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This is patently absurd.

I can't sell a droid that is worth more than 3k on the bazaar and if I put a droid worth any real money on my home vendor the cost of maintaining the vendor goes through the roof.

I had some probots and a surgical droid on vendor and the cost for mantaining the vendor was three thousand per day. I take them off and it drops to two hundred forty per day.

Either the devs want a player run economy or they don't, this half witted attempt to create a money sink is going to get me to delete my vendor and stop making droids because I don't sell them fast enough and I am sure as heck not gonna run missions to pay for the privilege of having a vendor.

Now... some may say that there are no droids worth anything right now and I am inclined to agree, but when the fix comes (ok I am being an optimist) I'd like to be able to have a shop without losing money or standing at the bank or cantina spamming sales.

lol i haven't noticed this yet, but I don't need to be infuriated further anyway.. join me and quit at month's end

/headscratch

I just created my first vendor, the bartender droid type, last night and dumped 2k in maintenance into it. That gave me 40 days worth. I then loaded him up with 50k-75k worth of stuff (not much, but hey, I'm just starting) and checked again - still 40 days' worth left. Does the value of the merchandise affecting the maintenance rate only apply to the NPC vendors or something?

Draelen,

Be careful!

The maintenance rate doesn't update right away, and you could be in for a surprise if you think you really still have that much time left. Check it again later today and save yourself some potential grief.

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Droid_Engineer_Rho wrote:

Draelen,

Be careful!

The maintenance rate doesn't update right away, and you could be in for a surprise if you think you really still have that much time left. Check it again later today and save yourself some potential grief.

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You have got to be kidding me. You mean I could walk away thinking that my vendor is set for at least a couple days (especially since the status said 40 days) only to find out it changed on me later?!

**edit**?!?!

That has got to be the most ignorant thing I've seen from this game since the probot nerf!

Yeah, I know.

I noticed this one day before I was using NPC vendors. The rate didn't change immediately upon loading items, but a little later, when I checked it again, there had been an update.

What you do if you want it to update is add more credits after you load the vendor, even if it is just 1 credit it will make the vendor update.

Yeah this is BS.

My vendors have been up for days and they all have a rate of 1... maybe you need some merchant skillz

Watch out on the NPC vendors - nerf coming soon.

http://forums.station.sony.com/swg/board/message?board.id=merchant&message.id=5731

I had an MSE in my vendor called "README" priced 999999 credits. In its description were notes on how to use droids etc. It had no affect on my vendor maintenance until the next time I added something to my vendor, then the maintenance rate went insane and I had literally seconds to remove it.

Ick, thanks for the "heads up" on the NPC vendor changes. This definitely will have an impact on how I do business!

I have not seen this yet. I have added items and my vendor prices do not change. Yet I do not want to be surprised, so I guess I dunno what I should do.