Tailor Archive

Here's what we know so far. Since the same questions are being asked over and over again, I thought this compilation might be helpful.

Current Changes and Issues

Bioengineered Tissues

Some tissues have been changed because the old mods no longer work in the CU. Here is the conversion (courtesy of ArthurdentonBria):

mask scent/cammo => mask scent/cammo

creature taming/taming vicious => creature taming/taming vicious

dance/music healing => battle fatigue healing

warcry/intimidate => unarmed damage/terrain negotiation

cover => surveying

injury/wound treatment => augmentation/cure efficiency

stun/melee defense => ranged/melee defense

bleed defense => healing efficiency

they are all converted "value-for-value"

This applies only to tissues that are not combined in clothing.

Already existing clothing does not convert mods. So if you have a bleed defense shirt, it won't convert to a healing efficiency shirt. Sorry.

Decay

Clothing now decays when hit. From the info we have:

Not all pieces decay

Clothing decay is too rapid

Clothing is still equippable with bonuses when decayed to zero

A CSR has claimed this change intentional but we have no red-name word on it yet

No use-based decay has been implemented

Update: Devs say that clothing decay is a bug.

Socketing

Reports have come in about socketing rates increasing. We will have to investigate.

Vendor & Character heights

All players and vendors are now the same height. This is presumably a bug.

Death in the frontier

We cannot wear armor and will likely die out surveying. Yes, this is still an issue, and I believe that "hire a bodyguard" is an unsatisfactory answer. We CAN wear a PSG. Last I checked, a PSG used the "belt" spot so cannot be worn with dresses, etc. I found that out the hard way when wearing a grand healer robe, and then suddenly, nothing.

Clothing and armor attachments

Status unclear. It appears that they may be "sticking" properly, or at least differently than before. We will have to gather more data on this issue.

+25 cap

Is the mod cap still +25? The total cap is gone, but the cap per item is +25. Possibly a bug.

Issues That May Come Up

Hide supply

Update: looking fine. The hide levels appear to scale to creature level, and seems comparable to the rate of return under the old system, if not a better rate of return.

BE tissue supply/prices

Could go either way. BE's could be too busy with meds to think about us, or we could have more "dabbling" BE's taking the tissue line and the medical line.

Cybernetic limbs

Cybernetic limbs block clothing. A limb works as armor, so anything you can wear with bracer, biceps, and gloves you can wear with a cybernetic arm. Cybernetic legs act as armor pants and boots. According to recent patch notes, cybernetic limbs will no longer appear when you clone.

Boring BE clothing options

This has been a problem for a while, but may be more of a problem now that TKA's wear clothing, not armor. Will this lack of style hurt our market?

Repair

It doesn't work. And old problem, but will resurface now that we have clothing decay in battle.

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Thank you so much!! Now if we could actually get any *answers*..

Updated 5/2. Thank you to all posters who continue to provide valuable information for the rest of us!

Edited because I don't know what day it is.

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