Merchant Archive

Can he actually do that? That would be nice.

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Songe wrote:
Can he actually do that? That would be nice.

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I don't know. I think so. They should be able to list the names of all vendor owners..and they should be able to tell if those names have Manage Vendor skills

Ouch. I would be curious to know how many of them have the skills to go with them

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Songe wrote:
Ouch. I would be curious to know how many of them have the skills to go with them

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You also need to consider in your calculations that some players have more than one vendor so I would say that (assuming there is an average of 3 vendors per 'merchant') there are perhaps 120000 people with vendors. I highly doubt there are that many merchants in game seeing as it is always a rare thing to see one - hell they are as celebrated as Jedi in some areas!

*looks forward to seeing some Astromech figures on this*

Might also consider that any one 'legit' merchant can have 6 vendors. Not to mention that I don't see anywhere on there the number of players. I seriously doubt there are 300k people playing this game. People can and do have multiple houses (usually because of storage), just like people can and do have up to 6 vendors. All has to be taken with perspective. But it is fairly interesting just how many vendors are out there. Kinda makes you wonder what SOE is going to do. They gave in to everyone wanting to be Jedi.. if enough people ask for vendors -- which it definitely looks like they would, it could be fairly bad for the future of the merchant profession.

Ok lets take the 1 house per character and the 3 vendor per merchant.
388,165 vendors / 3 vendors per player = 129,388 merchants.
305,890 houses / 1 house per chr = 305,890 characters.
129,388 merchants / 305,890 characters = 42% of the characters are merchants!

I thing we can safely assume that at least 1 in 10 of the existing vendors are illegally placed.

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Tarnak_Archvold wrote:
Ok lets take the 1 house per character and the 3 vendor per merchant.
388,165 vendors / 3 vendors per player = 129,388 merchants.
305,890 houses / 1 house per chr = 305,890 characters.
129,388 merchants / 305,890 characters = 42% of the characters are merchants!

I thing we can safely assume that at least 1 in 10 of the existing vendors are illegally placed.

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My three merchant characters all have 6 vendors down legally. Not saying you're estimate is totally skewed, but there are plenty like me.

Fivo Asia

There is not substantial enough evidence to draw a conclusion on how many people there are. Everyone is assuming that you are limited to 10 lots. This has never been the case as through cross-server swaps and temp accounts I KNOW there are many characters with 100s of houses. On Tarquinas the RoqSq PA has at least 100 houses forming a barrier around their rebel bases. At one point they all said the same guys name. I believe these where created during the christmas cd key trial thing and since houses don't disappear even when an account deactivates all they have to do is pay maintenance.

As to the vendors, my PA has 20 or so in our Mall, plus I and many other crafters run 3-4 in our various houses. I also know many people with those first level vendor machines that use them for item storage in their houses. Plus of course the empty vendors from players that have deactivated. Took us 4 months for a CSR to come remove one from a deactivated member.