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General => Code Discussion => Topic started by: Manhattan on July 22, 2005, 05:21:44 AM

Title: crafting silk
Post by: Manhattan on July 22, 2005, 05:21:44 AM
You could make a two pairs of white silk gloves from that.
You could make a pair of white silk gloves from that.

WHY?????
Is this a bug??????
Who the hell would make one pair when they could make two?????

Help me, I am confused.  :? ???????
Title: crafting silk
Post by: Cenghiz on July 22, 2005, 06:34:09 AM
Err.. I never crafted silk, so only as an assumption:

Here in Turkey, the traditional tailors still do work, especially in small cities. One of them was a family friend to whose shop I frequented. I know he needs to organize where to cut from the cloth, so he can spare (:twisted:) a little bit more cloth to himself. I guess a rookie tailor would mess with a strange pattern and would be able to make only one pair of gloves from the cloth, while an adept one would find out to cut the cloth properly to make a couple instead.
Title: crafting silk
Post by: Nyard on July 22, 2005, 06:54:27 AM
Maybe you can make two smaller pairs or one big/normal pair?
Title: crafting silk
Post by: Sandstorm Phoenix on July 22, 2005, 07:40:54 AM
Or two rather plain and one exceptionally elaborate?  


Not a clothworker either, but test it out.  If making 2 from one piece yield the exact same product as making one from one piece it is definitely worth using the "bug" command.


(edited out a stupid spelling error)
Title: crafting silk
Post by: Bestatte on July 22, 2005, 07:50:15 AM
Just a guess...

They probably only let you make one pair when the craftable gloves first came out, and then they decided to let you make two pairs..and they just never removed the one pair from the craft list.
Title: crafting silk
Post by: Larrath on July 22, 2005, 08:19:45 AM
One pair could be a lot thicker than the other pair.
Title: Re: crafting silk
Post by: Yokunama on July 22, 2005, 10:11:25 AM
Quote from: "Manhattan"You could make a two pairs of white silk gloves from that.
You could make a pair of white silk gloves from that.

WHY?????
Is this a bug??????
Who the hell would make one pair when they could make two?????

Help me, I am confused.  :? ???????

I really do not think so, Manhattan.
Try making both pair of gloves, give them a good look over, and see if they are -exactly- the same. If so, you could use the "bug" command to post the problem for the immortals to view later. Also, I think you can wish up someone if you have doubts about it.
Title: crafting silk
Post by: Twilight on July 22, 2005, 11:09:53 AM
Did you watch the progression of items you could make carefully?  If you have not watched the progression, or if you have started with the tailor subguild, what you see may look a little weird.  There are certain items where at low skill levels you can make one, and at higher skill levels you can make a batch, from the same raw material.
Title: crafting silk
Post by: Cuusardo on July 22, 2005, 11:36:33 AM
I'd suggest making one, then the other.  Then inspect your work and see if they're any different.
Title: crafting silk
Post by: Sandstorm Phoenix on July 22, 2005, 11:43:34 AM
Hey, I have an idea. . . make one, then the other and compare 'em.
Title: crafting silk
Post by: Anonymous on July 22, 2005, 11:49:34 AM
I'm guessing that the one pair is much more elaborate than the other like others have said.  Though there might be a chance that it's the same pair of gloves but making two pairs out of the same sheet of silk requires care, patience and cutting the pattern out in just the right way to make the best use of your silk, thereby being a more challening undertaking.
Title: crafting silk
Post by: path on July 22, 2005, 08:03:58 PM
On a sidenote, for those who have never tangoed with silk IRL it's a shockingly difficult fabric to work with. SHOCKINGLY difficult.

Cotton and linen (which usually has a wider weave) are much easier, but if we're talking raw silk or silk with a lose weave.. d00d.. you have no -idea- how skilled your character is to be able to make gloves from that. That's like trying to make gloves out of spiderweb.