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All I can say is ... "Wow!"

Actually, it might be nice for us merchants (after our SOS thread) to also launch a "thanks" thread ... so that people know that things are getting fixed.

/faints dead away

One thing I don't understand is where the 15cr/day vendor maint came from. That is less that what I am paying for my NPC vendors now, 24/day. Looked thru the vendor maint thread again and didn't see anything RE it.

Unless I am missing something.

Maybe I shouldn't complain tho. :

You missed something, Because of the OUT CRY from us, and some very good examples from many showing the devs that a vendor would cost upwards of 150k credits a day for some, they scrapped the plan to fix NPC's until they came up with a new plan.

15/crs a day is that new plan.

Awesome news marquie.

/faints

wooohoo! Wow I could kiss that Greenmarine! Man what a relief. I now look forward to logging in and running my shop without the heavy burdon of thinking "is it thursday yet? ugh.. I don't want to resell all my clothing.." it was my MOST hated thing about SWG and to know it's being pushed to one month, along with all the other fixes and changes...

/faints again

GreenMarine: Maintenance has been fixed up. All vendors now cost around 15cr/day. If you don't pay your maintenance, you lose the ability to list items on the vendor, but the vendor will not be destroyed. Paying maintenance so the vendor is healed up will reenable the ability to list items.

When did that take effect? I've noticed they're costing 16cr per day right now (NPC Vendors) but two of mine have poofed, been destroyed.. not doing what GM says there.

-Nex

This F'n sucks!

Marqie was my most favorite person in the entire galaxy and now she gives us this information???

I now have to go back and change my rating system, she has become more than my favorite person in all the galaxies!!!!

Thank you!!!

Otiamo

P.S. for all of those that have flamed Marqie...byte me!

P.S.S Marqie, I'm a Mon Cal too *wink* *wink*

Eh if it doesn't shut up the trolls I can jump 'em. Well me or Jeassa. I think Jeassa would do a better job, but at least I can do this

I also hope this is proof how hard Marqie works. She's a great correspondent and is really looking out for you guys.

30 days is no good. It's better, but not good. There should be NO time limit on personal vendors, period.

Why? Ok, let's be reasonable and consider that in order to offer customers a good selection so they keep coming back, you have to list 1 or 2 of every item. For those lucky enough to color their goods, that could mean 5 or 6 or even 10 of a single item.

Now, day seven rolls around (or day 30 in the proposed update). You get 200 emails over an hour because the vendor is dumping your stuff to the stock room. This is annoying. You have to delete the emails and go through a SUPER tedious process to relist and lookup the prices on everything again.

Not only should personal vendor sales be indefinite, we should have the ability to "click and type" over the price of items not selling and raise or lower them without having to:

1) Remove from sale. 2)Wait for processing lag. 3)Go to the Stockroom. 4)Wait for processing lag. 5)Offer the item for sale. 6)Wait for processing lag. 7)Type a new price. 8)Click Sale Item. 9)Wait for processing lag. 10)Close Sale Window. 11) Start again for the next item that needs a price change because it won't sell at its current price or happens to sell too fast and needs a price boost.

This is rediculous. We have to do those 11 steps for each of the 200 items. This can take HOURS especially if you haven't memorized your price list. And, if the lag is especially bad that day, add another hour. If the devs actually played this game, I have no doubt whatsoever they would see how tedious it is.

Along with this, PLEASE stop sending emails for stuff we dont care about and send them for things we care about. I dont want to know when an item comes off my vendor or the bazaar. I can check that myself every few days. I dont need an email to know that my structure I just placed on the ground has "been placed". I know! I just put it there! Good grief!

I absolutely DO, MUST, WANT, NEED an email message when my harvester or generator stops running for whatever reason, resource ran out, lack of funds, lack of power. Throw us a bone. Help us out. There's ABSOLUTELY no other thing in this game more annoying than spending HOURS surveying and placing harvesters then check it 2 or 3 days later to find only 150 resources in it cause the resource ran out an hour after you put it down. You paid maintenance for nothing. You have customers whose orders you can't fill because you have no resources to build with. You lose the customer to someone else. How about an email? An instant message? Make me mysteriouslyfall to the ground and scrape my elbow when they stop. ANYTHING! Hell I'll take a USPS snail mail! Just tell me when it stops. But no, I get 200 useless emails when my vendor decides to dump everything.......

Ok, enough. Sorry to have been so long winded.

I know that one person, or even all of SOE can't forsee everything, but please, either play your own game or consider these changes.

The issues I described above are the ones that have caused me the most grief over the last 2 months as an architect/merchant. Please consider these. Thanks.

p.s. thanks for sneaking in an 80% increase in power consumption on everything without telling us on that last big patch. As if life wasn't hard enough already =(

Thank you! This causal gamer merchant thanks you!

Chroso on Corbantis