Architect Archive
Thread: Vendors for Architect and Merchant relief
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JawaPooDoo wrote:
There have been over 1,000 posts on the subject of the proposed vendor changes without a peep from anyone at SOE. An acknowledgement that someone has read them would be nice, a responce to our suggestions would be great.
Well, as I posted a while ago, I'm actually notin the office right now (trying to fix up my house so I can get it sold so I can move to San Diego), so I haven't been keeping up with the forums that much. I am on email so I can read work email, but that's about it.
I do know that we discussed not changing the maintenance fees to be scaled off of value on the vendors, and that we were going to instead look at a form of sales tax. The reason why we were going to scale it off of value was so that vendors wouldn't be used as storage devices (since that was not the intent). But vendors are better as storage devices than leaving the stuff on the floor of houses (much less DB load), and you guys are already suffering a storage crunch, so we're talking about simply changing the flat fee to make more sense--make it cheaper as you advance or something--and instituting sales tax instead.
-Raph Koster,
Creative Director