I would like to have a "user shop" for skins and accents, it would take the pain out of so much micro managing a shop and would give some security to the buyer rather than to send the skin maker the gems and hope they get what they paid for
- artists would have to submit their skin/accents first to FR mods for approval, as usual - once the skin/accent is approved the artist can list the skin in their user shop and set the price, amount printed and maybe the maximum of copies that will be distributed if they want to limit their skins/accents, maybe even set it to 1 copy per customer - once enough people have paid into that "pot" to cover the blueprint cost and the price the artist has set, it gets automatically printed and sent to the people that paid, artist gets their gems also automatically sent to them - people that paid can pull out any time before the skin is printed and get their gems back - artist can cancel the order at any time before the skin is printed and all money is automatically returned - maybe make it that if the skin shop owner stops being active on FR, lets say they don't log in for a week, the shop gets automatically "locked" (just closed, like a real shop) that skins are just not printed over and over and stuff, once the artist logs in again they just need to confirm that they want to open their shop again etc. - if a shop gets "locked" people can pull out their paid gems at any time, or let them sit in case they want to wait that the artist returns, but not pay again until the shop is open again
- upside: * skinmods dont have to approve skins over and over when they are already approved and in the system * also faster turnarounds once the skin is approved the first time * takes out the gamble that people have to do when ordering from skin shops and when the artist dissapears
- downside: * since they is no official treasure conversion people would have to pay with cold hard gems all the time, but for that we the various gem buy shops so I personally dont see a big issue converting the gems yourself tbh
thats all what I can think of so far, feel free to add your thoughts since we are building cloud-castles here :)
Re: things staff will never add but you wish they would
- artists would have to submit their skin/accents first to FR mods for approval, as usual
- once the skin/accent is approved the artist can list the skin in their user shop and set the price, amount printed and maybe the maximum of copies that will be distributed if they want to limit their skins/accents, maybe even set it to 1 copy per customer
- once enough people have paid into that "pot" to cover the blueprint cost and the price the artist has set, it gets automatically printed and sent to the people that paid, artist gets their gems also automatically sent to them
- people that paid can pull out any time before the skin is printed and get their gems back
- artist can cancel the order at any time before the skin is printed and all money is automatically returned
- maybe make it that if the skin shop owner stops being active on FR, lets say they don't log in for a week, the shop gets automatically "locked" (just closed, like a real shop) that skins are just not printed over and over and stuff, once the artist logs in again they just need to confirm that they want to open their shop again etc.
- if a shop gets "locked" people can pull out their paid gems at any time, or let them sit in case they want to wait that the artist returns, but not pay again until the shop is open again
- upside:
* skinmods dont have to approve skins over and over when they are already approved and in the system
* also faster turnarounds once the skin is approved the first time
* takes out the gamble that people have to do when ordering from skin shops and when the artist dissapears
- downside:
* since they is no official treasure conversion people would have to pay with cold hard gems all the time, but for that we the various gem buy shops so I personally dont see a big issue converting the gems yourself tbh
thats all what I can think of so far, feel free to add your thoughts since we are building cloud-castles here :)