Window Shopping!
Well the new VU seems to have rebuilt the bridges that were burnt of late and all of a sudden Calypso is thriving again. The Avatar creation system seems to have brought with it mixed blessing however. I've been a bit worried about this one, to be honest, since I was expecting a complete overhall of Avatar models and figured either I'd have to start from scratch or there would be some awfull automatically bodged version of my character, in the new format, that I would have to spend ages and ages fixing. Luckilly, however, I had the good sence to read up on the situation before logging in and, since there appeared to be no changes, I decided I didn't need to touch a thing ^_^
Unfortunately for some, mistakes were made and there are an awful lot of people now running around asking to be the next storyline in the
PE equivalent of "Nip, Tuck"
One can't help feeling though that this one was almost by design. As the saying goes, "There were complications" but, conveniently, theres a whole new generation of surgeons just
itching now to fix everybody up.
On the plus side, however, one thing the new avatar creation system
did offer, was a rare opportunity to try out the, much sought after, Essi Dress!! It turns out I don't scrub up too badly after all
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As usual, of course, this "Window Shopping" opportunity got me thinking and I realised that theres a real need, in Entropia, for some sort of "try before you buy" style set up. In effect what we need is a department store with changing rooms!
I bet everyone who tries to dress well has the same problem. You wander round the shops and auction looking at the clothes thinking "yeh thats nice, but would I really look good in red?" Given that the hot profession on the block now is beauty treatment,
MA are obviously expecting us to care more and more about our avatars appearance and yet it still remains, that the only way to try something on is through trust and when it comes to the auction or shopkeepers, you're pretty much back the catalog! (with the added lack of incentive of course that, if you don't like something, you can hardly send it back!
)
Still, as if to proove myself wrong, this afternoon me and my soc mate DD had a fantastic time trying on each others armour and getting opinions. I've always really fancied some black and white armour ever since Rascal appeared and DD had both Rascal AND Paladin (heaven!)
As expected I LOVED both, the only problem is now that I
waaaant some! Still, DD very kindly offered to let me borrow it sometimes. (yay!) I guess, untill I have the money, I'll have to stay content with gazing at the screen shots and dreaming...