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I agree! Particularly for pay per view television! Those guys are thieves!
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Jakyle Lv'Taryl
Retired and soon to be deleted Master Architect
Disgruntled Bothan Rebel Pistoleer
In the player built village of Twinloch, on Talus, Tarquinas server
Shop location, SW of Dearic at Neg 1110 by Neg 5015

I am a Master Architect and I thought it would be a good idea to put up a housing vendor, wrong. It turns out that just becuase buildings sell for more, the maintance on the vendor is abotu 15k and getting higher. This is completly unfair because on a lucky day I might sell two small hosues at 20k each and one of those will not count since I'm putting money into the vendor and I lose the rest of the money on the resources it took to make it. Vendor fees should be changed to how much you sell, not how much you have in the vendor.

I'm pretty sure this is now fixed, or at least band - aided

My Maintenance rates on Vendors is a steady 1 credit per cycle (I think its an hour)

Its not fixed for me i checked just before the patch. Here is my analysis

The maintenance appears to be a function of the total price of the items listed. I had some furniture worth 20k or so listed and three houses at 15k each listed and my maintenance rate was running 170 or 4,000 per DAY. I was forced to delist the houses which brought the rate down to 70 or 1,600 per Day.

THAT IS OUTRAGEOUS, if my house is listed without selling for longer than 3 days I earn no profit on its sale. If its listed longer I lose money.

I was going to open another shop on Naboo, but with these rates I'm not making any profit at my existing shop.

Can we urge the devs to lower the rate?

Guess telling you my vendors runs about 500-600 an HOUR is a bit high huh? But I make 10 times that a day from the vendor.

Thats great that you are driving that much trafic to your vendor that you can afford 12k in maintenance a day. If you make 10 times that or 120k per day you must be doing well.

Can i ask what you are selling that you post revenue of 120k per day. Not to suggest you might be lying or anything</sarcasm>

Not to be a math nazi or anything but . . .

"Guess telling you my vendors runs about 500-600 an HOUR is a bit high huh? But I make 10 times that a day from the vendor."

If you make 10 times the hourly rate a day you are losing about 14 hours worth of credits every day from that vendor =)

I've been averaging about 200-250k a day from weapon sales. This is after vendor fees for 4 vendors. Medium house, 2 small houses, and 2 factories.

Think of how many sales you lose because you can't play 24/7. Unless you play 24/7 you need a vendor. I only push 15-20 weapons a day in the trade window since I only play 3 maybe 4 hours tops a day after work. I generally make 150-175k in sales while I sleep.

Then that would be 500 times the vendor maintenance, not 10 times =)

And congrats that is a ton of money coming in !I'm sure you worked hard to get to this point.

I don't understand what you are saying I have 4 vendors and they only cost me 500 credits eachand that pays up maint. for 20 days and houses are chea to maintain they only cost 3000 credits per week. That is small change plus whats nice about vendors verses harvesters if you want to destroy or move you can withdrawl the maint.

If my vendor only cost a little bit that would be fine. I put about 100k worth of stuff on it though and the cost went through the roof. There was a thread about this on tech support, was getting posts but it got deleted (this morning)