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The Test Of Style

Forum discussion at: http://www.atitd.net/forum/showthread.php?t=12699

This is the basic system. Details can be worked out later, such as resources to build a Clothier or a Tailor's Mannequin.

Players design a new style for characters to wear, hopefully using new art and character customization methods. The more extravagant the fashion, the more it costs. Simple styles involve linen, canvas, and leather, while more impressive fashions can take silver and gold wire, cut gems, and dyed silk.

In order to design a style, players need to construct a Tailor's Mannequin. The cost should not be too expensive; the real cost is in the fashions themselves. Because of obvious avatar limitations, separate styles must be designed for males and females.

Players must not only convince other players to wear their creations, but also provide the clothing. This can get expensive, but art has traditionally been an expensive discipline. Styles are aquired at a Clothier, which is a community building similar to the Sphynx. The cost to build it should be comparable to other such community buildings. One Clothier can hold up to 21 styles. It is up to the players to decide who can place their fashions in the Clothier once it is built.

Players accumulate points for every day their fashion is worn, per person wearing it, per material used on the fashion. Materials usable in the Test of Fashion are:

• Canvas
• Thread
• Linen
• Twine
• Silk
• Leather
• Rabbit pelt
• Possible new resource: Wool from sheep?
• Gold wire
• Silver wire
• Copper wire
• Silver wire
• Steel wire
• Magnesium wire
• Small ruby
• Small emerald
• Small diamond
• Small topaz
• Small quartz
• Small sapphire
• Ibis feather
• Paint, up to 4 colors per ingredient for dying

If you design a suit of just linen, and ten people wear it for two days, that's 20 points.

You can make a garment with Linen, Thread, and Gold Wire, which would be three points. If you got five people to wear it for a day, you'd get 15 points. If you got them to wear it for a week, that would be 105 points.

Or you could dye it. With three materials, you could dye each four times, for a maximum of 12 more points; 15 total. Of course, they have to be different paints per object, but they could be the same paint for different objects. In this case, you could dye each one black, white, blue, and green. In this way, each material acts as a "container" for up to four different paints.

At the end of every week, the player with the most points passes the test.

Comments

• Possible alternative to passing mechanics: You are the only player who wears the suit and people click on you to vote in the usual way (such as mosaic). My concern with the current system is that it has the leadership taste of convincing others to wear your suit (instead of theirs) and allows the possibility of people being paid to wear someone's suit. -Greenish
• Teppy mentioned on the forums that avatars wouldn't nearly be customizable enough to make this test fun. With that in mind, the best implementation I can think of would be to build a mannequin, put the style on that, and players vote for it like most other art works. ~Slyfeind-Hotep