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The Fashionable Stockroom Challenge
Skye
The Duchess Bellatere
Nooo...this isn't a challenge to break into stuff.
Lemme start by saying that I began playing this game before the introduction of the NDS system. This meant that a bunch of us tailors would be running around with packs full of physical patterns that we had to take care of, even risking the possibility of some enterprising thief who might make off with our designs. There weren't any public designs so when you entered a clothes shop, you knew you were guaranteed a wide and mostly unique variety of clothing for your choice.
With the exception of some questionable designs like the crotchless panties and getting rejected for having too many/few commas, it was very much a golden age of item design. We had some big name designers like Keturah, Katia, Lavinia, Amunet later on joined by others like Balynne, Lala et al, who ensured that the populace Sapience stayed (generally) snappy dressers. Some even opened some unique specialist shops like a haberdashery in Hashan or a blanket shop in Cyrene.
Today, however, as I wander the various shops in the city, I'm sorely disappointed and pretty overwhelmed by the sheer amount of mass produced clothing lifted wholly from NDS PUBLIC that's used to pad the stock. Seriously, it's like I'm walking into a K-Mart or something. If clothes make the man, then you shopkeepers just turned us into the most ill-dressed basement dwellers to walk the earth.
Playing as Skye, I have the liberty of making my own clothes. This makes things a whole lot easier on me since Skye has a particular look and I seldom have to deviate from it. Playing on alts, however, I'm hard pressed to find outfits that suit my characters. I think it takes me more days to find the right clothing that it does for Daeir to find a sword he likes, mostly because the options have become just that limited.
For those of you who say 'why not just search NDS for known tailors and go through their list?', I'll say that not every tailor has their design list public. I myself have a few private designs. Also, NDS searching is terribly rudimental. You can see the general design appearance, but not the details of privately owned designs so what 'seems' like the right shirt for you, may not actually be so. Also, some designers have a ridiculously huge collection of designs either by their own creation or by buying up orphaned designs on the unowned list, and none of it is organised. Neither do you have a way of organising it or searching more specifically . This is not conducive to one's shopping experience.
So, in the interest of good dress sense, I hereby make a challenge to you, shopkeepers. For those of you with no designs of your own, commission or make a contract with existing shopless tailors to start stocking some interesting clothing. Bring back the age of fashion and down with mass produced goods!
Lemme start by saying that I began playing this game before the introduction of the NDS system. This meant that a bunch of us tailors would be running around with packs full of physical patterns that we had to take care of, even risking the possibility of some enterprising thief who might make off with our designs. There weren't any public designs so when you entered a clothes shop, you knew you were guaranteed a wide and mostly unique variety of clothing for your choice.
With the exception of some questionable designs like the crotchless panties and getting rejected for having too many/few commas, it was very much a golden age of item design. We had some big name designers like Keturah, Katia, Lavinia, Amunet later on joined by others like Balynne, Lala et al, who ensured that the populace Sapience stayed (generally) snappy dressers. Some even opened some unique specialist shops like a haberdashery in Hashan or a blanket shop in Cyrene.
Today, however, as I wander the various shops in the city, I'm sorely disappointed and pretty overwhelmed by the sheer amount of mass produced clothing lifted wholly from NDS PUBLIC that's used to pad the stock. Seriously, it's like I'm walking into a K-Mart or something. If clothes make the man, then you shopkeepers just turned us into the most ill-dressed basement dwellers to walk the earth.
Playing as Skye, I have the liberty of making my own clothes. This makes things a whole lot easier on me since Skye has a particular look and I seldom have to deviate from it. Playing on alts, however, I'm hard pressed to find outfits that suit my characters. I think it takes me more days to find the right clothing that it does for Daeir to find a sword he likes, mostly because the options have become just that limited.
