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[Brian]

It seems that items only have ratings of goodness and not poorness.  How is it that a complete newbie to anything can create a standard enormous corkscrew? Perhaps the lowest quality should have the modifier "Poorly designed" and the one up should be "Sub-standard".

As an aside, perhaps a newbie at a given profession shouldn't be able to make everything that profession can make until they get more experience, but I think that one has been touched on before.

[LegoLord]

Well-crafted is the + around the item name, right?  I always think of anything less than "well-crafted" as poor.  I mean, if it's the standard quality, then that means it should be better than what the new guys are doing, in other words, well-crafted.

[Derakon]

Yeah, that's my assumption as well -- lesser quality levels are "barely functional", not "standard quality".

There's a recent thread on unlocking more complex items as the worker gains skill.

[Brian]

It'd be even sweeter if instead of distinct qualifiers, we had adjectives unique to the particular item, such as complimenting the hilt or blade of a sword.

[Silverionmox]

Well, this post and this one should have been made here then.

[SirHoneyBadger]

Brian, I agree with you completely, but you should probably know that it's a very controversial subject

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for some very strange reasons

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To hopefully fend off any derailment of the thread, I'd just like to suggest that we get the option to mod in additional quality levels--including, if we wish, degrees of poor quality.

However, with the new update coming, it may be that system is outmoded, so it might be wise to wait and see what presents show up under the tree, before we figure out how we want to play with them.

[Joakim]

I always imagined it as very, very rude for a dwarf to call someone else's work sub-standard, poor or whatever. It's simply not done!

Therefore they say "Your enormous corkskrew is... standard. yeah, totally like any other enormous corkscrew out there."

But it's still weird that a newbie can make a functioning corkscrew in the first place.

[SirHoneyBadger]

Yeah, that might be a good case for a trap component weapon that could only be manufactured by more skilled craftsdwarfs.