Merchants: Banded glove molds were not on merchants until December 1999

[Dolalin]

Banded gloves seem not to have been craftable until December 1999, when the molds were apparently added to merchants.

Several newsgroup posts about this:

May 1999:

I've bought all my banded in Qeynos and never heard of anyone with banded
gloves.

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!se...Q/GjtTzzARwk8J

May 1999:

p.s. What are people buying for gloves? There don't seem to be banded
gloves, are people actually paying 40plat or so for chain?

https://groups.google.com/d/msg/alt....U/6FlE20HWmBoJ

October 1999:

Have regular Banded glove molds been added to the game? I am assuming the
ones in Feerott are Large.

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!se...4/nJFWOm9p7e4J

August 1999:

Better than that. Why is there no mold to make banded gloves? There is a
mold for every other armor area but no gloves. It really is a pain as a
smith to explain why someone didn't get gloves when you sold them a full
suit of banded.

https://groups.google.com/d/msg/alt....o/0C2PSg8D9rUJ

July 1999:

Gloves, since banded gloves cannot be made, could probably
be sold for 4pp and 8pp for studded and reinforced.
(Leather gloves are about 5pp from vendors and same AC as
studded).

https://groups.google.com/d/msg/alt....s/fCbuiFCtzjEJ

October 1999:

Second concern: Banded gloves don't exist. Unless someone somewhere can
tinker a mold then you won't see shaman with the gloves, since they
don't quite exist in the game.

https://groups.google.com/d/msg/alt....0/cNCBh60oUNYJ

A bit more circumstantial evidence, Everlore has a listing in its item database for every Banded item except gloves:

Large Banded (no gloves):
https://web.archive.org/web/20030118...tle=&l=L&body=

Small Banded (no gloves):
https://web.archive.org/web/20030118...tle=&l=S&body=


Finally, I think molds were added December 1999:

Subject: You can make Banded Gloves now. *nt*
Author: Zimba
Date: 12/5/99 10:47:25 PM

http://web.archive.org/web/200101122...w.asp?id=uxghf

[Dolalin]

I found another source that has pushed the timing back to November 1999:

11/3/99

I must make a quick note concerning banded gauntlet molds. They can now be found on all vendors that have banded armor molds and are now craftable in all sizes. Thanks goes out to all smiths who sent me information concerning this change.

http://web.archive.org/web/200006220...lacksmiths.htm

Edit: I just saw that there is an October 1999 mention in the patch notes that says blacksmithing items were added. Given the above, balance of probabilities says this was likely when Banded Gauntlet molds were put on merchants:

October 13, 1999

Trade Skills

- A number of new items have been added to Blacksmithing.

https://wiki.project1999.com/Patch_Notes#Trade_Skills

[Dolalin]

Yep looks like October 1999:

2/16/2000

I finally updated my page to show the banded gauntlets. Even though I was telling people how to make them since October (news and messageboard), my actual banded guide did not have them in it.

http://web.archive.org/web/200010171...ndedguide.html

[nilbog]

Fixed, pending update

-Small Gauntlet Mold, Gauntlet Mold, Large Gauntlet Mold will not be sold prior to Oct1999