[Effortpost] QM Revamp

[misto]

is the screen overlay applied later by the game itself? or do we have to draw inside the screen?

[Sundance]

The latter misto

[misto]

ok im try to get some traders lined up for you

furthermore, i propose a "likes to buy" category for traders, you know?

   
Name: Gatha Rifiss
Tag: [Catering] [Medical] [Research]
Description: Some kind of space mutant who has teeth for a face. specializes in animals, meat, parts
Basic Inventory: lab monkey crates, animal and avian crates, kitchen cutlery, surgical tools, blood bags, limbs and organs (including cyborg and synth limbs and organs, eyes, etc.) and her specialty, bloodied crates of very cheap mystery meat, also containing gibs and misc organs.
Personality: Socialist, nice tipper(her "tips" may take the form of extra organs stuffed into whichever crates). cheerful and pleasant.
Likes to buy: genuine human meat(no synth junk!), changeling parts, vampire parts, wizard parts, dead space bears, dead wendigos
Enemy response: sends a box of riled up animals that will attack

   
Name: Rolo Bolo
Tag: [Security]
Description: Former space criminal now gone legal, holds an arms trade license.
Basic Inventory: Security Equipment Crate, Phasers crate, Experimental weapons crate, tranq and mutadone darts, rubber slugs, armor, that kind of shit
Personality: Capitalist
Likes to buy: will pay top dollar for ACTIVATED artifact weapons, syndicate weapons, energy source minerals
Enemy response: will send shoddy phaser/laser/whatever guns that will blow your arm off like zipguns do, and also set you on fire


   
Name: Careen Araw
Tag:  [Atmos]
Description: A talking bird thing
Basic Inventory:  various gas canisters and air/o2 internals tanks
Personality: capitalist
Likes to buy: ACTIVATED large artifacts, gemstones
Enemy response: sends an activated pusher/puller grav artifact into qm's receiving belt, guaranteed to cause a nuisance

i misto hereby gives u permission to use my beautiful drawings in the game. feel free to tinker with what they buy and sell and shit its not a big deal

[misto]

change their names or stats however u want, have fun

if you wonder how im making these beautiful art so quickly im just going thru some of my old drawings and resizing and recoloring them and putting them in the little qm trader frame


   

Name: Alaska Gato
tags: [robotics]
description: a human trader in robotics and cybernetics
inventory: small drones, basic cyborg parts, cyborg upgrades, mulebots, guardbuddy kits
personality: dislikes small orders. likes large orders. buy in bulk please!
likes to buy: synthbrains
enemy reponse: sends an emagged cleanbot to slip u

   

Name: Resim Stang
tag:[exotic]
description: a talking bug trader. has lots of useless crap for sale
inventory: novelty clothing, comedy items, musical instruments, that kind of shit
likes to buy: honey, cheese, weird cheese, bananas, banana peels, pies, butts, synthbutts, etc.
personality: talks mostly in dumb bug puns i guess. be sure to at least pretend to laugh or it will be offended
enemy response: sends a little clownspider to menace the station

and here is a third which i just drew special for you, a cute colorful crab trader

   

Name: Cinch Rampit
Tag: [botany] [catering] [engineering]
Description: A talking crab thing
Basic Inventory: water tanks, fishy freezer, janitor supplies, firefighting foam tank, any other aquatic themed shit you want
Personality: socialist, bad tipper
Likes to buy: vegetables, gold
Enemy response: sends one of those opened stinky fish cans that makes u puke

[Frank_Stein]

Name: The Blob Father (Blobster?)
Tag: [Illicit] 
Description: A blob that is also a mobster
Basic Inventory: I dunno, drugs? Unlocked security and phaser crates
Personality: Asshole, Capitalist 
Likes to buy: Drugs, Weapons, Blob pieces
Enemy response: Slime launcher tile

[Sundance]

   
 
Personality: Bad tipper. Will shaft you of items randomly and sometimes underpay you.

   
Personality: Has limited control of its vocational cognition, sometimes their orders/sentences/requests come up as "SQUAWK! BRRRWWK!"

Pointers: Try to keep the tags minimized to a single tag. Reason is so the interface is more navitagable for QMs, tag bloat will confuse them. Traders that don't really fit into a theme, make up your own! Vulderak is an example of mixed themes, so you could tag him under [Exotic]
Also try to have them have unique (straightforward) personality, I have provided an example of personalities you could attach to each! Capitalism in terms of trader personality is actually very rude, which is why I would recommending limiting to one trader!

Otherwise, I like these two. I may have to tinker with the sprites a little, so that they cohesive with the overall style of the QM.
Also I already have a space mutant for [Medsci], but I like some of the ideas!

[misto]

feel free to do as much tweaking as u like

is buford tenin the medsci space mutant? i figured that since he is focused on botany and plants and medicines and stuff there would be room for another focused on animals, meat and organs

also if u feel the bird is covering too many bases, it could be focused on being the gas canister merchant, as birds are naturally attuned to the elements of the winds~

edit: here is more nice portraits for u

   

name: tornado
tags: [chapel supply]
description: seems to be some weirdo wearing an eyeless mask thing
personality: the only thing he says is the name of the crewman who most recently died. if no one has died so far he says nothing. bothering him too often to check on who has died most recently will make him start to dislike you
inventory: candles, holy water, coffins, replacement ouija board, any spooky shit that vurdalak doesnt sell
likes to buy: telecrystal, wizard-origin artifacts (handheld or large, active or inactive), wood planks, soulsteel, ectoplasm
enemy response: an angry spirit attacks and qm begins experiencing haunting effects like those white ghost silhouettes and noises and lights gone out and etc. you know the shit

   

name: (ultrasonic screeching)
tags: [mining] [engineering] [botany]
description: a space bat
personality: is just an honest space bat
inventory: cave mushrooms, cave rocks, cave minerals(probably a couple minerals that gragg doesnt carry, marked up in price ricidulously)
likes to buy: tasty blood
enemy response: a box with a mousetrap rigged sonic grenade in it to break your windows

[New525]

name: (ultrasonic screeching)

Good Idea Misto.

[aft2001]

If I get bored can I post lazily drawn thingies that could serve as trader portraits and *possibly* add personalities and stuff?

[misto]

the more the merrier aft

[misto]

the red suited synddie space monkey should be the trader that appears to sell u traitor shit when u emag the qm console

[misto]

hello my friends has any progress happened on this project?

even if you cant do all the fancy coding stuff i would love to see the nice pictures i drew be used there are generic random traders with no portraits who could probably be replaced with minimal trouble