Merchant Archive

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Known Bugs:

1. Surrender Skill:Players can place vendors, surrender Merchant skills, and still retaining the use of the vendors. This undermines those that are merchants, and makes our class a throw away. NO OTHER CLASS IN THE GAME ALLOWS YOU TO RETAIN A SKILL AFTER YOU BACK OUT OF IT!!!

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Is this actually considered a bug? I thought the skills gave you the ability to PLACE vendors, not necessarily maintain them. Anyway, do you know if the devs consider this a bug and are going to fix it?

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I'd really like a warning if this is in the works to get "fixed." I'd hate to lose my vendors and merchantif I don't have the merchant skills after the fix. I have no problems getting the training.

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HAVING A PROBLEM WITH MERCHANT COLORS CAN SOME ONE PLEASE EITHER HELP ME WITH A MACRO FOR MERCHANT COLORS OR TELL ME HOW TO DO IT...IM AN IDIOT HERE


THANKS

GRIFFINFISH

NEWLY MASTERED MASTER MERCHANT
MASTER BRAWLER
MASTER MEDIC

SURTIR HILLS, CORONET, CORELLIA... TOWN OF WRIXWOOD FORD SHUTTLEPORT AVAILABLE AS OF FRIDAY DEC 5

STARSIDER

I'm not sure that this actually works, but before I go to school and before I go to sleep, I log on as my friend and sit him in my house. Then, I click on one of my vendors, and then start a macro:

/AuctionUse; opens the vendor theoretically for 50xp

/pause 250; can only get xp every 10 minutes, so this I just put a pause in for the hell of it

/stand;

/sit; I'm not sure but I think if I don't put this in, it automatically logs me out.

/pause 5;

/ui action toolbarSlot00; I put the macro in F1 and this loops it infinitely

I don't know if this has already been metioned or if it actually works, but I think it's worth a try for before bed or when afk. Since you get 6x50xp (300xp) per hour it would essentially be like having 2 extra vendors.

can't thank you enough for this post

just to clarify, if i have 4 vendors i dont get more xp if some1 looks at each one than i would if they just look at one?

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Chewon wrote:
just to clarify, if i have 4 vendors i dont get more xp if some1 looks at each one than i would if they just look at one?

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You only get the view experience once per person, no matter how many vendors they view.

Thanks for the Great Guide it answered many of my questions. I've been running vendors for months now but wasn't clear are many things. I'm a 0-4-4-1 merchant and am trying to get up the management tree but my xp has been VERY SLOW and over the last 2 weeks I haven't gained enought xp to eventrain management II. I didn't know if that was a nerf, but reading your thread I'm sure its because of the way xp is calculated.

Well back to figuring out how to get more xp. Thanks again.

quick question, does anyone have a macro that does this?

/actionuse isnt a command so is there a different command that would make this macro useful for grinding out merchant xp?

thanks

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I wrote:

Known Bugs:

1. Surrender Skill:Players can place vendors, surrender Merchant skills, and still retaining the use of the vendors. This undermines those that are merchants, and makes our class a throw away. NO OTHER CLASS IN THE GAME ALLOWS YOU TO RETAIN A SKILL AFTER YOU BACK OUT OF IT!!!


2. Experience Overtime: Vendors only give experience overtime if they exist in the world. Vendors are like harvesters in that they only "exist" in the world if their is someone near by. For vendors that means that someone must be in the buiding.


3. Not on Planet Map: This is related to the above item. After server reset the vendor must exist before it will show on planetary map.


4. Vendor not in Overhead Map: Registered vendors do not show in the overhead map (Ctrl-M) if they are in a PA Hall


5. Not Initialized: Even though vendors have been initialized, some vendor gives you this error when using it. Only effects Droid annd Terminal style Vendors. Workaround Thread


6. Multiselect Item Deletion: If you multiselect and retrieve more than your inventory can handle, you will lose the items that do not fit in you inventory.


7. Tax on Offers: Offers to vendors in PC are taxed. Thus, items that are resold are taxed twice.


8. Disapearing Vendors: Vendors randomly vanish, sometimes returning on server rest, sometime not. This may be tied to the house being on a server boundary. CSRs have fixed a few.


9. Efficiency: The maintenance rate does not always reflect the Efficience skill. To get it to correctly display, just pay some maintenance (even 1 credit will do).


10. Vendor Damage: Vendors do not report that they are nearly out of maintence.


11. No Emails: Emails from sales (Our only real way to track sales) are often never seen.


12. Custome Ad Barking: The %TT and so on do not work in the "NON CANNED" barks.


13. Failed to create vendor. Your inventory may be full. The volume of the female Aqualishes are bugged such that it takes up more space in your inventory than you have available.


14. Empty Stockroom/Offers: All items on Stock Room or Offer disappear after dealing with one. For some reason a category is being changed, so list only shows this empty category. Fix by clicking All.


15. Signs in wrong place: Merchant Signs on some house are not placed correctly.(Partial List: Sm. Corellian Style 2, Sm. Generic, Med. Corellian, Med. Generic, Lg. Naboo)

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2 is being fixed next push.

Appears that 4 has been fixed through a stealth patch. :-) My vendors now show when I walk around, but the need to be loaded before hand...

11 can be fixed by a CSR and looks like it is going away.

15 has or will be patched soon.

Any information on the rest??? Does 3 get fixed with 2???

/AuctionUse; is the command that opens vendors, not /ActionUse;

2 is being fixed next push.

Appears that 4 has been fixed through a stealth patch. :-) My vendors now show when I walk around, but the need to be loaded before hand...

11 can be fixed by a CSR and looks like it is going away.

15 has or will be patched soon.

Any information on the rest??? Does 3 get fixed with 2???

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I would like to point out that 11 is only fixable if you are lucky enough to get a CSR that is willing to do a character restore on you which involves several steps--see Ewach's replies on this thread:
http://forums.station.sony.com/swg/board/message?board.id=merchant&message.id=10343&page=3

I was not so lucky as my csr didn't even feel like talking to me even though I was online both times he replied to my ticket basically telling me use /emptymail but if that doesn't work oh well too bad for you.

Padre Book

lol im dumb thanks

OK. I am going on a business trip to CA and will not be able to keep up on the forum... So if you would post anything that will need to be changed in the guide on this thread it would be much appreciated.