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Thread: Vendor Maintenance is WAY TOO HIGH... Devs you wanted our input... LISTEN FOR CRYING OUT LOUD!!
This is WAY TOO HIGH.
What type of vendor do you have...?
Im running 3 NPC's....no changes here..
I am using a terminal vendor with 53 pieces of furniture and about 10 deeds in it. The deeds range in price from 1200 to 30,000...
Maintenance fees on vendors should be in the form of a PER-SALE flat fee or percentage... personally I prefer percentage to be honest with you... Like 2-5% of every sale is deducted... When you get that "Vendor Sale Complete" it says "Such and such has sold for XXXX credits. The vendor fee for this item was XXXX.
I think the bazaar max should be raised to 8k and any item sold in a VENDOR under 8k is maintenace-free. And take away vendor from the Business line, so that if you want to list items up to 8k for free, you have to get a vendor, therefore you have to move a little way into the merchant line
Give us SOME perks for crying out loud!
[quote]NPC vendors are bugged. They are not supposed to be a maintenance rate of 1... Holo (or Q) said a fix was forthcoming that will bring NPC vendors in line with terminals and droids.[/quote]
They never said that at all. They said, that they were looking into a solution for vendors that would be a flat fee and most likely a percentage. Terminals and droids are severely overpriced for maintanence. However, they never said NPC vendors would be the same price as those, only that they would be raising to around a 200cr/flat fee.
My my how quick you are to tell me I'm wrong without doing a simple search... Go about 3/4 of the way down the page in this thread and tell me what Holo said...
http://forums.station.sony.com/swg/board/message?board.id=merchant&message.id=4388&highlight=npc+vendor#M4388
Oh wait... I'll tell you what he said:
User: "Have you looked at NPC vendors lately? Regardless of how much you dump on them, they charge 1 maintainance (0 if you have Efficiency III). People use NPC vendors to avoid maintenance charges."
Holocron: "Yeah, expect that to be fixed."
Touche.
Hate to tell you this Gall. But you should read the board a bit more often. You are right that Holo stated specifically that NPC vendors were not meant to work the way they currently working.
But, he started a thread asking for input on how to change the maintaince costs of ALL player vendors. The end result is that there will be an across the board change to all vendors. There will be a small flat fee to post and item and a SALES tax on each item sold.
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I was saying that the reason their maintenance rate hadn't changed is because (and I wasn't this blunt before) they were using a known bug as an exploit to save on maintenance fees.
Gallbearer wrote:
"They never said that at all. They said, that they were looking into a solution for vendors that would be a flat fee and most likely a percentage. Terminals and droids are severely overpriced for maintanence. However, they never said NPC vendors would be the same price as those, only that they would be raising to around a 200cr/flat fee."
My my how quick you are to tell me I'm wrong without doing a simple search... Go about 3/4 of the way down the page in this thread and tell me what Holo said...
http://forums.station.sony.com/swg/board/message?board.id=merchant&message.id=4388&highlight=npc+vendor#M4388
Oh wait... I'll tell you what he said:
User: "Have you looked at NPC vendors lately? Regardless of how much you dump on them, they charge 1 maintainance (0 if you have Efficiency III). People use NPC vendors to avoid maintenance charges."
Holocron: "Yeah, expect that to be fixed."
Touche.
Sorry Gall.. you're out of date.. why don't you do some MORE searching and read this:
/em Watches the pis-sing contest...
Are you guys going to pull it out next?
Bottom line is that they are Droid and Terminal Vendors are charging the current rate, and NPC Vendors charge 1 or 0 based on your skill level.
The change will be a flat tax or a % TBA. OMG that is not hard...
well im a DE not a merchant so i never check this forum, guess im taking down my Droid vendor untill further notice
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