Tailor Archive

It would be awesome.

The code all ready exists. Droids fade over time...

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Dite wrote:

The code all ready exists. Droids fade over time...

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I see. I did not know that since my droids have not been colored. It is fun to see what random color scheme my droids will have when I call them.

I just loooked at today's Friday feature and it looks like not only are they going to let us color vehicles, but that these colors will change or fade over time. If they are adding this code, maybe this is the time to ask that this code be added to decaying clothing too! That would be very useful to us tailors.

http://starwarsgalaxies.station.sony.com/content.jsp?page=Friday%20Feature%20Vehicle%20Colors

This is as bad as the recolouring option. I would turn from tailor to dyer. I don't want to sit around all day changing the colour of other tailor's clothes because they were not master. What good is that???

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RandDarkstar wrote:
This is as bad as the recolouring option. I would turn from tailor to dyer. I don't want to sit around all day changing the colour of other tailor's clothes because they were not master. What good is that???

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Huh? I am not sure of what you are talking about. I was referring to a suggestion for decay that was made a long time ago. When armor decays it becomes less and less effective. Several people had suggested that as clothing decays it should fade to some dull color. When I think about this it might be too severe of an idea, though. People would become mismatched very quickly.

this would completely stress me out. if they do this theyd better give out free ritalin to the ones that will be sending me tells of "CAN YOU MAKE MY SHIRT DARK RED AGAIN NOT THE DARKEST RED BUT THE NEXT ONE" And theyd better add the tag 'DYE POT STIRRER' to my choices...

Well I'm all for color decay but not dying obviously... it wouldn't have much purpose.

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Sergia wrote:
this would completely stress me out. if they do this theyd better give out free ritalin to the ones that will be sending me tells of "CAN YOU MAKE MY SHIRT DARK RED AGAIN NOT THE DARKEST RED BUT THE NEXT ONE" And theyd better add the tag 'DYE POT STIRRER' to my choices...

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Yea. This idea came around separately from the redying idea. The idea is that as the clothing decayed people would eventually get tired of having dull clothes and buy new ones. If we could redye them then it would be a complete disaster! We would end up doing dye jobs every time someone died!

Besides, items and pets/mounts/vehicles are 2 VERY different things. One is a character-internal object and the others are temporary MOBs generated from info in the datapad. I would imagine they are coded completely seperately from each other and implementing any kind of progressive color decay would require a whole new way of composing inventory items in general.

Besides, as Rand has said, who wants to deal with the dying and color matching involved? Imagine this nightmare:Someone comes to you with a second hand shirt and wants you to make some matching pants. You have no idea if the shirt is new or partially faded. So you match the pants. Except the pants colors will decay at a rate different from the shirt. So next week customer comes back complaining that his shirt and pants no longer match. So you make a new shirt, except THAT will no longer be on the same color timeline as the pants.

Honestly, tailors have an excellent hassle-free creative process going on now - when you design an outfit, it stays that way. A well designed set of clothing marks you as a Master of the craft. Fading colors would not make business better, just harder.