Merchant Archive
Thread: State of the Merchant: A Review of bugs and Deficiencies
More bugs:
I just got Advertising III, and my waypoint only seems to last for a matter of minutes - even when the server does not reset. In that case I need to wait for a server reset to advertise for a few more minutes. 
After a short amount of time, new vendors' names become yellow, they grow HAM bars and become attackable. They can be incapped but not killed. And when this happens to my vendors and I am in the vicinity, they turn on me when the attacker leaves - causing no damage but keeping me stuck in combat mode and unable to do anything until I /quit out and restart.
My vendors stop giving me the default 150 per hour merchant xp after they've been up for a few hours - requiring me to empty them, find someplace to store the items, re-place them and re-stock, a couple of times a day, to keep the xp coming in. Major pain. Especially with the disappearing inventory space bug mentioned earlier.
There is still NO confirmation box for deleting a vendor. If you choose "Remove vendor" the vendor just poofs and sends its items into Eternal Stockroom Limbo. To make things worse, the "Remove vendor" option is right next to "Status" on the radial menu.
Vendors cannot be renamed. This option was taken out the last week of beta to deal with a bug, but it still hasn't been put back in.
I know there's more, so I'll post again when I remember them...
Blackmugen wrote:I'm not really sure what to say about those who have deleted their vendors with items still in it. ... Why did you do that?
I did it because my mouse slipped off of ad barking and onto remove vendor. There was no confirmation box; my vendor just vanished.
We get warning messages when we take down structures and we have to confirm the order. Why not for vendors?
Here here Plinka, your the merchant for me!
Exactly what i was thinking (in the original post) i also dont like the fact after two weeks i STILL cant turn my vendor around, and have to place on another wall so it faces the right way. (yes yes, before initialization)
I dont think we'll see much help, nor any of the other professions, for a good few weeks. The Devs are concentrating on the servers and player-wide bugs first. Then they'll be concentrating on player cities, vehicles and mounts.
i bet its a looooooooong time before they start fixing things like the Droid Engineers, us Merchants, and other needy professions.