Merchant Archive

Who can make Merchant Tents?

Architects with Construction I can make tents. They require 400 metal, 600 hide, 200 ore, 20 indentical fiberplast panels, and 4 indentical reinforced fiberplast panels. (The last two must be made by a tailor)

What's the maintenance rate?

10cr per hour with Eff IV. Otherwise, it's 12cr per hour.

Whoops, forgot about those. Thank you for clarifying it.

One thing to note about merchant tents is that they don't show up on the overhead map. I always turn mine on when wandering among player structures so I can easily see how many houses of what sizes are placed where in neighborhoods. But the tents aren't showing up at all, and if you've got your vendor registered the name just floats over an empty space on the map. I'd like to see this changed, as I think they're more likely to be overlooked by passersby unless they're visible on the overhead map.

Excecllent addition to Merchant FAQs. Thanks for putting it together.

It should be 20 SIMILAR fiberplast panels.
Only the reinforced panels need to be from a factory crate.

^^ what he said about the fiberplast panels.. And great FAQ. I love the tents. It gives us a different look that no one else in the game but a Merchant can use. Great stuff!

10cr per hour with Eff IV. Otherwise, it's 12cr per hour.

I take it that this means that, as with pretty much all merchant skills, you can get eff IV, drop a tent, and then give up the skill?

Any chance they're fixing this?

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Kavolski wrote:
Ok I have a tent and im trying to drop it outside of the dantooine imp outspost. It keeps saying building not permited here even when there are houses all around me. Is this some kind of bug?

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When the game first went live, there wasonly a very smallbuffer around the Imp outpost (50m or so), so players wer building houses very close to the outpost. About mid-july, the devs decided to push the buffer out to 700 meters, but allowed the existing houses to be grandfathered in.

What happens to a set up merchant tent when you drop merchant efficiency 4 ? Or merchant altogether ?

I am an architect and people have asked me this question.

Have fun

Novarider Tam

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Erillion wrote:

What happens to a set up merchant tent when you drop merchant efficiency 4 ? Or merchant altogether ?

I am an architect and people have asked me this question.

Have fun

Novarider Tam

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I don't know. But given that you can't transfer it to someone without efficiency IV it is pretty clear the devs wanted it to be owned by merchants with Eff IV.

Hey Doc,

I am also quite sure the Devs intended toallow only Merchants 6 vendors and not Joe Bountyhunter-once-merchant-then-dropped-it.

Unfortunately some people do not care about logic .... they level merchant due to a holocron .. and being the powergamers that they are a logical answer does not satisfy them.

Have fun

Novarider Tam

One important note that I haven't seen mentioned yet is that Merchant Tents were not included in the new relaxed terrain standards for all the other housing and city buildings. They are in the same category as harvesters and factories. I hope this is fixed as it seems to make MORE sense that tents should be placeable anywhere.

I had only tried placing them shortly after they were available so if this has been corrected recently please let me know.

-Lilliana

Mayor of New Solah, Naboo Bria

What's the re-deeding cost of the merchant tent? A few of us in the entertainment community have toyed with the idea of using them as portable cantinas.