Merchant Archive

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Aetius73 wrote:

now don't get me wrong, I do FS myself as a master tailor/merchant... however, I don't complain about spending 15 bucks on it. if you don't like what you're paying for, do something else (like combat?)

I was responding to the person that suggested that I simply sit at the village if I don't like the drive. That would be a waste of my $15 a month. I have already ground Jedi via combat with my other account and also grinded him through jedi he is now fully templated. What I merly want here is to be on the same footing with the combat guys as far as the cap goes. What is so bad about that? A relist button would be nice however getting a cap change is more likely to happen as all they have to do is go into the code and change =80k to =900k not sure what language they use but it should be that simple on all of the caps. In addition my wife started grinding her combat character so she could pick up the 2nd player slot. It took her rougly 2 weeks to catch up to what it had taken me 5 month of crafting to do. Now granted I have done no crafting with the intention of "grinding FS" I have merely maintainted my business. However the speed that she caught up to me in and has now left me in the dust shows the imbalance.

The imbalance should be delt with one of the first steps would be to raise the merchant xp cap to 800k or 900k. Our corespondent has listed this as merchant issue #17! Perhaps we can get it moved up on the list if enough people show concern about it?

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well, issues aren't fixed the moment corrs bring them up, and I remember the 80k cap being brought up many times to the devs. it's an easy issue to fix, however this doesn't affect as many merchants as, say, the relist button issue. your most important issue isn't the same as everyone else's.

yes, FS grind is much easier on the combat players. for me to get FS, it'll take roughly a year to finish the senses boxes... and however much time it take for me to get my behind moving to get the two crafting lines. regular restock doesn't generate that much xp compared to a regular hunt session. crafting will never be equal with combat when it comes to this kind of content... sad but true

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Traie wrote:
What's the force xp conversion rate on Merchant anyways? Maybe upping the cap and adjusting the conversion rate or something?

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Merchant XP caps at 80k and has a 4:1 conversion

Thats my main issue with the cap. Combat guys with just one combat skill + generic combat experience can convert 80k per trip. If they are a scout they can add in another 9375 FS for sences. Having such a low merchant cap forces you to go to the village before you have maxxed out your crafting totals making for many more trips.

These trips if you are 100% crafter can be rather dangerous if you run across to many rhoa kwi. I don't have a problem at all with the rate we can gainit which with 12 vendors running would be a max of 1440 Merchant per hour. Of course that amount will go up for every shopper that refreshes your vendors, but a average level 80 combat guy can kill but one level 80 creature every 3 hours to equal that. So I'm thinking the rate of gain would not imbalance the game if the cap was increased. It would just make life a little easier on us crafters grinding FS.

Message Edited by Aetius73 on 07-04-200508:46 AM

Message Edited by Aetius73 on 07-04-2005 08:47 AM

I have a solution.

Nerf jedi.

The rest of the classes will get lovin', SOE can cut their csrs in half because of the large reduction in tickets, the search in the forums will work because of the jedi forum going away and cats and dogs will live in harmony.

Message Edited by Leafgreen on 07-04-2005 11:25 PM

i was wondering but if i'm right t ochange they cap they have to do 3 things delate the 8 in the cap and replace it with a 0 and then add one 9 infront of it to change the cap from 80,000 - 900,000 or evern esyer just add nouther 0 after the 8 to make it 800,000 i mean comen its not that hard and i do use comuter scrip and it not that hard do it