92 posts · 2007-01-31 22:06:51 to 2007-02-19 11:23:52
#3630015508101/31/2007 22:06:51Image Retrieval - January 31, 2007
Walrus is living it up in San Diego for some big Community Relations conference, so here I am with a crude attempt at this week's Image Retrieval!
What we have for you today is a little sequence showing an RSI Pill (work in progress) in action. You'll notice that something is different about the character after they take the teal pill.
#3630015508401/31/2007 22:13:32Re:Image Retrieval - January 31, 2007
Redpill Rogaine?
#3630015508501/31/2007 22:14:10Re:Image Retrieval - January 31, 2007
You're really pushing that teal thing, aren't you?
But TEAL CHANGEY PILL 4TW!
#3630015508601/31/2007 22:15:34Re:Image Retrieval - January 31, 2007
Sexy stuff ya got there.
- RedLynk
#3630015508801/31/2007 22:22:09Re:Image Retrieval - January 31, 2007
Yes!
#3630015509001/31/2007 22:25:35Re:Image Retrieval - January 31, 2007
omg
#3630015509901/31/2007 22:44:00Re:Image Retrieval - January 31, 2007
Woot!
#3630015510401/31/2007 23:08:36Re:Image Retrieval - January 31, 2007
I'm assuming this means in a later patch we'll be able to change our RSI appearance. Thanks!
decided to allow for some leeway =P
#3630015510701/31/2007 23:10:50Re:Image Retrieval - January 31, 2007
I wonder what exactly the pills are. I mean.. 235 (I think) Rarebit said.. that would include all the hair+hair color, but would it be tatoos with it? Hair and tatoos can't make up 200+.. has to be something else, like body type or even face changes.
#3630015510801/31/2007 23:13:52Re:Image Retrieval - January 31, 2007
This is gonna be fun. I'll have to make sure I have the correct pills to switch myself back before I change anything thou.
#3630015510901/31/2007 23:14:36Re:Image Retrieval - January 31, 2007
Roukan wrote:
I wonder what exactly the pills are. I mean.. 235 (I think) Rarebit said.. that would include all the hair+hair color, but would it be tatoos with it? Hair and tatoos can't make up 200+.. has to be something else, like body type or even face changes.
Skin tone?
#3630015512402/01/2007 00:13:28Re:Image Retrieval - January 31, 2007
Body types, hair styles, hair colors, heads, skin tones, tattoos, facial details, and facial detail colors for both male and female add up to 235 if you count them...
Yes. I was bored.
#3630015515602/01/2007 02:14:31Re:Image Retrieval - January 31, 2007
oh my fin gawd, SOE are teh pwn W0oT =)
GF, nice 1 v 1, all me son!
#3630015516102/01/2007 02:19:46Re:Image Retrieval - January 31, 2007
Ok something to confirm, since I haven't been reading too much on it, these are the "temporary" chainging pills right, up until you jackout? Since there was talk of perma change pills too...
#3630015516502/01/2007 02:23:30Re:Image Retrieval - January 31, 2007
What should I chnge my hair too?
#3630015517002/01/2007 02:30:13Re:Image Retrieval - January 31, 2007
Aquatium. wrote:
Ok something to confirm, since I haven't been reading too much on it, these are the "temporary" chainging pills right, up until you jackout? Since there was talk of perma change pills too...
They're permanent.
#3630015517202/01/2007 02:32:34Re:Image Retrieval - January 31, 2007
Rarebit wrote:
Aquatium. wrote:
Ok something to confirm, since I haven't been reading too much on it, these are the "temporary" chainging pills right, up until you jackout? Since there was talk of perma change pills too...
They're permanent.
Awesome, Aquatium's been waiting to spend some time under the sun.
#3630015517602/01/2007 02:47:03Re:Image Retrieval - January 31, 2007
Yay for the teal pill things! Although, I don't think i'll be using them much yet, as I kind of wasted spent a little time re-rolling my character to get the look I was happy with. If anything, I may use them to put Orexis's hair up (a la Agent Pace), but I'm sure I'd switch it back soon enough. Either way, finally, RSI changing pills.
.. And zomgwtf blue shirt in that WIP? o_O
#3630015521102/01/2007 04:07:32Re:Image Retrieval - January 31, 2007
Awesome.
#3630015521302/01/2007 04:08:13Re:Image Retrieval - January 31, 2007
I know its still early but hav you decided on a price for the pills and cant they be attainable more than once
#3630015521602/01/2007 04:15:06Re:Image Retrieval - January 31, 2007
Yay! Finally!
#3630015521902/01/2007 04:20:48Re:Image Retrieval - January 31, 2007
dudewatthehell wrote:
I know its still early but hav you decided on a price for the pills and cant they be attainable more than once
They're dungeon loot.
#3630015522702/01/2007 04:33:10Re:Image Retrieval - January 31, 2007
Rarebit wrote:
Aquatium. wrote:
Ok something to confirm, since I haven't been reading too much on it, these are the "temporary" chainging pills right, up until you jackout? Since there was talk of perma change pills too...
