Tailor Archive
Thread: To make us all smile :)
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Unwanted
Sun Jul 25, 2004 11:50 pm
#1
Ok so I was browsing the JTL Forum and Cuality I believe has about a post of 150ish answered questions that he asked the devs at comic con. In this post, or in his other one I was looking at can't remember really, but in one of these he mentions the Ithorians and how they have apparently completely different clothes! So it looks like in JTL we Tailors get new stuff to play with prepare to start selling Itho-Ware!
Alciril
Mon Jul 26, 2004 5:02 am
#2
Yap! Lots of us are excited at the prospect of having new clothes for Ithorians, but the vast majority of our customer base won't be able to take advantage of their race-specific clothing. Unless there are also going to be humanoid versions of the new garments, it's a little hard to get excited over the future of tailoring. 
As it is, there are so many easy fixes/addtions to our profession thatcould have been implemented but haven't. Among other things, adding in-game uncraftable clothing schematics (scout vest, robe, and leia skirt to name a few), fixing sockets, and fixing bugged/limited palettes are simple changes that realistically could be pushed with the next mini-publish if the devs really saw us as a priority.
I know you're trying to be positive, and I'm sorry for being negative in your thread. I'm sure the new Ithorian clothing will be fantastic, but fact is that our profession still has a number of outstanding issues. Traditionally, any new things we've received have actually been theresult of the devs helping others (chef hats and an expanded metallic being given to armorsmiths, for example) and I think that the Ithorian clothing will be more of the same. The devs want to make Ithorians visually appealing since they're one of the selling points of the new expansion. Coincidentally, tailors will receive the schematics for their new clothing. The new clothes aren't being added for our benefit. Instead,adding them onlyhides the greater problem of tailors being ignored.
Message Edited by Alciril on 07-26-2004 05:03 AM
ArthurDentOnBria
Mon Jul 26, 2004 8:15 am
#3
Yea, I'm actually kind of upset about this. Why? Because we've been told:
a) There aren't any more unreleased "art assets" for clothing
b) There hasn't been time to create any more art assets for clothing, presumably because it isn't a priority.
So what happens? They release new clothing as l00t for themepark missions, and now apparently they will release new clothing for a new race that they come up with. And of course none of us can even switch our species to that new race even if we wanted to (gawd only knows why).
Unwanted
Mon Jul 26, 2004 9:18 am
#4
But fixes are coming, there's a post here about the highly annoying necklace bug that got fixed, and remember even though it sucks, that until JTL is out, everyone workign on this game is working on JTL, so no one gets anything special until then, which includes us. I know what our gripes are about I have them too, all of us do. But who cares why we get new stuff, I don't at least we get new stuff, and I like getting new stuff. So lets all try to smile about this people, big tailor hug for all my fellow tailors!
SeraphinAnnie
Mon Jul 26, 2004 9:39 am
#5
Nice info Unwanted. 
I know we're pretty far down on the priority list, so I'm just happy knowing they remembered us at all! hehe
Necklace fix is wonderful, and I'll certainly have fun playing with the new clothing, even if I can't wear it.
ArthurDentOnBria
Mon Jul 26, 2004 11:49 am
#6
Unwanted wrote:
remember even though it sucks, that until JTL is out, everyone workign on this game is working on JTL, so no one gets anything special until then, which includes us.
Well, this is the whole crux of it, is it not? The "no soup for you" edict that they've been feeding us, saying that they are putting all their resources into JTL and have no leftover art assets or art resources to spend on the "main game", and in particular tailors, seems to me to be directly contradicted by this whole Ithorian revelation.
This reminds me an awful lot of the chef clothing stuff. All this "we're too busy, we're too busy, we're too busy" then all of a sudden BOOM we get 3 new schematics that weren't anywhere even on our radars as far as "wish list" items, immediately followed by "we're too busy" once again.
/think happy thoughts, think happy thoughts
/ahhh necklace bug fix
Message Edited by ArthurDentOnBria on 07-26-2004 12:04 PM
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