Tailor Archive
Thread: Time for Tailor Vendor Changes ?
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Kirranas
Wed Aug 25, 2004 4:33 pm
#1
Whenn'jessi posted out tailor top list this month it dawned on me that my current issue with the proffesion was more than just about the tailor skills its about the way we do business. Tailor is a hard enough profession with havind to hand craft most of our items the last thing we need to be is feel like we are fighting with the system.
My biggest problems currently are tailor based but come from the business end of the profession at the vendor end. Now these might seem like mercant issues and I would not dissagree however I feel that they effect tailors rather than just generic merchant proffesion.
Fixes
1. Clothing lists VS Vendor lists, what I am talking about here is the catalouges for the vendor and the crafting tool that is displayed as part of the selling or crafting of items. I dont understand how they ended up being different and even more of a puzzle is why they still dont match ? The tool item list should match the vendor list put all the skirts in skirts sub section, all the wookie items in another etc.
2. Remove Sub Sections we cant make items for. It really does wind me up to see line after line of sub sections we can make items for. Its hard enough to navigate the vendor lists due to their size and number of sub sections so why have ones we dont have items. It should be easy enough to remove the fields from the database.
3. Put items in the right place. Not all the items are logical sub sections for example dusters are under robes but spec-op dusters are under jackets they both cannot be correct and then you have cloaks sub section with just one item in it. How about a new section call coats and put all 3 under it. These are just an example of the top of my head fleshwrap and leotord and the same item almost but are in bodysuits and dress sections why are they different ?
4. Backpacks are an item of clothing, they are made by a tailor so why under the sub section under misc ? Nobody in my shop looks under misc I get told 4-5 a day I dont have any back packs due to this.
5. Sort and list items accross pages. I believe items are listed across pages by the date they where made, I am not 100% sure but I know its date based. While we can sort a single page by a number of methods, price, name it does not work across pages. Its is so painful for a customer trying to look through 5-6 pages to find they item they want, if we could have all pages as a total list by name or price it would help. Customers would know that an item starting with A would be on the first page and z on the last. This would also help stocking vendors as I could see easy which item from an oufit I was missing.
Wish Lists.
1. I only sell clothes, my vendors only stock clothes. I would love to be able to set the vendor for clothes only and remove all the other sections but the clothes ones. People would not even need to drill down (which is so slow) the sub sections would already be displayed in the small panel on the left. It would as defaul always display clothes so people dont have to click all and refersh just to get the page up.
2. Add a date left field on vendors like the market one. It would help a lot to be abel to see when an item was placed on the vendor or even better how long it had left before it needs re-listing. I find it such a pain to go through and soft out which ones do need re-listing soon.
3. Vendor Selection. Why WHY WHY do we have to random features for our vendors, it takes me hours to find a vendor that does not look like a total freak. Green hair and pink beards, short fat spikey hair freaks, its not fun creating naming and re-creating.
Let me know if you can think of any more I will add them to my list.
NJ62
Wed Aug 25, 2004 5:22 pm
#2
A lot of those changes are in our last top 10. But yeah there's a lot of crossover, and we can put them in our next top 10. Also, feel free to send these on to DocSavag, the merchant corre.
YamadaMan
Thu Aug 26, 2004 4:04 am
#3
alot of useless subsections
just from my head:
earrings (damn I want some !)
misc clothing i.e. shirts (why not under "shirt" ?)
eyewear
other than tailor
entity
pet control device
building
armor powerup
armor attachements (they're under "clothing attachements")
etc... etc... I'm ingame since novemeber and I never seen anything under those, cause the items simply don't exist.
just from my head:
earrings (damn I want some !)
misc clothing i.e. shirts (why not under "shirt" ?)
eyewear
other than tailor
entity
pet control device
building
armor powerup
armor attachements (they're under "clothing attachements")
etc... etc... I'm ingame since novemeber and I never seen anything under those, cause the items simply don't exist.
Korrack
Thu Aug 26, 2004 6:28 am
#4
The merchants have been promised a revamp at some point to fix the interfaces, the sub types and such at some point. As it mainly affects their profession, expect Doc to spearhead any vendor changes. You might wanna take a visit to the Merchant forums and post some ideas there for all to see. Doc is a great guy.
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