Merchant Archive

seems you guys forgot something, or perhaps as masters, you guys have simply given up on the bazaar tsk tsk. hehe. people will pay extra for the convience of not having to go waaaay out yonder to get something from some one's shop. example. i sell 33.16/16.33 weapon upgrades for 3500k a crate on one of my vendors. however, i sell them in the bazaar for 500 per upgrade. and i am usually restocking the bazaar on a daily basis. so... with out further long windedness:

+15 to items allowed on bazaar.

and of course... my dream perk to our class.... (which i realize will probably never happen, but hey we all need dreams)

free use of travel system, also making travel tickets non-tradeable to prevent exploitation

popping from dantooine shop, to tatooine shop, to naboo shop, to corellia shop gets expensive

my 2cr worth

Well, I personally haven't forgotten the bazaar, but no way in Hades will I sell a large generic house for the 3k bazaar cap. Those of us who have obatainedmaster status in elite crafting professions can't post our top items for sale there without loosing tons of money. As with merchant pets, I can see it now. {walks over by the bazaar terminal, gives his pet the stay command. 50 other merchants do the same} If we are going to have pets, it really needs to be restricted to masters only. Maybe that's what our +10 hiring can do. I can imagine merchant pets would be just as annoying as billboards and spammers. I think SOE should definately make it so all premium sales are at the top of the list of the very first page, and they should add our global advertising to the bazaar so people know there are vendors out there. And yea, did SOE let our dream of reduce ticket prices die? I remember a day when there was at least 5 threads on that topic on this forum and others.....Whatever happened to that out cry?

Here's an idea for billboards. Have one billboard at each starport where you can pay for advertising space. The billboard will then cycle through the ads, say 5-10 seconds for each. You can pay "maintenance" to keep the ad up, when the money runs out the ad stops. I'd say you should have to do this at each starport you wanted to advertise at. This would prevent any clutter.

I agree with the above poster, I see enough billboards and ads in real life, I wouldn't want to see the same thing in the game.

Again, this would be a master merchant ability.

I also LOVE the idea of a droid vendor, that would be the coolest. I do see the problem with herds of droids Staying at the bazaar. Maybe make them unable to learn Stay, or will follow you or automatically Store when you walk too far away, like 10 meters. Although, if this is a Master Merchant only ability, there really wouldn't be that many anyway. There aren't THAT many of us.

I would love any of these things. I also think we should have decreased maintainence.