Price Differences: Enchanted Items

[Phantasia]

This rather interesting bug, or whatever it is, has been present for some time now. When it comes to modifying my Enchanted Silk Clothing (Ancient Dire Crocodile), compared to my Enchanted Steel plate suit (also Ancient Dire Crocodile), the price difference is actually quite staggering on each individual piece.

Steel Full Plate:

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Silk Clothing:

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What I believe is that the material, nor the weight of the item is being taken into account concerning these modifications, but it is the statistics on the armor itself. While I suppose you could argue that it is working as intended, from any realistic position, there should be no reason silk cloth costs more to modify than fully formed plates.

While I believe there should be some amount of gold charged for making modifications on such expensive equipment, I also believe the prices should be looked at for each individual armor class.

[Jeebs]

If there is no way around it for some reason, an alternative is to modify the appearance of the template before making the item itself.

[ladylena]

I think the price changes depend on how different the new look is from the old one, do they not? While it would be nice if enchanted clothing wasn't so costly to change after enchanting it, I've always been told by other players to make sure you have the look you want before enchanting

[EO]

The cost for changing any appearance is based on the item's actual worth; in this case, it looks like the cloth item is actually more costly in terms of NwN pricing. This is a fairly automated process; perhaps we could add adjustments based on armor type but don't know if it's really worth it.

Essentially the more an item is worth the more expensive it will be to customize it. After all, if you modify an armor's appearance, you are cutting into the material, replacing things, sewing new stuff, etc. For it to keep its magical properties, you'd need to acquire similar enchanted materials, which are costly.

[ladylena]

The cost for changing any appearance is based on the item's actual worth; in this case, it looks like the cloth item is actually more costly in terms of NwN pricing. This is a fairly automated process; perhaps we could add adjustments based on armor type but don't know if it's really worth it.

Essentially the more an item is worth the more expensive it will be to customize it. After all, if you modify an armor's appearance, you are cutting into the material, replacing things, sewing new stuff, etc. For it to keep its magical properties, you'd need to acquire similar enchanted materials, which are costly.

This gave me an idea! I have no idea if it's feasible but, perhaps there could be something added so that if it's brought to a tailor(crafting one) and they have enough skill, perhaps the cost could be lowered by that? Just an idea to maybe make more people interested in tailoring

[EO]

The cost for changing any appearance is based on the item's actual worth; in this case, it looks like the cloth item is actually more costly in terms of NwN pricing. This is a fairly automated process; perhaps we could add adjustments based on armor type but don't know if it's really worth it.

Essentially the more an item is worth the more expensive it will be to customize it. After all, if you modify an armor's appearance, you are cutting into the material, replacing things, sewing new stuff, etc. For it to keep its magical properties, you'd need to acquire similar enchanted materials, which are costly.

This gave me an idea! I have no idea if it's feasible but, perhaps there could be something added so that if it's brought to a tailor(crafting one) and they have enough skill, perhaps the cost could be lowered by that? Just an idea to maybe make more people interested in tailoring

Good idea.

[EO]

This gave me an idea! I have no idea if it's feasible but, perhaps there could be something added so that if it's brought to a tailor(crafting one) and they have enough skill, perhaps the cost could be lowered by that? Just an idea to maybe make more people interested in tailoring

Fyi, this is going to be implemented in the next update. Each crafting level in a craft related to what you are trying to modify will reduce the cost by 1%.

Ie: A level 30 smith who wants to modify a full plate's appearance will pay 30% less. A level 10 tailor will pay 10% less to craft a dress (AC 0).

[ladylena]

This gave me an idea! I have no idea if it's feasible but, perhaps there could be something added so that if it's brought to a tailor(crafting one) and they have enough skill, perhaps the cost could be lowered by that? Just an idea to maybe make more people interested in tailoring

Fyi, this is going to be implemented in the next update. Each crafting level in a craft related to what you are trying to modify will reduce the cost by 1%.

Ie: A level 30 smith who wants to modify a full plate's appearance will pay 30% less. A level 10 tailor will pay 10% less to craft a dress (AC 0).

Cool! More rp reasons to craft!

[Knight of Rhodes]

Looks like everyone will become Smith's since you can't let another player equip your enchanted items.

[ladylena]

Looks like everyone will become Smith's since you can't let another player equip your enchanted items.

Unless somehow they could create crafting dummies that are linked to the craft itself for designing.