They're permanent.
So just to clarify; there's no way to revert back to your pre-pill popping RSI?
#3630015524002/01/2007 04:44:07Image Retrieval - January 31, 2007
VERY NICE
#3630015524302/01/2007 04:45:37Re:Image Retrieval - January 31, 2007
noctivagus wrote:
Rarebit wrote:
Aquatium. wrote:
Ok something to confirm, since I haven't been reading too much on it, these are the "temporary" chainging pills right, up until you jackout? Since there was talk of perma change pills too...
They're permanent.
So just to clarify; there's no way to revert back to your pre-pill popping RSI?
There is, by getting the pills that make you look like your original pre-pill popped RSI
#3630015524602/01/2007 04:48:39Image Retrieval - January 31, 2007
*Hopes the pills have tooltip preview renders using ya current RSI ala inventory screen*
#3630015525102/01/2007 04:50:25Re:Image Retrieval - January 31, 2007
No more stupid green hair for me!
Hm, maybe purple this time...or teal cyan!
#3630015525302/01/2007 04:52:30Re:Image Retrieval - January 31, 2007
noctivagus wrote:
Rarebit wrote:
Aquatium. wrote:
Ok something to confirm, since I haven't been reading too much on it, these are the "temporary" chainging pills right, up until you jackout? Since there was talk of perma change pills too...
They're permanent.
So just to clarify; there's no way to revert back to your pre-pill popping RSI?
You would simply farm another pill and re-config back to what you had.
#3630015525502/01/2007 04:56:47Re:Image Retrieval - January 31, 2007
Woot new hair for me now The pills sound easy enough to get as well so no need to farm for any $ or anything xD
#3630015525702/01/2007 04:59:33Re:Image Retrieval - January 31, 2007
This has to be one of the coolest things yet. For the longest many of us have wanted something like this because either we designed our characters poorly or just like the concept of changing their hair (a la Niobe) every once in a while.
Awesome, very awesome!
#3630015526002/01/2007 05:03:07Re:Image Retrieval - January 31, 2007
Garu wrote:
This has to be one of the coolest things yet. For the longest many of us have wanted something like this because either we designed our characters poorly or just like the concept of changing their hair (a la Niobe) every once in a while.
Awesome, very awesome!
or had low graphics settings and didnt see the huge face tat that came with that..ehh..face.
Also i wonder is there a plain skin pill you can use to remove tats altogther from your rsi.
#3630015527302/01/2007 05:19:15Re:Image Retrieval - January 31, 2007
Hmm, now I'm curious.
Does one pill allow you to completely revamp your RSI OR does a pill only allow you to make certain changes? For instance, a "green mohawk" teal pill?
#3630015528002/01/2007 05:23:30Re:Image Retrieval - January 31, 2007
Garu wrote:
Hmm, now I'm curious.
Does one pill allow you to completely revamp your RSI OR does a pill only allow you to make certain changes? For instance, a "green mohawk" teal pill?
The latter. There are 235 pills in total.
#3630015528102/01/2007 05:23:45Re:Image Retrieval - January 31, 2007
1 pill for 1 specific detail of your RSI. So, yeah, 1 pill for the color of your mohawk and another pill for actual haircut. You have to loot them seperatly, in different hideouts. Each hideout floor except the boss' floor will have the NPC's to drop the pills, each hideout drops different pills. There are 235 pills in total to cover all the different changes that can be selected in the character creation screen. Everything you can change in that screen will now have a pill available somewhere in a hideout.
edit because it didn't make much sense
#3630015528302/01/2007 05:25:39Re:Image Retrieval - January 31, 2007
will they be tradeable?
#3630015528402/01/2007 05:27:18Re:Image Retrieval - January 31, 2007
Yes.
#3630015528602/01/2007 05:27:52Re:Image Retrieval - January 31, 2007
well its not the bosses floor that wont have them, it just all enemys in the boss room from my understanding.
If you are right though that would cut the area of the creston heights museum in half....
Also i think the boss should have a really random chance of droppin a totaly random pill (one that mey not even drop in that hideout, would be a nice supprise of you were farming for a while and one just pops up in the loot.
And finnaly a question if rarebit sees it: Will the pills be tradeable or n/t and will they be singleton or will they group in stacks and last but not least are they uploadable (would make sence if there singleton as you cant mail singleton to yourself)
dang you and your fast questions and answers....
#3630015528902/01/2007 05:30:22Re:Image Retrieval - January 31, 2007
phaydren wrote:
And finnaly a question if rarebit sees it: Will the pills be tradeable or n/t and will they be singleton or will they group in stacks and last but not least are they uploadable (would make sence if there singleton as you cant mail singleton to yourself)
They are tradable. And they stack. I don't know if they stack, for instance, in groups of 'all hair colors' or 'green hair color'.
#3630015535302/01/2007 07:39:54Image Retrieval - January 31, 2007
Rarebit wrote:
What we have for you today is a little sequence showing an RSI Pill (work in progress) in action. You'll notice that something is different about the character after they take the teal pill.
