Merchant Archive

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Elyssa wrote:

The turning point for me was the global vendor search fiasco.
It's a shame that the community at large isn't aware of the wonderful system that we were working towards.
It would have been a system that would have rewarded you for being a merchant and it would have greatly enhanced our ability to sell merchandise.

Tyrant had even broken the whole development mess down into "easy to do" "harder to do" and "long-term but possible" as far as what they'd like to do for us.

Did you know that directed sales was part of that design? So was IDing vendors. Consignment sales wasn't out of the question. There was actually "communication" happening between us and them.

There were SO many things from our top issues list that the developers were willing to move forward and implement.

Then Tyrant is no longer an SoE employee.
Then the vendor search feature was pushed back to TC as-is and we were promptly forgotten.

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Directed sales was actually listed as a feature on one of the proposals for the Global Vendor Search.

In retrospect I think Gordon was trying to tell us what was coming. He was frustrated with the inability to balance between the combat and non combat portions of the game. I think he tried to warn us that it was coming to this...not literally but a crystal ball sort of warning.