Merchant Archive
Thread: Merchant XP
I'm not getting XP for people looking at my vendors... I am only getting about 150 XP per hour
Am I thinking about how we get XP wrong?
eLiTeGoodGuy wrote:
I'm not getting XP for people looking at my vendors... I am only getting about 150 XP per hour
Am I thinking about how we get XP wrong?
If you are thinking XP should work, then yes. XP is buggy. What is in the guide is how xp works when it works.
I get vendor xp while offline but none of the xp is what it should be, I have 6 vendors (one bazzaar and 5 npc). I have been getting approx. 12k a day when I should be getting 20k a day, not counting the bonuses I should be getting when people enter my three houses and then looking at my vendor (should be 50 per 1 credit visit, and 50 when a new person views vendor every 10 mins)
It does seem as if the merchant proffesion got a little out of whack on the last update?? Any suggestions on how we can get it fixed??
Anyone? Anyone??
Bueller? lol
People need to stop saying that Merchant XP has been nerfed. It has not, this is a bug. As it stands, I dont get any XP from having vendors up now, even when I sit by them for hours on end. The only way I get XP is when people visit my vendors. I dont want to charge an admission fee as people are reluctant to pay anything if they can help it, and I understand that.
So right now, I should be well on my way to filling up the Additional vendros tree. Instead, Im sat with 5800 XP and no apparent way out.
I actually PM'ed TH about the Merchant XP bug (The fact I ahd to reset my vendors to get any after the server restarts) about a month ago and he said they would look into it. Obviously they've not looked hard enough and now the situation is even worse.
I cant help but think that this would get a quicker response if people (particularly our Merchant Correspondent) were more vocal about this in SWG discussion. Just look at the way BH's were treated until they cried for days on end. Instead, most people dont even know of this bug (in fact, most people dont even know theres a Merchant Profession)
Aparently you are not a merchant! As a merchant I want it all, everything! I want to pay less and get more. What kind of a merchant thinks it's ok to have 2 vendors when he could have 6? What kind of merchant is ok payingthe same maintenance fees, vendor fees, merchant and bazaar fees as everyone else? What kind of merchant doesn't care if he can advertise globally?
We don't have a lot of benefits and are limited to our growth as it is. Now to limit this even more makes it unprofitable. I made more money on Friday in the square in coronet selling Armor and pet stims than my 6 vendors did. If I am going to have to be a shut in than why do it at all? Yes Doc a Shut In! For those of you who do not care about your position as a merchant great! But for those of us who are a merchant by choice to get all that we can from it this is a big problem! I should have been master merchant over a week and a half ago. I have, instead, spent more money, made less money and done less things than if I would have become any other profession.
I went out Friday for some R&R from my babysitting duties. Had fun with peeps, etc. Ne way a long story short: I only made 5600 xp in the last 2 days away from my main vendor shop. That's an unrealized xp gain of over 35000 xp! or efficiency 4 in reality. Sice I can't "play" the game I am here reading these pathetic statements from people who obviously don't care about the Merchant profession and those who are having to "deal" with it as it stands today.
So don't tell me they didn't "nerf Merchants" because they did! Whether intentionally or accidentally, they did! We are less effective as a whole over timeand unless I am missing somethingthemeaning of nerf is to make less effective.
1) Having someone enter a building you have set an access fee to (even if it's 1 credit): 50 xp. This can only be gained once every 10 minutes for each person who enters, and doesn't count you (since you don't pay the fee), and probably doesn't count anyone with admin access.
2) Having someone look at a vendor you placed: 50 xp. This also has a timer of 10 minutes before you get the xp from the same person.
3) Each hour, each vendor you placedgives you 150xp. This seems to be bugged, where you don't get the xp unless the vendor is spawned, which only happens when someone enters your building and the vendor loads.
There's a great guide here in the merchant forum with more tips than you can shake a stick at.