so that quality gives us new colors and expermienation gives the new textures. I want durability experimentation back, but we need multiple things to experiment on so we have to prioritize using our experimentation points just like most other professions.


• GUI color numbering system
  Great explaination on this! I'd also add to the list that this system would make itmuch easierfor color blind tailors to more successfully access the profession. I know this may sound a little silly, but I knew a wannabe tailor in beta who had to give up making clothes because of his color blindness.

Merchant crossover wish (not specifically tailor-related):

• Vendor Info screen
  I'd love to add some kind of vendor information ability (maybe at one of the lower levels of merchant). This would allow a customizable "Information" screen that customers could choose either on the vendor radial menu or preferably from a button on the vendor itself. Different from ad barking, the vendor wouldn't say it automatically, and it would be able to have a much greater amount of information on whatever the merchant wants to type in. We could use it for things like return policies, sale announcements, special instructions, what types of items we buy through our vendors and in what price ranges, how to make special orders, or whatever else.

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donnah42 wrote:

I agree with most of the list with this exception:

• Master 255 colors only available depending on quality percentage
  I want quality to count as much as the next person, but quality should give us new colors or textures. It should never take away a Master's current options. The last 255 colors are actually a bigger reward for hitting master than the schematics. I sell far more purple bustiers, red hotpants, and blue decorative vests than I sell fleshwraps.

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Agreed. Do not take anything away from us. Quality percentage should offer the possibility of new colours or, even better, special effects, like patterns or the choice of metallic/shiny/matte finishes. Just think about the difference between Master Tailor A, selling plain old black dusters, and Master Tailor B, with good quality materials, making PVC-looking black dusters, or leather dusters. That's a reward for higd-quality resources that I'd like to see.

Hi.

I've been testing out different professions through various characters. I think what could really help to make Tailoring more interesting and more customizable would be do do something like what Droid Engineers can do recently with altering the colours of Droids. As a Droid Engineer in Scylla, I was able to create Droid Customization Kits. This way a Droid that has been 'tamed' can have its colours altered. I was able to alter the colour of my Droids and, with consent, otherPlayers'Droids(some you can only change one colour, like the Probe Droid of my Master Tailor friend, others the trim and frame colours can be picked).

Being able to customize Droids encouraged return visits from customers. It would give Tailors a chance for repeat customers as well as a chance to spruce up the ol' outfit and give what the Players want, without wasting oft times precious resources on clothes people don't want to wear because it wasn't one colour or another or was just too light or dark in colour.

It could be called Tailor Alterations Kit.

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TakalKalash wrote:

...encouraged return visits from customers...

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I'm not really for dye kits either. I'd rather spend time creating outfits for customers and selling clothes on my vendor than dealing with dyes.

As it is, most folks only buy new clothes when they get sick of their old ones. Giving us the ability to change the color on outfits would mean that instead of replacing a blue fleshwrap with a green one they could just pay a small fee and have it dyed. This may sound selfish, but I'd rather just sell the new fleshwrap.

And if they did anything like this, they'd have to give us the ability to rename items as well. I can just see getting yelled at because someone buys a "Cloak (black) by Kara" that's been purchased, dyed white, and resold. But my name would still be on the item as the creator. For every one person that would just realize what happened, laugh it off, and remember to examine the item next time, there'd be a few that felt the need to /tell "OMG!!! Yr stoopid, I want a refund, this is false advertizing!!!!?!?!" Even if they did let us change the name, it would bother me that my name was listed as the creator of something that may have been altered. I don't want my name on anything that winds up getting renamed in a sneaky or dishonestway.