Tailor Archive
Thread: A Concept- Experimentation, Arch-Tailor, AS-Tailor
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DolgUlfr
Fri Jan 30, 2004 12:32 pm
#1
Tailors to the best of my knowledge are the only crafting class that cant experiment (Ommiting Musicians, their focus isnt crafting). Ive been kicking about some ideas with some friends of mine and here is the result of our brainstorming. They range from the easy to work in to the difficult but each has its own merits and would add depth to the profession.
I will start with an overview. Tailors get experimentation points like other classes, and as they advance in technical knowledge, schematics, and so on they gain more points, new expermentation bars, and ultimately become the master of their material. As experimenttation happens after the material is combined in the tool the success fo the combine can add or detract from the points.
Bar One, Avalible: Novice Tailor, Sockets
A simple enough concept, have crafted clothing start with a socket of 0. Socketed clothing will need to be ordered or special made.
Bar Two, Avalible:Casual Wear I, Durability
By experimenting the Tailor can grant his clothing additional resistance to decay giving it a greater lifespan. Perhaps with the maximum sucess the item is considered always insured so it never decays much at all compared to other clothes.
Bar Three, Avalible: Field Wear I, Storage
By experimenting the Tailor can take certain clothing from compartments of 0 to at most 10, giving additional room for those overburdened troops.
Bar Four, AvalibleFormal WearI, Color
You can maipulate the subtle shades of fabrics avalible to the usual tailor and with experimentation find the most delicate shades of pink, the most shinning whites, the deepest heartless black. Clothing made by your hand is never a simple color ir radiantes the briliance of your handywork.
Bar Five, Avalible:Tailoring I, Style
By experimenting upon style the Tailor will enter into a sepperate window after experimenttation but before coloring. This window gives modifications that can be done to the clothing. Make pants into shorts. Make long sleaved shirts sleaveless. Take the Boots and make them high tops or calf huggers. This would allow for simpler starting schematics but as you build the complexity could go as far as your imagination could take you, combining simple clothing elements, and altering what can be colored. This is the likely most complex part to program but the most intreesting as a possability to those Ive spoken to.
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A couple of unrelated ideas.
Architects and Tailors.
Dyes are a big proposal that I would like to make an addition to. Have the dies able to be inserted into cloth when its made making 'colored bolts' or some such. Have architects who use this material in chairs, couches and such have them come out the color of the cloth. A simple idea but one that would add great variety without needing too many new designs. You could even allow plants to be dyed after all they seem to be silk they never need water 
Armorsmiths and Tailors
This is an ides that i think is a sound one. but in discussion we were not sure how to carry it out. The idea is a simple one. Tailors can buy schematics ether on a temporary or permanent bases from Armorsmiths to make costume armor. You can wear it, but it wears like clothes simply looking like armor ether to be impresive at a formal event or to be a paper tiger. Abuses in conning someing into thinking its real armor would hopefully be kept to a minimum by the fact it has no statistics save durability, but one proposed idea was to have costume armor have a red name to make its type easily known.
Oh and a final note have the faction Tailors able to buy schematics in the same way for their faction gear. It would likely have to be factioned aligned clothing but still, very useful.
Thats all for now, signing off,
Dolg Ulfr
Battle Wolf Tailored Goods
Intrepid Galaxy
ArthurDentOnBria
Fri Jan 30, 2004 2:52 pm
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I like the experimentation idea you have a lot. Everything but the color part, lol, don't even get us started on that again. Lets just say that tailors seem to share a lot of common vision about things relating to tailoring, but color is not one of them. But being able to separately put experimentation points into sockets, capacity, and wear is an excellent idea imho.
Actually, there used to be experimentation in clothing, so that mechanism is probably still "under the hood" somewhere, and tailors do have experimentation mods as they go up the "tailoring" ladder, so much of this is already in place.
But then again, we're talking about a profession that's gotten hardly any development resource, even to fix the really simple things, so it's hard to get too excited by new suggestions of complex new systems relating to clothing.
Srednii
Fri Jan 30, 2004 6:46 pm
#3
cool. Tho I got to thinking as I read this that instead of experimenting capacity up directly on different articles of clothing, it might be easier to experiment the capacity on the cargo pocket component. Lets say 25 capacity max (with ql 1000 materials and 100% experimentation), and then most tailors would get around 20 capacity experimented with their pockets, resulting in 60 capacity backpacks, 20 capacity badoliers, and they could add optional components for some other clothing (like large pocket pants) giving us the ability to add 1 cargo pocket to some other clothing.
The biggest reason I'm straying toward armorsmithing right now is the lack of experimentation in tailor (the second biggest is the oodles of money! mwahahaha), and I'd love if they gave tailors some way to experiment and use uber materials.
donnah42
Fri Jan 30, 2004 7:24 pm
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Extra storage built into clothes is a great idea but considering all of the changes that seem to be made to limit our storage capacity in order to save the database I doubt it'll happen anytime soon. 
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