Merchant Archive
Thread: 2 weeks and poof, a clarificarion?
DaBarius wrote:
I also had this happen to me. All my vendors except 1 deleted without any warning or anything. All had items on it, all of them were paid with maint. they just disappeared.
I sent in a ticket and the CSR told me they could do nothing about it because the vendors deleted because of inactivity.
Quote from CSR_SpencerS "I checked the logs and found that your vendors were removed from the game world due to inactivity, as there were no sale (my storage vendor had about 100 items for sale) and addition of items into the vendors they were removed. Since every vendor that is left inactive for more than 14 days the vendors are deleted as per game design and there is not much we can do in this case. Thus, we won't be able to reimburse or compensate in your situation."
I dont really care about the other vendors, but my storage one had lots of stuff on it
Thing that angers me the most is that I see many unused vendors of people that left the game which are not deleting themselves, and mine delete for no reason and I cant be compensated....
They had items for sale but no one bought anything. That is what they mean by "no sale". It is really sad since the system already has a method to take care of this. 30 days up for sale. 30 days in storage then poof storage then 14 days later poof empty vendor. They have 2 many competeing timers I think
-Indene-
DocSavag wrote:
Blackmoore wrote:
Yeah just go ahead and take it in the you know where. Cave in, fall over and die. This needs to be addressed!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
This is really unfair criticism of players who are trying to find ways that they can control to work around this issue. Obviously it should be addressed and I believe Elyssa has already stated that she is asking for comment from the devs on it. (And she and I found some patch notes from last year that disagree with the current implementation) But until it is addressed by the devs merchants have to know how to protect their time investment. It isn't improper for them to discuss how to do that. Sitting around waiting for the devs to fix it won't keep your stuff in the game.
and another note, it really is not that terribly hard to withdraw 1 item from each vendor and list it freshly every other week or even weekly until this is resolved.
(I had to but only found the two week thing anywhere) shows it is being worked on by the community best they can.
but noone can force the DEVs to do something,
Implementor wrote:
Does the browser have to be someone that is not the owner of the vendor?
If one character is the creator of the vendors, but they are placed in the house of an alt, where both have admin. Will the Alt count as a browser/purchaser just by perusing it?
Can i just list a new item on each one and keep it viable? or must something be purchased? Can this person be someone on structure admin or does it have to be a non-admin person?
Any clarification will be a real help
Much appreciated
Mani
Message Edited by Zanholo on 07-06-2005 09:20 PM
This very issue was put to the Devs at Fan Fest and they stated that the two week thing should not be happening.
Also, they were, very confused that it was happening and had no clue it was going on.
They claim they read the forums, this was a suprise to them? What ever.
I guess we have to use alts to buy stuff from our vendors just to keep them going.
It is already a total pain in the arse to be a merchant and now this garbage.
DaBarius wrote:something bought every 14 days
So there has to be things bought from the vendor or it'll just disappear? Thats kind of bull...