Merchant Archive
Thread: Vendor Removal
Today I entered my friend's house near Coronet that had my storage vendor and I recieved an email telling me the vendor had been deleted...
I don't know when it was deleted, but I'm praying that it can be recovered. I had more than 4Mil worth of stuff in there
Vendors do not exist in the world until loaded,
if you do not load a vendor daily then maint, item updates, etc may not actually be sent 'on time'
which may then create problems when the vendor is actually loaded into the world.
anytime anything like that happens, ticket it immediatly.
the longer you wait the less likely anything can/will be retreived.
Eerif wrote:
Now I'm concerned.... how much activity does a vendor require in order to keep it in the game? Would retrieving, stocking and pulling items off it on a bi-daily basis do the trick? I have my entire game's wealth in resources on one vendor lol
just loading it, making it pop into the world by entering the room it is in, keeps it updated,
if your maint is paid and you load it up even every other day you should be fine
do not let it go empty, and take time to reload when you can,
but do not forget..they are not intended storage containers.
Message Edited by Eerif on 05-03-2005 07:46 PM
My vendor that was in a fully active tent just vanished...I logged on apil 29th and put 1 iteam up on each of my vendors for 9999999 until I could get around to pulling off 2000 iteams into my inventory and relist for sale...I not only had a iteam for sale I had roughly 100 days in maitnnace and a full stockroom of stuff that had longer stockroom days due to the fact I withdrew my sales and they didnt expire..so they all said they had roughly 45 days in the stockroom left...Now please explain how my vendor vanished..From what I have read in the forums..nobody has gave any reason...I got no emails..no warnings...I am in my tent almost everyday...as well as other regular customers..so the vendor was definatly loaded in on a daily basis..I have read that peoples vendors are disappearing until restart BUT they have stated they can still see the iteams from another vendor...This is not the case for me...
Ani_cul wrote:
Vendors do not exist in the world until loaded,
if you do not load a vendor daily then maint, item updates, etc may not actually be sent 'on time'
which may then create problems when the vendor is actually loaded into the world.
anytime anything like that happens, ticket it immediatly.
the longer you wait the less likely anything can/will be retreived.
Skorbane wrote:
My vendor that was in a fully active tent just vanished...I logged on apil 29th and put 1 iteam up on each of my vendors for 9999999 until I could get around to pulling off 2000 iteams into my inventory and relist for sale...I not only had a iteam for sale I had roughly 100 days in maitnnace and a full stockroom of stuff that had longer stockroom days due to the fact I withdrew my sales and they didnt expire..so they all said they had roughly 45 days in the stockroom left...Now please explain how my vendor vanished..From what I have read in the forums..nobody has gave any reason...I got no emails..no warnings...I am in my tent almost everyday...as well as other regular customers..so the vendor was definatly loaded in on a daily basis..I have read that peoples vendors are disappearing until restart BUT they have stated they can still see the iteams from another vendor...This is not the case for me...
Ani_cul wrote:
Vendors do not exist in the world until loaded,
if you do not load a vendor daily then maint, item updates, etc may not actually be sent 'on time'
which may then create problems when the vendor is actually loaded into the world.
anytime anything like that happens, ticket it immediatly.
the longer you wait the less likely anything can/will be retreived.
Elyssa wrote:It is supposed to require interaction at least once every two weeks.
has your vendor been accessed the past 2 weeks?
Elyssa wrote:
It is supposed to require interaction at least once every two weeks.
Vendors are meant to sell things, not to use as storage.
If you are using them as storage you have to accept the risks that go along with doing so.
While I have a storage vendor, I also millions ofcreds worth of stuff up for legitimate sale, too. My worst nightmare is that they'll go poof due toa bug. It makes being a Merchant rather terrifying some days.
DesktopSaki wrote:
Elyssa wrote:
It is supposed to require interaction at least once every two weeks.Vendors are meant to sell things, not to use as storage.If you are using them as storage you have to accept the risks that go along with doing so.
While I have a storage vendor, I also millions of creds worth of stuff up for legitimate sale, too. My worst nightmare is that they'll go poof due to a bug. It makes being a Merchant rather terrifying some days.
most vendor deletions are not due to bugs, but neglect to access/pay the vendor. if you use a vendor to hold your stuff, then you should make sure you access it at least once every 2 weeks... put someone in, take something out, etc.
And now we know where all Pappi's annoying customers disappeared to!
Pappi wrote:
put someone in, take something out, etc.