Merchant Archive

The /pay command is the shortened version of /paystructure, so it actually would be correct for it to go to the house. My PA got a bonus from me on this one. This would be a nice feature to request be changed though.

**edit**, ok well, ignore what I said. I have one vendor that initialized and worked, yet 5 of my other new ones gave the error about not being initialized. Back to the drawing boards..

Here are some problems that I'm running into:

1. I don't seem to be getting the correct amount of vendor xp every hour
2. access fees i place on others houses grant xp to the house owner and not to me

This is ridiculous because its impossible hard to level in this field... especially if you are not a crafter.

People complained that scout survival xp was too hard to get so SOE made it so you can get survival xp by crafting tents. Something like this needs to be done with merchant, because there is no decent way to get XP.

-- A6

I had 17 items on my Vendor. Highlighted all 17 and retrieved them from the vendor cause I wanted to delete that vendor. Only 8 of the 17 items showed up in my Inventory, the other 9 are gone. Not on my vendor anywhere, not in my Inventory, not on the floor of my house. Completley lost 9 expensive weapons, totally pissed me off. Still hoping they appear so I'm not deleting that vendor yet. But it's been 4 hours already.

Well all my views seem totally wrong now, as the day progresses it seems things change.... Vendor xp seems to being granted at random intervals, random amounts in multiples of 50, with no correlation to my entrance fee, vendors- when they were placed (3 pre patch, 1 post patch), if im online or off, who looks at my vendors, even if anyone buys anything.

Not sure if this is a known bug - I am no longer getting the effeciency benefit for my structure maintenance. In other words, the rate I'm paying on my buildings has jumped back to normal levels, instead of getting the discount rate from (I believe, don't remember offhand) Efficiency IV.

To fix the maintenance rate display, pay some maintenance on the building in question. (1 credit will do.) That seems to reset the display and show the Merchant Modifier.

Thanks Syndey that seems to have set the rate correctly. We'll see if it sticks by tomorrow, heh.

Ok. I had a bit over 2k in both of my vendors today. I decided I didn't want to be bothered with paying for a bit so I dropped 10k in each of them, using the radial menu. When I double checked it was there. I later (much later) crashed. I went back and for some odd reason check the maintenance on them again.. I've been kinda parnoid about it since vendors were disappearing. Anyhoo, the 10k was gone from both of them. They money did not return to me and they were both back at a bit over 2k. I sent in a customer ticket but do not expect any results.

I tried logging out for a few hours, 3 I think and still, it is not in the vendors. I'm getting more and more disgusted andI'm tryingso hard not too.

Also, on the retrieval and missing items. I lost 4 Bio-enhanced items yesterday as well. They did not reappear today or tonight either.

Best of luck to everyone!!

Maintence Rates are hosed on vendors, I had 50k on each vendor, one of them dropped to negative 3k in less than 24hrs, the other lost 41k in the same time period.

One had 281 items on it

The other (41k drop) had 31

Both vendors where fairly close to one another, is the regional vendors being double or perhaps triple counted.

I dont have enough data to support a specific bug, but losing over 90k in less than 24 hrs seems like an impossible way for merchants to do any type of business.

EB

My vendors aren't granting me any merchant xp at all but still deductsfor maintanence costs every hour. I need MXP so I can advertising three but ARG. So now i'm stuck at business 4 forever.

Why haven't they fixed this yet...?

XP granted for accessing vendors and access fees still work though.

Technically an 11/14/03 hotfix bug, I noticed yesterday that I was not getting my maintenance reduction for Efficiency IV on my extractors. I was getting it after the patch and before yesterday however, and I have not yet checked today.

Well placed a new vendor yesterday, initialized ok, paid some maint.,gave her some new clothes and placed a few items. Today she has old clothes on and has no items (not sales). So after getting really mad I start thinking maybe she needs maintenance. Well it says she is at 97% and needs repair. When I add credits though it puts it towards the pool not repair!!!! So now my vendor is good for a few days but still needs repair!! Do items appear in stockroom if your vendor needs repair? I dont want to delete her incase items return (*crosses fingers).