Merchant Archive
Thread: My take on the upcoming Vendor and Merchant changes
Ke_la wrote:
However, I do think that merchant NEEDS a revamp, however it MUST be done extreely carefully or what the creater of this threed said WILL happen. My personal Opionon is this instead of "buying on consinment" or "reselling" how about this change the proffesion to a true Mall set-up where on a branch Seperate from the Vendor Count is the ablitiy to Lease a vendor up to the 1 less then the Max you can create/control. At that point as "landlord" you can set ether a Set fee or a "Tax" much like the Proporty Tax and Sales Tax cities have. The Crafter would have Complete Admin Rights to the Vendor to Sell what they wish and once active as a leased location you would have no control over what is on the vendor to you it would act like someone esle's vendor with one major differance and that is the "Manager" Menu where you can adjust the cost of using your vendor as well as "evicting" a "tenent" however the stuff on the vendor would remain the proporty of the crafter that placed the Iteams on the vendor.
A few comments...
1 - we are merchants, our role is to sell things, why make it so that other people can sell things thanks to us? It doesn't make much sense
2 - how would you get a merchant back while what is on sale is someone else's propriety? It seems way too complicated to implement.
1 - we are merchants, our role is to sell things, why make it so that other people can sell things thanks to us? It doesn't make much sense
There are more then 1 type of merchant and if you had read the other thread I posted right after I posted here I you would understand that I make alowances for both Consinment AND Retail as well as this meathod. Bel Air Markests a local Grocery Store chain(I would call this a merchant) Leases out space in there stores to other companies to sell stuff that they Don't normally sell including Banking Services. I also said that you could only lease out 6 of the 7 Vedors your currently allowed meaning that the final Vendor would have to be your Retail/Consinment Vendor.
2 - how would you get a merchant back while what is on sale is someone else's propriety? It seems way too complicated to implement.
One word Bazzar, the function is already impemented only now a Merchant would get the Fee instead of the "System" also you would only be able to have one Leasor per vendor as such the "owner" would remain the seller not the Vendors owner. Also I guess you have 1 trillion Credits to pay the Wholesale Price of all the stuff that is out there and have the time to stock 300+ Iteams Per Crafter.