Crafting in Star Wars

(this doesnt fit in LOS or KOS since it kinds goes for both sides ... so putting it here.)

In Rift a guild I was in had a very nice custom made set of web pages that allowed folks to request certain items to be crafted and then crafters got points towards leveling in that guild from making them .. then also folks donating requested materials got points etc .. which the crafters spent points on to 'buy' etc etc .. its far too much work for this organization of course and we don't promote that way ... but it got me to thinking of how we can broadcast our needs in SWTOR... mostly those looking to have things made and crafters willing to make it ..

Now this has been done in many games .. many guilds where someone posts on some forum .. can anyone make me xxxxxxx .... with the enormous amounts of items and the time sensitiviy on making those items .. this method seems impractical for us ... I mean by the time John Doe asks for a might hilt 14 .. and someone responds ... and makes him a blue might hilt 14 .. he may really need a might hilt 16 or greater ... So I don't think just asking and waiting for a response will work ...

And keep in mind while John Doe may be a sith .. we do have ways between both LOS and KOS to get that hilt to the sith even though the crafter might be republic .. thats a non issue ..

What I am trying to brainstorm is how can we effectively help each other with requests like this which unless its a level 50+ item ... time sensitivy is an issue ...


One suggestion is using our vent server more and having a crafting day ... for about 2 hours every so often .. where both republics and imps are in vent .. and willing to craft .. and requests are made live .. it would also perhaps require those making requests willing to purchase some raw mats to help those crafters get from blue to purple or possibly green to blue ...(do NOTE that crafting a blue higher level item may take up to 30 minutes per try and does not guarantee learnign the purple schematic .. so instant gratification would only apply when a crafter happend to have that recipe for you)

Getting together like this would also let crafters know what things they can try to learn during the non schedule times to be ready for requests for folks at a later time.


Anyway throwing this idea out there .. maybe someone has a better one ...or maybe yall think it sucks ... would like feedback eitehr way before I tried to organize something like this ...

It's a very good suggestion Lace, my only concern is it has been/is quite difficult to get people to utilize the website and trying to get in touch with anyone that doesn't use the website regularly is next to impossible. I have tried to do it on several occasions with little to no success trying to simply find out their forum names for the guild rosters. Getting those same people to log on "together" and use vent will probably be just as difficult. :dry: I profusely apologize for appearing to "throw the proverbial wet blanket" on your idea because I am totally open to listening to/implementing whatever someone can come up with. We could certainly utilize the MOTD to inform guildies when something like this has been set up. Although, again, while we can post info using the MOTD, getting people to notice what's right in front of their face as they log in is yet another story. :whistle: Been there, done that too....:( Maybe QiqJoe has some thoughts on how we can overcome this issue. I am certainly more than willing to entertain any idea that may work for us. ;)

EDIT: I went ahead and moved this message to the Cantina in the SWTOR forum block as that section fits either faction. (I also altered the description for that forum section so it doesn't say only Knights of Stonewall. Hope that helps!) :)