Weaponsmith Archive

While this may not be high on any list, it would be nice if we could costumize the weapons.

Right now the weaponsmith can choose the 'look' of the scopes and the barrels and the stocks, thats great. But why not take it a bit further?

1) Let the weaponsmith choose the color of the 'body' of the weapon. That would allow for better looking combos of stock/scope/weapon. Not to mention it'd be nice to carry around a silver or white or other colored weaponry (striped, camo, etc).

2) Let the weaponsmith choose the COLOR of the ammunition fired. Add an extra component, made by master artisans (to give them bussiness), that will change the color of the shot fired, and another extra component that would change the length of the graphic shot.

For example, the color component can come in red, blue, white, green,yellow, purple, cyan, grey, silver, semi-transparent (like tusken rifle shots). The component that determines the length of the shots is there to make the bolt be either half the current size (so they'd look more like bullets than laser bolts), 1.5X the size, 2X the size, 2.5x the size..all the way to 4.x the size (so a weapon being fired would look like shooting a constant beam..some people may like that).

Weapon Sheaths, slings and holsters.

Made by Tailors, itd be nice if we could have the ability not run around with weapons drawn (i mean, what if you fall on your axe? And taking a swig at the cantine with a gun in hand could be hazardous..not to mention saluting someone and poking your eye off with the vibroknife or rifle stock!).

Would be nice if 'unequipping' the weapon would make you 'holster' or 'sling on the back' the weapon you had been using. And have one for weapon type (melee or ranged).

As in, if you have a pistol anda 1H sword, your character would be shown as having a blade sheathed on his back or in the back of his torso (a-la LOTR aragorn's knife in the two towers) and a pistol holster a-la han solo. But if you equip a rifle, the pistol holster dissapears and when you 'unequip' the rifle, you sling the rifle on your back.

I'd rather just see us be able to make weapons that look like the ones on display by the weaponsmith trainers. Like, allow scopes, stocks, and different barrels on ALL the weapons, or give us an option NOT to include a visual component to those additions. IE: right now, if you hand craft a DLT20, it will have a barrel extension, but only one in particular. I'd say we should be able to put ANY barrel on there that we want, OR have the option of a "clear" barrel (or just one that doesn't show up). Same goes for stocks and scopes. It's a minor thing, yeah, but it helps make the guns look cool.

1.) I'm sure you won't be surprised if I tell you that you're not the first person to suggest this. Or the second. Or the 800th. The Developers are more than aware of the possibility to grant us color customization, it's just a matter of if and when.

2.) Now this I don't think will happen. A weapon's fire is one of the most unique traits about it. Riflemen won't think the SG82 is so cool anymore, if anyone can have blue weaponfire. And no one is going to choose the Republic Blaster over any other gun just because the streaks look neat.

3.) Sheats, Slings, et al: Mostly a Tailor thing as you said and I'm sure it's already been discussed/suggested there. Sort of pointless for the Weaponsmith community to suggest something that they wouldn't craft.

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Customization has been put on hold and for good reason. The state of Weapon Balance is in horrid disarray and frankly, no one is eager to see it pushed aside for pink DL44s. Honestly, until they work out Weapon Balance, I don't expect the developing team to give so much as a glance at customization. We have to keep our priorities straight. That said, Weapon color customization options are already noted in the Issues Compilation.