For those of you who say 'why not just search NDS for known tailors and go through their list?', I'll say that not every tailor has their design list public. I myself have a few private designs. Also, NDS searching is terribly rudimental. You can see the general design appearance, but not the details of privately owned designs so what 'seems' like the right shirt for you, may not actually be so. Also, some designers have a ridiculously huge collection of designs either by their own creation or by buying up orphaned designs on the unowned list, and none of it is organised. Neither do you have a way of organising it or searching more specifically . This is not conducive to one's shopping experience.
So, in the interest of good dress sense, I hereby make a challenge to you, shopkeepers. For those of you with no designs of your own, commission or make a contract with existing shopless tailors to start stocking some interesting clothing. Bring back the age of fashion and down with mass produced goods!
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But.. what sort of things to people want?
Although a handful of people on forums may not be the best indication of market size.
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Bit lacking in confidence, I guess. Still, the lack of particular clothing is really starting to get too noticeable. Back when I started playing, it seemed like every shop had different clothes, and running upon the same stuff could happen, but was rather infrequent. Now is the complete opposite.
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I can relate to the lack of satisfaction with what's available in shops, although if I frequently check all the shops for new/rare/unusual items (which I am guilty of more often than I'd admit - just literally going through every shop everywhere except Mhaldor to see if there's anything I don't already have) I do sometimes stumble across really cool, new-to-me stuff. That makes me really happy.
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for those not in the know Aeotlia has a system where you put tags in the design and upon being made it can be dyed to insert certain colours at the tags.
thus reducing these five designs
a red fencers shirt,
a green fencers shirt,
a blue fencers shirt,
a black fencers shirt,
a yellow fencers shirt,
into
a @colour1 fencers shirt dyable to any of the above colours.
Not aggressively disheveled, but more practical garb for adventuring. Not ostentatious runway outfits. Masculine styling: more neutral colours, rugged materials, minimal embellishments and decorations. People will add their own accessories like medallions and rings, so that type of thing - decorations, designs - should be left out of the base components of the outfit. Neutral designs are desirable because it makes them more modular and easily interchangeable.
If you have 'a pair of black trousers', 'a grey shirt', and 'heavy buckskin boots', those are all fairly neutral so they fit easily with each other and anything else. So you can then easily add whatever distinctive things display your character's style and org affiliation, like an emerald cowl, a gatorskin bandolier, mountaineering gloves, or a bloodsteel armband.
If you have 'a pair of tie-dyed trousers', 'a shirt embroidered with a wolf howling at the moon', 'a cloak with a panoramic design of the Vashnar mountain range', and 'red wyvern leather boots with talons mounted upon the toes', each of those pieces is already heavily styled already. They don't fit together, and make you look like a Gaia avatar even before you start adding any enchanted jewelery/etc. I get that tailors want to make imaginative, showy pieces that are impressive on their own, but it's frustrating when those are all that are available and practical basics are neglected.
No logos uglying it up. Your crafter's mark is already on the thing.
Keep the short desc short. 2 adjectives max. 1 comma max.
If I saw boring things like a grey shirt? I'd just keep shopping. Not interested. I like the more unique items with little touches, you might have to search longer to find the right item, but at least you'll get something interesting.
I'm really not a fan of crafters marks written into the design though... they just seem like extra fluff.
Honourable, knight eternal,
Darkly evil, cruel infernal.
Necromanctic to the core,Dance with death forever more.
*There have been several times where all I wanted for Sena was some solid-coloured clothing (preferably loose-fitting, and in earth tones; brown, tan, black, grey, maybe dark red/green), and I searched every city only to discover that no shop in the entire game had anything suitable. Maybe one or two that would be fine but without anything to match them with to create a complete outfit. There are a few public designs I can use as a backup (though in the past even that sometimes didn't have anything), but wearing the same couple outfits all the time is boring.
Honourable, knight eternal,
Darkly evil, cruel infernal.
Necromanctic to the core,Dance with death forever more.
As for crafter marks... The mark is the mark of the person who made it not designed it I thought?