Merchant Archive
Thread: REAL live info from the devs YOU MUST READ!
Casaad,
Not sure of any real purpose of 30 days vs. no limit. Only one I could think of is to flush out vendors of players that stopped playing since vendors will not destroy themselves with the new interim maint. adjustment - but their houses would run out of maint and disappear anyway at some point.
But I am very happy with the 30 days. If I put up 200 items on day one.. Say 75% of those will sell out b/t day 1 and day 30.25% delists on day 30, meaning I should probably delete them. The rest of the 75% will drop at various timesb/t day 30 and day 60, unless they are purchased again.
So I could more realistically use the 30 day timeout as a measure of low or no demand since it is a longer timeframe. If a pair of pants does not sell during week 1, it doesn't mean it's not in demand. It may sell 4 times over during week 2. But if it doesn't sell in a 30 day period, I am liable to pull it.
However, I am worried that this will cause people to put more on vendors (myself included), thus creating a database issue in the minds of the devs, and having it nerfed back down again.
Awesome. Simply great news.
These are the biggest issues we face, and they are being addressed. Way to go devs, Marqie, and everyone.
marqie wrote:
3. Change the 7 day timer on vendors to 30 days.
GreenMarine: Kirk is changing the 7 day limit to 30 days for vendors right now. That will all be in the next publish patch. We start processing that patch tomorrow.
im happy wioth 30 days. Anything but 7 ... Gah!
And teh main rate is great news.
Thanks again marqie and thanks to greenmarine too
:-)
w00t!!!!
Being a DE, it always kinda grinds me to see fixes go through for other professions (thats all Ill say aobut that) but man, this really helps with the type of char I play and that makes me smile.
4.0.0.3 Merchant
=D
I can't express what my gratitude enough for your diligent pestering on all of our behalves!
3. Change the 7 day timer on vendors to 30 days.
GreenMarine: Kirk is changing the 7 day limit to 30 days for vendors right now. That will all be in the next publish patch. We start processing that patch tomorrow.
Good thing they changed this with all of the winter holidays coming up, or there would be a LOT of VERY unhappy merchants when they came back from vacation.
Thanks, SOE.
You of course realize that this means that merchants will all be grumpy and difficult for a few days each month...
*insert joke here*
Another question, does the business 3/4 machine vendor also have a flat rate or do they have a fee depending on item values? If they have then there is a very good reason to become a merchant (at least nov merchant).