Skandranon,Mar 11 2005, 05:19 PM Wrote:Besides, soon come the days of the Magister's Robe, where she'll look the same as just about every other level 60 mage.
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Just another reason I want a more robust crafting system. Give the crafters some look modify skills. Maybe make them like a lot of the smelting skills where by the time you can get them they are green or grey for skill-ups so you can't abuse them for skilling up and heck I wouldn't mind having them have some expense to them either through the reagents needed (since it is just a vanity thing). But I would like to be able to go to a tailor and alter the cut if not the color of my item. Or have blacksmith put some interesting decorative spikes on my armor. An enchanter who could do some neat etchings. Stuff like that. Leave the stats be, just have some purely appearance altering skills. You could put it on an NPC if you want, but I am more in favor of PC controled skills.
I would really to see the crafting that Horizons promised (but failed to deliver) where when you are constructing a sword you can choose the hilt, the blade, the colors, the decorations, etc. The stats for every "copper doom sword" would be the same, but they wouldn't all look the same. Even with say a rapier which has a fairly defined look can still have some blade variation.
Ah well. The coding is much easier this way and it actually is easier on performance since there are less object types that can be drawn less textures in use and such. But little things like that really help my immersion and would make screenshots even more interesting. :) While smacking things around is very enjoyable, crafting is my immersion factor. If I could fix buildings (that other players could damage) I could be a happy little crafter and feel a lot more part of the world.
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It's all just zeroes and ones and duct tape in the end.
It's all just zeroes and ones and duct tape in the end.