Achaea Help Files

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9.37.1 Design and Crafting

(See also HELP TAILORING DESIGN, HELP JEWELLERY DESIGN, HELP COOKING DESIGN,
HELP FURNISHING DESIGN, and HELP DESIGN SHARING)

Sketches, Patterns, Schematics, Recipes, Blueprints, and Designs!
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Blank sketches are what you design a new item on!

Patterns, Schematics, Recipes, and Blueprints are base versions of the item you
want to make, these are copied onto blank sketches to set the item type, and in
some tradeskills, what commodities are required to make it.

A design is created when a sketch is completed, submitted, approved, and paid
for, and is what you use to SEW/CRAFT/FURNISH/COOK your designed item.

Designs are interacted with via the NDS system!

NDS - NEWDESIGN
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The main command is NDS. Enter the command for the full listing!

If you are a crafter, you have the following options.
   NDS BUY <design#> [YES]                - buy an unowned design.
   NDS DESTROY <design#>                  - destroy a design.
   NDS DISOWN <design#> [CONFIRM]         - give up ownership of a design.
   NDS EXTEND[LIFE] <design#> [YES]       - adds to life of ownership.
   NDS GIVE <design#> TO <who|ORG org|PUBLIC> - transfer a design.
                                              - If given to an Organisation this
   is a permanent transfer and the design no longer decays.
                                              - If given to the Public, this is
   a permanent transfer and the design no longer decays.
   NDS HIDEMARK <design#> YES|NO          - show or hide crafter's mark on new
                                            items for 1000 gold.
   NDS LIST [A|J|T|C|F] [X [#]]           - public, org, and your designs.
                                          - A is a list of all designs of all
                                            you have access to.
                                          - J is Jewellery, T is tailoring, C is
                                            cooking, F is furnishing.
   NDS LISTMINE [A|J|T|C|F] [X [#]]       - your designs.
   NDS LISTORG [A|J|T|C|F] [X [#]]        - organisation designs.
   NDS LISTPUBLIC [A|J|T|C|F] [X [#]]     - public designs.
   NDS MATCH APPEARANCE <match>           - your designs matching appearance.
   NDS MATCH DROPPED <match>              - your designs matching dropped.
   NDS MATCH EXAMINED <match>             - your designs matching examined.
   NDS MATCH FIRSTEATEN <match>           - your designs matching first eaten.
   NDS MATCH OWNER <name|org|NONE>        - designs of that owner.
   NDS MATCH SMELLTEXT <match>            - your designs matching smell text.
   NDS MATCH TASTETEXT <match>            - your designs matching taste text.
   NDS MATCH THIRDEATEN <match>           - your designs matching third eaten.
   NDS MATCH TYPE <word>                  - your designs matching a type.
   NDS PASSCODE <design#> <passcode#>     - passcode a design (0 to clear).
                                          - see HELP DESIGN SHARING
   NDS PRESERVE <design#> [CONFIRM]       - irrevocably preserve a design.
                                          - This requires a crafter's portfolio
                                            item.
   NDS PRIVATE <design#> YES|NO           - marks design as private or not for
                                            1000 gold.
                                          - this will hide your designs from
                                            others when they do NDS MATCH
                                            searches.
   NDS P[ROBE] <design#> [passcode]       - look at a design in full.
   NDS SHARE <design#> YES|NO             - allow share access to a design.
                                          - see HELP DESIGN SHARING
   NDS UNOWNED [V|J|T|C] <match>          - designs without owners.

Ownership in your designs will slowly decay. 

When they run out of time, then your ownership will terminate, and others may
possibly be able to purchase them. Before your ownership expires, you can:

   NEWDESIGN DESTROY <design#>    - to get rid of the design entirely. 
                                    This is permanent and irreversible.
   NEWDESIGN DISOWN <design#> YES - to clear your ownership. 
                                    Then someone else might buy it.
   NEWDESIGN EXTEND <design#>     - to extend your period of ownership. You
                                    will see the fee, but not be charged, at
                                    first.
   NEWDESIGN EXTEND <design#> YES - Pay the gold and extend the period of
                                    ownership.

The extension will always extend by a fixed amount, up to a certain maximum.

If the standard extension would take the lifetime of your ownership beyond
the limit, then you will be unable to extend the life of your ownership for
now. 

Come back again later, when the life of your ownership will be lower, and
you'll be able to do it. You can continue to do this over and over again
forever. You just can't crank the total at any one time above a certain limit.

The fee is a function of, and somewhat less than, the original pattern or
schematic fee. The fee does not get smaller every time you extend the
lifetime of your ownership. But you can continue to extend the lifetime of your
ownership forever. There is no arbitrary limit to how many times you may do
this.

   NEWDESIGN UNOWNED           - All designs that are not currently owned.
   NEWDESIGN BUY <design#>     - See the cost of an unowned design.
   NEWDESIGN BUY <design#> YES - Purchase an unowned design.
 

(See also HELP CRAFTING GUIDELINES, HELP TAILORING, HELP JEWELLERY,
 HELP COOKING DESIGN, HELP FURNISHING, and HELP DESIGN SHARING)