You know you meant to say blue. We're talking "toe-may-toe"/"toe-mah-toe" here.
Why not white pills? Y'know, to symbolize the loading construct, where changes to someone's RSI are made.
Bah.
I'm only half-serious. It's nice to see these things being worked on. Aesthetics are an important part of this game, and it's good to see some development time being spent to give us a little more flexibility in that area.
Next: The ability to swap buffs on clothing.
#3630015535802/01/2007 07:45:30Re:Image Retrieval - January 31, 2007
I like my RSI like it is >_>
#3630015536402/01/2007 07:50:28Re:Image Retrieval - January 31, 2007
I like the way I currently look.
#3630015539602/01/2007 08:39:36Re:Image Retrieval - January 31, 2007
Nice!
So how are you be able to get these pills again?
#3630015541602/01/2007 09:08:05Re:Image Retrieval - January 31, 2007
GuS wrote:
Nice!
So how are you be able to get these pills again?
Like this:
Rarebit wrote:
Reeverb wrote:
Reeverb wrote:
For future quotage: Do we have to get lucky to recieve an RSIpill, like other drops in hideouts are dropped, or will we be guaranteed of recieving the RSIpill, like going to a Collector (similar to the Area K quest)? That'll be all I want to know about them.
The Area-K quest has uh...boy it's been a while...at least one or two bits where randomness is involved with a drop chance, it's just that they're better odds, and/or with more potential droppers than say Construct boss drops, where it's just one guy in the whole construct who has a 1 in 30 chance of dropping an item, and half the time that item may not be the gender you want. I'm not sure what the hideout boss drop rates are off the top of my head, but they also have long respawn times, which makes it seem worse.
The RSI Pills will drop off all the NPCs in the dungeon EXCEPT for the boss and the boss' roommates--so don't bother trying to farm that last room for pills. Generally speaking the RSI Pill drops will be split up among floors. A possible example is...hm...let's take the White Lotus Hotel dungeon. I think that has three floors? Let's just pretend it does. Half of the Skin Tone pills are going on the NPCs in that dungeon, so that's eight different kinds of pills, not counting male/female for now. The NPCs on the top floor will drop pills of skin tones 9 and 10, the ones on the middle floor will drop skin tones 11 through 13, and the ones on the bottom floor will drop the last three skin tone pill types, 14 through 16. Or something like that. Oh, and don't forget that the Boss and her (these are the Spinnerettes, if memory serves) high-level cronies in that last encounter room won't drop any RSI Pills at all.
So say you're killing off the Spinnerettes on the top floor. There are two different types of pills that they may carry, each in two different genders. I think for the most part I'm going to set the chance of a pill drop at 1 in 20. So if you kill 20 Spinnerettes on the first floor, odds are that you'll find a Skin Tone 9 or Skin Tone 10 RSI Pill, either for males or for females. Now, if you're picky about which one, say you want number 9 in male, you'd have to kill 80 Spinnerettes to get one, on average.
The hair style pills are all going to be in the Casinos, which are all the same, so there will be quite a few hair style pill types per floor (5 floors, um, twenty-some hair styles per gender? = maybe four types per floor * 2 genders = eight different pill drops per floor, ie a 1 in 8 chance of getting the pill you want when some pill drops). For those I'm thinking I'll set the drop rate to more like 1 in 10, so again you'd expect to kill about 80 Unclean or whatever they ares to get the pill you want.
Anyway, that's kind of the plan I'm working on currently.
#3630015543302/01/2007 09:27:48Re:Image Retrieval - January 31, 2007
Garu wrote:
This has to be one of the coolest things yet. For the longest many of us have wanted something like this because either we designed our characters poorly or just like the concept of changing their hair (a la Niobe) every once in a while.
Awesome, very awesome!
You would look great in dreds, Garu.
Great idea! Can't wait to see it in game.
#3630015550202/01/2007 11:11:55Re:Image Retrieval - January 31, 2007
ZippyTheSquirrel wrote:
No more stupid green hair for me!
Hm, maybe purple this time...or teal cyan!
You're not allowed my hair color, nub
#3630015552102/01/2007 11:24:00Re:Image Retrieval - January 31, 2007
Nice but... erm... I like my RSI the way it is.
#3630015557102/01/2007 12:42:14Re:Image Retrieval - January 31, 2007
Heh, if I can't fix this problem I'm having with Sykin's hairstyle, I think I will change it... But such a change... Could mean serious consequences.
#3630015557902/01/2007 13:03:04Re:Image Retrieval - January 31, 2007
Sykin wrote:
Heh, if I can't fix this problem I'm having with Sykin's hairstyle, I think I will change it... But such a change... Could mean serious consequences.
Yes, the trial of changing your conditioner is something that could cause dangerous ramifications across a worldwide scale....
#3630015558502/01/2007 13:11:43Re:Image Retrieval - January 31, 2007
It's nice to see these things being worked on. Aesthetics are an important part of this game, and it's good to see some development time being spent to give us a little more flexibility in that area. 