Merchant Archive
Thread: NPC Vendor Question
now you ask about the umm, issue list. i will just briefly say what i think...
item 1, interface, very good
item 2, consigment sales, sounds horrible and i dont see it ever happening, you can simply buy from them and resell
item 3, directed sales, sounds interesting but can't say i care for it much
item 4, vendor email overhaul, very good stuff
item 5, merchants being devalued, good points
how about greater time limits for sales at master merchant, say doubling it, stuff like that we can get behind......
Vaylon_SWG wrote:
i don't think it's important to the community as a whole. if i gave everyone the choice of either being able to have their vendors image designed or have master merchant 40% maintenance reduction or master merchant gets to place one of 3 cool merchant house designs (not a crappy tent), which one would win?
thats my basic point, idea like that doesn't belong in top issues
hey how about this, merchant signs auto show their name to everyone like they used to, i mean do we really have to put up ideas like image designing vendors
LOL What an ass. I guess you know what we're all thinking, huh? Stupid. All of my vendors are teenage female twi'leks and my company uniform is a reveiling bikini and a skirt. I have spent hours creating vendors before. They all come out looking either like my great grandmother or Jabba the Hut. I would love to be able to either ID my vendors myself or hire an ID to do it for me. But I guess you what I want better than I do. Don't think it important to the community as a whole? What do you know about the community as a whole? I'm not usually one to flame, but man!
Sorry Vaylon - I have to disagree with you. I've been a Merchant for close to 2 years and I say it is very much one of my top items.
Not that there isn't more they could do to make the profession better, mind you. I don't disagree with you on that. But, one of the top ongoing issues since day 1? Yes, definitely.
I may not post much, but I've watched these boards for a long time, and it is one of the most requested features. (That, and a restock button.)
i personally use the master merchant droid, just because if i had to dress them i would go crazy obsessing over the outfits. would be nice if they could be colored tho........
Vaylon_SWG wrote:
well i am not against it, i just think there are other things that should be worked on before that...
I hear you. And that's the way it is for every profession, right? 
But the list is TopIssues the community as a whole thinks are most important to improve daily gameplay. The issues list is for all Merchants -- not just about extra abilities for the Master Merchant.
That list is currently 24 items long I think, in caseyou didn't scroll down. It includes many of the items you mentioned (signs, longer list times). I think it very much represents the Merchant community's top issues.
Vaylon_SWG wrote:
i don't think it's important to the community as a whole. if i gave everyone the choice of either being able to have their vendors image designed or have master merchant 40% maintenance reduction or master merchant gets to place one of 3 cool merchant house designs (not a crappy tent), which one would win?
thats my basic point, idea like that doesn't belong in top issues
hey how about this, merchant signs auto show their name to everyone like they used to, i mean do we really have to put up ideas like image designing vendors
Since a 40% reduction is really unlikely, I think it's a bad comparison to make. Lots of people like to have NPC vendors, so the tedium of creating one is really irritating.
Vaylon_SWG wrote:
well from the standpoint of offering ideas to devs, think about the time involved in what you're asking. may require a ton of programming to let folks image design vendors. but i am sure the 40% thing would be very easy. just a point to make..... the devs probably look at the image design idea and think wow thats alot of programming time, forget it, etc
The 40% would be easier, but unlikely since the devs like to control how much money leaves the game.
Vaylon_SWG wrote:
well from the standpoint of offering ideas to devs, think about the time involved in what you're asking. may require a ton of programming to let folks image design vendors. but i am sure the 40% thing would be very easy. just a point to make..... the devs probably look at the image design idea and think wow thats alot of programming time, forget it, etc
Id love to be able to get an ID to ID my vendors. Next to the Restock button and the currently bugged resource details I think this is my greatest wish. Personally I dont give a squad about a 40% reduction... Credits are easy to come by and in the time Ive used to make a vendor that looked jsut slightly okay I couldve have run missions enough to cover the 40% for months....
Also Id like to draw attention to the fact that if this feature went live it would provide content for 2 professions in dire need of attention...
Vaylon_SWG wrote:
i think that's rediculous to put in an issues list. you can randomly get the species/sex you want and keep one with the proper looks. plus you can outfit your vendors, etc
I tried hiring all hottie teenage Twi'lek vendors, but my wife slapped me. Then the Rodians started picketing outside my shop - something about me being a speciesist. I explained to them that I had nothing against hiring them, but that they smell pretty bad, and I didn't want them stinking up my shop. Also, they didn't look nearly as good in the 'uniform' that the Twi'leks could fit into. This didn't seem to help.
I finally succumbed to the pressure and started hiring ugly random vendors. I think this is why SOE doesn't let us ID the vendors. They probably were under political pressure from the anti-discrimination unions or something. Now I have fat and ugly vendors to do the work part, and I keep the Twi'leks upstairs for the fun part...