I'm pleased to announce we've made a decision after reviewing and considering all of the varied feedback and suggestions in the original thread. After a lot of internal discussion with the Garden team, allow me to present the three new trade based skills we will be working on in the immediate future:
Drinks maker, Artist, and Shipwright!All of these names are placeholders, and that's part of what we need your help with next!
The Drinks maker This will be a design-based tradeskill allowing you to design your own drinks.
This will not be drinks that convey combat or other alteration effects, purely flavour, much like cooking. This will include alcoholic and non-alcoholic drinks.
What we need from you!
* Suggestions for names for this tradeskill that fit the whole gamut of drink possibilities.
* Suggestions for vessels from which you can drink, and liquid types to be drunk!
The ArtistThis will be another design-based tradeskill for creating painted/drawn artworks. (I know we said we only wanted one, but we couldn't resist.) Sculpture won't be a part of this at this time.
What we need from you here!
* Suggestions for the name of the tradeskill.
* Medium and "canvas" type suggestions.
The ShipwrightThis tradesperson we hope will be able to handle the creation and alteration of ship equipment (upgrades and moving), possibly the upgrading of ships themselves (no guarantee here), handle some customisation of a ship proper, and handle the dismantling of ships.
What we need from you here!
* Suggestions for the name of this tradeskill.
* Suggestions for flavour/function additions for ship equipment.
* Suggestions for aspects of a ship proper that might be customised by a shipwright without requiring heavy design oversight.
The person who suggests the best tradeskill name for any of the above will win 100 bound credits! That's a possible 300 bound credits that you can win!
We'll be closing suggestions on August 2nd so we can work on implementation!
Comments
Glass, bottle, porter, boot, bucket, barrel, and tub.
Illustration!
Painting canvas, sketchpad, coloring books, walls, relief, umm. Other artsy words.
Shipbuilding!
Ship equipment with lots of interactions! Some kind of thingie to swing around and hit people with on accident, rigging to mistakenly trip people into, sitting on a bait tank would accidentally knock it over causing a flood and making all the bait flop and/or squish around all over the place. Um. I don't know.
i'm a rebel
Mixology/A Mixologist
Victualling /A Victualler
liquids: tea (hot and cold), blood, meade, ale, gin, rum, vodka, juice, water, kawhe, milk, cordials, mixed cocktails, wine/wyne, brandy, tequila, whiskey, bourbon, cider, moonshine
The Artist = Illustration or Artistry
The Shipwright = Naval Engineering
Illustration
mediums: oil, watercolor, pencil, charcoal, quill sketches, chalk, pigments
fizzy tonic, lemonade, malts, milkshake
Container type: glass, tumbler, flute, goblet, chalice, tankard, cup, stein, horn, snifter, thimble, bucket, carafe, bottle, decanter, pot, ewer, jug, flagon, keg
Painter - Pictor, Tinctor
Shipwright - Supercargo
Drink maker - Tabernarius, Vintor, Belhoste
canvas, wood, leather, silk, fabric, metal, glass.
Vessels to drink from: tumbler, mug, flagon, boot, snifter, shot glass, cup, stein.
Liquids: Teas, kawhe, liquors, ale, mead, lemonades (with various fruits mixed in), cocktails, and many more!
Shipfitting / Shipfitter
Shipbuilding / Shipwright
QuarterMaster:
-MasterGunner: allows weapons to be installed or moved on a ship
-MasterCarpenter: allows general descriptions of each room at a cost
-Ship Architect: (if allowed) to upgrade ships (ramming speed?) armour?
Drinks:
Mixologist:
-shot glass
-double shot glass
-pint
-jar(mason jar)
-stein
-horn
-half keg
-keg
Artist
MasterArtist:
-clay
-sand (make sandart on the beaches!)
-brick/stone (chisel or cement/glue? together)
-canvas
-wood (carving/painting)
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For whatever reason I cannot apply the Spoiler tag to the largest section of this post, so sorry. I tried. Curse you, Spoilers tag!Drinks - Libations.
Artistry - Artisanship.
Shipwright - Yarding.
Mediums: Oil, watercolour, pigment, charcoal, pencil, pastel, chalk, ink, gouache, acid (for metal and glass etching, but glass and metal could also be painted on or turned into stained glass).
Canvases: Fabric canvas, leather, wooden board or panels, watercolour paper, drawing paper, glass, metal, silk, sketchbook.
And you won't understand the cause of your grief...
...But you'll always follow the voices beneath.
Drinkmaking: I feel this is the only name that really encapsulates what this skill is meant to do. Mixology (as suggested above) implies alcohol and even then it implies mixing alcohols, whereas someone might just want their own wine or beer stock within alcohol, or simple tea, fruit juices, or even ordinary water in a particular cup outside alcohol.
I'd also suggest Brewing, since although it's not correct, it at least covers nonalcoholic drinks to an extent, and if you squint hard enough, it could imply mixing things too.
For drawing and painting, I'd just call it Painting. I'm sort of assuming it involves putting pigments to canvas where inks act as pigments, so whether they're wet or dry at the time seems like a minor distinction to me personally.
Expression/Artisanship - for the creation skill
I did a lot of poking around, and for Shipwright, unless you want to use middle or old English words, there aren't really other alternatives. If you are talking about upgrading and outfitting, Shipwarden might be an interesting choice. Other ideas could be Shipcraft, Shiplore, Shipmaster.