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Thread: Tatooine Tapestry Info
I got lucky too, one of my cities architects has provided a factory and 2 of the city fighters have brought me 3 schematics already! So there is enough for everyone in Seaview and then some
Kel
Message Edited by ItemCreator on 11-30-2004 02:15 PM
ItemCreator wrote:
I would not be surprised if they change to fall under the Furniture 1 skill instead of Field Wear.
I got lucky too, one of my cities architects has provided and 2 of the city fighters have brought me 3 schematics already! So there is enough for everyone in Seaview and then some
Kel
The way i see it, technically, a Tapestry would be created by a Tailor. It is made of cloth. The metal is just for the rings that mount it to the bar across the top, as well as the bar itself.
Tailors, by profession, make more than clothing. they make all sorts of Fabric items such as curtains, sheets, blankets, ect, so it defintily would make sense that a flag-type of item would be crafted by a tailor.
but then also technically the tapestry is considered a piece of furniture, so the structure/furniture tool/station/factory requirements also make sense.
i'd like it if i could use my own factory to make them, but i do see where SOE was coming from when they decided what was required for it.
ItemCreator wrote:
I would not be surprised if they change to fall under the Furniture 1 skill instead of Field Wear.
I got lucky too, one of my cities architects has provided a factory and 2 of the city fighters have brought me 3 schematics already! So there is enough for everyone in Seaview and then some
Kel
Message Edited by ItemCreator on 11-30-2004 02:15 PM
Me either, but just like it was on TC, it could be argued either way! I am hoping that now that it is live that they won't want to just take something like that away. I have to admit that this particular piece looks like something a tailor would make because it basically has no structural parts. Its a piece of cloth with a stick at the top to hang it from.
Oreet wrote:
Little Tapestries???
have you placed one in a house yet?
They are the full height of Tatooine Small House walls.
They aren't the wall-filling style of tapestries that you find in castles, though.- The devs originally added the tapestry thinking it would be another Architect schematic much like the paintings and I guess the new Tanned Hide schematic is. However, then someone figured "Hey, those Tailors... they might get mad that we gave the tapestry to the Architects". So they changed it last-minute to be a Tailor item (which a Tapestry should be) but didn't change the rest of the mechanics behind it to match accordingly.
- Tailors don't have any items they craft that aren't clothes. As such, there isn't a category (think vendor listings) for Tailor items that the tapestry would fit in. So they could either a) add new catagory (probably viewed as too much work), or b) use the already-existing Furniture category. Now, maybe the game has things tied more closely together such that it decides what kind of tool and factory are used to make the item based on it's generic 'type'. So it seesthe tapestry classified as Furniture and goes "oh, this uses structure tools/factory/etc".
At least you don't have to worry about (meaningful) experimentation on it. My tailor friend said it offered do-nothing experimentation, but she only had 1 point to experiment with because she is not an Architect and thus has no bonuses to the Structure Experimentation skill. That would have really been a bad snafu if the quality mattered (thinkabout atapestry fading akin to the way the lamps in the game are supposed to die out after a while (even though they are bugged and never do)).