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How to outsource clothes production, so we can get more pewpew.
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joelinux
Perkone
Caldari State
#1 - 2012-06-15 17:58:28 UTC
Approach all the colleges that have fashion design degrees and offer to give them the toolkit that will enable them to make virtual clothes in EvE in exchange for school credit.

That way, you would have a ready supply of clothes without having to divert developers from making the game more awesome.

Heck, let them price it as well so they can get an idea for supply/demand. They will likely start talking to people in the game to find out what they want/need, and create accordingly.

Everyone wins!
Cerulean Errant
Deep Core Mining Inc.
Caldari State
#2 - 2012-06-15 19:14:33 UTC
This would not work on SO many levels.

- Toolkit may/may not be proprietary. Also, who is going to debug new outfits/textures that have to be loaded?

- The entire negotiation with schools about how this qualifies for credit, what kind of credit, etc., etc. would require a team of its very own, thus defeating the purpose of "not diverting developers".

- The developers working on this are on a team dedicated to doing just this, and other related stuff. For all we know, they may have no skills whatsoever to working on other things in-game. Just because you can code doesn't mean you can do 3-d graphic model design.

- As this is still a relatively "new" feature, CCP is keeping a tight leash on it and slowly letting it expand, and for good reason. The character creator is perhaps one of the best I and a lot of others have seen. Once it matures, it could easily be licensed out to other games. They're not going to sink it with potentially bad press, mismanagement, or other rash moves. SLow and steady out of the gate, so they can get all the kinks out.

- As stated in a recent devblog, they already have a huge amount of items waiting to be released, as they will do so in the next Inferno release. So that kinda makes this all a moot point.
Barbara Nichole
Royal Amarr Institute
Amarr Empire
#3 - 2012-06-15 19:45:27 UTC  |  Edited by: Barbara Nichole
joelinux wrote:
Approach all the colleges that have fashion design degrees and offer to give them the toolkit that will enable them to make virtual clothes in EvE in exchange for school credit.

That way, you would have a ready supply of clothes without having to divert developers from making the game more awesome.

Heck, let them price it as well so they can get an idea for supply/demand. They will likely start talking to people in the game to find out what they want/need, and create accordingly.

Everyone wins!



seems to me the less clothing out there the more you will pew-pew for lack of clean things to wear. Smile

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leviticus ander
The Scope
Gallente Federation
#4 - 2012-06-15 20:31:09 UTC
I can tell you this much. if they ever green lighted anything made by the fashion design class at my school, nobody would ever wear it.
if they were to do this, they would probably have to spend more time nixing the terrible crap they would be receiving than they would if they were to make their own.
joelinux
Perkone
Caldari State
#5 - 2012-06-16 04:44:14 UTC
leviticus ander wrote:
I can tell you this much. if they ever green lighted anything made by the fashion design class at my school, nobody would ever wear it.
if they were to do this, they would probably have to spend more time nixing the terrible crap they would be receiving than they would if they were to make their own.


Easy solutions to both those issues: create a translation utility between this software: optitex and eve's stuff.

Secondly, crowd source the designs so the silly or wrong stuff doesn't get through.