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Thread: no restock button... almost 2 years into it.. im done.. deletion.. see ya
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JeCy
Tue Mar 29, 2005 11:14 am
#14
ill answere a few questions : )
1,yea ive advertised on the bazzar, aka making named things for 1 cpu auctions and then desricptions. people get a great deal say some great mabari armor,, or even composite or a factory and i get a week of advertising. and people get some nice stuff, though they have to wait a few days to a week depending on how long i run the auction.
2, i do add on the forums
3. I sell lots on the bazzar and then i send out mailers to people that buy stuff and nearly everyone shows up at my store.
4, I dont plan on being a crafter or merchant any longer. Ive been a merchant since launch and it could have been a great prof.. its obvious now that they dont want to make it what it could be. For crafting ive done, armorer, artisan, chef, Droid engineer, arcitect, Bio-engineer, (ive even done medic, and combat medic though i never sold those) I only make the highest quality stuff, and anything ive ever made can be put up against the best crafters on the server and it holds its own : )
5. my final restock is my 100 cpu sale.. 100 cpu for anything that goes for the 100-5k price,.. some weapons, and anything else i find in that price range, ;like spice, fireworks,power ups ext,1000 cpu any droid that is normally under 20k. and 10k, higher priced droids, crates of food, and starships This will be my final restock anything that doesnt sell is going by the way side.. my last going outta bussiness sale : )
6, If anyone wants to swing by my place and check out my store/sale just to see what a nicely stocked general store merchant has, or an intesting storejust stop on by radiant.( btw i have the olds suit of composite im sure of any server.. it was the first on i made.. 1 month after launch.. im not sure anyone else has one this old on display. its in my fishtank : ) Make a character in keren, and fly to Syn City, naboo.. we have a shuttle.. Im on global under cantinas, Qaurk's "drinks And Droids" its a star trek Deep space nine themed cantina. Ive always gotton lots of great feed back about the place.. usally people sending mails laughing or saying how funny it was to see star trek in the SWG galaxie.. And for those people that say its unstarwarsy.. well i just say.. "well Im Je'Cy Dax.. im a trill, i was flying in the badlands outrunning some cardassian outlaws and i ran into a singularity and ended up in this bass-ackwards universe : ) I wont rest till i find a way to open a worm hole and get back home.. ( hmm star trek online is coming soon )
7, this game has or had soo much potential but there has been soo many things that i and many think that have been huge mistakes im not sure it can ever turn around..player citys, urban sprawl, first jedi system, new content "aka stormiesspaming cantina's" superman buffs and lots more... Im holding out hope for the combat revamp. but in my mind instead of revamping the whole system like they are.. it might be a huge mistake, just taking the current one like removing secondary buffs would have gone soo far in correcting the system. and then tweaking what we already had.. mainly armor and food. Spaming speicals, and ham would have ment something and made the crafting system soo much more dynamic.. it wouldnt have been max proction and forget everything else. Some stuff sounds good. like move rate modifcation while wearing armor.. but what about the artisans and non combats that like to suit up in light armor and go have fun?? no one knows what that will hold.It sounds a lot lilke EQ 2 which IMO is not that great of a system.. its like they want both games clones one fantasy and one space.. Not sure its that good of an idea.. Im gonna hold final judgement till then. I know im getting off subject as this is combat revamp and not merchant revamp.. i just dont think merchant has a chance anylonger. And seeing how long ive been one im just sad.. i loved being a master merchant.. at one time that ment something.
8. all they needed to do to global advertising was connect any vendor on global to the bazzar and let you brows individual vendors. people could have looked under different topics and checked a few vendors found what they wanted.. and not this cluster F of listing they have now. it could have been add 4.."galaxie listing" I honestly would have kept it away from a master merchant thing as finding what you need is hard enough already. Master merchant could ahve gotton other perks like a sale posting on a tv at a starport. Or impeltment word of mouth.. talk to random npcs and they say.. did you hear? Grays weapons has crates of protons for 50k on sale today.. there could have been tons done.. not this everyone in the galaxie has a vendor that it seams to be going to
Je'Cy Dax
Merchant no longer....
Elyssa
Tue Mar 29, 2005 12:19 pm
#15
It's my goal to put a player city right outside of Coronet someday. 
Vastar
Tue Mar 29, 2005 4:49 pm
#16
DesktopSaki wrote:
Vastar wrote:Spare me. I wanted business so I started up a mall just outside of Coronet. Location was part of the strategy involved with being a Merchant. (With this new galactic search, of course, that aspect of things has been watered down to a childish level.)
JeCy wrote:
but if you aint near c-net it dont matter what you have or what your prices are you just wont get bussinesI have to go with JeCy, actually. It's kinda sad that players are so unwilling to hit a player town that everyone has to cluster right around Coronet to have any hope of sales. Not to mention there's limited space and nothing ever decays anymore--newcomers don't have a hope of getitng to make that kind of location a part of their strategy; they'd be more convenient to go set up in a player town with a shuttleport.Back in the day I could see it, but with 60-second shuttle waits and JTL, it's faster to go from the Dathomir Science Outpost (hell, from the Village) to the backwaters of Lok than it used to be just to get from Coronet to Theed. Yet so many people still cling to the idea that it's only worth buying if you can see Coronet/Theed from there.
Don't get me wrong, I'd be happier with SWG if NPC cities didn't exist at all. Fact of the matter is, though, they do. Corellia and more specificly Coronet, is the center of the galaxy and everyone will pass through there at some point. I don't see how anyone could decide to go anywhere else based primarily upon increasing sales if they've only got one location. As for newbs needing a spot to compete with those that have been hear for a year and a half longer, I've always allowed anyone that can maintain a vendor free space in my shop. I would definitely say that things need to start decaying to further help everyone, not just the merchants. Unfortunately, that's a big problem for Politicians and SOE cares about them less than us.
As for why people still head for Coronet and Theed, it would take something pretty drastic for that to change. Theed has the instant starport and Coronet is right in the middle of all traffic lanes. While those two things might not matter much now, they did and that's why people gathered in those places. People already being there is enough to keep them there since a reason to move doesn't affect enough people at one time to change anything.
Beercules
Thu Mar 31, 2005 6:35 pm
#17
no restock button... almost 2 years into it.. im done.. deletion.. see ya
cya
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