Merchant Archive

Thread: Am I griefing?

UndaKuva
Mon Apr 04, 2005 2:07 pm
#14


i think it has to do w/ when the items are listed and the amount of items.


vendors w/ a ton of stuff get at least one listing on each page it seems. i know OLD, OLD vendors that are on the first few pages. however, these same vendors have items being added to them almost daily.


it would absolutely suck if it were based on location. if SWG lists vendors by how far they are out from u galactically then u basically would be forced to place a tent outside of CNET since it is the main travel hub. however, this MAY be the case as i found one HUGE vendor on about page 15 of Inorganic Minerals who was on Talus and i did notice that most of the 1st few pages were on Tattoine and Corellia.



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Crustyfur
Tue Apr 05, 2005 3:59 am
#15

I still think it has something to do with when the Vendor was Created. I made a new one last night for some other bits I am selling and all the items are listed LAST of their respective category.


There is a non variable in there somewhere we just got to find the sucker.




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UndaKuva
Tue Apr 05, 2005 11:25 am
#16

/push



any word on this? anybody testing it?



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Crimsonsplat
Tue Apr 05, 2005 1:17 pm
#17

I'll give the vendor creation order theory a test when I log on next. May not be until tomorrow night though.

CorenLanra
Tue Apr 05, 2005 6:49 pm
#18



Crimsonsplat wrote:
I'll give the vendor creation order theory a test when I log on next. May not be until tomorrow night though.





I am pretty much positive that vendor initialization date plays a factor. I have the oldest weapon vendors on chilastra, and most of my weapons are listed on the first page, always. Even if you just click "weapon" catagory a good # of them are mine. I have however decided not to adjust my pricing. I have tweaked here and there over the last few months but if my stuff doesn't sell, oh well.



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Crimsonsplat
Tue Apr 05, 2005 8:50 pm
#19

Confirmed. I created six items with a unique name, and put them on a new vendor. Except for the bug that makes items show up on every page (and one of the new items did) they were all on the last (24th) page.

Dimear
Wed Apr 06, 2005 5:14 am
#20

Most of my stuff shows up on page 1-10. Vendor is about a year old. Guess I know not to change my vendors then...





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Crustyfur
Wed Apr 06, 2005 7:13 am
#21

I think I can confirm this too. Another on my server DE deleted 4 vendors to rename them and he is now at the bottom of the list and I have moved up about 7-8 pages.


Bit of a crappy system if you ask me.




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est 2003
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Crimsonsplat
Wed Apr 06, 2005 7:24 am
#22






Crustyfur wrote:

I think I can confirm this too. Another on my server DE deleted 4 vendors to rename them and he is now at the bottom of the list and I have moved up about 7-8 pages.


Bit of a crappy system if you ask me.






Extremely crappy. Essentially, you can be on the first page as long as you want. Elyssa? Add to issues list please.


Elyssa
Wed Apr 06, 2005 7:43 am
#23

I dunno. I removed all my vendors about 6 months ago when I changed my store around and started over with new vendors.

I don't know where all my items fell because they were all named with fairly generic names, but I spotted one item that was clearly mine. It showed up on the first 30 or so pages.

Surely there are older vendors than mine around.



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Crustyfur
Wed Apr 06, 2005 7:44 am
#24






Crimsonsplat wrote:


Extremely crappy. Essentially, you can be on the first page as long as you want. Elyssa? Add to issues list please.







Yep. First page is basically unobtainable unless the merchants with first page vendors move them or whatever. At least we know what we are looking at now. Annoyingly I changed my vendors around 2 weeks ago and I hadn't changed them previously for 4-6 months.




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est 2003
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TJPuddlejumper
Wed Apr 06, 2005 10:37 am
#25

So this means that any new Merchants such as myself, will be forever on the last pages?



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Crimsonsplat
Wed Apr 06, 2005 10:58 am
#26






TJPuddlejumper wrote:

So this means that any new Merchants such as myself, will be forever on the last pages?






Unless they change the system or newer vendors get placed by anyone. The latter won't move you up the "ranks" any, but it will add more to the list behind you.


I was going to move my vendors to a larger shop so I could free up inventory space in my workshop that is now taken up by displays. The new shop would dedicate space almost solely to showing off my wares, as well as remove any threat that my vendors might poof if SOE ever removes "dead" housing (I don't think the original owner of my shop has played in a year).


As it stands, I'll just have to risk that my entire shop and 90% of my stock might vanish with little or no warning, because changing vendors will drop me way back in the queue.


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