Merchant Archive
Thread: Draznar's Merchant Guide v 2.6
Ilorr
Fri Jan 23, 2004 4:31 am
#14
Very nice, but I saw everything but what I was hoping to find 
Could you add or make a link to explain the special ability in Customize Phrasing? Like adding the name of the person that just triggered, race, ect.
Thanks,
Martan
Master - Weaponsmith/Artisan/Merchant
Draznar
Fri Jan 23, 2004 7:48 am
#15
Your welcome. And there is none.
Ilorr wrote:
Very nice, but I saw everything but what I was hoping to find
Could you add or make a link to explain the special ability in Customize Phrasing? Like adding the name of the person that just triggered, race, ect.
Thanks, Martan, Master - Weaponsmith/Artisan/Merchant
I have added a note about this on the next release. This is an enhancement many of us would like.
Draznar
Fri Jan 23, 2004 7:49 am
#16
This is the type of response we liketo see from holocron users. Take the time and enjoy the ride. Its a game after all. Make it fun.
Shaladim wrote:
Thanks for this guide it was informative and well written. I may only be here by the grace of a holocron but after reading this I have decided not to grind through it with dumb house access exploits but to take a few weeks & see where it leads.
Crisby
Fri Jan 23, 2004 8:01 pm
#17
Alakazam's waypoints to trainers in Moenia are incorrect. One points to a musician trainer, the other points to a bazaar term. Can someone post correct coords for Moenia?
Kildari
Sat Jan 24, 2004 12:49 am
#18
Fantastic guide, thanks! I'm very excited about this profession.
Obati
Sat Jan 24, 2004 5:13 pm
#19
Awesome guide!
My question may seem to have an obvious answer for some, but I got to ask, since I am a newbie on Merchant.
Q: I will get 150 xp pr hour pr vendor. Does that apply also when I am offline?
If this do apply, Merchant will be my lucky holocron. Why ? Ill explain.
Quick Math :
- Merchant XP needed tobecome Novice = 5000 (1 vendor available)
- Hourly xp : 1 vendors *150 = 150
- 5000 / 150 = 33 hours
- Xp needed to get Management 1 = 10 000 (2 vendors available)
- Hourly xp : 2 vendors * 150 = 300
- 10 000 / 300 = 33 hours
- Xp needed to get Management 2 = 20 000 (3 vendors available)
- Hourly xp : 3 vendors * 150 = 450
- 20 000 / 450 = 44 hours
- Xp needed to get Management3 = 30 000 (4 vendors available)
- Hourly xp :4 vendors * 150 = 600
- 30 000 / 600 =50 hours
- Xp needed to get Management4 = 40 000 (5 vendors available)
- Hourly xp :5 vendors * 150 = 750
- 40 000 / 750 =53 hours
- Xp needed for the other 3 skill trees = 100 000 pr tree = 300 000.
- (6 vendors available)
- Hourly xp : 6 vendors * 150 = 900
- 300 000 / 900 = 333 hours
Youneed a total of 546 hours. That is approx. 23 days.
Take into consideration the daily downtime, patches, the time you spend to find
trainers when climbing the Management tree, xp bugs etc, and you can probably
raise that to 30 days.
Then, take into consideration that you will get xp from visitor and browers, and
you can lower that to 25 days. That of course depends on how active you are
marketing your vendors, how many friends you have, if you pay newbies to
visit your vendor every so often etc. Can differ a lot. But I would say 25 days
average.
The cool thing about this, is that while getting xp for doing just about nothing,
at least compared to many other profession, you can grind 1 or maybe 2
other basic profession and maybe an elite. Just simply awesome 
This isway better thanany crafting or entertaining. I just finished dancer, and
that was a pain. I was hoping for a combat profession from my Holo, but hey...
If you get merchant xp offline, this isnt so bad at all.
So ... dont break my hopes, tell me you get xp while offline.
Please.
Draznar
Mon Jan 26, 2004 9:40 am
#20
You acrue xp while offline. The guide explains how you will only receive this though when it loads. You should get a bunch at once.
Crillan
Fri Jan 30, 2004 9:06 pm
#21
Someone I know insists that you get exp for selling items. Swears she got a huge chunk of exp for selling 500k worth of stuff and said her vendors alone wouldn't have given her that much exp. Also says the time limit for browsing exp is 15 minutes, not 10. Also says that you get exp for multiple people browsing your vendor at the same time. I've tested all of these things and have found your listings to be correct but maybe I'm missing something. Can you verify any of these cases?
Crillan
Fri Jan 30, 2004 9:37 pm
#22
Oh one other thing she said is that the effeciency branch increases exp output. If that's true then you should do that before advertising but I don't think that's true.
DonBlack
Sun Feb 01, 2004 4:17 am
#23
I have a question. I am working on novice merchant and I already have a house and one vendor up. I wanted to know though, can I only put up one vendor per house I own or one vendor over all? See if its the former then I will do that and get as much xp as possible.
Tarnak_Archvold
Sun Feb 01, 2004 9:41 am
#24
DonBlack wrote:I have a question. I am working on novice merchant and I already have a house and one vendor up. I wanted to know though, can I only put up one vendor per house I own or one vendor over all? See if its the former then I will do that and get as much xp as possible.
If you have a one max vendor (not novice merchant yet) you can have only one vendor IN TOTAL, so only one vendor in one house. When you get to management 4,you will be able to have 6 vendor in total. That is 6 in one house or 1 in 6 different houses...
Draznar
Mon Feb 02, 2004 5:47 am
#25
Crillan wrote:
Someone I know insists that you get exp for selling items. Swears she got a huge chunk of exp for selling 500k worth of stuff and said her vendors alone wouldn't have given her that much exp. Also says the time limit for browsing exp is 15 minutes, not 10. Also says that you get exp for multiple people browsing your vendor at the same time. I've tested all of these things and have found your listings to be correct but maybe I'm missing something. Can you verify any of these cases?
Selling has absolutely no connection other than you received experience from their browsing. The issue may that she got a lump of overtime experience when the purchaser bought stuff, since they forced the vendor to "exist." The confusion with the 15 minutes is that the minimum time for entrance fee is 15 minutes, so many have confused these. It is every 10 minutes. With multiple people browsing you would get more xp, 50 per person. There are still some bugs, but when everything is working, the way it is explained in this guide has been repeatedly tested.
Draznar
Mon Feb 02, 2004 5:49 am
#26
She is wrong again. There used to be a bug, where this would mess up experience, but now this does not affect xp at all.
Crillan wrote:
Oh one other thing she said is that the effeciency branch increases exp output. If that's true then you should do that before advertising but I don't think that's true.