Merchant Archive
Thread: Billboards
Odysseusa wrote:
There are billboards in game,there's actually a whole class devoted to making billboards...Sometimespeople mistakenly call them "droids,"but rest assured they are actually nothing other than walking billboards.
What are some idea for naming a droid to advertise your store?
I am thinking of setting a droid to program main street in Anchorhead. Do they continue to patrol even if you take the shuttle to another city/planet, or do they come with you?
Draznar wrote:
What are some idea for naming a droid to advertise your store? ...
I named my Malkloc "buy'IPC'energy" I mean, your pretty limited in what you can name it!!! No spaces! No dashes or any special charaters!! but that is for pets, not sure about driods... but Im guessing it is the same nameing rules =\
In the movies you saw 2 of the major cites on mos espa. (mos espa, epsiode 1+2)(mos eisley, episode 4)
There were no billboards!
I don't think the billboard idea will fly. I think the griefers out there will useit to wreak havoc on the population at large. I saw a harvestor sitting in front of a PA hall yesterday that had a message that was not in accordance with the EULA. There are already many advertising opportunities that are available for us.
Thank you all for your input everyone. There are a lot of valid points that have been made. Im think the billboard idea may not be so good after reading these different thoughts. I think what would be great, is if they finally fixed the world advertising bug. That would be the greatest thing.
I now have 3 different restaurants one in Tatooine, one in corellia, and one in Naboo. It makes for a lot of travel just to keep going to each restaurant just to reregister the vendors each time.
Tarinia Dosla/Gorath- Master Chef/Master Merchant
In the movies you saw 2 of the major cites on mos espa. (mos espa, epsiode 1+2)(mos eisley, episode 4)
There were no billboards!
Yes, but then again i didnt see restrooms either that doesnt mean that they could not exhist. 
Billboards are an eyesore and detract from the landscape.. no matter howvaluable the information printed on them may be. I am all for new and different advertising options.. but billboards is not one I would support. Besides the fact that 95% of the words you would want to use to advertise wouldn't get past the name filter, which would make for some pretty ugly billboards full of purposeful mispellings.
An add-on to the planetary advertising option would be cool though, like the ability to have a description or listof what you carry when the user highlights your shop name. Your planetary map entry could also have an asteric next to it,be underlined or something in the list, to denote that your entry has additional information attached. That would be a huge benefit and would not detract from all theimmersion factor for all the other players.
All we really need, regardless of how it is implemented, is a way to let people easilly know what they can expect to find when they come to our shop. It is one of my biggest pet peeves that I have to travel to merchants spread all around4 different cities across 4 differentplanets to "possibly" be able to find what I am looking for.. and more times than not, I don't find it after 5 hours of searching various vendors. On Gorath/Corellia now, there are like 20-30 weapons vendors listed on the planetary map on the weekends.. very few of those specialize in the same thing. I would just LOVE to know which does what without having to travel to each and every one to find out(especially since some are literally located in the middle of nowhere). I am sure the guy specializing in melee weapons, doesn't want me wasting my time running to his shop, any more than I want to, when I am in the market for a pistol.