Samuel_Tow

You know, I'll be honest here. I don't really get people who sell things for less than it cost them to make said things. As far as I'm concerned, ideally I expect to see prices above what you can sell things for at the stores and below what you can buy them at from the stores. It doesn't apply to Inventions, but it's a general rule of thumb when I sell. I CAN see the problem with wanting a Crafting badge, hence needing to clear space out FAST, but it still feels odd to me.

But you know what? Odd as it may feel, I would never complain about it. People sell me recipes for FAR less than it actually costs me to make them, myself, both in terms of time and effort, so really, why WOULD I complain? So ready-made Inventions aren't a source for income. Well... Duh? What ***-to-brain logic suggests they should be? Ready-made Inventions DO NOT DROP off of anything ever. Recipes and salvage do, but Inventions do not. If you're trying to make money off the finished product, you are ALREADY treating it like a low-paid job because you're going out of your way to manufacture goods with the express purpose of turning a profit. There are other things to make a profit out of. Those Luck Charms you put into your Inventions tend to sell more easily and for more than the enhancements that you make out of them, just as an easy example.

And, really, this is a market economy. Instead of going around pointing fingers and crying "You're stealing my profit margins!" just deal with the Market as it fluctuates. If you're trying to make use of the Market, then DEAL WITH IT. I don't sell Common recipes on the Market, for instance, and it's not because I'm a sinister jerk. They just don't sell well. Not much better than I can get from a vendor, at any rate, and for a much greater waiting time. I primarily sell the things that I can list for 250 and get 50 000 in return. Things like, again, Luck Charms, Alchemical Silver, Nevermelting Ice, Scientific Theory and so on. Not all of them sell well at all times, but at any given point SOMETHING will sell well.

Basically, it comes down to this - if people want to sell the things I need cheaply, then I WILL NOT complain about them doing so. If someone has a problem with me getting cheap goods at a bargain, someone can feel free to go to hell.

[QUOTE=flashrains;2763855]It's not really that impossible. There would just have to be new hair models to go under them, that had all the hair that would go under the hat actually be flush with the scalp. I have little doubt that a good number of hairstyles could be made to fit under the hats we have.

There's a serious problem, with that, and it's the hatline. It's easy to assume that all hats "end" on the same ring around the head from where hair could start, but they don't. Sure, a lot of them DO, but a fair number don't. Examples? Well...

The female Fedor is tilted to the side, skewing the hatline and making it incompatible with hairs designed for, say, the female duster. The Egyptian headgear covers the whole back of the neck, making hair options incompatible with it as a whole, unless you mean FACIAL hair. Or maybe chest hair. The Cyborg and Enforcer "hats" cover the back of the head, meaning hair has no place to attach. There's a pirate bandanna... I think it's called the "swabbie" or some such. That one has the bandana long down behind the head. And let's not even talk about the Tin Crown.

Plenty of hats are designed such that they don't support hair. As such, you can't make hair independent of hat, or else you open the door to massive, ugly clipping. This doesn't mean that every hat has to have its own, unique hairstyle specifically crafted for it. As you already mentioned, many hats do have a similar hatline, so hairstyles can be recycled between them, saving on actual modelling work, but the options would have to be settings OF THE HAT, not settings in general.

Here's how I see this:

Currently, when you pick a hat, you have one UI option, which is basically the hat model. That's that. I suggest adding a second option unique to each hat similar to how textures are for something like gloves. You pick a hat that can have hair with it and the second menu enables, giving you access between a few choices, say bald, short, long, ponytail. These could be the same for all hats that COULD have hair with them and the option could simply be disabled for hats that can't have hair like how Cyborg gloves have their texture and pattern fields disabled.

I honestly heartily believe that this needs to happen.

We get these so often it feels like we should put a sticky about them.

I heard somewhere that stances like this one were in the works. I don't know whether that's true or not, but if it isn't, I'd like it to be true.

Hats are flush on the head, both in terms of realism an in terms of how they're built in-game. In the real world, people who don't have Johnny Bravo hair tend to press their hats against their heads, compressing the actual hair, hence the hat's shape (or at least its inside rim) conform to the shape of the skull. In-game hair is NOT compressible, hence putting hat on a head with ANY hair will simply have hair clipping through the sides of your hat. The "hairstyles" that hats come with don't actually HAVE hair. The hat IS the hair, with nothing underneath it other than a bare head.

All of that is to say, you can't have "hats with hair." The most you can hope for is the creation of a few unique hair options designed specifically for each hat. I'd put that at "highly unlikely," but I fully agree it would be a major step forward for the costume creator.

I have 543, and I've no idea why I'd have a single one.

Basically, yeah. As the development team expands, the quality of the final product, the attention to detail and the size of each project grows in proportion. They may not be doing more quantitatively, but in terms of added value, these guys are working their ***** off and delivering oodles.

And I, for one, really, really appreciate all of the effort.

Any idea that requires unique animations for specific combinations is inherently unworkable, because it's both a lot of work upfront, and then increases both maintenance and development cost farther down the line. It's just not a good way to go about making powerset flow more natural.

If we DID want to go that route, though, I have another suggestion, which would require probably no less new tech to make work. I suggest giving each animation a slightly tweaked variant which would work "in a combo." A combo, here, will be defined as an extra state the character comes into at the last few frames of every power. Basically, instead of ready -> animation -> ready, we'd go ready -> animation -> combo -> ready. If another animation is activated during the combo period (which basically means if another animation is queued), that animation will play its alternate.

The reason for this is to add an extra combo state unique to each powerset that would be in-between power animations and Ready, flowing out of which ought to look a bit more natural. The problem with current sets, say Broadsword, is that the flow is really jarring with all the returns to basic stance. Most Broadsword attacks take a step forward, so you end up taking a step forward, taking a swing, taking a step back, then taking ANOTHER step forward and going from there. A combo state for Broadsword would be right leg forward, so subsequent animations, they they won't take less time, will at least make the flow look smoother. Basically, it's a stance that's maintained as long as you are queueing up attacks and prevents the character from going back to the default ready.

I honestly thought this would be about restructuring the feedback of the /loc command to be consistent with how civilised men measure coordinates, which is to say x, y, z, or sideways horizontal from West to East, frint-toback from South to North and vertical from down to up.

Right now they're jumbled, something like z, -y, x, and for the life of me I don't know why.

We really are past due for a rather large-scale influx of new weapon models for all weapon powersets. The old NPC ones are cute, but we really need to see more. A really BIG sword would be cool