Merchant Archive

Brilyn

I know exactly where you're coming from. I've tried carrying 10-20 of every weapon, to maintain a decent stock, and found myself cleaned out of one type by one person. I finally realized that people are going to do that no matter how many I stock, so I had to start selling crates in addition to singles. Chances are good that if I make a run of 99 weapons, put up19 singles, then a crate of 5, 10, 15 and 25, I'll have one full crate to use for restocking and probably won't be bought out completely before I can run another batch.

First of all, I'm keeping my powder dry til I see this confirmed from Doc or a Dev, TC stuff has a tendancy to peter out and what we get on live can be much different. I'm still thinking the limits are low, but tolerable. But the extra vendors is a real bonus. I was planning on going up the efficiency line anyway. And it gives me the opportunity to dabble on other planets. Props to SOE for being Machiavellian enough to make this work. I'm sure the initial offer was a low ball to get people to accept this one. The only people who argue against this will be the real high volume dealers. And with the attitude toward big business in the larger society, I doubt big businesses here will receive much sympathy. Still a ways from the free market I'd like to see. And I'd really like to see them raise both the price cap and item limits on the global bazaar. It would give those who choose not to pick up merchant skills an alternative while still rewarding real merchants. To the 1% of people who really sell more than 3k items a month, I feel for you. But for every 1 of you, I bet there's 100 that have a ton of merch on their vendors that simply gets resold every 30 days. If you spend more than 2 minutes a day reselling stuff from your stock room, you are part of the problem. Overall, I'd give this a 6.5 out of 10. Still too much micromanaging from the "state", but what do you expect?

CrazyBob - grumpy old weaponsmith
Check your global south of Dearic on Bria

Excellent news!

Just one thing could make it perfect...

If merchants could share the the items between the vendors. So if some people like to have just one with everything in they can, and if others like to have their store broken up into different vendors that could be done too.

Pretty please devs!