Merchant Archive

Yeah, where've you been?

Ahh seems it is not just me I am new to merchant being a holocron driven one as well, after reading up and working out what to expect I set my house door to charge a fee and set my vendors up intialised and made sure the maintenance was well paid up.

Logged in and out doing different things, its been a busy last few days in game for many so not many visitors to the old abode, Never fear i thought the vendors will still earn for me, but they havent not for the last 24hours any....

I am guessing I have to keep doing something to the in way of initialising (is that lifting and dropping again ?)

Well a final thanks for all the hints and tips and expecially for the insight on the forums on how experience is supposed to work.

whats the point of this profession now that we only get xp while we are near our vendors? my holo said master vendor, thats cool... time based xp i should be able to let it build while i explore, but after this last patch, ouch.

Until we get develope response. I recommend seeing if you can put a vendor in a large mall or a busy PA Hall. It appears that vendors now only exist when a player is in the house.

All you have to do is stand in the house to keep the vendors working. Setup a repeating macro to keep your character from logging out. Something as easy as:

/pause 60;/ui action toolbarSlot00;

works for the macro. It doesn't do anything, but the simple fact that you are macroing will keep your character online, and thus the vendors in game and giving out xp every hour.

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Happy thought for all you Holo-merchants: With6 vendors running, you are making 1 experience point every 4 seconds!

Im getting xp when Im offline, but not the right amount (I think).

I logged for 11 hours... with 6 vendors and should have come back to about 10k more xp.

Instead I came back to 3k more xp.

Ofcourse, I'm not 100% certain this was from the merchants because it could have been from my access fees over 11 hours...

This is verty frustrating.

When I returned and loaded my vendors... the 7-10k missing xp didn't appear

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ya, i agree, nerfing the merchant exp was a bad idea. So are all merchants now reduced to shut ins? seems like it, thanks again SOE for a wonderful nerf *edit*

i thought you got ex from selling stuff though your vendors

They did not nerf Merchant they Nerf holocron users. Thats different.

I mean a real merchant dont care to lv fast cause at least they got vendor to sell stuff.

and its not the bonus of master merchant that drive a real merchant lol.

Ok..if you get 900 xp immediately when you logged in and your vendors loaded you didn't actually lose any xp did you? I want to make sure I understand the issue because from my experience you get the xp later when your vendor is loaded (doesn't have to be loaded by you...if someone comes into your shop it loads and you get the xp while you are offline) Am I missing something fundimental about this issue? Isn't the real issue just convienience? The global map to me is a more important issue because having it not restart every morning until someone goes into my store is a problem....how are they going to know to go there if the map isn't showing the shop?

You only have to make your vendors load after server resets. So just visit your house when you first log on, and the xp should flow the rest of the day.

By losing xp, are you saying you log in monday and have 13k merchant xp, and the next day you have 10k merchant xp?

That is losing xp.

It sounds to me like you are just not gaining as much as you should be.

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Yajedi wrote:

By losing xp, are you saying you log in monday and have 13k merchant xp, and the next day you have 10k merchant xp?

That is losing xp.

It sounds to me like you are just not gaining as much as you should be.

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No he answered what I wnated to know. I was under the impressing that the missing xp was showing up eventually as this has been my experience. He is saying that not all of it catches up to him later only part of it does. That is definitely far worse than it just being delayed until the next time the vendor is showing up.