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You know, it's fricken impossible to find armor now. Imagine what it will be like after all the armorsmiths quit because of the bag nerf and the experimentation nerf.

Just a note/question here: what is to stop us from placing items in Unlocked Containers and selling them with outfits/armor/custom orders? Is the nerf going to affect all containers, or just backpacks? If it's just backpacks, simply stick your custom orders in unlocked containers and continue on as before.

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Maolinn wrote:

I can make backpacks. I'm not going to buy unlocked containers to use. Just not worth it. :-/

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Perhaps, but we could simply require customers to return unlocked containers after they pick up their orders. They could just take out all the items and offer the container to the vendor for 1 credit or something. It might take a while to build up a stockpile of containers, depending on how well your business is doing, but you won't have to replenish your container stock. Hell, I have twenty or so containers stockpiled in my house, which I use to store goods in. They can easily be used to hold custom orders.

C'mon gang, let's try to find a way to work with this change. Maybe it's a little less convenient to have to reuse containers, but it's a heck of a lot better than quitting the game or going up in arms. This is, of course, unless containers are getting nerfed in the same way as backpacks...can someone tell me why the nerf was needed in the first place? Why are non-empty containers causing a problem on vendors?

you cant name unlocked containers-

this may make me leave the game --- thre needs to be another solution.

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Valuthorax wrote:

you cant name unlocked containers-

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Then work around it. Place a backpack (or any other item) on the vendor, name it "Below is ______'s Order", and then place the container with the order.

I do understand the work around -- my business and the amount of it i get -- this will not work --

I sell serial numbered items used for crafting guns -- tissue etc .. I really dont get special orders. I need to sell theses in complete matching sets otherwise --

I have over 200 tissues listed on my vendor --you know how long it would take to match up serial numbers for a set??

This is an unfair change that changes the dinamics of the PLAYER run economy

Yes, I can see how this will really inconvenience you. All I'm trying to do is suggest that all the effort that goes into stamping our feet and getting mad about the change might be better applied by trying to find ways to compensate. I'm not saying that we should just take this lying down--far from it, I say we fight it tooth and claw--but we should also accept that it might happen, and WILL happen as it stands right now, and try to work with it instead of against it. As seemingly-indept as the developers are, I doubt that they do these things without ANY sort of reason, even if we can't see it on the player end; it might simply be an issue of making the best of a bad situation. What I'm seeing is a whole lot of "man, this is a bad situation!" and hardly any "let's make the best of it".

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Eldamacil wrote:
Yes, I can see how this will really inconvenience you. All I'm trying to do is suggest that all the effort that goes into stamping our feet and getting mad about the change might be better applied by trying to find ways to compensate. I'm not saying that we should just take this lying down--far from it, I say we fight it tooth and claw--but we should also accept that it might happen, and WILL happen as it stands right now, and try to work with it instead of against it. As seemingly-indept as the developers are, I doubt that they do these things without ANY sort of reason, even if we can't see it on the player end; it might simply be an issue of making the best of a bad situation. What I'm seeing is a whole lot of "man, this is a bad situation!" and hardly any "let's make the best of it".

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Right on, Sister!

The only Positive effect I could see this have is, now there is now risk of getting something you didnt want, after thinking it was soemthing else. A solution to this I thought of though.. Is if the item is in it were put in the Description of the travel pack. That way you would know what you are buying. This would put a stop to grab bags, though, but it would still help keep alot of the crafters around. I know i dont want Erith or Plad to leave, so Think, think, think! I agree with the other post above that instead of protestign this, we should think of a compromise.