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Do you still recieve merchant xp for a vendor not initialzed?

Yesterday, as expected, my vendor maintenance rate went up to 26...which I take it is 1/1000 per 45 minutes.

I promply de-stocked, removed the vendor, and put up a new one with a title that displayed my disapproval.

However, today the maintenance rate is 1 on the new vendor.

Did they change it back?

(I'm on Starsider, by the way)

From the sounds of it... they turned the nerf on and off.... Haven't been able to get anyone to confirm this yet

Kypros44,

I could be mistaken, but I believe the 1 maintenance rate is based on the fact that you have an empty vendor. Did you actually put all your items back into the vendor and still have a rate of 1, or is the vendor just sitting there initialized, but sans items?

Tip:

If you have a vendor thatis devoid of items and you areusing itjust as amessage board, I would suggest that you destroy the vendor & create a new one. If you do not initialize the newly created vendor, you are not charged any maintenance...thus you will have a message board for your customers at zero cost. I am doing this very thing until they fix/adjust maintenance algorithm to where it is cost effective to sell items on private vendors. That way potential customers know that while you may not be open for business at the moment, you will be in the future.

Convene

My vendor rates are showing 0 on my fully stocked vendor today, but all maintenance (had 10k in it) is gone and the status shows 44% condition, 500-odd credits needed to repair. Dropped another 10k in and it still shows 44%, no maint rate.

I think this may be the case.. I have two of my 4 vendors that need repairing, one of them had plenty of money and no stock, and the other stock and plenty of money as well. And they can't be repaired as I deposited 5000 in each and it still says they need repaired.

No clue what IS going on but I know if they push this maint fee live without fixing the vendors I'll just yank all of them.

Paying for something that doesnt even work right.. sheesh. Oh wait, that's what were doing for the game anyway. Guess they figure if we'll pay real money for something that doesn't work that we'll gladly hand over fake money for stuff that doesnt work.