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- Proposal
At the box where a vendor can be dressed by the merchant, they should be able to let an ID (via /consent or something) do an ID on the vendor.
- Justification
Why should people have to delete and recreate a vendor 200 times to try to get the look they want? If they can dress them, they should be able to ID them. Plus, it's extra work for the IDer as well. Gives both professions something extra.
- Motivation
My wife hates her vendors, even though she got master merchant which seems to be the single longest profession to get in this game. She can dress them, she should be able to have 'em look the way she wants.
Vendors should be able to be image designed by master image designers. This one is a request from the wife, but I happen to agree with it (and not just because she's the wife haha). It gives the ID something else to do besides just players, and I'm told that merchants have had to delete and recreate a vendor 200 times or so, in order to get one that is even close to what they want it to look like. They can already be dressed if high enough in merchant, at the same level (box) they can be dressed, they should be able to have an ID come design them.
Wonder if we could do something with the Master Merchant box here. Allow an M ID over to do touch-ups. Not species changes, as that's handled in the Merchant hiring line.
Perhaps some sort of access feature if in Group together?
All part of an overarching plan to bring merchant into the game a bit more.
But it would be amazing if ID could design NPCs for merchants. For more than just vendors even.
This is an awesome idea, I'd hope it might include the clothing too. At the moment when you put a new outfit on your vendor, you lose the previous one. I was going to make a fresh suggestion but I feel this fits here - I'd like to be able to switch between outfits I've historically given my vendor. So if this could all be incorporated into one design window - even better.
This is an awesome idea, I'd hope it might include the clothing too. At the moment when you put a new outfit on your vendor, you lose the previous one. I was going to make a fresh suggestion but I feel this fits here - I'd like to be able to switch between outfits I've historically given my vendor. So if this could all be incorporated into one design window - even better.
vendor clothing is one of the only things that consumes tailor items currently in the game. I think the goal is to try and give all crafting professions repeat business in some form or another.
Perhaps there is a compromise in there somewhere? Maybe tailor outfits can be saved for a quick re-order and purchase from your favorite crafter?
I posted this in the senate crafting channel not having seen this PV. Obviously I'm gonna upvote and add my two bits as an idea to implement this interaction in between IDs and Merchants.
"Thoughts on a new crafting recipe for image designers. Yes... image designers. Solve the age old headache of vendor appearances and allow image designers to literally craft an NPC in a deed form, which they can sell to merchants who then drag and drop these deeds from their inventory onto their vendor to give them that custom appearance.
I am no coder and no game designer but the reason I think this may be do-able is because a lot of these systems already exist but whether it is possible to make them interact with each other is well beyond my realm of expertise. We already have image designers capable of accessing the character creator. We already have NPCs as inventory "items" or "deed" when you generate a vendor as a merchant. We already have the ability to drag and drop items from our inventory onto vendors to alter their appearance. Could the wizards in the back make all that click together, I have no idea.
(Possible expansion into IDs being able to create storyteller prop NPCs for city decor or RP/events?)
(Bonus use as a means to alter an existing vendor from one race to another. As it stands, I believe the only way to do this would be to manually delist, retrieve and relist on a new vendor entirely.)"
