Merchant Archive

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pizzathehut67 wrote:

2= allowing aforementioned professions the OPTION to obtain a single vendor at a cost of an EXTRA 9 skill points AFTER mastery, will hurt the merchant profession. (no one has stated how this will hurt the merchant profession. And dont anyone dare say "because the doctors need us". no one needs you... and thats the BIG problem with the entire profession. until such a solution can be found this is the next best idea to BALANCE this unfair situation.

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pizzathehut67 wrote:

and your boyfriend doc likely uses one of your vendors doesnt he?

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I have a question, If you are a crafter and you sell your goods, why not ask the devs to put the Medicine Crafting skills in with the Artisan, instead of asking for a vendor. That would solve the problem of you "wasting" those 24 Skill points.

For your information I am a DE, I need to spend 9 skill points on learning how to make cloths, and food. Just so I can make most of my droids. 41 of my schematics need Master Artisan components. That and the majority of them need Factory made items. I would ask a Master Artisan for them but I use 1000+ every week. I don't complain about I just wonder why noother ELITE artisanelse needs to use that many components to make their products

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your way off elminnster!

I AM A MERCHANT!

JTGAlpha you might as well drop asking him questions, he doesn't answer them (not mine anyways )

He only answers if it's something we can't argue... or am I wrong again pizzathehut67... if I'm... prove me wrong

Isn't this essentially what the bazaar is?

A vendor with a 25 item limit, that every class can use, with excellent location, and complete galatic advertizing for the low cost of 20cr per item.

Hipizza,

Dont want to sound rude, but I had to say something.

If you say there aren't that many vendors that sell doc items, maybe there's a reason. Although the demand may be high, I think doctors were originally designed and were"supposed to be" healing people and not selling things. The meds they make are "supposed to be" used to heal people. I understand the items CAN be sold, but that's not my point.

You seem like you have a huge operation crafting meds. This is not something the averagemed/doc would do. Hence, most meds/docs would not need to have vendors...

And if you're on Bria, I'd take all of your meds at whatever (reasonable) price you ask and I'll put a vendor up. I'd buy them up front and add whatever I want as my commission on to the sale price.I may be losing money in the beginning, butI would consider that an investment.

You can supply, I can sell. Very simple. That's what merchants are for.

I think that's what many here are trying to say when they say "get a merchant to sell your items". There's no need to put the vendors in any profession's tree, even if it's master. If you want to sell the items, either get Bus 3 or sell them to a merchant that would re-sell them for you.

If 90% of all docs needed vendors, then that would be a different story. But it sounds like you only speak for an "elite" group of medics/doctors willing to take the time to craft meds forthose who don't. I /salute you in your efforts and YES, your services are needed, but I would have to say "doctors are doctors and merchants are merchants". Doctors do not need vendors to heal or earn xp, but merchant do.

hey... thats a **edit** good point! i ceed to you that adding vendors to other professions WOULD indeed steal some amount of xp from merchants. since xp and money (and jedi to most) are what we are playing for... then i abandon the argument on that point. i cant think of a system that would allow a a vendor to be placed without granting the owner merchant xp. since the owner would not be in the business column (as if going for a vendor) or a merchant... this would also create a balance issues. this would create enough of a balance issue to simply morph the problem into a new one.

thank you jedispam for finnaly giving proof to the "this would kill merchants" argument. all of the other posts were appreciated. thank you for an engaging discussion... lets have another one in a week or two when my fingers stop cramping up.

I agree with Donnah42. I don't think you should get a vendor until you are willing to expend the points to get it. If you want a vendor, get business III, you want multiple vendors, get novice merchant. I think that giving people other than people who invest the Skill Points vendor abilities would half destroy our (merchant's) businesses, due to the fact that being able to have these vendors for private sales is one of our skills which we aquire. I don't want to compete with people who neglect to invest the skill points but will still get a vendor for their own use.

Despite our advertising abilities, this would provide other's with a way to compete with us without investing a single skill point.

Unless they turn the "mini-vendor" idea into something you need to renew, then I am firmly opposed to this idea.

For example, you can sell 25 items on the mini-vendor, but say a master merchant is the only person that can place those items on the vendor for youm (? waste of time for the merchant), or some variation on this, and then, after the original items are posted, you cannot add anything else to the vendor, and after selling out, the vendor "self-destructs" and you are forced to buy a new vendor from a merchant.

I know that idea is a bit crazy, but its only an example. Otherwise, I am firmly opposed to people being able to use vendors without investing the skillpoints.